TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

tapped into a new wave of businesses wanting their own native apps with a turnkey approach, accelerated by the rapid digitization of life during the pandemic. It’s now landed a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, which includes an undisclosed equity investment in the startup. We see Builder.ai We see Builder.ai

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

That’s obviously not a huge round, but the investors will likely make you perk up a bit: Madrona Venture Group, Picus Capital, TA Ventures and angels like GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich. The team argues that even today, building AI into an application is still far too hard.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Twitter’s recent acquisition spree continues today as the company announces it has acqui-hired the team from news aggregator and summary app Brief. Co-founder and CTO Andrea Huey, meanwhile, was a Google senior software engineer, who worked on the Google iOS app and had a prior stint at Microsoft.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Twine , a company that provides networking tools for virtual events and remote teams, will soon bring its services to Zoom thanks to its just-closed acquisition of the Y Combinator-backed startup, Glimpse, which had developed a “speed matching” platform designed for virtual events. intelligence. intelligence.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 25, 2023

Clouds are picking teams in one of the most important dislocations in software. Cloud LLM Infrastructure Microsoft OpenAI Snowflake Nvidia Databricks Mosaic Google Anthropic Oracle Cohere Amazon HuggingFace Microsoft has invested over $10b, plus significant development efforts to work with OpenAI.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, AirTree Ventures and Salesforce Ventures co-led this Series D, with Blue Cloud Ventures, Larsen Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, Microsoft’s M12, SEEK, TEN13 and Tiger Global also participating. (To GO1, an enterprise learning platform, picks up $40M from Microsoft, Salesforce and more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Proving that there’s an appetite for bots, Salesforce today announced that it will acquire Troops.ai, a bot-based service that integrates with Slack to make it easier for sales teams to retrieve and update data across Salesforce’s various systems. Troops managed to raise $19.4 and others prior to the Salesforce purchase.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

RevenueCat , a startup offering a series of tools for developers of subscription-based apps, has raised $40 million in Series B funding, valuing its business at $300 million, post-money. Today, RevenueCat has over 6,000 apps live on its platform, with over $1 billion in tracked subscription revenue being managed by its tools.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

While email services haven't changed a lot over the past two decades, email apps keep getting better. There are some great native Mac email apps that make the whole experience better and more Mac-like. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 2, 2022

The creation of mobile apps has changed the way we live and work. They’ve also made running a business much easier by allowing business owners to undertake tasks on the go and always stay connected with organizational apps. Microsoft To Do. You can access your lists on your phone, laptop, tablet or desktop at any time.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Mio , a startup that helps enterprise teams collaborate across messaging services like Zoom Chat, Microsoft Teams, Slack and Cisco’s Webex, today announced that it has raised an $8.7 “When a Teams user wants to send a message to a Slack user, it will go over the Wide Area Network for workplace communications. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

As more enterprises migrate apps and workloads into the cloud, so grows the need for more sophisticated tech to secure that activity. Collectively, it says it now secures apps covering 78 million users and 230 million exposed data records and more than 9 billion monthly events.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The plan is to integrate more Kahoot features into Drops’ apps, and to bring some of Drops’ content into the main Kahoot platform. Drops makes three main apps. A second app, Scripts, is aimed at learning to read, write and sign, and it covers four alphabets and four character-based writing systems.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Sidekick’s answer is to let you work from inside apps that live in the browser, rather than scattered across multiple windows and tabs. Apps like Slack and Skype and WhatsApp can be pinned in the sidebar in a vertical stack where you can easily find and switch between them. Browsers are interesting again.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

It’s not just the C-suite that’s being challenged — lower-level employees, too, are having to wrestle with employers’ now-sprawling catalogs of apps. According to Statista, the average enterprise uses 110 software-as-a-service apps today, up from eight in 2015. the most searched keywords).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

The company offers keyboard and social app stickers through ad-supported mobile apps on iOS and Android, but it’s recently focused more on providing stickers to developers, creators and other online businesses. Stipop launched a website recently that helps developers integrate its SDK and API through quick installs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The software integrates with over 100 other apps used in business, for example Google Apps, Trello, Zapier, MailChimp, Yesware and PandaDoc. When we entered the market in 2010, people asked us, ‘Why build a product in an area where Salesforce is already strong?’

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2020

With Slack being acquired by Salesforce for $28 billion, the world of collaborative tools for teams is on fire right now. raised $50 million and Microsoft has Fluid. Space combines general collaboration tools: chats, team and project management, meeting scheduling and documents with workflows for specific verticals.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Today, a startup called AppOmni — which has built a platform to help monitor SaaS apps and their activity, provide guidance to warn or block when things might go wrong and fix problems when they do occur — is announcing some funding to fuel its growth. Enterprise security attackers are one password away from your worst day.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

He leads the engineering teams responsible for building, scaling and protecting LinkedIn. The best engineering work isn’t done in isolation, but in collaboration, as teams discuss, wrangle and brainstorm through problems. Technology like high-quality video conferencing and the cloud have been integral in making remote work possible.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet have become standard tools for teachers who have had to run lessons remotely since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. But they’re not apps necessarily designed for classrooms, and that fact has opened a gap in the market for those looking to build something more fit to the purpose.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

“Visual collaboration is something that allows teams in companies to better be on the same page. We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Andrey and the entire Miro team.”. It’s a great opportunity to better explain ideas, problems and design solutions.”. However, with statistics showing that 53% of the U.S.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

The best AI chatbots The leader: ChatGPT The runner-up: Google Bard Internet-connected: Microsoft Bing AI , Perplexity , YouChat , KoalaChat For content writing: Jasper Chat , Chat by Copy.ai , ChatSonic , ZenoChat For messaging: Personal AI For tinkering: OpenAI playground , Poe For fun: AI Test Kitchen , Character.AI Chat experience.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Staffbase , which helps internal teams craft, send out and measure the impact of their communications with their organizations, has raised $115 million in funding, a Series E that catapults the company’s valuation to $1.1 “We integrate existing apps, or we can also provide a replacement for them,” he said.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Autobooks is the first fully integrated payments and accounting platform for business, delivered through online banking. This year, Autobooks raised $25 million in Series B funding and are continuing to grow their team, hiring in Detroit. The team is growing and hiring in Detroit and remotely. Apply now to Autobooks.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

No two service-based businesses are alike, which means it can be hard to find an appointment scheduling app that works for you. In my years as a small business owner, I've experimented with several appointment scheduling apps—and I've learned what makes a tool stand out from the rest.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

CEO Mona Akmal says that the new money — which brings the company’s total raised to $20 million — will be used to build integrations with workflow partners, support product research and expand the size of Falkon’s team from 20 to 30 employees by the end of the year. ”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

At the time, he also realized traditional industries were well underserved compared to the attention that internet platforms like short videos and news apps received from AI entrepreneurs. In Paris, Laiye is slated to assemble a product and engineering force, building on top of Mindsay’s 30-people team. Laiye CEO Guanchun Wang.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Low-code and no-code tools have been a huge hit with enterprises keen to give their operations more of a tech boost, but often lack the resources to handle more complex integrations. This saves needing to build or integrate that complexity from scratch and expands access to the processes within those wrappers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He decided to code an app that would collect recordings of students saying their names and deliver them to name readers for graduation, which became Namecoach. But Shanbhag tells me that early on, he sought to differentiate Namecoach by investing heavily in AI and integrations. in philosophy at Stanford. Image Credits: Namecoach.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

Explore now The Zapier ChatGPT plugin lets you connect thousands of apps (like Google Sheets, Gmail, or Slack) and automate tasks directly inside ChatGPT. This saves you the time and hassle of context switching, as you can just ask ChatGPT to perform a task in another app for you. You'll have the chance to review the copy.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

ELSA , the English-language learning app known for its speech recognition technology, is launching a new product called Speech Analyzer. Like ELSA’s learning app, which has more than 40 million users, Speech Analyzer provides tutorials, along with projected scores of how users might perform on major English language exams, including IELTS.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Qatalog , a London-based startup that has developed a “virtual workspace” that brings together disparate SaaS tools to help teams function better, is disclosing $15 million in Series A funding. In doing so, the idea is that teams can work smarter and collaborate better throughout the organisation. Image Credits: Qatalog.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

That experience got Subbaraj, who spent 14 years at Microsoft helping larger organizations improve their businesses, thinking on how he could apply that to help global brands offer better customer experiences. Technicians would arrive only to not have the right parts or know how to fix that particular appliance.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

You’d think data visualization and exploration is a bit of a solved problem thanks to the likes of Tableau, Sisense, Looker, Microsoft Power BI and their competitors. It was there that he realized that a lot of teams wanted access to this data, but writing a new SQL query for every request wasn’t scalable in the long run.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A Y Combinator-backed app called Needl is helping users with that. The free version — available on the web, Windows and Mac — lets you connect a single account per integration. If you need more account connections and integrations like Jira and Linear, you will need to pay $10 per month. Image Credits: Needl.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Valence Security , a company securing business app infrastructure, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round led by M12, Microsoft’s corporate venture arm, with participation from YL Ventures, Porsche Ventures, Akamai Technologies, Alumni Ventures and former Symantec CEO Michael Fey. billion invested.

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