by admin | Oct 29, 2020 | Accel, Dan Manian, Donut, Enterprise, Funding, Fundings & Exits, InVision, ITAD News, operating systems, Recent Funding, slack, slack fund, Software, Startups, TC, telecommuting, Toyota, web conferencing, zoom
If you miss hanging out with your co-workers but don’t want to spend a single second more on Zoom, the latest product from Donut might be the answer. The startup is launching its new Watercooler product today while also announcing that it has raised $12 million in...
by admin | Aug 25, 2020 | Cloud, cloud data warehouse, Enterprise, Exit, Frank Slootman, Fundings & Exits, ITAD News, S-1, SaaS, Snowflake, Startups, TC
When Snowflake filed its S-1 to go public yesterday, it wasn’t exactly a shock. The company which raised $1.4 billion had been valued at $12.4 billion in its last private raise in February. CEO Frank Slootman, who had taken over from Bob Muglia in May last year,...
by admin | Aug 4, 2020 | Enterprise, Funding, Fundings & Exits, ITAD News, norwest venture partners, Startups
Qualified, a startup co-founded by former Salesforce executives Kraig Swensrud and Sean Whiteley, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. Swensrud (Qualified’s CEO) said the startup is meant to solve a problem that he faced back when he was CMO at Salesforce....
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Cloud, cloud optimization, Enterprise, Exit, Fundings & Exits, ITAD News, M&A, Mergers and Acquisitions, NetApp, SaaS, SPOT, Startups, Storage, TC
When Spotinst rebranded to Spot in March, it seemed big changes were afoot for the startup, which originally helped companies find and manage cheap infrastructure known as spot instances (hence its original name). We had no idea how big at the time. Today, NetApp...
by admin | Feb 5, 2020 | Enterprise, Flexport, Freight Forwarding, Funding, Fundings & Exits, ITAD News, layoffs, Logistics, Personnel, Softbank, Startups, Talent, TC, Transportation, Venture Capital
Fearing weak fundraising options in the wake of the WeWork implosion, late-stage startups are tightening their belts. The latest is another Softbank-funded company, joining Zume Pizza (80 percent of staff laid off), Wag (80 percent), Fair (40%), Getaround (25...
by admin | Nov 21, 2019 | Bobby Goodlatte, bug tracking, collaboration, Developer, developers, Dylan Field, Enterprise, enterprise collaboration, Funding, Fundings & Exits, ITAD News, JIRA, Linear, Recent Funding, SaaS, sequoia capital, Startups, TC
Software will eat the world, as the saying goes, but in doing so, some developers are likely to get a little indigestion. That is to say, building products requires working with disparate and distributed teams, and while developers may have an ever-growing array of...
