Sunday December 22, 2024

Asana Debuts New Version Of Its Collab Software, Claims 140K Companies Use Its Service

 This morning at Asana’s San Francisco headquarters, the startup announced a new version of its product, a new brand — logo — and, happily, some metrics about its growth. As you will recall, the startup picked up a new Head of Business from Google on Monday, announcing at the same time that it has expanded its […]

Glassbreakers Is Launching Enterprise Software For Diversity

 Glassbreakers, the mentorship platform for women, is getting into the enterprise software business, after recently doing trial runs with Box and Pinterest. Next year, Glassbreakers will officially launch an enterprise solution for diversity to companies with over 10,000 employees. The Glassbreakers enterprise software will offer mentorship for women, a content channel to highlight… Read More Tweet This Post

The Next Wave Of Enterprise Software Powered By Machine Learning

 Enterprise software is about to undergo radical transformation — a substantial change that will make the shift to software as a service (SaaS) look like a simple facelift. This transformation is being powered by machine learning. Read More Tweet This Post

Software For The Full-Stack Era

 The history of software is dominated by companies that automated how the biggest companies in the world did business. IBM automated clerical tasks, SAP unified corporate financials, and Siebel digitized Rolodexes for relationship-driven salespeople. With that focus in mind, it’s no wonder that many of the world’s largest technology companies survive based on their ties […]

Kleiner Perkins Creates A New Seed Stage Initiative That Will Give Founders New Software To Grow

 Kleiner Perkins has launched a new, small seed stage investment initiative within its latest fund to invest in technology like virtual reality and drones that will offer founders a suite of additional services. As part of this new fund called the Edge fund, Kleiner Perkins has brought on an engineer, a designer and a product person to build […]

Standards Bring Order To Enterprise Software

 One thing was clear to me this week as I wandered the halls of the Hilton at Torrey Pines for the Cloud Identity Summit, and it had nothing to do with the famous golf course or the trees for which it’s named. Whatever the subject, enterprise scale brings with it complexity, and one of the […]

WalkMe Raises Another $25M For Its Platform To Get Around Websites And Software More Easily

 Confusing or complicated website and software design can cost companies a lot in lost traffic and business, but for one startup, it’s a problem that is proving to be lucrative. WalkMe, which has developed a platform that integrates with existing software and sites to help guide people through using them — used by companies like eBay, Salesforce and […]

Enterprise Software Startup Icertis Raises $6M From Greycroft And Fidelity Growth

 Enterprise software maker Icertis has scored $6 million in series A funding led by Greycroft Partners and Fidelity Growth Partners India. Based in Pune, India and Bellevue, WA, Icertis will use the capital to expand and market its cloud-based contract management software. Read More Tweet This Post

Box Has Always Been About Reshaping Enterprise Software

 One of Box’s earliest marketing stunts was a series of billboards on California’s Route 101 in which it made no bones about going after enterprise content management (ECM) big shot, Microsoft SharePoint. While many would like to pigeonhole Box as storage or sync and share, Box has always had other ideas. From the earliest days in […]

Clinical Study Software Platform goBalto Raises $12M In New Funding

 goBalto, a software company that wants to make running clinical drug trials easier and faster, announced today that it has picked up an additional $12 million in funding from Mitsui Global Investment and Dolby Family Ventures. Read More Tweet This Post