StockX started as a marketplace for reselling sneakers but has since grown to be much more, bringing its transparent and anonymous marketplace to more verticals. Today the company is announcing a $44 million Series B that will help fuel international and domestic growth while letting the company expand to even more product categories and perhaps […]
View More Detroit’s StockX raises $44M from GV and Battery to expand marketplace internationallyCategory: Salesforce
JUST’s plant-based eggs are coming to a grocery store near you
Vegans, rejoice! JUST’s sustainable egg alternative is set to arrive in stores this fall. The vegan foods company, formerly known as Hampton Creek, will sell the egg-free and dairy-free “egg” in certain grocery store chains across the U.S. JUST co-founder and CEO Josh Tetrick, whose company was valued at $1.1 billion last year, says fans […]
View More JUST’s plant-based eggs are coming to a grocery store near youSalesforce research: Yep, consumers are worried about their data
Recent headlines at TechCrunch and elsewhere have been filled with news about data breaches, data misuse and other data-related scandals. But has that actually affected how consumers think about their personal data? A new report from Salesforce Reserach sheds some light on this question. In a survey of 6,723 individuals globally, Salesforce found that 59 […]
View More Salesforce research: Yep, consumers are worried about their dataSalesforce updates Sales Cloud ahead of Dreamforce with increased automation
Dreamforce, Salesforce’s massive customer conference is coming later this month to San Francisco, but the news is starting already well ahead of the event. Today, the company announced updates to its core Sales Cloud with an emphasis toward automation and integration. For starters, the company wants to simplify inside phone sales, giving the team not […]
View More Salesforce updates Sales Cloud ahead of Dreamforce with increased automationThoma Bravo buys majority stake in Apttus in unexpected ending
Apttus, a quote-to-cash vendor built on top of the Salesforce platform that looked to be heading toward an IPO in recent years has taken a different tack, instead being acquired by private equity firm Thoma Bravo today. The company did not reveal the purchase price, but said it could be ready to share more details […]
View More Thoma Bravo buys majority stake in Apttus in unexpected endingDFINITY raises $102M from a16z and Polychain for a decentralised ‘Internet Computer’ to rival AWS
Since blockchain technology appeared, there has been a persistent problem in its development: how to make it scale to billions of users. Bitcoin was famously never really designed for this, and today other platforms like Ethereum are also struggling. If you could crack this problem, the thinking goes, you’d end up with the hottest property […]
View More DFINITY raises $102M from a16z and Polychain for a decentralised ‘Internet Computer’ to rival AWSEvernote refines integrations with Slack and Salesforce
When you’re working in a key business tool like Slack or Salesforce, you don’t want to switch focus by opening up another application to pull additional information. Evernote Business has let you access Evernote content from these applications for some time, and today it announced some refinements to enhance those integrations. The Slack integration had […]
View More Evernote refines integrations with Slack and SalesforceSalesforce promotes COO Keith Block to co-CEO alongside founder Marc Benioff
Salesforce is moving to a two CEO model after it promoted executive Keith Block, who was most recently COO, to the position of co-CEO. Block will work alongside Salesforce’s flamboyant founder, chairman and CEO (now co-CEO) Marc Benioff, with both reporting directly to the company’s board. Block joined Salesforce five years ago after spending 25 […]
View More Salesforce promotes COO Keith Block to co-CEO alongside founder Marc BenioffJapan’s Freee raises $60M to grow its cloud accounting business
Japan-based accounting software company Freee, one of the country’s most-prominent startups, has raised a $60 million Series E funding round as it bids to expand its services into other areas of management for its customers. Freee was founded six years ago — we wrote about the startup when it raised a Series A in 2013 — […]
View More Japan’s Freee raises $60M to grow its cloud accounting businessSessionM customer loyalty data aggregator snags $23.8 M investment
SessionM announced a $23.8 million Series E investment led by Salesforce Ventures. A bushel of existing investors including Causeway Media Partners, CRV, General Atlantic, Highland Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers also contributed to the round. The company has now raised over $97 million. At its core, SessionM aggregates loyalty data for brands to […]
View More SessionM customer loyalty data aggregator snags $23.8 M investmentTall Poppy aims to make online harassment protection an employee benefit
For the nearly 20% percent of Americans who experience severe online harassment, there’s a new company launching in the latest batch of Y Combinator called Tall Poppy that’s giving them the tools to fight back. Co-founded by Leigh Honeywell and Logan Dean, Tall Poppy grew out of the work that Honeywell, a security specialist, had […]
View More Tall Poppy aims to make online harassment protection an employee benefitSalesforce reportedly won’t cancel its contract with border agency despite employee petition
While denouncing the separation of migrant families as “inhumane,” chief executive officer Marc Benioff reportedly told employees that Salesforce will continue its contract with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) because it’s technology isn’t involved in the CBP’s U.S.-Mexico border policies. Benioff’s internal memo, obtained by Bloomberg News, was in response to a recent petition […]
View More Salesforce reportedly won’t cancel its contract with border agency despite employee petition