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Read the latest news on enterprise, from new products to large SaaS providers like Salesforce, Adobe, ServiceNow and Atlassian to funding for small SaaS companies and new products that help startups build their own SaaS.

In 1996, two companies, Patersons HR and Payroll Solutions, formed a venture called CloudPay to provide payroll and payments services to enterprise clients. CloudPay grew quietly over the next several…

CloudPay, a payroll services provider, lands $120M in new funding

On Thursday, Box filled in a missing piece on its AI platform when it bought automated metadata extracting startup, Alphamoon.

Box adds crucial piece to its AI platform with Alphamoon acquisition

AI companies are gobbling up investor money and securing sky-high valuations early in their life cycle. This dynamic has many calling the AI industry a bubble. Nick Frosst, a co-founder…

Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst thinks everyone needs to be more realistic about what AI can and cannot do

SoundHound, an AI company that makes voice interface tech used by car companies, restaurants and tech firms, is doubling down on enterprise services by playing consolidator in a crowded market.…

SoundHound acquires Amelia AI for $80M after it raised $189M+

Bardeen has raised $3M to build its platform that uses a natural language interface to automate repetitive knowledge work.

AI business agent startup Bardeen pulls in strategic investment from Dropbox and HubSpot

Digital transformation — the process of transforming outdated apps and processes with cloud technologies and digital workflows — can be a risky undertaking. In 2023, Harvard Business Review reported that…

Mechanical Orchard, led by ex-Pivotal CEO, scores $50M round led by Alphabet’s GV

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) planned $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks is one step closer to completion — the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has confirmed that the deal…

After EU approval, UK clears HPE’s $14B Juniper Networks acquisition

In a sign that big tech companies are ready and willing to shell out cash for database tech, Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres,…

Database startup Neon nabs a Microsoft investment

Cybersecurity remains a white-hot space for investors. In the latest example of that demand, EQT has bought a majority stake in Acronis, a security company that specializes in data protection,…

EQT takes a majority stake in cybersecurity firm Acronis at $3.5B+ valuation

Amazon has released an upgraded version of its in-house image-generating model, Titan Image Generator, for AWS customers using its Bedrock generative AI platform. Simply called Titan Image Generator v2, the…

Amazon upgrades its AI image generator

Hyperspace, a Tel Aviv-based startup, says its custom cloud instances for database searches can dramatically speed up queries.

Hyperspace is using ‘domain-specific computing’ to accelerate database searches

Quantum computing may still largely be in the theoretical domain, but the money that it’s attracting is very real.

UK’s Riverlane scores $75M to correct quantum errors

When a company is the size of Amazon, a lot of bad actors will come after it and its customers, which makes defending the network a monster job. Over the…

AWS unveils Mithra to identify and mitigate malicious domains across its massive system

We spoke to Harness CEO and founder Jyoti Bansal about his previous company, which Cisco bought for $3.7 billion in 2017.

When a big company comes after a hot startup, it’s not a slam dunk decision to sell

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Meet the founder who built and sold a $600M enterprise software startup from Sri Lanka

Sanjiva Weerawarana co-founded WSO2 in 2005, recently selling it for more than $600M. He sometimes drives for Uber, too.

Meet the founder who built and sold a $600M enterprise software startup from Sri Lanka

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Cloud infrastructure revenue approached $80 billion this quarter

The cloud infrastructure market has put the doldrums of 2023 firmly behind it with another big quarter. Revenue continues to grow at a brisk pace, fueled by interest in AI. Synergy Research reports revenue totaled $79 billion for the quarter, up $14.1 billion or 22% from last year. This marked…

Cloud infrastructure revenue approached $80 billion this quarter

Intel announced it would lay off more than 15% of its staff, or 15,000 employees, in a memo to employees on Thursday. The massive headcount is part of a large…

Intel to lay off 15,000 employees

Microsoft has a long and tangled history with OpenAI, having invested a reported $13 billion in the ChatGPT maker as part of a long-term partnership. As part of the deal,…

Microsoft now lists OpenAI as a competitor in AI and search

Google’s new features include Gemini in BigQuery and Looker to help users with data engineering and analysis.

Google Cloud expands its database portfolio with new AI capabilities

The European Commission (EC) has given the go-ahead to HPE’s planned megabucks acquisition of Juniper Networks.

EU greenlights HPE’s $14B Juniper Networks acquisition

Sybill, a startup that has built an AI assistant specifically for sales reps, has raised $11 million in a Series A round led by Greycroft.

Sybill raises $11M for its AI assistant that helps salespeople reduce administrative burden

Checkly helps devs get signals about an app’s performance and downtime, offering a set of subscription-based synthetic monitoring tools.

Checkly tests software by mimicking the way people use it

Lightrun also on Wednesday disclosed an $18 million SAFE round it raised last year, bringing Lightrun’s total funding to date to $45 million.

Lightrun launches its AI debugger to help developers fix their production code

For one thing, Wiz could have seen Google’s offer as validation that it’s better off staying independent.

It took some serious nerve for Wiz to walk away from Google’s $23B offer

Airtable today announced that it has acquired Dopt, a startup focused on helping other startups build product onboarding experiences for new users. Earlier this year, Dopt introduced a number of…

Airtable acquihires onboarding startup Dopt for AI talent

ClickHouse has made a name for itself as a real-time data warehouse for large enterprises. Its customer list includes Deutsche Bank, eBay, Fastly, GitLab, HubSpot, Microsoft, ServiceNow and Spotify.

Real-time database startup ClickHouse acquires PeerDB to expand its Postgres support

In addition to insured commitments, Archera provides consulting services to help build purchasing strategies for customers to optimize their cloud usage.

Archera helps customers access deep cloud discounts

The Overture Maps Foundation is today releasing data sets for 2.3B building “footprints” globally, 54M notable places of interest, a visual overlay of “boundaries,” and land and water features such…

Backed by Microsoft, AWS and Meta, the Overture Maps Foundation launches its first open map datasets

Vanta, a trust management platform that helps businesses automate much of their security and compliance processes, today announced that it has raised a $150 million Series C funding round led…

Vanta raises $150M Series C, now valued at $2.45B

The startup is not disclosing its valuation, but sources close to the company say the figure is just under $400 million post-money.

Dazz snaps up $50M for AI-based, automated cloud security remediation