Enterprise

Financial Services Company Buckle Raises $31 Million

By Dan Anderson ● Aug 5, 2020

Buckle — a tech-enabled financial services company — announced it has filed its Regulation D and disclosed it raised $31 million through its Series A funding round co-led by HSCM Bermuda and Eos Venture Partners.

Yotpo Raises $75 Million To Help Retail Brands Accelerate Online Revenue Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 5, 2020

Yotpo — a leading SaaS-based eCommerce marketing platform that helps retail brands accelerate online revenue growth — announced it has raised $75 million in Series E funding.

Rippling: $145 Million Funding And $1.35 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 5, 2020

Rippling, a company that is focused on managing employee data, announced that it has raised $145 million in funding. The valuation of the company is now reportedly $1.35 billion.

Genpact (G) And Deloitte Sign Major Business Transformation Partnership

By Noah Long ● Aug 5, 2020

Genpact (NYSE: G) and Deloitte have announced that they have signed a strategic alliance to offer comprehensive solutions to help organizations scale and optimize critical business operations.

Envestnet Inc (ENV): Yodlee Rolls Out Hyper-Personalization Solutions For The Financial Industry

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 5, 2020

The Yodlee arm of Envestnet Inc (NYSE: ENV) -- which is a leading data aggregation and analytics platform powering cloud-based innovation for digital financial services -- announced Insights Solutions.

Why Harness Is Buying Continuous Integration Pioneer Drone.io

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 5, 2020

Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service company Harness announced that it is buying self-service Continuous Integration firm Drone.io -- which is the creator of the popular open-source project Drone.

Salesforce (CRM) Launches Valuable Feedback Management Tools To Improve Actionable Insights

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 5, 2020

Salesforce.com, Inc. (NYSE: CRM) announced it has launched Feedback Management -- which is a new suite of enterprise-level tools and surveys that will provide businesses with the capabilities to collect real-time and actionable feedback from their customers and employees.

Expert System: $29.4 Million Funding And Key Hires

By Dan Anderson ● Aug 5, 2020

Global AI company Expert System has announced that it has raised $29.4 million in a new round of funding, which includes $20 million raised through institutional investors and $9.4 million through the exercise of shareholder option rights.

Microsoft Aiming To Stop Generating Trash From Operations By 2030

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 5, 2020

Microsoft announced a goal to achieve zero waste for the company's direct operations, products, and packaging by 2030.

Blackstone Group Inc (BX) Buys Majority Stake In Ancestry.com As Part Of $4.7 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 5, 2020

Blackstone Group Inc (NYSE: BX) has purchased a majority stake in Ancestry.com Inc. -- which is a company that focuses on family history research and DNA testing -- in a deal valued at $4.7 billion.

Alive Ventures Startup Studio Launches With $12 Million To Build Companies Focused On Older Adults

By Dan Anderson ● Aug 5, 2020

Alive Ventures announced that it has formally spun out of Long Beach-based The SCAN Foundation -- which is launching as a dedicated startup studio focused on imagining and building companies, products, and services to help older adults live and work.

RADCOM (RDCM) Launches A Significant 5G Assurance And Analytics Solution

By Annie Baker ● Aug 5, 2020

RADCOM Ltd. (Nasdaq: RDCM) announced it has launched an automated 5G assurance solution called RADCOM ACE, which is an Automated, Containerized, End-To-End Assurance for 5G networks.

Leading Property Operations Company Breezeway Closes $8 Million

By Noah Long ● Aug 5, 2020

Breezeway -- a leading property operations and services platform -- announced that it has raised $8 million in Series A funding led by Schooner Capital.

Procurement Automation Platform Company Approve.com Raises $5 Million

By Noah Long ● Aug 5, 2020

Leading procurement automation platform Approve.com announced that it has raised a $5 million seed round led by Aleph.

3D Infotech Announces Aruna Robotics Division To Make Automation More Affordable

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 5, 2020

3D Infotech announced it has launched a new division named Aruna Robotics. This new division will utilize technologies for dimensional inspection cells in order to create a series of products to address the growing need for affordable robotic automation in any industry.

Leidos (LDOS): Elizabeth Porter Appointed To Health Group President

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 5, 2020

Science and technology leader Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) announced the appointment of Elizabeth (Liz) Porter to Health Group President, effective immediately.

Teladoc (TDOC) And Livongo (LVGO) Merging In Blockbuster $18.5 Billion Telemedicine Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 5, 2020

Virtual care leader Teladoc Health Inc (NYSE: TDOC) and leading Applied Health Signals company Livongo Health Inc (NASDAQ: LVGO) announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement valued at $18.5 billion.

CalAmp (CAMP): Amal Johnson To Chair Board Of Directors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 5, 2020

CalAmp (Nasdaq: CAMP) — a global technology solutions pioneer transforming the mobile connected economy — announced that Amal Johnson has been appointed to Chair of the Board of Directors.

Censys: $15.5 Million Funding And New Scan Engine

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 5, 2020

Censys -- a leading Ann Arbor, Michigan-based cybersecurity company that offers Internet-wide continuous visibility and real-time risk assessment to help businesses monitor their constantly evolving attack surfaces and vulnerabilities -- announced it has raised a $15.5 million Series A funding round.