SAP launches ‘RISE with SAP,’ a concierge service for digital transformation
SAP today announced a new offering it calls ‘RISE with SAP,’ a solution that is meant to help the company’s customers go through their respective digital transformations and become what SAP calls ‘intelligent enterprises.’ RISE is a subscription service that combines a
Following acquisition, Episerver rebrands as Optimizely
After acquiring Optimizely last fall, content management company Episerver is adopting the Optimizely name for the entire organization.
CEO Alex Atzberger told me that the company will be rolling out new branding in the next coming months, as well as renaming its entire product suite to reflect the
Renewable investment wave continues as solar lending company Loanpal raises $800 million
Days after the billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya announced his involvement in the $1.3 billion acquisition of the solar and home improvement lending business Sunlight Financial, a collection of investors announced a nearly $1 billion cash infusion into Loanpal, another renewable energy and
Lynk, a “knowledge-as-a-service” platform with more than 840,000 experts, raises $24 million
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Lynk, a “knowledge-as-a-service” platform that connects clients with over 840,000 experts in a wide range of fields, announced today it has raised $24 million led by Brew
Literati raises $40M for its book club platform
Literati has raised a $40 mlion Series B to pursue an unusual startup opportunity — namely, book clubs.
Founder and CEO Jessica Ewing (a former product manager at Google) explained that the Austin-based company started out with book clubs for kids, before launching its Luminary brand for adult bo
LottieFiles, a platform for the animation format, lands $9 million Series A led by M12, Microsoft’s venture fund
LottieFiles, a platform for JSON-based Lottie animations, has raised a Series A of $9 million. The round was led by M12, Microsoft's venture capital arm, with participation from returning investor 500 Startups.
Based in San Francisco and Kuala Lumpur, LottieFiles was founded in 2018. The platfo
Starship Technologies raises $17M to roll out more delivery bots
A year ago, Starship Technologies had a couple hundred autonomous bots delivering burritos and pizzas to students on college campuses and residents in a few neighborhoods.
The company — with $17 million of new capital in its coffers — has expanded its fleet five-fold since COVID-19 swept thro
Classiq raises $10.5M Series A round for its quantum software development platform
Classiq, a Tel Aviv-based startup that aims to make it easier for computer scientists and developers to create quantum algorithms and applications, today announced that it has raised a $10.5 mlion Series A round led by Team8 Capital and Wing Capital. Entrée Capital, crowdfunding platform OurCrowd
TCV closes record $4B fund to invest in e-commerce, fintech, edtech, travel and more
The pandemic has spelled economic setbacks for many people and industries, but the capital swirling about the technology world continues to roar along. In the latest development, TCV — the storied venture capital firm behind the likes of Airbnb, Spotify, Peloton and Facebook — has close
Playvox scores $25M investment and acquires Australian startup Agyle Time
It’s not every day you see a Latin American startup funded by a U.S. venture capital firm based in the midwest. Playvox, a Colombian startup that wants to bring a positive twist to customer service monitoring announced a $25 million investment from Five Elms Capital, a Kansas City, MO VC firm
Datastax acquires Kesque as it gets into data streaming
Datastax, the company best known for commercializing the open-source Apache Cassandra database, is moving beyond databases. As the company announced today, it has acquired Kesque, a cloud messaging service.
The Kesque team built its service on top of the Apache Pulsar messaging and streaming projec
Prime Movers Lab raises $245 million for second fund to invest in early stage science startups
After revealing its first fund just last year, a $100 million pool of investment capital dedicated to early stage startups focusing on sustainable food development, clean energy, health innovation and new space technologies, Prime Movers Lab is back with a second fund. Prime Movers Lab Fund II is l
DriveNets nabs $208M at a $1B+ valuation for its cloud-based alternative to network routers
People and businesses are relying on the internet to get things done more than ever before, an opportunity but also an infrastructure headache for service providers that need to scale quickly and reliably to meet that demand.
Today, a startup that has built a clever, software-based way for them to
Booksy raises $70M war chest to acquire salon appointment apps, expand internationally
Beauty and wellness appointment booking apps have proliferated of the last few years, but it appears the race is still on as today one of the leaders, Booksy, raises $70 million in a Series C round led by Cat Rock Capital, with participation from Sprints Capital.
The round was also joined by Open