Blue Jeans raises a massive $50M round to continue pounding Cisco, Microsoft,...
Blue Jeans Network, the new face of business-class videoconferencing, has raised a massive $50 million fourth round of financing, the company announced this morning, bringing its total financing to a...
View ArticleNetflix cloud architect to share his wisdom from new post at venture firm
One of the most prominent cloud-computing architects around, Adrian Cockcroft, has left Netflix and joined venture-capital firm Battery Ventures. In Cockcroft’s new post, he will bring smart startups...
View ArticleIntacct nabs $45M to tell CFOs about its cloud accounting software
Intacct, an early pioneer in cloud software, is ready to get the word out about its accounting solution. The company today announced a $45 million funding round, most of which will go toward sales and...
View ArticleBattery Ventures pours $7 million into retail intelligence outfit Smarter...
Battery Ventures is betting big time on the retail intelligence space. The Valley venture heavyweights poured $7 million into Smarter Remarketer, an Indianapolis-based startup whose flagship SR2 Big...
View ArticleFunding Daily: Data bouncers and mail comrades
Today, BlueTalon snagged $1.5 million to play data bouncer and Magisto found a $2 million comrade in Mail.ru. We have details on those fundings and more below. Battery Ventures pours $7 million into...
View ArticleYesware now lets salespeople track whether their attachments are getting opened
Fresh off a South by Southwest talk about sales and startups, Yesware chief executive Matthew Bellows shared his company’s latest progress — a tool for making email attachments trackable. This may...
View ArticleHackerRank's developer-recruiting tool relies on puzzles rather than resumes
HackerRank has built a recruiting tool that does away with old-school resumes and applications and replaces them with fun challenges and puzzles that show off an applicant’s skills. The new tool caters...
View ArticleHey, software makers: Skip the sales team. Go freemium to build a $1B business
GUEST: Can you build a billion-dollar enterprise-software company without a sales force? Today, not only is that possible, it’s preferable — at least for some types of software companies. Take the...
View ArticleReflektion raises $18 million round for its ecommerce platform, led by...
Battery Ventures led an $18 million investment for ecommerce analytics startup Reflektion, while private investors Marc Benioff and Ray Lane followed. The San Mateo, California-based startup, which has...
View ArticleCloud guru Adrian Cockcroft on Netflix, Amazon, Google, and DigitalOcean
SAN FRANCISCO — Adrian Cockcroft is the cloud-computing guru who led Netflix’s migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS). He left Netflix earlier this year for Battery Ventures. VentureBeat interviewed...
View ArticleLondon-based Hibob raises $17.5 million to expand its HR platform into the...
HR and benefits platform provider Hibob has raised $17.5 million in a Series A round of funding led by Battery Ventures, with participation from Eight Roads Ventures, Arbor Ventures, and Bessemer...
View ArticleStreamSets raises $20 million to help companies manage big data
StreamSets, which provides software to manage various sets of data from a single control panel, today announced funding of $20 million in a round co-led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Battery...
View ArticleEx-FBI advisor raises $12 million for cybersecurity startup JASK
JASK, which provides companies with software to monitor cyber threats, came out of stealth today and announced funding of $12 million in a round co-led by Dell Technologies Capital and TenEleven...
View ArticleDatabricks raises $140 million to accelerate AI in the enterprise
Databricks, which provides software to help fuse big data and artificial intelligence, announced today that it has secured an additional $140 million in funding in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz,...
View ArticleInVision secures $100 million for digital product design
InVision, which provides software to facilitate digital product design, announced today that it has secured a whopping $100 million in a round led by Battery Ventures. Spark Capital and Geodesic...
View ArticleHeartland startup funding in 2017 shows a North-South divide
ANALYSIS: While Silicon Valley is known as the heart of tech and home to the world’s top tier venture capital firms, other states and cities in the U.S. are beginning to show flourishing startup scenes...
View ArticleVoicera raises $14.5 million for AI that draws insights from meeting notes
Voicera, whose AI assistant Eva creates transcripts from voice recordings of meetings, today announced the closure of a $14.5 million funding round, which includes backing from a few tech giants with...
View ArticleCatchpoint nets $3.2M from Battery to boost real-time web monitoring
Web-performance monitoring startup Catchpoint Systems has raised $3.2 million in new funding that will help it better keep an eye on companies’ web services, APIs, DNS, and more. New York-based...
View ArticleFunding daily: Money, money, money, as no fewer than 13 companies get funded...
Femtocells, human organs, and space: Funding daily for April 3 is full as 13 companies raised money, financing, or were sold. Here’s a quick overview: Femtocells sell Cisco bought femtocell and small...
View ArticleThis lead-prediction startup pings you when a potential customer enters your...
Predictive lead scoring — ranking sales leads based on likelihood to buy — is nothing new, and companies such as Infer, Lattice Engines, and Salesfusion have been offering tools for this for some time...
View ArticleBelgian data governance startup Collibra raises $100 million and joins...
Data governance technology startup Collibra has raised $100 million in venture capital, gaining unicorn status in the process.Read More
View ArticleJoor raises $16 million to expand its online fashion marketplace for wholesalers
Joor, an online marketplace that connects fashion brands and retailers, has raised $16 million in a series C funding round led by Japan's Itochu.Read More
View Article6sense raises $27 million for its marketing and sales predictive analytics tool
6sense, a San Francisco-based startup that uses big data to predict in real time when people are in the market to buy products, has raised $27 million.Read More
View ArticlePlayVS raises $50 million more for high school esports platform
PlayVS has raised $50 million for its platform for high school esports. The round means that the Los Angeles company has raised $96 million in 15 months.Read More
View ArticleFounders: Bid for pitch slots with Tim Draper, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla...
CharityBuzz has gotten a taste of the tech world’s power, and it wants more. Weeks after auctioning off coffee with Apple CEO Tim Cook for a staggering $610,000, CharityBuzz is starting a new auction,...
View ArticleRoblox goes public at $41.9 billion valuation in direct listing
Join GamesBeat Summit 2021, happening today! Watch live here! Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, went public today in a direct listing, where employees and investors finally get...
View ArticleEncore raises $9M to create a middle class of music artists with shows that...
Encore has raised $9 million in funding to enable a middle class of music artists. It lets musicians create live paid AR shows.Read More
View ArticleReport: Tech spending is holding strong, though priorities shifting
A survey of technology buyers revealed that companies are changing their tech spending habits, but overall budgets aren't expected to shrink.Read More
View ArticleReport: Cloud revenue growth far outpaces on-premises
Battery Ventures predicts we will see a step-change increase in cloud adoption across every industry and economy.Read More
View ArticleGalileo launches LLM Studio to revolutionize AI adoption in enterprises
Galileo, an AI startup, announced today the launch of Galileo LLM Studio, a platform to diagnose and fix issues with large language models.Read More
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