Searchable.ai wants to solve an old problem around search in the enterprise. The stealthy startup announced a $2 million seed round. Defy Partners led the round with a slew of other participants including Paul English, co-founder Read More
Are Credit Card Dispute Rules Enabling Fraud Against its Card Holders
This is the third article in a series regarding fraudulent ads on Facebook sending consumer victims to bogus Shopify stores designed to obtain credit card information in order to cheat people. In the first two articles, I describe Read More
Stewart Butterfield says Microsoft sees Slack as existential threat
In a wide ranging interview with The Wall Street Journal’s global technology editor Jason Dean yesterday, Slack CEO and co-founder Stewart Butterfield had some strong words regarding Microsoft, saying the software giant saw Read More
Grafana Labs nabs $24M Series A for open source-based data analytics stack
Grafana Labs, the commercial company built to support the open source Grafana project, announced a healthy $24 million Series A investment today. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round with participation from Lead Edge Capital. Read More
Cybersecurity automation startup Tines scores $4.1M Series A led by Blossom Capital
Tines, a Dublin-based startup that lets companies automate aspects of their cybersecurity, has raised $4.1 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Blossom Capital, the venture capital firm co-founded by ex-Index Ventures Read More
Bill McDermott aims to grow ServiceNow like he did SAP
Bill McDermott has landed. Two weeks ago, he stepped down as CEO at SAP after a decade leading the company. Yesterday, ServiceNow announced that he will be its new CEO. It’s unclear how quickly the move came together but the Read More