Thursday May 9, 2024

HackerOne Bags $25M As Security Info Sharing Mainstreams

 HackerOne, makers of a bug bounty platform where companies pay hackers to find vulnerabilities in their products, announced a $25 million Series B round today. The round was led by NEA. Benchmark, its lead Series A investor, also participated along with several prominent individual investors including Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, Digital Sky Technologies Partner Yuri Milner, Dropbox… Read More […]

New Company Helps SaaS Applications Work Behind Firewall

 Replicated, a company that wants to help SaaS vendors ship an on-premises version of their applications more easily, made a series of announcements today including a $1.5M seed round and several Beta customers. The company is taking advantage of Docker containerization technology to build a solution that enables developers to code once and ship two identical versions of […]

Yotpo Raises An Additional $15M, Adds Former GoDaddy CEO To Board

 Yotpo, a platform that helps businesses with original content marketing, just announced the closing of a $15 million funding round. This brings total funding so far by the company to $30 million. Read More Tweet This Post

Box Governance Designed To Attract Regulated Industries To Cloud

 Today Box announced it is releasing Box Governance, its governance tools, from Beta to general availability, making three tools available today. The announcement itself is really less important than what it represents as the company has tried to transform content management from a monolithic and often obtuse on-premises system into a cloud-based digital tool. The goal and challenge for… Read More Tweet […]

Former Battlefield Finalist DigitalGenius Scores $3M In First Funding Foray

 TechCrunch Disrupt New York Battlefield finalists, DigitalGenius announced their first serious funding today with a $3 million investment round. The company was looking for $2 million, but garnered so much interest from investors, it ended up landing the $3 million figure instead, according to DigitalGenius chief strategy officer Mikhail Naumov. The round was led by Metamorphic Ventures. Read More […]

Slack Is Just The Tip Of The Iceberg For Enterprise Tech

 Slack’s valuation soared to $2.8 billion in less than two years, and has doubled in the past six months alone — all without any big marketing campaigns. The startup’s adoption curve and rave reviews are something many founders and investors dream about, but few actually achieve. Read More Tweet This Post

Minio Lands $3.3M Seed Round To Build Out Open Source Storage Project

 When venture capitalists open their wallets and hand out $3.3 million for a seed round, you have to figure the new company has some industry veterans with startup experience, and such is the case with Minio, an open source cloud storage product being built by veterans from Gluster. Gluster was purchased by Red Hat in 2011 for $136 […]

Microsoft Shakes Up Its Leadership And Internal Structure As Its Fiscal Year Comes To A Close

 Update: For a #hottake, we made you a #video so that you can enjoy more #content! This morning Microsoft announced changes to its organizational structure and leadership team. Some of its most senior executives are departing, and the company is shifting internal teams in what the company described as a change to better match its […]

Managed By Q Sweeps Up $15M Led By RRE Ventures, Expands To San Francisco

 Managed By Q, the startup that handles all the cleaning, maintenance and re-stocking of your office, has today announced the close of a $15 million Series A funding round led by RRE Ventures. Greycroft Partners, Homebrew, Sherpa Ventures, SV Angel and Steadfast Financial also participated in the round, alongside Gary Vaynerchuk, Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai, […]

First Salesforce Wave Analytics App Washes Ashore

 Salesforce announced a new Wave analytics app today called Sales Wave Analytics, the first in a line of what the company is calling ‘role-based’ packaged apps for the Wave platform. First, some context because all of this Wave talk can get a bit confusing. Last fall, Salesforce introduced Wave, which was a platform for the company’s analytics […]