Pixis, an AI-powered full-stack marketing platform, raises $85M

Pixis, an AI-powered platform for brands to monitor and orchestrate their marketing campaigns, today announced that it raised $85 million in a Series C1 round led by Touring Capital with participation from Grupo Carso, General Atlantic, Celesta Capital and Chiratae Ventures. The funding brings Pixi

Access code: Evidence brings open source BI to technical data teams

From Tableau and Looker, to PowerBI and beyond, there is no shortage of business intelligence (BI) tools designed to help companies unlock insights from their vast swathes of data. But a newcomer has arrived on the scene with some fresh BI smarts in tow, aimed at more “technically-inclined

Exostellar raises $15M to help companies optimize their cloud spend

Public cloud services spending is projected to reach $1.1 trillion by 2026, up from $531.7 billion this year, according to IDC. But as the use of cloud services expands, organizations are having a tougher time keeping track of exactly how much they’re spending on compute. Statista reports tha

Salesforce introduces Einstein Copilot Studio to help customers customize their AI

Today at the Dreamforce customer conference in San Francisco, Salesforce announced Einstein Copilot Studio, a tool that lets customers customize the Salesforce base Einstein GPT and Einstein Copilot offerings. Einstein Copilot Studio consists of three elements: prompt builder, skills builder and mo

Druid, a conversational AI platform for enterprises that integrates with ChatGPT, raises $30M

European AI startup Druid today announced it has raised $30 million in a Series B round of funding, as it looks to double down on its U.S. growth which it says now makes up the lion’s share of its revenue. Founded out of Romania in 2018, Druid touts its “conversational business applicat

Enfabrica, which builds networking hardware to drive AI workloads, raises $125M

Enfabrica, a company building networking chips designed to handle AI and machine learning workloads, today announced that it raised $125 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at “five times” its Series A post-money valuation, according to co-founder and CEO Rochan

Salesforce embeds conversational AI across the platform with Einstein Copilot

Salesforce introduced its AI layer called Einstein back in 2016 to provide predictive AI services across the Salesforce family of products. In March, just months after the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT, it introduced Einstein GPT to bring the ability to ask questions about the software in natural

FloLive connects with $47M to give its IoT and localized cellular technology a boost

Carriers and enterprises that rely on cellular networks to connect workers, devices and machines are forever grappling with tricky unit economics: The promise of 5G was that these costs would come down, but the reality is that 5G networks, and device and machine support for them, are just not as ub

India’s Kale Logistics raises $30M in global expansion push

Kale Logistics Solutions, an Indian startup offering a vertical SaaS platform to assist logistics needs, has raised $30 million in a fresh funding round, as the 14-year-old startup eyes expansion in the U.S. and Europe. Bengaluru-based private equity fund Creaegis Advisors led the Series B round, w

Common Trust grabs $2.6M to give business owners employee-focused succession plans

Common Trust, offering an employee ownership buyout option for small business owners, raised $2.6 million in seed funding. Crossbeam Venture Partners led the round with participation from Schmidt Futures and a group of additional unnamed investors. Zoe Schlag and Derek Razo founded

Low-code platform Retool makes it easier to bring AI smarts to business apps

Retool started out as a platform for buding line-of-business apps, but over the last few years, the well-funded startup added a number of back-end services as well, including, most recently, a workflow automation service. Today, it’s launching a number of new tools that wl help its users bud

SAP nabs German startup LeanIX to help companies modernize faster

As companies look to stave off technical debt, a process of aging systems limiting a company's ability to modernize, the first step is simply understanding the state of your architecture. SAP announced today that it is acquiring German startup LeanIX, a software service that helps companies map

HubSpot unveils strategy to integrate AI across the platform

At its Inbound customer conference in Boston today, HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing and CRM platform, announced a comprehensive AI strategy it's calling HubSpot AI. While HubSpot, much like other enterprise SaaS vendors, has been building in elements of AI for years, with the rise of ChatG

API security startup Pynt raises $6M

“We chose ‘Pynt’ because it’s short, memorable and reflects our love for developers and a good beer,” Pynt co-founder and CEO Tzvika Shneider told me when I asked him about how the company got its name. “As we say: ‘A Pynt a day keeps your CISO away…̵