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Paddle scoops up $12.5M in funding to centralize software sales
The subscription-based billing model that took off with the rise of cloud services changed how enterprises consume technology and opened a new chapter in Silicon Valley’s history. Yet today, software-as-a-service providers often still have to rely on multiple disparate systems to support their billing operations. London-based Paddle.com Market Ltd., which on Thursday announced the completion ...
Report: Squarespace raises $200M, now valued at $1.7B
Business website provider Squarespace Inc. is raising about $200 million in fresh capital as part of a funding round set to value it at an impressive $1.7 billion. That’s according to a Bloomberg report published this morning, which cited an anonymous source familiar with the deal. The investment comes courtesy of General Atlantic, a New ...
Microsoft backs $9.3M round into strategy management startup Workboard
Four-year-old Workboard Inc. is looking to streamline how companies execute their business strategies. To do so, the startup announced on Wednesday that it has raised $9.3 million in funding from Microsoft Ventures, Floodgate Management Co. LLC and several existing investors. The capital will go toward widening the adoption of Workboard’s namesake cloud platform, which is already ...
LinkedIn opens up the internal tool its engineers use to find technical issues
Like parent company Microsoft Corp., LinkedIn makes contributions to the open-source community on a regular basis. The social network bolstered its project portfolio once again today by releasing the code for a homegrown tool used internally to tackle technical problems. Named Fossor after the Latin word for “one who digs,” the system is designed to ...
Google Brain co-founder Andrew Ng launches startup to push AI into manufacturing
Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng today revealed what he has been working on since his high-profile exit from Chinese search giant Baidu Inc. earlier this year. Ng (pictured), who had previously co-founded the Google Brain Project and online education giant Coursera Inc., announced the launch of a new startup called Landing.ai Inc. that will focus ...
Bizzabo lands $15M to help companies supercharge their business events
Software-as-a-service startup Bizzabo Inc. today announced that it has raised $15 million in funding to automate an essential but often overlooked aspect of companies’ marketing efforts: business conferences. According to Bizzabo, customer events, partner meetups and other live gatherings account for 24 percent of the average chief marketing officer’s annual budget. A lot of the ...
Through partnership with Komatsu, Nvidia will bring AI to construction sites
Construction sites can now be added to the growing list of industrial environments where artificial intelligence is being applied. Nvidia Corp. today revealed that it has entered a partnership with Tokyo-based Komatsu Ltd., one of the world’s largest heavy equipment manufacturers, to harness AI for improving worker safety in building projects. The collaboration will revolve ...
Upstream Security raises $9M to keep hackers out of your car
Research firm Gartner Inc. predicts that more than 250 million connected vehicles will roam the roads by 2020. Upstream Security Inc. is laying the groundwork to ensure that those vehicles and their owners won’t become an easy target for hackers, a mission backed by a group of high-profile investors. The startup today announced the completion ...
Simility raises $17.5M round led by Accel for its fraud-fighting AI
For a bank or a retailer that processes upwards of tens of thousands of transactions a day, spotting fraudulent activity can be tricky to say the least. Simility Inc. wants to help. The three-year-old fraud detection startup today announced that it has raised a $17.5 million funding round led by venture capital powerhouse Accel. The firm ...
HashiCorp looks to codify cloud infrastructure with Terraform Enterprise
HashiCorp Inc., the well-funded automation startup, today rolled out a product called Terraform Enterprise into general availability that promises to codify how companies manage their infrastructure. The launch follows an extensive beta program that saw more than 100 organizations pilot the software. Based on an open-source tool HashiCorp originally released in 2014, Terraform Enterprise can ...