Gusto reaches $500M in trailing revenue, teams up with Remote to support international hires
Gusto, best known for its American payroll management software and services, is playing in the big leagues.
technewss+ has exclusively learned that Gusto has surpassed a significant revenue milestone: In its most recent fiscal year (the 12 months ended April 30, 2023), it generated revenue of more
Cisco increases its network monitoring capabilities with a couple of acquisitions
In 2020, Cisco bought Thousandeyes, a network monitoring company that provides a wealth of data on the health of networks, something near and dear to Cisco, whose core business after all remains networking hardware.
As an extension of that three-year-old acquisition, the company announced a pair of
Y Combinator-backed 0pass seeks to replace passwords in the enterprise
Several years ago, Noah Stanford teamed up with Michael Melone to found 0pass, a startup that aims to make it easier for companies to replace usernames and passwords with biometrics, like Touch ID and Face ID.
Relatively quickly, 0pass gained the attention of investors, including Y Combinator, rece
Data security startup Cyera lands a $100M investment
A trend accelerated by the mass move to digital during the pandemic, enterprises are having to handle an increasing amount of proprietary data. According to one survey, the average company deals with 63% growth in data volume per month, with 12% of respondents reporting a whopping 100% growth.
As t
Socure acquires identity verification startup Berbix for $70M
Socure, the identity verification service that raised a massive $450 mlion Series E round at a $4.5 blion valuation during the heady fundraising days of late 2021 (and $100 mlion earlier in 2021), today announced that it has acquired identity verification service Berbix for $70 mlion in cash and st
Zenarate, an AI-powered agent coaching platform, raises $15M
While running a 5,000-agent contact center, Brian Tuite often experienced the problem of having to train new agents on the basics. The way he tells it, they weren’t prepared for success — and drained the contact center’s resources.
That gave Tuite the idea of creating what he desc
Redpanda nabs $100M Series C as streaming service experiences significant growth
Redpanda helps companies capture data in real time in a modern context, providing a new way to stream data while maintaining backwards compatibility with Kafka, the popular open source streaming project.
Today, the company announced a $100 million Series C, just 16 months after announcing a $50 mil
CalypsoAI raises $23M to add guardrails to generative AI models
Companies are increasingly embracing generative AI. But they’re not necessarily considering all the blockers and challenges that come along with folding the tech into their existing workflows.
In one recent survey by KPMG, 90% of businesses said that they had “moderate to highly signifi
Faros AI raises $20M to bring visibility to software engineering teams
Three years ago, Vitaly Gordon, one of the founding members of Salesforce’s Einstein research division, started Faros AI, a platform for software engineers designed to bring key operational data into one place. Alongside Shubha Nabar and Matthew Tovbin, two fellow ex-Salesforce employees and
Thomson Reuters buys Casetext, an AI legal tech startup, for $650M in cash
Thomson Reuters has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Casetext, a Y Combinator–backed legal tech startup.
The deal, valued at $650 million in cash, is expected to close in the second half of 2023, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
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Databricks picks up MosaicML, an OpenAI competitor, for $1.3B
Investors aren’t the only ones who want to get their hands on hot tech companies in the field of AI: It’s also likely to spur a big wave of M&A, too. Today, Databricks announced it will pay $1.3 billion to acquire MosaicML, an open source startup with neural networks expertise that
IBM acquires Apptio from Vista for $4.6B in cash to double down on hybrid cloud services
As cloud architecture continues to be more ubiquitous among organizations, increasingly what is more apparent is that many organizations are taking a hybrid approach, blending SaaS in private and public clouds with some products that remain on premises. Today, IBM made a big acquisition doubling do
Adobe indemnity clause designed to ease enterprise fears about AI-generated art
When it comes to artwork created by generative AI, enterprise users have specific legal concerns around permissions — and Adobe has recognized those worries. That's why the company has written an indemnity clause that states that Adobe will pay any copyright claims related to works genera
Designers hated Figma’s collaborative design tool at first, but grew to love it
Back in 2012 when Dylan Field was a student at Brown University, he came up with the idea of building a browser-based design tool. At the time, design tools were all on the desktop, which meant that designers worked alone, sending files for review to the various stakeholders involved, then making c