American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 6, 2024

Identify and access management company Okta will award up to $500K as an investment to the winner of its inaugural SaaS startup competition. The company seeks the latest application innovations underway using identity, privacy, and security-enabled workflows. Okta’s platform helps startups develop identity-enabled applications.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

Reinventing the Enterprise Browser Islands core innovation lies in its reimagining of the web browsernot as a passive consumer tool, but as an active enabler of enterprise security, productivity, and IT efficiency. As AI adoption continues to accelerate, Island is helping establish a new industry standard.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Microsoft has amassed the most extensive channel for SaaS companies, and each of these vendors pushes teams to current customers, many of whom are moving to the cloud and relying on Microsoft for guidance. Sales acceleration, marketing, finance tools all built on Salesforce data with Slack delivering the user interface.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

London-based PassFort , a SaaS provider that helps business meet compliance requirements such as KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) reporting, has closed a $16.2 It’s also selling its SaaS to customers in foreign exchange, banking and (ofc) crypto. million Series A led by US growth equity fund, Level Equity.

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Dream It

MAY 14, 2020

The startup is integrated with large EMRs including Epic, Cerner, and Allscripts using SMART on FHIR technology, enabling the company to embed the wound care portal into a clinician’s typical workflow. The Baltimore-based startup graduated from Dreamit’s Healthtech program in 2014.

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Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

For consumer applications, companies that run marketplaces or platforms that enable brands (like Instacart, Expedia, or Shopify) will likely be early beneficiaries because they allow users to reach a variety of goods and services through a single portal. Apple has made mistakes along the way, and OpenAI will too.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

A new company recently emerged that is targeting a popular startup niche, wanting to exclusively help early-stage SaaS (software-as-a-service) companies with their financial needs. And it’s doing it as part of a partnership with Stripe, one of the world’s largest, and most valuable private fintechs. How it’s different and the same.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Around the time of its Series B earlier this year, the company had just started onboarding some early adopters to its SaaS platform. “We looked at all of our opportunities in hardware enablement, in accelerating the SaaS business and cloud enablement. OctoML raises $15M to make optimizing ML models easier.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

They were brought back together by the pandemic to start the e-commerce enablement company. The beauty of Melonn is the potential to both accelerate a business and integrate into platforms that its clients are already using.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

In recent years, the adoption of confidential computing technologies has accelerated, with major tech companies including Intel, Google, Microsoft, Arm, and Red Hat founding an organization — the Confidential Computing Consortium — to advance data protection standards. . ” The Opaque platform. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Pattern , a Lehi, Utah-based e-commerce accelerator that helps brands optimize sales on marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, Target, eBay and Google, brought in $225 million in growth funding to continue developing its technology and expand its global presence. Aggregators will have to become accelerators or I don’t think they will survive.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Capchase Pay enables SaaS companies to collect the full contract value for their software while also providing their customers with flexible payment terms. We thought it was a perfect time to bring a product to market and accelerate conversion,” he said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

But co-founder and CEO David Cancel did say the SaaS company saw 70% growth in its annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2020 compared to the year prior and is on target for a similar metric this year. Unfortunately, neither party would disclose the amount of the investment, or Drift’s new valuation. So far it has made three.).

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

Casted leverages audio and video podcasting as the core of an innovative Amplified Marketing Platform enabling B2B enterprises to drive brand awareness, thought-leadership, sales lead generation, and customer engagement strategies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

million last year from New-York’s Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC) and a syndicate of Australian investors. The new investment will help the startup to accelerate its overseas expansion across the world with a focus on the United States, the country with the highest percentage of educators using one-to-one computing (1:1) computing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence SaaS voice automation company Skit, formerly known as Vernacular.ai, developed its AI-based voice automation platform VIVA, short for Vernacular Intelligent Voice Assistant, which enables corporations to automate 90% of their call center operations powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) technology.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Tackle says it plans to use its new funding to accelerate the execution of its product roadmap, scale its go-to-market (GTM) teams, expand its global reach, and continue to innovate. “Tackle is the leading player for enabling companies to sell software through the cloud,” he said.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Register India’s SaaS-based logistics management platform Shipsy has secured US$25 million funding in its Series B financing round led by Z3 Partners and A91 Partners along with participation from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge. It enables real-time data processing and provides you with live alerts using scalable machine learning models.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

25 seed and early-stage startups participate in a 5-month long program ending with a Demo Day showcasing their disruptive innovation For its 2024 global accelerator cohort, Morgan Stanley received thousands of applications. The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act. We have also staffed our URBAN-X accelerator program with dedicated experts to provide software and hardware support.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

On Wednesday, January 24, the inaugural cohort of startups from i2E’s Bridge2 Pre-Accelerator program presented their groundbreaking innovations during the Bridge2 Demo Day at Sailor & The Dock in Oklahoma City. During Demo Day, attendees heard pitch presentations from five founders who participated in the initial Bridge2 cohort.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

SaaS models and cloud technologies have eliminated some of the barriers for Israeli companies and enable companies to quickly set up and set up a proof of concept. Riskified makes e-ommerce easier and safer and enables a thriving e-commerce environment. Fintech (specifically embedded finance or financial SaaS), synthetic bio.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

The funding proceeds will be used for accelerating digital transformation of the platform, hiring and expanding to global markets. Indian logistics SaaS startup FarEye raises $100 million. “We The demand for CADDi’s services has seen significant acceleration. The acceleration of B2B AI innovation has begun.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

The initiatives were painful for both the engineering and finance departments, they say — which is when the pair realized that they wanted more flexibility over how software-as-a-service (SaaS) products were billed and monetized. “They should, instead, enable the flexibility to meet customers where they are.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

.” Just as virtualization and then container technology transformed CPU-based workloads over the last decades, Run:AI is bringing orchestration and virtualization technology to AI chipsets such as GPUs, dramatically accelerating both AI training and inference. ” Run.AI raises $13M for its distributed machine learning platform.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 30, 2022

With the partnership, Bynder hopes to accelerate its ability to help brands overcome the complexity of proliferating content while enabling the delivery of exceptional content experiences and unlocking revenue growth. The partnership builds on THL’s investment franchise in SaaS products that enable sales, marketing, and commerce.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Cue statement from current CEO Raj Sabhlok: “Reaching ‘unicorn’ status and partnering with Vista will enable us to accelerate our mission to support SMBs as they continue to digitize their businesses in order to grow. “Pipedrive is now Europe and Estonia’s newest SaaS unicorn,” says Zennström.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Pipefy , a “low-code” workflow management SaaS startup, announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series C funding. Says Alionço: “Our tool enables citizen developers. The company plans to use its new capital to “significantly accelerate” its global expansion. million since its 2015 inception.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Securing early-stage venture financing is usually the best way to accelerate and sustain growth, but with various funding options available, how do you figure out the best course of action? Here’s a rundown of how alternative financing came to be, how it can benefit high-growth SaaS startups and how to know if it’s right for you.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia disclosed 15 early-stage startups it has selected for the seventh cohort of its accelerator program Surge, pushing ahead with new investments even as the deal activity has considerably slowed in the region. Following is the list of startups available in the seventh cohort. 8VC is a co-investor.).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform is used by healthcare facilities for remote diagnostics in various medical fields including radiology, cardiology and orthopedics. The platform stores diagnostic imagery, enabling physicians to analyze them, on-demand, from any device including mobile phones.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Now, maturing consumer behaviors and expectations are accelerating the current phase. Nacelle gives organizations a future-proof way to accelerate their innovation, leverage existing investments and do so with material ROI.”. In contrast, Nacelle enables customers to keep their tech stack and put components together as they see fit.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As DevOps SaaS platform Esper continues to build out the category and the number of connected devices grows, the company took on another round of funding to stay ahead of demand. Some of the ways the company is keeping up with demand is enabling organizations to sign up and start for free with 100 devices to see how the platform works.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

We also created the Techstars Seattle and Alexa Accelerator Powered by Techstars programs, enabling us to roughly double our investor at-bats in the same time period, with an even more hands-on approach than a typical VC (one of the reasons we chose to exit the accelerator business a few years ago). .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Frontegg , a Tel Aviv-based startup that provides SaaS companies with the core user management tools they need to build their own services, today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series A funding round led by Insight Partners. In the past, it could take years to develop self-served user management.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

Its ecosystem of AI-powered, credit-enabled products and services includes buy now pay later platform Atome, digital lending platform Kredit Pintar, SaaS provider ADVANCE.AI, and ecommerce merchant services platform Ginee. We appreciate our investors’ continued faith and confidence in us,” Chen said.

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Paul G. Silva

AUGUST 20, 2019

This summer I had the pleasure of facilitating the 2019 Energy (CleanTech) cohort for the AccelVT accelerator in Burlington, VT. At last week’s graduation they showed one of the critical differentiators between their accelerator and most others: funded pilots with utilities. www.evmatch.com/ California.

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