How CFOs can reduce SaaS spend by 30% in these tough times

In today’s business world, every dollar counts for more than ever before. The current economic downturn, funding crunch, and race to be cash-flow positive are forcing organizations to reevaluate budgets and spending patterns. This has pushed CFOs to issue mandates — cut software spend betwe

Akowe wants to fix Africa’s broken certificate system with blockchain

The crypto industry has long been criticized for its disconnection with the real world, but there are players who try to show that the underlying blockchain technology can solve some of our most pressing challenges in today’s society — especially in regions where basic infrastructure is

Don't want that commuter stipend? Bundl enables employees to choose their own company benefits

Ten years ago, Brad Brochocki was working for a solar startup in Denver. At the end of the year, the owners said they couldn't give a holiday cash bonus, but instead wanted to give Brochocki more equity in the company. “I was in my young 20s at the time and equity wasn’t something that

Secoda secures $14M to expand its data cataloging platform

Secoda, a startup developing what it describes as an AI-powered data search and cataloging platform, today announced that it raised $14 million in a funding round led by Craft Ventures with participation from Abstract Ventures and several angel investors. Bringing Secoda’s total raised to $16

Cisco to acquire Splunk in $28B mega deal

Cisco has a reputation of building the company through acquisitions, but it has tended to stay away from the really huge ones. That changed this morning when the company announced it was acquiring Splunk for $28 billion. With Splunk, it gets an observability platform that could fit nicely into its

Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

Since its launch in 2017, Harness, the software delivery platform founded by AppDynamics founder and CEO Jyoti Bansal, expanded from being continuous code deployment to covering continuous integration, feature flags, cloud cost management, security testing orchestration, chaos engineering and more.

GitHub CEO: Despite AI gains, demand for software developers will still outweigh supply

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke considers AI and software development to now be inextricably linked, powered by assistive tools such as Copilot and its associated Copilot Chat, which the Microsoft-owned company expanded to individual GitHub subscribers today. But speaking onstage at TC Disrupt today, Doh

AppFactor drags legacy enterprise apps to the cloud through automation

Technical debt is often the unsung villain of the enterprise, crippling companies seeking to modernize as they realize just how much “legacy” lives in their stack. And as with most kinds of debt, there is usually interest to pay, too. This is something that fledgling U.K. startup AppFac

5 things to get straight before submitting an RFP to a digital marketing agency

As a strategy director at a digital agency, I've seen many changes in the way we approach marketing planning for our clients. We're in a period of rapid digital transformation — and it's showing no signs of slowing down. Mobile has changed the digital marketing universe, setting and r

Front goes beyond the unified inbox with a Zendesk-style knowledge base

Customer operations platform Front is better known for its omnichannel inbox that lets you aggregate all customer conversations in a single view — emails, chat conversations, SMS, social media messages. Today, the company unveiled a handful of new features that turns Front into a more complete cu

Clika is building a platform to make AI models run faster

Ben Asaf spent several years building dev infrastructure at Mobileye, the autonomous driving startup that Intel acquired in 2017, while working on methods to accelerate AI model training at Hebrew University. An expert in MLOps (machine learning operations) — tools for streamlining the proces

GitHub expands access to Copilot Chat to individual users

Three months ago, GitHub launched Copot Chat, its ChatGPT-like programming-centric chatbot, out of private preview by making it avaable to organizations with a Copot for Business subscription. Today, it’s taking this a step further by also opening up the Copot Chat beta to all current GitHub

Database startup MotherDuck lands $52.5M to grow its DuckDB-based platform

A few weeks ago, it was reported that MotherDuck, the company commercializing the lightweight database platform DuckDB, was in talks to raise new capital from VC firm Felicis. Those talks went well, apparently. MotherDuck today announced that it landed $52.5 million in a Series B ro

Legit Security lands $40M to lock down apps and dev environments

Legit Security, a cybersecurity company developing a platform to identify app vulnerabilities from code, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by CRV with participation from Cyberstarts, Bessemer Venture Partners and TCV. Co-founder and CEO Roni Fuchs says that the funds, which bri