Evolve or die trying: What’s next for SaaS
By elevating customer experience outside of a single SaaS system and using the flexibility of an API-first model, companies can create useful and compelling CXs. By elevating customer experience outside of a single SaaS system and using the flexi.....»»
Google’s Gradient Ventures leads $8.2M Series A for Vault Platform’s misconduct reporting SaaS
Fixing workplace misconduct reporting is a mission that’s snagged London-based Vault Platform backing from Google’s AI focused fund, Gradient Ventures, which is the lead investor in an $8.2 million Series A that’s being announced to.....»»
For SaaS startups, differentiation is an iterative process
To scale sustainably, grow the customer base and mature to the point of exit, a SaaS startup needs to stand apart from the herd at every phase of its development. Jason VandeBoom Contributor Share on.....»»
Confluent’s IPO brings a high-growth, high-burn SaaS model to the public markets
Confluent became the latest company to announce its intent to take the IPO route, officially filing its S-1 paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week. The company, which has raised over $455 million since it launched in 201.....»»
Extra Crunch roundup: Inside Sprinklr’s IPO filing, how digital transformation is reshaping markets
Since we were off yesterday for Memorial Day, today's roundup is brief, but we'll have much more to recap on Friday. Despite a recent history of uneven cash flow and moderate growth, SaaS customer experience management platform Sprinklr has.....»»
Extra Crunch roundup: first-check myths, Miami relocation checklist, standout SaaSy startups
We're off on Monday, May 31 in observance of Memorial Day; I hope you have a relaxing weekend! This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazin.....»»
3 views on the future of meetings
Founders aren’t flocking to build just another SaaS tool or Airtable copycat — they're trying to disrupt the only thing possibly more annoying than e-mail: the work meeting. More than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, early-stage st.....»»
Reef-building corals and microscopic algae within their cells evolve together
The microscopic algae that live inside and provide nutrients to their reef-building coral hosts may be evolving in tandem with the corals they inhabit, so each partner is fine-tuned to meet one another's needs. A new study by Penn State biologists re.....»»
SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook
The idea of directly incentivizing users is a common rallying cry in the crypto community: Imagine an internet free from monopoly tech giants where users control and monetize their own data. John Chen Contributor.....»»
IBM Grabs Coremetrics for Marketing Analytics
SaaS-based Coremetrics ties into IBM's larger strategy of beefing up its cloud-based, on-demand offerings for enterprises......»»
Databricks introduces Delta Sharing, an open-source tool for sharing data
Databricks launched its fifth open-source project today, a new tool called Delta Sharing designed to be a vendor-neutral way to share data with any cloud infrastructure or SaaS product, so long as you have the appropriate connector. It’s part o.....»»
Databricks introduces Delta Sharing, an open source tool for sharing data
Databricks launched its fifth open source project today, a new tool called Delta Sharing designed to be a vendor neutral way to share data with any cloud infrastructure or SaaS product, so long as you have the appropriate connector. It’s part o.....»»
Matera raises another $43 million to turn residential building management into SaaS
French startup Matera has announced that is has raised a new $43 million (€35 million) Series B funding round led by Mubadala Capital. Bpifrance, Burda Principal Investments as well as existing investors Index Ventures and Samaipata are also partic.....»»
Palo Alto Networks pushes enterprise zero trust
Palo Alto Networks bolstered its security portfolio with products that target enterprise network users looking to make the move to a zero-trust environment.The new capabilities focus on a number of zero trust mechanisms—including SaaS, cloud a.....»»
Atlan raises $16M led by Insight Partners to build a collaboration hub for data-driven teams
Young startup Atlan, which has built a SaaS data collaboration platform and is courting customers in international markets, has now won the trust of some high-profile investors. Atlan said on Tuesday it has raised $16 million in its Series A financin.....»»
Indian logistics SaaS startup FarEye raises $100 million
FarEye, an Indian SaaS startup that helps firms globally optimize their supply chain and logistics operations, said on Tuesday it has raised a new financing round, its third since the pandemic broke last year, as it looks to further expand in interna.....»»
Facebook co-founder Saverin’s B Capital doubles down on SaaS in China
B Capital Group, the six-year-old venture capital fund formed by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and Bain Capital veteran Raj Ganguly, is doubling down on China as it looks to allocate $500 million to $1 billion of its fund into Chinese tech comp.....»»
Uncapped, which provides upfront revenue to digital companies, raises $80M in funding
Buzzy US startup Pipe — which claims to be the “Nasdaq for revenue” — has just raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation? The secret for the hype? It gives SaaS companies a way to get their revenue upfront, by “pairing them with inv.....»»
Extra Crunch roundup: Selling SaaS to developers, cracking YC after 13 tries, all about Expensify
In an exclusive TechCrunch exposé, a founder shares the key lessons he learned while steering his startup through YC’s stringent selection process. Before Twilio had a market cap approaching $56 billion and more than 200,000 customers, t.....»»
Ancient gut microbiomes may offer clues to modern diseases
Scientists have found dramatic differences between gut microbiomes from ancient North American peoples and modern microbiomes, offering new evidence on how these microbes may evolve with different diets......»»
AWS releases tool to open source that turns on-prem software into SaaS
AWS announced today that it’s releasing a tool called AWS SaaS Boost as open source distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The tool, which was first announced at the AWS:re:Invent conference last year, is designed to help companies transform.....»»