Apeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains

Apeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains

Apeel Sciences, a food system innovation company, is out to prevent food produced globally from ending up in the landfill, especially as pressures from the global pandemic affect the food supply chain. The company just added $250 million in Series E funding, giving it...
Youreka Labs spins out with $8.5M to provide smart mobile assistant apps to field workers

Youreka Labs spins out with $8.5M to provide smart mobile assistant apps to field workers

Mobile field service startup Youreka Labs Inc. raised an $8.5 million Series A round of funding co-led by Boulder Ventures and Grotech Ventures, with participation from Salesforce Ventures. The Maryland-based company also officially announced its CEO — Bill Karpovich...
Talkdesk’s valuation jumps to $10B with Series D for smart contact centers

Talkdesk’s valuation jumps to $10B with Series D for smart contact centers

Talkdesk, a provider of cloud-based contact center software, announced $230 million in new Series D funding that more than triples the company’s valuation to $10 billion, Talkdesk founder CEO Tiago Paiva confirmed to TechCrunch. New investors Whale Rock Capital...
CommandBar raises $4.8M to make web-based apps searchable

CommandBar raises $4.8M to make web-based apps searchable

James Evans and his co-founders at CommandBar were working on a software product when they hit a wall while trying to access certain functionalities within the software. That’s when the lightbulb moment happened and, in 2020, the team shifted to building a product...
Enterprise AI 2.0: the acceleration of B2B innovation has begun

Enterprise AI 2.0: the acceleration of B2B innovation has begun

Eshwar Belani Contributor Share on Twitter Eshwar Belani is an operating partner at Symphony AI. Two decades after businesses first started deploying AI solutions, one can argue that they’ve made little progress in achieving significant gains in efficiency and...