Slack releases Clips video tool, announces 16 Salesforce integrations Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Ron Miller - September 21, 20210 Slack has been talking about expanding beyond text-based messaging for some time. Today at Dreamforce, the Salesforce customer conference taking place this week, it announced Clips, a way to leave short video messages that people can watch at their leisure. Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield sees Clips as a way to communicate
Fivetran hauls in $565M on $5.6B valuation, acquires competitor HVR for $700M Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Ron Miller - September 20, 20210 Fivetran, the data connectivity startup, had a big day today. For starters it announced a $565 million investment on $5.6 billion valuation, but it didn’t stop there. It also announced its second acquisition this year, snagging HVR, a data integration competitor that had raised over $50M, for $700 million in
Zoom looks beyond video conferencing as triple-digit 2020 growth begins to slow Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Ron Miller - September 18, 20210 It’s been a heady 12-18 months for Zoom, the decade-old company that experienced monster 2020 growth and more recently, a mega acquisition with the $14.7 billion Five9 deal in July. That addition is part of a broader strategy the company has been undertaking the last couple of years to move
Confluent CEO Jay Kreps is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS for a fireside chat Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Ron Miller - September 17, 20210 As companies process ever-increasing amounts of data, moving it in real time is a huge challenge for organizations. Confluent is a streaming data platform built on top of the open source Apache Kafka project that’s been designed to process massive numbers of events. To discuss this, and more, Confluent CEO
Mirantis launches cloud-native data center-as-a-service software Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Ron Miller - September 16, 20210 Mirantis has been around the block, starting way back as an OpenStack startup, but a few years ago the company began to embrace cloud-native development technologies like containers, microservices and Kubernetes. Today, it announced Mirantis Flow, a fully managed open source set of services designed to help companies manage a
Confluent CEO Jay Kreps is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS for a fireside chat Cyber Security by Ron Miller - September 16, 20210 As companies process ever-increasing amounts of data, moving it in real time is a huge challenge for organizations. Confluent is a streaming data platform built on top of the open source Apache Kafka project that’s been designed to process massive numbers of events. To discuss this, and more, Confluent CEO
Relyance AI scores $25M Series A to ensure privacy compliance at the code level Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Ron Miller - September 15, 20210 Relyance AI, an early stage startup that is helping companies stay in compliance with privacy laws at the code level, announced a $25 million Series A today. At the same time, they revealed a previously unannounced $5 million seed round. Menlo Ventures and Unusual Ventures led the A round, while Unusual
DataRobot CEO Dan Wright coming to TC Sessions: SaaS to discuss role of data in machine learning Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Ron Miller - September 10, 20210 Just about every company is sitting on vast amounts of data, which they can use to their advantage if they can just learn how to harness it. Data is actually the fuel for machine learning models, and with the proper tools, businesses can learn to process this data and build
Snyk snags another $530M as valuation rises to $8.4B Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Ron Miller - September 10, 20210 Snyk, the Boston-based late-stage startup that is trying to help developers deliver more secure code, announced another mega-round today. This one was for $530 million, with $300 million in new money and $230 million in secondary funding, the latter of which is to help employees and early investors cash in
Box wins proxy board battle with activist investor Starboard Value Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Ron Miller - September 9, 20210 A battle between Box and its majority shareholder Starboard Value over control of the board ended today when the company’s slate of directors easily defeated Starboard’s. It culminated months of maneuvering on both sides as they battled for control of the company. Box in a somewhat generic statement expressed gratitude for