Enterprise

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.

Intel announced it would layoff 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 plan…

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

There is no fool proof way to prevent a buggy update like CrowdStrike’s, but there are best practices that could mitigate the fallout.

How to prevent your software update from being the next CrowdStrike

Harvey, a startup building what it describes as an AI-powered “copilot” for lawyers, has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by GV, Google’s corporate venture arm. The…

OpenAI-backed legal tech startup Harvey raises $100M

Meta’s latest open source AI model is its biggest yet. Today, Meta said it is releasing Llama 3.1 405B, a model containing 405 billion parameters. Parameters roughly correspond to a…

Meta releases its biggest ‘open’ AI model yet

Level AI offers a suite of AI-powered tools to automate various customer service tasks.

Level AI applies algorithms to contact center pain points

Quality assurance in the app development world is a necessary, but often resource-draining, undertaking. According to Statista, 23% of companies’ annual IT budgets are allocated to in-house or third-party contracted…

QA Wolf secures $36M to grow its app QA-testing suite

After doing some consulting for Microsoft to develop protections against zero-day exploits, software engineer Joran Dirk Greef worked with Coil, a web monetization startup in San Francisco, to help build…

TigerBeetle is building database software optimized for financial transactions

A Seoul court issued an arrest warrant for Brian Kim, the founder of South Korean internet giant Kakao, on allegations of stock price manipulation related to the company’s takeover of…

Kakao founder issued arrest warrant by Seoul court

Cybersecurity startup Wiz has turned down a $23 billion acquisition offer from Alphabet, Google’s parent company, according to a source familiar with discussions. Despite the offer representing a substantial premium…

Wiz walks away from Google’s $23B acquisition offer: Read the CEO’s note to employees

Unlike OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and many of its generative AI startup rivals, Cohere doesn’t have a big consumer focus.

Cohere raises $500M to beat back generative AI rivals

Identity management is one of the most common fulcrums around which security breaches have pivoted in the last several years. One of the main reasons it has become the gift…

Linx emerges from stealth with $33M to lock down the new security perimeter: Identity

CrowdStrike competes with a number of vendors, including SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks but also Microsoft, Trellix, Trend Micro and Sophos, in the endpoint security market.

CrowdStrike’s rivals stand to benefit from its update fail debacle

Both of Hofy’s co-founders, Sami Bouremoum and Michael Ginzo, along with the rest of the startup’s leadership team and 120 employees, are joining Deel to build Deel IT.

Deel acquires Hofy to build its own IT device management service

Software as a service (SaaS) is an ever-evolving industry. We’ll talk to some of the sharpest minds and professionals in the industry — executives from early- and late-stage SaaS companies,…

Announcing the agenda for the SaaS Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Tricentis, the well-funded test automation platform that helps developers find bugs in their code (now with the help of AI, of course), today announced that it has acquired SeaLights, a…

Test automation platform Tricentis acquires SeaLights

At a time when many startups have struggled to raise money and keep their heads above water, Kandji, an Apple device management platform, has been an exception. Founded in 2019,…

Kandji raises another $100M for Apple device management as valuation rises to $850M

Google’s parent company Alphabet might be on the verge of making its biggest acquisition ever. The Wall Street Journal reports that Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire Wiz for…

Google reportedly in talks to acquire cloud security company Wiz for $23B