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AugmentAugmentObviously AI, PeakPerformer, TWID, Leegality, and MyMobiForce raise funds | VC Holdings has signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire some of IDreamSky’s SaaS-related software | ExpenseOut Infiniti Software Solutions’ flagship product, has been reintroducedVC Holdings has signed a sale and purchase agreement to acquire some of IDreamSky’s SaaS-related software and the entire issued share-capital of Dream Impression Holdings, IDreamSky’s indirectly owned subsidiary, in an $11.23 million deal (HK $87.32 million).Obviously AI, a no-code platform helping people without a technical platform build and run AI models, has announced an extension of its $3.6 million seed round that it raised in May this year. With the close of this extension round, led by a deep tech investment firm, University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners (UTEC), the company’s seed funding raised to $4.7 millio...2021-07-0602 minAugmentAugmentIntervue, MaxAB and Locad raise funds | Du and Wipro have announced the launch of their multi-cloud platform | Huawei and Temenos have teamed up | REvil, a cybercriminal group, used flaws in Kaseya’s update system in a devastating ransomware attackDu and Wipro have announced the launch of their multi-cloud platform that aims to simplify, accelerate digital transformation and cloud adoption across the UAE. It is set to help organizations reimagine their infrastructure, create new cost inefficiencies and deliver more secure solutions.Huawei and Temenos have teamed up to allow Temeonos’ cloud-native core banking solution on Huawei’s public cloud. It would focus on the APAC region, with a focus on China and other areas. With the move, banks would be able to achieve their go-to-market strategy and open up new business models.REvil, a cybe...2021-07-0502 minAugmentAugmentShenzhen-based Kingdee International Software Group Company recently signed an official contract.Shenzhen-based Kingdee International Software Group Company recently signed an official contract. It held a kick-off meeting for a cooperation project with the Shagang Group, a leading provider of iron and steel material manufacturers and integrated service providers. In a statement to the press, Kingdee enunciated that both companies have reached a consensus to work in tandem to mobilize all internal and external resources for the digital transformation of the iron and steel industry, setting a benchmark with a great significance in a demonstration.2021-07-0400 minAugmentAugmentYour FLOCK, Frame and TeamApt raise funds | Siemens has decided to move a substantial portion of its software business to SaaS | Rapyd has agreed to buy ValitorSiemens has decided to move a substantial portion of its software business to SaaS. According to Siemens, the new SaaS services will help users accelerate their digital transformation by delivering greater accessibility, easier collaboration, and limitless scalability.Rapyd, a Fintech-as-a-Service (FaaS) company, has agreed to buy Valitor, a payments technology company, for $100 million from Arion Bank. SMB traders in Iceland, the United Kingdom and Ireland, and throughout Europe use the Icelandic Valitor. Rapyd plans to minimize FX fees, simplify omnichannel payment integration, and expand into new areas, allowing it to tap into revenue and growth possibilities that...2021-07-0301 minAugmentAugmentHewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has acquired Zerto | Hypersonix, Monisnap, Codat, Paper, Articulate Global, Nowports, Karat Financial, zip24, Desana, TyrePlex, Inflexor Ventures raise funds | Barracuda Networks acquired SKOUT CybersecurityHewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has acquired Zerto in a $374 million all-cash deal, expected to close by the end of HPE’s fourth quarter. The move is aimed at expanding HPE GreenLake cloud services.Hypersonix, an enterprise AI platform for commerce, has announced that it has raised $35 million at a valuation of $200 million in a Series B funding round led by B Capital Group. Other participants include Intel Capital, Firebolt Ventures, Magicus Ventures, and Gokul Rajaram, among others.   Monisnap, a remittance fintech company, has raised $11.8 million in a fresh round of funding. The funds will be used...2021-07-0204 minAugmentAugmentDetect Technologies, Shogun, Mandolin, Pietra, Nodes&Links, FloLive, NoName Security and Hyperexponential raise funds | BMW i Ventures announce their second sustainability-focused fund | ServiceTitan acquires Aspire Software | Slack launches Huddles | Device42 developed a new solution that analyses infrastructure | Nauta Capital has announced ambitions to invest in pre-seed deeptech businesses across Europe | ARIADNEXT has been bought by IDnow | Gusto launches Gusto Embedded PayrollDetect Technologies, a company specializing in industrial AI, has raised $12 million in a round led by Accel Partners and Elevation Capital. According to the company’s statement, the money will be used to enhance worldwide industrial efficiency and extend the company’s position as a leader in industrial digitalization. The firm provides a wide range of AI and IoT solutions for the industrial sector.BMW i Ventures announce their second sustainability-focused fund for early to mid-stage startups in the industries of transportation, manufacturing, supply chain and others. Previously, investments of the VC firm’s first fund, BMW i Vent...2021-07-0106 minAugmentAugmentNansen, Forum Brands, Shipbob, Virti, Jetstream, Wonderflow, Arrows and Boundless raise funds | Zoom acquires Kites | Shopify has brought down app store commission rates | Sequoia Capital India has welcomed 23 startups for the fifth cohort of Surge | Peak has announced the launch of its fourth €66 million fund | JFrog acquires Vdoo | 2U acquires edX | GitHub and Open AI have collaborated to launch GitHub Copilot | Acceleprise has officially rebranded itself as Forum Ventures | Ramco Systems’ software would be used by Aden Ports Development CompanyCommunications platform Zoom has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire real-time machine translations (MT) solutions developer Karlsruhe Information Technology Solutions – Kites. The terms of the transactions remain undisclosed.Cloud-based multi-channel commerce platform Shopify has brought down app store commission rates to zero for developers making their first $1M in revenue. Commission rates are cut for other developers (earning over $1M/year) as well, from 20 to 15 percent. This new revenue share model is extended to Theme Store developers as well.Sequoia Capital India has welcomed 23 startups for the fifth cohort of Surge, it...2021-06-3006 minAugmentAugmentWiteSand, Side, GoBOLT, LocoNav and Tapcart raises funds | Etsy acquires Elo7 | Dell has released Omnia, an open-source software suite | Mastercard invests in InstamojoWiteSand, a startup that aims to take enterprise networking to cloud, has emerged from stealth mode, announcing its raise of $12.5 million in seed funding to date from institutions and angels. WiteSand, founded in 2019, consolidates on-premise networking tools into a unified cloud-delivered service and enables companies to monitor, secure and manage their enterprise network infrastructure. In a statement to the press, WiteSand enunciated the complications that medium to large enterprises face in networking due to employee mobility and hybrid work environments. Managing networking solutions on-premise is also tedious and time-consuming, it added.San Francisco-based Side, a real estate...2021-06-2904 minAugmentAugmentLegalPay & Mercuryo Raises funds | IBM announces AI-powered automation tools for better 5G Delivery | Accenture highlights major Supply Chain issue.LegalPay, a tech-based litigation platform, has raised an undisclosed sum of money with Ashwini Kakkar, the former CEO of Thomas Cook. With the extra capital, the company plans to expand its product and service offerings and has entered into a new kind of financing known as Interim Financing under the IBC, 2016.Mercuryo, a global fintech company, has raised $7.5 million in a Series A round led by Target Global. The London-based company describes itself as a “crypto infrastructure company.” Its “digital asset payment gateway” aims to make blockchain useful for businesses. Mercuryo began onboarding clients in January 2019 and has had...2021-06-2802 minAugmentAugmentLenovo Launches Lenovo Devices Intelligence | Microsoft releases Windows 11.Windows 11 is Microsoft’s first significant operating system (OS) upgrade since 2015. By the end of the year, the update will be available. Microsoft’s latest approach contrasts sharply with Apple’s “walled garden” policy, in which the iPhone maker restricts customers to download apps via the App Store. In addition, Microsoft has announced that the Windows 11 operating system would include additional tipping options for content creators, including local news sites. Lenovo has launched an enhanced version of its SaaS-based health management tool, Lenovo Device Intelligence, in India on Thursday, reports state. The Lenovo Device Intelligence Plus, as it is ca...2021-06-2701 minAugmentAugmentAWS Acquires Wickr | Edge Delta raises funds.Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced its acquisition of the top-secret message servicing app Wickr, used by government agencies, on Friday. The transactions of the deal remain undisclosed and AWS would be offering Wickr services with immediate effect for customers.Edge Delta has announced the completion of a $15 million Series A financing round headed by Menlo Ventures. The Edge Delta team will use the new funds to expand their personnel and help new clients who have shown interest in the product. Edge Delta claims to deliver all of the features of the centralized approach by allowing organizations to...2021-06-2601 minAugmentAugmentJW Player, Tonkean, Firebolt, env0, Sanity, Illumio, Legatics, WINDO, ApnaKlub, Classplus, Gotrade raises funds | Andreessen Horowitz has launched its Crypto Fund III.Andreessen Horowitz has launched its Crypto Fund III, a dedicated $2.2B fund for blockchain startups in their early to late stages. The VC firm has been investing in crypto since 2013 from its dedicated crypto fund. The previous crypto fund, Crypto Fund II, had come out last year.JW Player has raised $100M in a Series E funding round. Last month, this video software and data insights platform acquired live and on-demand video streaming provider Vualto. The proceeds from this fund would be used to accelerate its product innovation and to build its team.Tonkean, a...2021-06-2505 minAugmentAugmentChannext, Pathfndr.io, Tomi.ai, BigLeap, Batch, Acryl Data, Mitiga, Pequity, Aircall, Vercel, PlanetScale, Forto, Drata & Rocketlane Raises funds | Golden Ventures has raised its fourth fund of $100M | Frumtak Ventures has launched its third fund, Frumtak III | Embark Trucks Inc. to go public | AWS – Salesforce partnership expanded.Channext, a software-as-a-service platform connecting vendors and business partners, has raised USD 0.8 million in a seed round. Channext will use the funds received in this round to extend its European footprint in countries such as Italy, the Nordics, and Spain. Despite the difficulties of starting a business during a pandemic, he continued, their company has expanded significantly in the last year.Pathfndr.io, a no-code SaaS startup, has raised an undisclosed amount in pre-Series A round led by Arali Ventures. Other participants include SEA Fund, Wayfare Ventures, KPB Family Trust, Acsys Investments, and Capital A, JAZFund...2021-06-2406 minAugmentAugmentTransmit Security, Oyster, Insilico Medicine, Mollie, Merlyn Mind, Zeller, Memory.ai and Joyride raises funds | G2 turns unicorn, raising $157M in Series D | Splunk raises $1B from Silver Lake; launches Splunk Security CloudBoston’s Transmit Security, which provides workforces risk management and passwordless identity solutions, has announced its Series A fundraise of $543 million, led by Insight Partners and General Atlantic. Additional investors include Cyberstarts, Geodesic, SYN Ventures, Vintage, and Artisanal Ventures. The company’s pre-investment valuation was $2.2B, and it looks to work towards passwordless protection and identity risk management.Oyster, a software HR platform to address hiring problems in companies, announced its Series B fundraise of $50M, led by Stripes. The funding comes on the heels of its Series A funding, which it raised in February this year...2021-06-2304 minAugmentAugmentVia, DataRails and GrowSari raise funds | Ezbob has launched its new modular SaaS platform Ezbob ExpressLondon-based Ezbob, a provider of customer acquisition technology for financial services, has launched its new modular SaaS platform, Ezbob Express, to address the key challenges in the sector. In its statement to the press, Ezbob elucidated the three important features that Ezbob Express provides- helping financial service providers fill gaps in their digital transformation journeys, assist them in taking precise, complex credit and risk decisions, and enabling the furtherance of embedded finance growth. Via, a Bay Area-based SaaS startup powering mobile commerce for brands and retailers, has raised its Series A investment worth $15 million from the venture f...2021-06-2202 minAugmentAugmentSaarthi.ai, Foundries.io and CYPHER LEARNING raise funds | Amber Group has turned a unicornHong Kong-based one-stop crypto finance provider, Amber Group, has turned a unicorn, raising $100 million in Series B funding from the Chinese investment firm, China Renaissance. The round valued the startup at $1 billion, a ten-fold increase from the previously achieved value. Bengaluru-based multilingual conversational enterprise AI platform, Saarthi.ai, has raised an undisclosed amount from Lead Angels Network in a seed round investment recently, reports on the fundraising said. Its previous investments were an angel round in May 2020 and non-equity assistance in 2019.Foundries.io, a cloud development and deployment solutions provider for secure IoT and E...2021-06-2101 minAugmentAugmentMeltwater acquires business information company Owler | Samaaro has raised $125,000 in an angel funding round.Meltwater, a SaaS provider of media intelligence and social listening tools, has announced its acquisition of business information company, Owler, in a $24.5M million cash and equity deal. This agreement is reported to be a part of Meltwater’s growth strategy, involving investments and acquisitions in the social media segment.Samaaro, an innovative virtual event platform provider, has raised $125,000 in an angel funding round. The participants include Richa Kar, Founder of Zivame; Naman Gupta, AVP of Swiggy; and Kedar Gavane, Senior VP of Comscore; and other senior executives from Google, Flipkart, Swiggy, Adda52, and High Radius.The fu...2021-06-2001 minAugmentAugmentMSMEx has received $1 million in a pre-Series A investment | Alpine Investors has announced its exit as an investor in Cleo Communications.MSMEx, an edtech company for small businesses, has received $1 million in a pre-Series A investment. The money will be used to develop new smart technologies for the edtech business, including a deep learning-based recommender system and an intelligent LIVE chat system. MSMEx connects small business owners with industry experts.Alpine Investors a private equity firm, has announced its exit as an investor in Cleo Communications a provider of integration solutions, after the latter announced its strategic investment from H.I.G Capital last week. 2021-06-1901 minAugmentAugmentNeo4j, KeepTruckin, Nylas, Beamery, Claroty, Twine, Unit, Internxt, Akur8, Eqtble and Transform raises funds | Vitosha Venture Partners has launched its €26 million fund to invest in about 100 early to growth-stage companiesNeo4j, a provider of graph database platform for organizations, has announced its raise of $325 million in a Series F round led by Eurazeo, at a valuation of $2 billion. According to the company, this transaction represents the largest investment in any private database firm. KeepTruckin, a unicorn company helping trucking companies in fleet management to increase their productivity, safety, and efficiency, has netted $190M in Series E funding. This round raises its valuation from a previously achieved billion to $2.3B. The proceeds will be used to scale its engineering team.Bulgarian-based Vitosha Venture Partners has l...2021-06-1804 minAugmentAugmentBrowserStack, Novo, Bringg, Vianai Systems, 20VC,Templafy, Gloat, Trigo, Brella and Introhive raise funds | DuckDuckGo has claimed a $100M revenue increaseBrowserStack, a software testing platform, has announced its Series B fundraise of $200 million from BOND, at a valuation of $4 billion, making it the highest for any Indian SaaS unicorn. Insight Partners and existing investor Accel participated in the funding. The Series B fundraising makes BrowserStack India’s second SaaS unicorn this year, after Chargebee, which attained the tag in April. In its press release, BrowserStack stated that the funding would be used to support its acquisitions, expand its product offerings, and scale growth. Miami-based Novo, a digital banking platform for small businesses, has raised $40.7 million in a Val...2021-06-1704 minAugmentAugmentMeron Capital, Flexmoney, Crate.io, Iterable, OCR Labs, 10X Future Technologies, UberAll, Duda, Elisity, Apna, Upflow, Macrometa and Cord raises funds | Andreessen Horowitz officially launched a new website for publications called Future | Shopify will extend its one-click checkout product Shop PayMeron Capital, an early-stage VC fund, has announced its second fund of $50 million. The fund will invest in Israeli companies developing software-based solutions for enterprise, cybersecurity, digital health, finance, DevOps, and other areas. Ten firms have received further funding, with Immunai, Solugen, and Armory alone revealing total investments of more than $300 million so far.Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has officially launched a new website, an a16z subdomain, for publications called Future. The publication will initially focus on themes relevant to the firm’s investment sectors. Still, it will grow over time with the help of a mi...2021-06-1606 minAugmentAugmentDropshop, Jumbotail, SimpliContract, nSure.AI, Convosight, Anrok and Instadapp raise funds | Dataiku has launched Dataiku Online | Automattic has acquired the private journaling app Day OneDropshop, a platform for FMCG distribution, has secured Rs. 9.3 crore in a pre-Series A investment round headed by Inflection Point Ventures (IPV). The Bengaluru-based company is a full-stack platform that enables FMCG companies to digitize last-mile distribution, sales, logistics, and credit to retailers. The funds will be utilized to develop the product and expand the company’s operations.Jumbotail, a food, and grocery retail platform and B2B marketplace, has secured Rs. 35 crore ($4.8 million) in a loan round from Alteria Capital. The money will be utilized to expand the business across the country. Ashish Jhina and S...2021-06-1504 minAugmentAugmentImmersive Labs and SOSV raises funds | Info Edge India has acquired Zwayam DigitalUK’s cybersecurity trainer Immersive Labs, which helps enterprises increase their human capabilities in cybersecurity, has netted $75M in Series C. The proceeds would be used to scale its presence in the US and for increasing its headcount, as per reports.Global VC firm SOSV has closed its special fund, which it calls a growth-stage fund to invest in startups in their Series B and beyond stages. Using these funds, it aspires to invest up to $5M in about 20-30 startups. Also, it aims to deploy its SOSV IV select fund, which was oversubscribed in 2019, for deep-tech st...2021-06-1401 minAugmentAugmentKale Logistics raises funds | Tiger Global likely to invest in Indian edtech startup, Classplus.American investment firm, Tiger Global Management, which focuses on public and private companies in industries such as software consumer and fintech, is reported to be in talks with Classplus, an Indian Edtech startup, as per an Entracker report.The investment in Classplus will range between $20 million to $25 million and could potentially push Classplus’s valuation to over $200 million. It will mark the fourth investment of Tiger Global in an Indian edtech company, after BYJUS, Unacademy and Vedantu, sources told Entracker, stating that both companies have been in talks for several weeks and that the outline of the transaction has be...2021-06-1301 minAugmentAugmentChqbook.com raises funds | HB NEXT Corporation teams up with VacmobileHB NEXT Corporation teams up with Vacmobile, a healthcare SaaS and enterprise software solution providing digital access to the storage of vaccination and COVID-19 tests. The move shall enhance HB NEXT’s own healthcare management solution, Clear2, by simplifying and mitigating risks in assisting enterprises to tackle COVID-19Chqbook.com is a small business marketplace that provides loans, credit cards, insurance, accounts, and incentives to small business owners, raises $1 million in a funding round from InnoVen Capital. The new funds will be utilized to enhance the company’s lending portfolio. According to the firm, Chqbook intends to rais...2021-06-1201 minAugmentAugmentEightfold AI, Time is Ltd, PostHog, Yousign, Osome, TestBox, Seven Seven Six, Slintel raise funds | SurveyMonkey is rebranding itself as Momentive | Balderton Capital launches its dedicated growth fund of $680M | Recorded Future launches a $20 million Intelligence Fund | Fuel Ventures has announced an early-stage VC fund to invest in 60 tech companies.Talent intelligence platform provider Eightfold AI, which helps enterprises recruit the right talent, has raised $200M in Series E round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. With this round, its total funding goes over $400M, and valuation shoots up over two times since it achieved a $1B valuation and unicorn tag during its Series D funding last October.Time is Ltd, a SaaS provider for improving workplace productivity and collaboration within teams, has raised $5.6M in a late seed funding round led by Mike Chalfen and others. Ulf Zetterberg will now join the startup as president and...2021-06-1105 minAugmentAugmentZenoti, ChartHop, Commit, BukuWarung, Pennylane, Contentstack and Aserto raises funds | ZoomInfo has acquired Insent | Marqeta has gained a market capitalization of over $17.2B | Genasys Inc. has acquired Zonehaven | Carlyle Group acquires 1E | Sinch acquires MessageMedia | Float wants to provide liquidity to African SMBsZoomInfo, a market intelligence company, has acquired Insent, a conversational platform provider for businesses, in an undisclosed deal.With the acquisition of Insent, companies, ZoomInfo’s clients, will use the chat at a large scale.Marqeta, a payments service company, has gained a market capitalization of over $17.2 billion on its debut. This is due to the company’s share rise of more than 20%. Marqeta’s clients include Uber Technologies and DoorDash, Inc. The shares of the financial technology firm started at $32.50, up from its initial public offering (IPO) price of $27 per share. Genasys Inc. has acquire...2021-06-1006 minAugmentAugmentWhatfix, Airbase, Brinqa and Nubank raises funds | Trux unveils new SaaS offering | Cirralto merges with Appstablishment | ExtraHop to be acquired by Bain Capital & Crosspoint Capital | Deloitte has acquired CloudQuest Inc.Digital adoption SaaS platform Whatfix has closed $90 million in Series D funding from Tokyo-based SoftBank Vision Fund II, nearly two months after talks of this probable fundraising surfaced online. With the close of Series D, Whatfix’s total funding stands at $139.8 million, raised in nine investment rounds, as per Crunchbase, and its valuation has tripled in the last 15 months as per its statements. Other investors – Eight Roads Ventures, Sequoia Capital India, Dragoneer Investment Group, F-Prime Capital, and Cisco Investments- had participated in this round.Heavy construction logistics platform Trux, which builds tech solutions for construction companies, has...2021-06-0905 minAugmentAugmentQuicksell, Trulioo raises funds | Microsoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop will now be known as Azure Virtual Desktop | Lightspeed announces its intention to purchase Shopify rival Ecwid and NuORDERMicrosoft’s Windows Virtual Desktop will now be known as Azure Virtual Desktop. A set of new features will be launched to provide a flexible, virtually accessible cloud VDI platform for all end-users with different use cases. Some features include a QuickStart service and new pricing options for remote app streaming.Mumbai-based QuickSell, a B2B mobile commerce suite platform, has raised $2M in a pre-Series A round co-led by InfoEdge Venture Fund and BEE NEXT, reports state. The proceeds raised shall be used to scale its business, expand its team, and enhance its product features. According to...2021-06-0802 minAugmentAugmentTeemyco, Vault Platform and Sharpen Technologies raises funds | UK government announces collaboration with IBMTeemyco, a virtual office service located in Stockholm, has secured $3.2 million in a fundraising round headed by 42CAP. Teemyco intends to use the capital to expand its personnel, focus on new product development, and expand its sales and marketing efforts. Upstreet, Hack your Closet, eHealthApp, Greenely, and Mr. Lee’s noodles are among its clients.London’s Vault Platform netted $8.2M in Series A funding led by Google’s Gradient Ventures. Vault Platform provides SaaS tools to enterprises to report workplace misconduct incidents and assist them in proactively maintaining internal ethics and integrity issues. In an interview with T...2021-06-0702 minAugmentAugmentOutreach secures $200 million in funding | Good Data launches its enterprise editionGoodData launches its enterprise edition of its headless Business Intelligence service, called GoodData CN Production. The platform is based on a microservices design that is accessed using application programming interfaces. Enterprises can give scalable, real-time data to everyone inside a company and their consumers with GoodData CN Production. Outreach, a sales engagement platform, has secured $200 million in a Series G fundraising round. The company’s valuation has increased to $4.4 billion due to this financing, making it a Unicorn. The fund will be used to grow Outreach’s sales and marketing teams and invest in creating, acquiring, and d...2021-06-0601 minAugmentAugmentHolisol Logistics raises $3M | Foaps helps restaurants manage their online deliveries in a single channelKochi-based Abdul Salah and Muhammed Migdad noticed that most restaurants use four to five applications to manage their delivery operations. Lasper Technologies released Foaps in April 2021. With services in Kochi, Calicut, and Trivandrum, the company now takes orders from Zomato, Swiggy, Foodpanda, Amazon Restaurant, and Dunzo. Foaps claims to have processed 300,000 orders since its inception.New Delhi-based Holisol Logistics, a supply chain logistics company providing end-to-end (E2E) supply chain management solutions, has announced its raise of $3M in a debt financing round led by Northern Arc Capital. From what started as a supply chain management...2021-06-0501 minAugmentAugmentGong, Exabeam & LeoLabs raises Funds | Twitter Blue, now in Australia and Canada | Blackstone acquires IDG | Google unveils 30 Startups for its Black Founders FundGong, the revenue intelligence leader, leveraging artificial intelligence to transform revenue teams, has raised $250 million in Series E funding.  The round was led by Franklin Templeton, bringing Gong's total funding to $584 million.LeoLabs raises $65M Series B, for its satellite monitoring and collision detection service. The round was jointly led by Insight Partners, and Velvet Sea Ventures. This latest round brings the company’s total funding to more than $100 million. With the recent funds, the company is looking to expand the number of radar sites around the world, and scale its software-as-a-service business. Twitter launches its...2021-06-0403 minAugmentAugmentJeeves, Celonis, SignalWire, ElectroNeek, Locus and Iterative.ai raises funds | GitLab, acquires Un-Review | STG buys FireEye’s Product Business | Microsoft acquires Re-Firm | Confluent goes the IPO route | X to 10x acquires Dockabl | Bristow Group adopts Ramco’s Aviation SoftwareJeeves, which is building an all in one expense management platform, for global start-ups, is emerging from stealth today, with $131 million in total funding, including $31 million in equity, and $100 million in debt financing. The $31 million in equity, consists of a new $26 million Series A, and a previously unannounced $5 million seed round. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A funding. Jeeves claims, that by using its platform, any company can spin up their finance function in minutes, and get access to 30 days of credit on a true corporate card, noncard payment rails, as well as cross-border payments. Customers can also pay...2021-06-0306 minAugmentAugmentCognigy and Ditto raises funds | Alithya Group bags Québec government contract | E2open Parent Holdings acquires BluJayCognigy raises $44M, to scale its enterprise-focused conversational AI platform. The firm provides a low-code conversational AI platform, that notably can be used flexibly across a range of applications and geographies, and it supports 120 languages. Insight Partners lead the Series B investment. Goldman Sachs leads $202M investment, in project44, doubling its valuation to $1.2B in a matter of months. The seven year old Chicago based company has built an API-based platform, that it says acts as the connective tissue between transportation providers, third-party logistics companies, shippers, and their supply chain systems. Project44 plans to use its new c...2021-06-0202 minAugmentAugmentConvin, Plum and Disruptium raises FundsConversation intelligence platform, Convin, raises Rs 2.5Cr from Titan Capital, and  9 Unicorns. Convin enables sales professionals to learn from their own conversations. Bengaluru-based start-up Convin will use the funds to develop its products and build the core team to achieve product-market fit. Plum, the Bengaluru based employee health insurance start-up, that provides health benefits to SMEs, corporates, and startups raises $15.6 million in Series A funding, led by Tiger Global. The start-up said it will use the funds to further scale its engineering, business development, and operations teams. Plum is building newer insurance products for SMEs, wh...2021-06-0101 minAugmentAugmentIkon Science launches Curate | Dynamics Holdings acquires Tacit | 360insights acquires ChannelCentral.netIkon Science, a 20-year global provider of geo-prediction, and knowledge management software and services, announces the launch of Curate, a scalable, cloud-enabled knowledge management solution, designed to provide cost efficiencies along with faster, and more accurate decision making. Curate, enables energy companies to collaborate within a single workspace to access all subsurface data with streamlined workflows, allowing for data democratization, and business learnings that drive action. Grid Dynamics Holdings, a leader in enterprise-level digital transformation, acquires Tacit Knowledge, a Pitney Bowes owned company, and leading provider of end-to-end digital commerce solutions for global brands. Founded in 2002, Tacit K...2021-05-3101 minAugmentAugmentIraqi Airways adopts Ramco’s Aviation Software | Mavenir collaborates with AWS | Dell sells Boomi to Francisco Partners and TPGRamco Systems surges 5%, as Iraqi Airways decides to adopt its aviation software. The cloud-based software will automate the operations of the Iraqi national carrier, manage complete records of its aircraft, and enable the airway’s staff to manage their operations, and receive alerts on the go through its mobility module. Mavenir to Deliver Cloud-based 5G Solutions, on AWS. Mavenir’s collaboration with AWS, allows Communications Service Providers, to deploy Mavenir’s market leading 4G and 5G products, and applications with AWS’s computing infrastructure. The solution is designed to scale, and leverages the same tools and technologies offered b...2021-05-3001 minAugmentAugmentAlibaba is making its cloud OS compatible | Twitter blue is coming soon | Imperva launches Imperva Data PrivacyAlibaba is making its cloud OS compatible with multiple chip architectures. Alibaba Cloud, is one of the fastest-growing businesses for the Chinese e-commerce giant, and the world’s fourth-largest public cloud service in the second half of 2020. Twitter Blue, a $3 monthly subscription service, could be coming soon. Along with existing twitter features, Twitter Blue subscribers can also organize tweets into Collections. This feature looks like an updated version of Bookmarks, but with the added ability to organize tweets into folders. Currently, Twitter ads make up 85% of the company’s revenue.  Imperva launches tool, to automate enterp...2021-05-2901 minAugmentAugmentRevenueCat, Breinify, Pyn and Filtered.AI raises Funds | Utah DOT, now pilots Blyncsy’s PayverRevenueCat, a start-up offering a series of tools for developers of subscription-based apps, raises $40 million in Series B funding, valuing its business at $300 million, post-money. The funding round was led by Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund. With the additional funding, the company will lower its pricing, to put its tools in reach of more developers Utah DOT, now pilots Blyncsy’s AI-powered road maintenance technology. The movement and data intelligence company, is launching an AI-powered technology, called Payver, that will use crowd-sourced video data, to give transport agencies up-to-date information, on which roads require maintenance and improvements. Blync...2021-05-2802 minAugmentAugmentSpot-On, Lightrun, Uptycs, Rewatch, Open AI, Commerce Layer, Parametrix, Salt Security, Pintu and Data-Dome raise funds | Lithium Urban Technologies acquires SmartCommuteSpot-On, raises $125M in Series D. The round triples the company’s valuation to $1.875 billion, compared to its $625 million valuation, at the time of its Series C raise, last September. It also marks San Francisco-based Spot-On’s third funding event since March 2020, and brings the startup’s total funding to $328 million, since its 2017 inception.Lightrun, a start-up that helps developers debug their live production code, raises $23 million in Series A round, led by Insight Partners. The company doubled its employee count, over the course of the last year. It will continue to use the new funding, to expand...2021-05-2704 minAugmentAugmentFarEye, Resolve, Interactio, EYs3D, Matera & AcuityMD Raises Funds | B Capital Group is doubling down in China | Microsoft announces Py-Torch EnterpriseFarEye, an Indian SaaS start-up that helps firms globally optimize their supply chain, and logistics operations, raises $100 million in its Series E round. The funding was co-led by high-profile backers TCV, and Dragoneer Investment Group. FarEye helps companies orchestrate, track, and optimize their logistics operations. With it’s funds, the firm is looking to further expand the team, and is also open to exploring acquisition of smaller firms, in international markets. 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...2021-05-2603 minAugmentAugmentThis crypto monitoring startup — ‘We’re bomb-sniffing dogs’ — just raised Series A funding | Fireflies.ai raises $14M for its meeting transcription and automation service | Aurora Solar aims to power the growing solar industry with a $250M round CSolidus Labs, surveillance and risk-monitoring software that can detect manipulation across cryptocurrency trading platforms, raises $20 million in Series A. The firm in total has raised $23.75 million and stated that its funding will be used to double its headcount to address growing demand. This funding was led by Equity Partners.Fireflies.ai raises $14M for its meeting transcription and automation service. This round was led by Khosla ventures. In individual usage terms, around 35,000 organizations are represented amongst its user base. The firm’s model is a hybrid of SaaS and usage-based pricing. Aurora Solar raises $250M in series C and ai...2021-05-2503 minAugmentAugmentIrish data regulator still probing Facebook data transfer policy | IBM’s Project CodeNet will test how far you can push AI to write software | ONE Chooses Google Cloud to Advance Competitive Advantage and the Future of Digital ShippingIreland’s data regulator has given Facebook six weeks to respond to an investigation that may trigger a ban on the social media giant’s transatlantic data transfers following a High Court ruling that the probe could resume. The case stems from European Union concerns that U.S. government surveillance may not respect the privacy rights of EU citizens when their personal data is sent to the United States for commercial use.IBM’s AI research division , has released a 14-million-sample dataset , to develop machine learning models that can help in programming tasks. The model is called Project CodeNet, the da...2021-05-2401 minAugmentAugmentMio, a social commerce startup focused on smaller cities and rural areas in Vietnam, raises $1M seed | Bain Capital Ventures raised $1.3 billion to fund young startups, and young VC firms, tooBain Capital Ventures raises $1.3 billion to fund young startups, and young VC firms. The venture arm of the 37-year-old private equity firm Bain Capital, announced this morning that it has $1.3 billion more to invest across two funds, a $950 million fund for seed and Series A deals and a $350 million fund for growth-stage opportunities.Mio, a social commerce startup focused on smaller cities and rural areas in Vietnam, raises $1M seed. The startup, currently focuses on fresh groceries and plans to expand into more categories. Founded in June 2020, Mio now claims it has hundreds of agents, or resellers on it’s...2021-05-2301 minAugmentAugmentMapping and logistics startup NextBillion raises $6.25M | Auto data startup Wejo explores SPAC merger with Virtuoso | Cloud governance and compliance startup Immuta raises $90MMapping and logistics startup NextBillion, a geospatial data startup that provides software-as-a-service products for enterprises, raises $6.25 million from Microsoft venture fund M12. The firm’s investment extends NextBillion’s $7 million series A round. . NextBillion’s platform lets customers build custom maps for different users, as well as for unique use cases and geographies.Wejo is in talks to go public through a reverse merger with blank-check company Virtuoso Acquisition in a deal that would value the British connected car data start-up at more than $1 billion.Immuta, which provides a cloud-native data governance platform to help organizations automate data access contro...2021-05-2201 minAugmentAugmentCognite raises $150M to digitize industrial operations | Esper raises $30M Series B for its IoT DevOps platform | Portside raises $17M for its business aviation management platformChicago-based Spot Meetings raises $5 million in seed funding led by Ilya Fushman at Kleiner Perkins. That follows a $1.9 million pre-seed round led by Chapter One earlier this year. Spot Meetings wants to reinvigorate our meetings and displace Zoom as the default meeting medium at the same time.Esper, raises  $30 million in Series B round. Esper builds tools to enable developers and engineers to deploy and manage fleets of Android-based edge devices. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Madrona Venture Group, Root Ventures, Ubiquity Ventures and Haystack.Portside, an aviation startup that is building a p...2021-05-2102 minAugmentAugmentBritive grabs $10M Series A to build automated multi-cloud permissions tool | Britive grabs $10M Series A to build automated multi-cloud permissions tool | Upstream, a Miami-based professional networking platform, raises a $2.75M seed roundAn early-stage start-up, Britive, that brings privileged access control to a multi-cloud world, has announced a $10 million Series A. The investment was led by Crosslink Capital, with participation from previous investors, Upfront Ventures, and One Way Ventures. The company helps automate permission-ing across multiple cloud vendors, and software services, whether that involves a human or a machine, that is seeking permission. The company currently has 40 employees, a number that Britive expects to double, in the next 12 months, as they put this capital to work. Unbounce, a Vancouver start-up known for helping marketers create automated landing pages, announced that it h...2021-05-2005 minAugmentAugmentBukuKas gets $50M from investors including DoorDash’s Gokul Rajaram and TransferWise founder Taavet Hinrikus | Insight Partners leads $60M growth round in cross-border payments startup Thunes | Financing for students startup StudentFinance raises $5.3M seed from Giant and ArmilarBukuKas, a startup focused on digitizing Indonesia’s small businesses, raises $50 million in Series B funding. The round included participation from Gokul Rajaram, the DoorDash executive, and Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder and CEO of Transfer-Wise. BukuKas, the digital bookkeeping application, will use its Series B, to hire for its engineering, and product teams in Jakarta and Bangalore, and launch new services for merchants. Singapore-based Thunes, a fintech, focused on making cross-border money transfers easier, announced today it raises $60 million in a growth round led by Insight Partners. The round included participation from existing shareholders. Founded in 2016, Thunes’ customers include Grab, PayP...2021-05-1903 minAugmentAugmentTwilio to buy text messaging platform Zipwhip for $850 million | Merge raises $4.5M to help B2B companies build customer-facing integrations | France says Google, Microsoft cloud services are OK for sensitive dataCloud-communications firm, Twilio Inc, plans to buy a toll-free messaging provider, Zip-whip, for about $850 million in cash and stock. Zip-whip, which provides a platform for businesses to use their landline or toll-free numbers to send text messages to customers, will become part of Twilio's messaging business unit once the deal closes. The deal is expected to modestly add to Twilio's gross margin and revenue, according to the company. Merge, a start-up that provides an integration platform for product development has raised $4.5 million in a seed round funding led by New Enterprise Associates. Launched in 2020, Merge aspires to provide a...2021-05-1803 minAugmentAugmentAppian low-code automation platform is launched | SolarWinds breach highlights weaknesses | Emersion appoints Vai Le | Abbyy raises fundsAppian, launches the latest version of Appian low-code automation platform, for enterprises to unify enterprise data, using low-code, and a code-free approach. In a released statement to the press, Appian discussed the features available on the latest version, which include an A I driven Intelligent Document Processing, new design guidance, and enhanced Development, Security, and operations, among others. The platform also provides a single workflow for automation, team orchestration, existing systems, data, bots, and more. Reports state that, the launch comes amid enterprises scouting for quick solutions to AI-powered applications, and smooth workflow automation across departments.The...2021-05-1702 minAugmentAugmentFidelis Cybersecurity acquires Cloud-Passage | Divibank raises fundsFidelis Cybersecurity acquires CloudPassage to increase detection and response to threats, in short- to enhance their XDR platform. San-Francisco-based CloudPassage specializes in cloud security, and compliance, and protects cloud infrastructure, for some of the world’s most recognized brands, in domains such as e-commerce, finance, B2B SaaS, healthcare, and others. Founded in 2010 and having over 70 employees, Cloud-Passage’s team will be integrated into the Fidelis Cybersecurity organization.Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV) led a $3.6 million seed round for Divibank, a Brazilian finance platform. Divibank is a place, where Latin American companies, can get growth capital through revenue-share fund...2021-05-1601 minAugmentAugmentStripe acquires Bouncer| Marqueta Inc Doubles Revenue in IPOStripe has acquired the Oakland-based, online transitions fraud detection start-up, Bouncer.  The terms of the deal remain undisclosed, but reports have stated that Bouncer’s team and technology will be integrated into Radar, Stripe’s A.I.-based anti-fraud technology toolset. Radar essentially focuses on preventing fraudulent, and malicious transactions, on Stripe’s platform. With Bouncer's integration into Stripe’s Radar, those buying services from Stripe, will benefit, as the tools' effectiveness will increase.Marqueta Inc, a payments card company, revealed a doubling of its revenue in 2020, in an IPO. In 2020, the company's sales increased to $290.3 million, up from $...2021-05-1501 minAugmentAugmentSpecTrust, Worksome, Agnostiq Inc., Authomize, Cyral, BluBracket, Sosivio all raises funds | Google cloud teams up with SpaceX | TCS launches SAP Business Tech PlatformGoogle cloud, teams up with SpaceX’s starlink, for enterprise connectivity at networks edge. Starlink’s entire aim, is to provide reliable, broadband-quality connections to areas that have typically been hard or impossible to reach, with legacy ground-based network infrastructure, including cellular networks. The tie-up with Google means, that not only will business and public sector customers taking advantage of that new network, but also to cloud-based infrastructure and applications, including AI and machine learning capabilities, analytics, and more. Google and Starlink expect to become available to enterprise customers soon.Risk defense startup, SpecTrust, raises a $4.3 million seed...2021-05-1404 minAugmentAugmentTreasury Prime, Dr. First, Superops.AI, VisibleRisk, Big Time Studios raises Funds | Aleta Planet, announces a joint venture with Fooyo | AWS releases AWS SaaS BoostTreasury Prime, a banking-as-a-service startup that delivers its product via APIs, raises $20 million in  Series B. Deciens Capital, and QED Investors co-led the round. The firm plans to use the funds to invest, aggressively in its business.The capital comes in at around a year, since the startup announced its Series A. Treasury Prime was valued at just over $40 million at the time of its Series A, and current valuation has not been disclosed yet.Amazon Web Services, announces it’s release of AWS SaaS Boost, as open source, distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The...2021-05-1304 minAugmentAugmentBirdie, SightCall, ParcelLab, Locobuzz, Celcius, Appitsimple, Haqdarshak, Practo all raises funds.SaaS-maker Birdie, raises $11.5 million in Series A round of funding, led by Index Ventures. The UK-based caretech startup, has raised a total of $22.9M. The firm is focused on building tools for social care providers, to drive efficiencies in a chronically under resourced sector.To date, Birdie has partnered with almost 500 providers across the U.K., and currently its platform is being used to support the care of more than 20,000 older people, every week. SightCall raises $42M, for its AR-based visual assistance platform. The core of its service is AR technology, which comes embedded in t...2021-05-1206 minAugmentAugmentThingsTHINKING raises funds | Google collaborates with CrowdStrike | Data-logics now on cloud | Servicenow acquires Lightstep | Norgesmøllene AS deploys Infor Cloud SuiteDeeptech AI start-up, thingsTHINKING, has raised €4.5 million in a funding round led by Early-bird and a number of angel investors. The company’s propriety tool ‘Semantha’, offers textual processing by providing out-of-the-box functionality, bypassing the dreaded training phase for AI-based applications. Earlybird co-founder, Dr. Hendrik Brandis said, “With semantha, domain experts can finally educate an AI system as if it were a co-worker, using just a few and simple examples”. The current funding allows would help them grow their technological advantage, and market faster, while supporting their  international partners.Google LLC, collaborates with CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., to deliver half...2021-05-1103 minAugmentAugmentClubhouse Now in Android | Commonwealth Bank is partners with BigCommerce | Crescent Enterprises set to double VC investments | cyber-attack halts Colonial Pipeline operations.Clubhouse, finally launches its Android app. The voice-based social network, launched its beta Android app on Play Store for users in the U.S., and said it will gradually make the new app available in other English-speaking countries, and then to the rest of the world. Clubhouse began developing the Android app early this year, and started to test the beta version externally - earlier this month. Clubhouse’s launch on Android comes at a time when scores of technology giants including Facebook, Twitter, Discord, Spotify, Reddit, and Microsoft’s LinkedIn, have either launched their similar offerings, or announced plan...2021-05-1003 minAugmentAugmentShift Technology Raises Funds | Bill.com set to acquire Divvy | Neu-Reality unveils a new AI-centric inference platform | Comforte AG announces a new partnership with RakatuFrance-based Shift Technology, a SaaS provider, of AI-enhanced decision automation and optimization solutions for the insurance sector, raises $220 million in Series D funding round. Shift Technology‘s latest investment round, brings total investment in the company, to $320 million along with a market valuation, of over $1 billion. This investment reportedly marks Advent’s sixth growth equity investment in 2021. Shift’s round was led by Advent International, via Advent Tech, along with contributions from Avenir, and other investors. With this latest funding, Shift said it would use the capital to expand its business operations into the US, Europe, and Asia as well...2021-05-0903 minAugmentAugmentMolecule & Timescale raises funds | Forcepoint LLC buys Aurion-pro SolutionsHouston SaaS startup, Molecule, closes its $12M series A funding round, with support from a local VC, Mercury Fund. The company has a cloud-based energy trading, and risk management solution for the energy industry, and supports power, natural gas, crude or refined products, chemicals, agricultural commodities, softs, metals, cryptocurrencies, and more. The company will use its new funds to further build out its product, as well as introduce offerings to manage renewable credits, according to the release.Enterprise security firm Aurion-pro Solutions, is set to sell its cybersecurity business to Austin-based software company,y Forcepoint LLC, for $9.6...2021-05-0801 minAugmentAugmentKahoot acquires Clever | Youibot & ReCharge raises Funds | Upstream Works integrates with AWS.Kahoot acquires Clever, the US-based ed-tech portal, for up to $500M. The plan will be to continue growing Clever’s business in the U.S., which currently employs 175 people, as well as give it a lever for expanding globally, alongside Kahoot’s wider stable of ed-tech software and services. The deal is a combination of cash and shares, and gives Clever an enterprise value of between $435 million and $500 million.SoftBank leads $15 Million round for China’s industrial robot maker, You-i-bot. Youibot, has raised over 200 million yuan to date. Youibot plans to spend the fresh proceeds, on research and de...2021-05-0703 minAugmentAugmentText Blaze, Cymulate, Rainforest, Obviously.AI Raises Funds | FPT Corporation acquires Base.vn | SUSE seeks valuation of nearly $7 billion in IPOText Blaze, which was a part of the recent Winter 2021 Y Combinator accelerator, raises $3.3 million in seed round. The company’s investment was led by Two Sigma Ventures, and Susa Ventures. With it’s new funding , they are planning to expand it’s staff from four, to ten. Text Blaze’s speed-writing automation service has a freemium model, and a consumer paid offering that costs just $2.99 monthly.Cymulate raises $45 Million in Series C, to test and improve cybersecurity defenses via attack simulations. The funding was led by London-based One Peak Partners. Cymulate, lets organizations and their partners, run mach...2021-05-0603 minAugmentAugment6 Degree, Acronis, HoneyBook, Thingsup, Thentia Raises FundsB2B retail SaaS platform ‘6 Degree’ raises $1M from SucSEED Indovation Fund, and other angel investors as a part of series A. 6 Degree is a fashion network, with over 15,000 professionals, and home to over 4,000 fashion designers. The startup has long-standing partnerships with over 100 multi-brand stores, and leading fashion platforms, including Lakme Fashion Week, and The Fashion Design Council of India. 6 Degree will use the funds, to ramp up operations for its flagship product. Honeycomb, a B2B retail SaaS platform, catering to the fashion and lifestyle sector. 6 Degree claims to be on track to grow another 5X this year, enab...2021-05-0503 minAugmentAugmentGatheround gaining traction | Basecamp sees mass employee exits | Sony partners with Discord | Clubhouse begins testing Android AppRemote work is no longer a new topic, as much of the world has now been doing it for a year or more because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote working platforms have evolved with Gatheround gaining traction. Gatheround’s video conversations aim to be a refreshing complement to Slack conversations. Gatheround raised $3.5million last year to build their platform. Gatheround customer base, includes 28 Fortune 500s, 11 of the biggest U.S. tech companies, 26 top universities and more than 700 educational institutions. Gatheround is not the only company attempting to tackle this space. Ireland-based Workvivo last year raised $16 million and earlier this ye...2021-05-0402 minAugmentAugmentExpensya raises $20 Million | Cornerstone Venture Partners Fund comes out with the CGES Index | Chargebee sets sights on Global Expansion | HyperTest is automating the QA processTunisian-French SaaS startup Expensya raises $20 million in fresh funds from Paris-based MAIF Avenir and Amman-based Silicon Badia. The Series B round takes Expensya’s total raise to date to over $25 million, making it the best-funded Tunisian startup and one of the best-funded SaaS startups of the Middle East & North Africa. Founded in 2014 by Karim Jouini and Jihed Othmani, Expensya’s online software automates expense management for businesses, Expensya currently serves over 5,000 customers in over 100 countries.Cornerstone Venture Partners  Fund of Mumbai comes out with the CGES Index, seeking to position it as the country’s first global enterpr...2021-05-0302 minAugmentAugmentEka Unveils E-Sourcing | IBM and NeuVector extend container security partnership | AWS reports 32% revenue growth.Eka Unveils E-Sourcing, A Cloud-Based Source-To-Pay Solution To Drive A New Era Of Digitalization In Supplier Management. Cloud-based software provider Eka aims to transform legacy-based supply chain workflows with the unveiling of its platform driven E-Sourcing solution that delivers a new standard in collaboration, transparency, efficiency and quality assurance across a wide range of business functions and industries. Eka’s strength in harnessing the power of cloud platform, coupled with its ongoing investment into research and development, means the company is focused on building solutions that are continually enhanced.IBM and NeuVector extend container security partnership. NeuVector an...2021-05-0201 minAugmentAugmentWunderite raises $3M | Cloud Infrastructure Companies Raise $40B in Revenue | Octave Klaba’s fund acquires ShadowWunderite, Boston-based software startup, raises $3M to build software for indie insurance agencies. The early-stage round was led by Spark Capital. Wunderite builds and sells software designed to help insurance agencies more rapidly process insurance applications, and automate some of their processes. The funding will be used to build their sales team and expand.Cloud infrastructure market keeps rolling in Q1 with almost $40B in revenue. Conventional wisdom over the last year has suggested that the pandemic has driven companies to the cloud much faster than they ever would have gone without that forcing event, with some suggesting...2021-05-0101 minAugmentAugmentWasabi, Gr4vy, RapidDeploy, Firstbase raises funding | IBM is acquiring TurbonomicRapidDeploy, which provides computer-aided dispatch technology as a cloud-based service for 911 centers, raises $29 million in Series B round of funding. The firm states that the funding will be used both to grow its business and continue expanding the SaaS tools that it provides to its customers. In the startup’s point of view, the cloud is essential to running emergency response in the most efficient manner.Gr4vy a cloud-native payments company with a payment orchestration platform  that merges a cloud platform with payments infrastructure raises a Series A funding round of $11.1 million, led by Nyca Partners (a VC...2021-04-3003 minAugmentAugmentCareStack Raises Funding, Afrikea launches SaaS e-commerce, BoostUp.ai & Ospera Raises Series AThiruvananthapuram-based cloud dental software startup CareStack  raises $22.5 Mn from Steadview Capital, Delta Dental of California, Accel Partners, Eight Roads and F-Prime Capital. CareStack’s single all-in-one SaaS platform on the cloud combines dental practice management, patient engagement, practice marketing, and data analytics. The company claims to have doubled its revenue last year and has stated that its workforce has grown from 200 employees at the beginning of the year to 370 employees at present. In 2019, the company had raised $28 Mn from the same investors. With the recent funding, CareStack’s total funding raised is over $60 Mn.Ivorian startup Afrikrea partners with DHL a...2021-04-2903 minAugmentAugmentClio Raises Series E, Placer.ai and Tellius Raise FundingStripe acquires TaxJar to add cloud-based, automated sales tax tools into its payments platform. The privately-held payments company now valued at $95 billion, has made an acquisition to expand the range of tools (and services) that it provides to online businesses. It has acquired TaxJar, a popular provider of a cloud-based suite of tax services, which can be used to automatically calculate, report and file sales taxes. Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed. Stripe has confirmed that all 200 employees of Woburn, Massachusetts-based TaxJar are joining the company.Location data analytics startup Placer.ai raises $50M Series...2021-04-2802 minAugmentAugmentn8n raises $12 million in a Felicis Venture-led Series A fund, Netskope expands its NewEdge network in Asia-Pacific and Mighty Networks raises $50 million in a Series B fund led by Owl Ventures.Berlin based n8n raises $12M in Series A for its ‘fair code’ approach to low-code workflow automation. The startup plans to use the money to continue expanding its team, which now numbers 60 people, and to expand its platform and the services it provides to users. Currently, n8n  helps link up and integrate data and functions between more than 200 established applications, as well as any custom apps or services that is specific to an organization. The round is being led by Felicis Ventures, with Sequoia Capital, firstminute Capital and Harpoon Ventures.  The startup has now raised around $14 million and is...2021-04-2702 minAugmentAugmentAffirm announces that it intends to acquire Returnly, Rocket Lawyer has raised $223 millionBuy now, pay later startup Affirm is looking to acquisitions to gain an edge over its competitors.Affirm announced that it intends to acquire Returnly, a software startup that helps retailers manage returns, for $300 million in cash and equity. The acquisition gives more insight into exactly how Affirm — and some of its other competitors — are mapping out their strategies for what else they can offer retailers, beyond just a digital form of layaway.Online legal service Rocket Lawyer has raised $223 million of financing from an investor group led by Vista Credit Partners to further its international expansion and make acqu...2021-04-2602 minAugmentAugmentCisco Expands SaaS Offering, Qapita and Free Agent raises fundingCisco AppDynamics Expands Global Software-as-a-Service Offering With Five New Locations.The addition of five new locations across Africa, Asia, Europe and South America brings the total number of AppDynamics global SaaS locations to nine. AppDynamics offers customers the broadest scale and reach of global SaaS support of any Application Performance Monitoring and Observability companies. Global expansion further provides AppDynamics customers with increased flexibility, scale and cost efficiencies, as well as greater data residency compliance and security.Qapita raises $5 million in funding round led by MassMutual Ventures. Qapita, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup provides ESOPs and cap table management solutions to...2021-04-2502 minAugmentAugmentBasis Set Ventures merges venture capital to form a $165 million new fundHawke Ventures raises $5.6M to back digital marketing startups. The firm is mostly focused on products that can be used by small and medium businesses. The firm’s focus is to build a definitive platform for Conversational Commerce. Hwake is trying to build a different venture firm that does not focus on what we think the next big idea is, but is focused on building actual technology that can be used by consumers.Introvoke raises $2.7M to power online events that can be embedded anywhere. The funding was led by Struck Capital. The startup offers components like virtual st...2021-04-2402 minAugmentAugmentActiveCampaign, Sift, AfterShip, Riverside.fm and BigID raise fundingActiveCampaign raises $240M at a $3B valuation as marketing and sales automation come into focus for Small and medium businesses. The round was  led by  Tiger Global, with participation from another new backer Dragoneer, along with Susquehanna Growth Equity and Silversmith Capital Partners. This funding round represents a huge leap for ActiveCampaign.Fraud prevention platform Sift raises $50M at over $1B valuation.  Insight Partners led the financing, which included participation from Union Square Ventures and Stripes. Sift was founded out of Y Combinator in 2011, and has raised a total of $157 million over its lifetime. Sift uses machine lea...2021-04-2302 minAugmentAugmentEra Software, AppOmni and Per Diem raise fundingEra Software raises $15.25M for enterprise data management. EraDB officially rebranded as Era Software as part of the Series A announcement. The new round of funding was led by Playground Global and brings total funding to Era Software up to $22 million. AppOmni raises $40 million in a Series B. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with Salesforce Ventures and ServiceNow Ventures, as well as previous backers ClearSky, Costanoa Ventures, Inner Loop Capital and Silicon Valley Data Capital.The company today integrates with more than 100 connectors, platforms used by developers and IT teams at companies to manage the apps...2021-04-2201 minAugmentAugmentChargebee joins the unicorn club, GripSecurity, DataRailes and Capr Privacy raise fundingEnterprise software firm Chargebee raises $125 million at a valuation of $1.4 Billion, making it India's newest unicorn, signaling the funding boom underway in India and continuing the wave of software unicorns.The round was co-led by Sapphire Ventures and existing investors Tiger Global, Insight Venture Partners and Steadview Capital. This also makes Chargebee the 11th unicorn to emerge from India in just four months of 2021.Grip Security raises $6 million seed round led by cybersecurity-focused YL Ventures, with participation from CrowdStrike CEO and co-founder George Kurtz and a group of other angel investors with deep roots in the cybersecurity industry. Grip...2021-04-2103 minAugmentAugmentMastercard buys Ekata for $850 million, Atlassian acquires ThinkTiltSoftware-as-a-service (SaaS) startup Whatfix is in active talks to raise $80-90 million as a part of its Series D round, led by SoftBank Vision Fund II, at a valuation of $500-550 million.The talks with US-based Whatfix come a year after the startup raised $32 million as a part of its Series C round led by Sequoia Capital India. Existing investors, including Sequoia India, are expected to participate in the round, said the people mentioned above.Druva, a data-protection startup that counts US space agency NASA and drugmaker Pfizer among its customers, has received $147 million investment as it rapidly scales...2021-04-2002 minAugmentAugmentC2i Raises Series B, IBM Acquires myInvenioPhysical security and smart buildings software, Spintly raises Rs 4.6 crore in an extended seed round of funding led by Silicon Valley-based Riso Capital, along with SucSEED Indovation Fund from Hyderabad, Chicago-based Nikhan Investments and Keiretsu Forum angel network . Spintly provides SaaS-based physical security solutions which enable smartphone-based door access eliminating the need for key cards and elaborate wiring for access control. They will utilise these funds to boost sales, marketing and research activities in order to enhance their position.C2i, a genomics SaaS product to detect traces of cancer, raises $100M Series B. Using C2i’s te...2021-04-1802 minAugmentAugmentChili Piper raises Series B, Substack announces $1M initiativePaddle, the Revenue Delivery Platform for B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies appoints software industry veteran Jimmy Fitzgerald to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer. In his new role, Fitzgerald will help Paddle with its mission to supercharge the growth of fast-scaling software businesses everywhere. Fitzgerald was COO at SaaS price optimization startup SignalDemand (acquired by PROS) and held senior leadership positions at customer relationship management (CRM) pioneer Siebel Systems (later acquired by Oracle). Caller-identification application Truecaller announces a new solution for enterprises, which will allow businesses to verify their identity on the platform. With this feature, verified...2021-04-1603 minAugmentAugmentTechsembly raises £1 mn, Avien raises $100mn in Series CMowies Expands On-Demand Platform with Harmonic's VOS Cloud Streaming SaaS. Mowies expanded offering allows consumers to purchase on-demand content directly from filmmakers, musicians and storytellers. The VOS360 SaaS provides Mowies with an easy-to-use, end-to-end solution for media processing and delivery, optimizing bandwidth usage and enabling an exceptional viewing experience for viewers.London-based multi-store, mutli-vendor e-commerce solution for global scaling platform Techsembly raises £1 million from SuperSeed Ventures and a number of undisclosed private investors.The funding is expected to be used to assemble a cross-marketing team that will initially target European and Asian markets. Uber Offers SaaS To Th...2021-04-1602 minAugmentAugmentFlipkart to buy Cleartrip, Clubhouse rolls out paymentsHuler Launches Its Human Experience SaaS Platform, The HulerHub. HulerHub transforms the way businesses engage with their teams by introducing a people-centric and time-saving digital solution. The much-anticipated flagship SaaS offering has already registered interest from global household names within the UK, USA and Canada, following an initial $7 million dollar investment.Flipkart Group is close to buying travel and hotel booking platform Cleartrip in a distress sale, as the Walmart-owned e-commerce giant strengthens its operations in the hospitality segment.The cash-and-stock deal valuing Cleartrip at almost $40 million may close in the next 10 days. The deal comes at a...2021-04-1403 minAugmentAugmentDoControl Raises Series A, Datadog Acquires SqreenGrowth equity firm PSG has acquires a majority stake in Nalanda Global, a Spanish provider of supplier risk management software solutions to companies across 10 countries. The deal marks the eighth investment from PSG's Europe-focused fund, which closed on €1.25 billion in February.Datadog Completes Acquisition of Sqreen. The acquisition will accelerate the way they build security tools that automate application protection, threat detection, and security monitoring.The closing of this deal will boost Datadog's existing APM functionality and move the company closer to providing customers with a robust, full-stack security monitoring solution for the cloud age.NVIDIA and Gl...2021-04-1302 minAugmentAugmentTiger Global's aggressive Indian funding. Clubhouse Data leakTiger Global goes super aggressive with Investments in India. The Early backer of Flipkart and Ola, Tiger Global is close to concluding over two dozen deals in India this year alone. The New York-headquartered firm, has recently closed a $6.7 billion fund. They last week led investments in social network ShareChat, business messaging platform Gupshup, and investment app Groww, and participated in fintech app CRED’s round, helping all of these startups attain the much sought after unicorn status.Microsoft Corp. is in advanced talks to buy artificial intelligence and speech technology company Nuance Communications Inc. The price being di...2021-04-1302 minAugmentAugmentVi Forays into IoT and cloud services, IBM announces new Cloud for Fin ServicesVi Business forays into integrated IoT, plans expansion of cloud services. The announcement from Vodafone Idea comes a day after Bharti Airtel announced the launch of Airtel IoT - an end-to-end platform with the capability to connect and manage billions of devices and applications. There are three specific fields Vi will be getting into. One IoT and integrated space. Second one is on collaboration which includes a host of SaaS and third will be cloud services. From being a traditional connectivity player, they will be connectivity plus collaboration plus IoT and integrated IoT and a cloud platform, said Kishore...2021-04-1102 minAugmentAugmentCleo NoCode and special invest raises fundingSpeciale Invest announces first close of second fund at ₹140 crore. Through the new fund raise, Speciale Invest expects to invest in about 18-20 startups in the space of enterprise software products, developers tools and frontier technologiesNo-code publishing platform Shorthand raises $8M. Shorthand allows publishers and brands to create multimedia stories. The raise was led by Fortitude Investment Partners. The company also says that demand has only increased during the pandemic, with usage quadrupling in the fourth quarter of 2020 and subscription revenue up 8.8% month-over-month in February of this year.Cleo Capital raises 20 million for its second fund. A...2021-04-1001 minAugmentAugmentPrescinto raises $3.5M in seed funding. Open Sea, NFT marketplace raises $23M led by Andressen Horowitz.A SaaS platform company in the Solar Power Industry, Prescinto, has raised $3.5M in seed funding. Prescinto is looking at revolutionizing the solar power industry by improving efficiency of solar plants using AI and Machine Learning driven platforms that will help Solar Plants identify their root issues for underperformance. The Funding round was led by Inflection Point Ventures along with Venture Catalysts, Mumbai Angels and Lets Venture. This infusion of finances will help realize Prescinto’s goals of improving Solar Power plants globally.UK based Home Care SaaS company that uses Machine learning has raised £4.5 million pre-Series A f...2021-03-1903 minAugmentAugmentAirtable, Grub-Tech and Upcodes all get fundingAirtable has bagged its Series E funding to push it’s valuation to $5.77B. Airtable, with more than 200,000 organisational customers is a no-code relational database that has announced the close of $270 million in Series E funding. This funding round has doubled the valuation of the company from its last round in September 2020 when it raised $185 million in Series D funding. This latest funding amount means that Airtable has raised approximately $617 million since inception. This latest round was led by Greenoaks Capital, with participation from WndrCo, as well as existing investors Caffeinated Capital, CRV and Thrive. The company says it pl...2021-03-1704 minAugmentAugmentSaaS Alerts, a company that was started in 2020 has raised $1.2 million in early stage seed funding.Otarkie, a Zimbabwean startup has launched a SaaS platform focusing on retailers seeking omni-channel ways to sell online. Otarkie, aim’s to support potential customers and headless e-commerce to launch and manage their own retail operations across multiple sales channels with a singular back end office. Customers can pick and integrate modules based on their requirements as well, which helps them integrate and transition into the platform smoothly. Otarkie is looking to address a gap in the market where payment gateways and solutions are not catered to the local market, which is Southern Africa. The company looks to expand it...2021-03-1602 minAugmentAugmentStripe raises $600 Million investment taking the company’s valuation to $95 BillionStripe is looking to use the funds to expand their European business and focus on their European HeadQuarters. It is looking to bolster its treasury network and global payments as well. The funding round was backed by the likes of Allianz X fund, Axa, both from the insurance world as well as Baillie Gifford, Fidelity, Sequoia and Investors from Ireland, namely Ireland's National Treasury Management Agency.ESB, an Indonesian based company has just raised US$3 million in a series A funding. This funding round was led by Beenext, AC Ventures and Skystar Capital. ESB is looking to use...2021-03-1502 minAugmentAugmentOptibus raises $107M in Series C fundingIndian Startups seems to have taken the lead in the most number of companies funded, with a total of 19 startups that have raised funding. Many of these are SaaS companies. 196 Million dollars was pushed to 16 of the 19 companies. Of these companies, Icertis raked in approximately $80 Million followed by Ecom Express at about $40 Million Dollars. Other companies that were funded include Quizizz, Riskcovry, Awfis and Nordwin to name but a few. The complete list of companies will be shared in our post on Linkedin. Of the 19 companies funded, 3 companies are yet to disclose the amounts.Israeli company...2021-03-1401 minAugmentAugmentGartner’s forecasts $141 billion SaaS Revenue in 2022. SailPoint to acquire ERP MaestroValor Ventures Fund 2 has announced a $1.75 million Series Seed funding of Allelica, Inc. Valor General Partner Gary Peat joins the Allelica board of directors. The round, led by Valor Ventures also had Pi Campus, an AI-focused venture fund and Medical Genetics Center (MGZ), a prestigious genetics research institution, as strategic investors.SailPoint Technologies has announced that it is going to acquire ERP Maestro, a SaaS Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Solution. SailPoint is looking to use ERP Maestro’s flexible agile approach to automate and ensure robust monitoring for an organisations’ most complex business critical systems. With ERP...2021-03-1302 minAugmentAugmentSaaS startup Icertis raises $80 million in Series F fundingSaaS startup Icertis raises $80 million in Series F funding; valuation triples to $2.8 billion. This year's funding was led by existing investor B Capital Group, with participation from Greycroft, Meritech Capital Partners, Premji Invest, PSP Growth, and e.ventures. The company will use this funding to invest in accelerating its AI and Blockchain development, expanding its sales and marketing footprint, and building out its global partner network. It also has plans to expand across Japan, South East Asia, and northern Europe. The funding round makes Icertis the second most valuable SaaS unicorn in the Indian startup circuit after Freshworks, which w...2021-03-1202 minAugmentAugmentOracle collaborates with iClick to broaden presence in China. Diligent acquires Galvanize.Oracle, a leading integrated cloud applications and platform services provider, is looking to strengthen their presence in China and to do that, have decided to collaborate with iClick Interactive Asia Group limited. iClick is a Chinese independent online marketing and enterprise data solutions provider and a member of Oracle Partner Network. This collaboration will help Oracle to launch tailored SaaS offering that will empower brands to better serve and connect with consumers. Mainspring Services, a Title and escrow software company announced the release of their SaaS Platform, “titleLOOK”. This Platform streamlines your title production process. The first SaaS...2021-03-1102 minAugmentAugmentCisco invests in Indian SaaS companies. Tackle.io raises $35 million funding. McAfee sells its enterprise business to Symphony Technology Group for $4 billion.Networking giant Cisco is looking to invest $3 million to $5 million in Indian enterprise SaaS start-ups for a minority stake. The company has a portfolio of about 10 start-ups that it has already invested in directly or through investment partnerships with VC funds.Whatfix, Videonetics, Mobikwik, Mobstac and CloudCherry are some of the start-ups in its portfolio in India. Tackle.io, a software company dedicated to helping software providers generate revenue through the Cloud Marketplaces, today announced it has raised $35 million in Series B funding, in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by existing investor Bessemer Venture...2021-03-1001 minAugmentAugmentOlo announces the terms for its IPO, Vendr announces a $60 million Series A funding roundThe New York based company, Olo,  that provides a SaaS platform to restaurants for online ordering and delivery, has announced the terms for its IPO. Olo is looking to raise $306 million by offering 18 million shares at a price range of $16 to $18. Olo would have a fully diluted market value of $3.1 billion at the midpoint of the proposed range. By the end of last year, Chilli’s, Wingstop, Shake shack were all using Olo’s platform for their business’. Olo helps restaurants with an enterprise grade saas platform to manage their digital business’K2fly, a new type of global software...2021-03-0903 minAugmentAugmentVMware is currently exposed to a security vulnerability. Papaya Global, raised its Series C funding round of over $100 MillionOver 6500 servers of the enterprise software VMware are currently exposed due to a security vulnerability. This vulnerability exposes servers and allows malware to be slipped into unpatched devices to take over companies’ entire networks. The situation has been classified as “Highly Critical” and was reported to VMware, who have released official patches and are urging all customers to update their systems as soon as possible.Salesforce has been getting into a string of amazing investments over the last financial year.They have declared a whopping 2.17-Billion-dollar gain on Investments made. This is primarily due to investments in compan...2021-03-0802 minAugmentAugmentAirtame has a change in Leadership, Atlassian and Strip partner and Wecommerce is acquiring StampedHaving moved over the last 5 years from a hardware company to a hardware-enabled SaaS platform, Airtame has a change in leadership. With Co-founder and CEO Jonas Gyalokay  moving on to become the chairman of the board, Current CFO, Martin Wagner will fill his boots and take over as CEO of the company. Martin said, and I quote “With a strategic mindset and sharp operational management, we’re now preparing to fulfill our growth potential in a post-COVID world, where schools will return and businesses will reopen. I look forward to leading the team as we prepare for an exciting year...2021-03-0703 minAugmentAugmentSaaS subscriptions are on an all time high over the last yearSaaS subscriptions make and take an all-time high over the last year while funding of Indian unicorns has doubled over the last year.2021-03-0602 minAugmentAugmentIreland’s Olive Group Acquires Kerala-Based Edtech SaaS Platform Ofabee and other NewsIreland-based online learning company Olive Group has acquired Thiruvananthapuram-based edtech SaaS platform Ofabee for an undisclosed amount in yet another international acquisition of an Indian enterprise tech startup. We also cover Highland cloud, SPAC, and Quest's funding.2021-03-0501 min