IT総合 Wargraphs, a gaming startup with only one employee and no outside funding, sells for $54M
While the U.K. and U.S. try to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision over concerns it will kill competition ...
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IT総合 IT総合 Informatica acquires Privitar, once valued at $400M, to expand its data management stack
One of the recurring themes in the area of enterprise IT these days is consolidation, and today we’re getting anot...
IT総合 Vodafone and Three plan to merge in the UK in a $19B deal (if regulators approve)
The mobile market in Europe and the U.K. — once orchestrated to be ripe ground for competition — has been on...
IT総合 France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round at a $260M valuation to take on OpenAI
AI is well and truly off to the races: a startup that is only four weeks old has picked up a $113 million round of seed ...
IT総合 Kodem comes out of stealth with $25M to tackle application security
A new startup is entering the fray in the market of application security: Kodem, a company out of Israel founded by a te...
IT総合 Striveworks snaps up first funding of $33M to build tools for machine learning operations
MLOps, or DevOps for those working with machine learning models, has seen a boom of interest in the last year, and that ...
IT総合 Hyper raises $3.6M from Amazon and more for its iPhone-based, VTuber-friendly avatar platform
VTubers — online personalities who use motion-capture-powered manga- and anime-inspired avatars to interact with t...
IT総合 Percepto flies high with $67M for its industrial drones
Percepto, a drone startup that is building a sizable business with its software and hardware for industrial drone applic...
IT総合 HSBC rebrands, expands its SVB UK buy as HSBC Innovation Banking
Acquired by HSBC in an emergency sale for just £1 in March as SVB was melting down, SVB UK is now getting a rebrand and ...
IT総合 FIS acquires banking-as-a-service startup Bond
Consolidation continues apace in the world of fintech. FIS, the fintech giant that runs a wide range of payment, banking...
IT総合 Payrails banks $14.4M for its OS for complex payments flows
Enterprises and marketplaces that need to take and make payments across multiple geographies and products have typically...
IT総合 GetYourGuide books $194M at a $2B valuation with travel experiences back in business
The tourist industry is bouncing back after a rough couple of pandemic-stressed years, and in the case of some tourism a...
IT総合 SellerX acquires US e-commerce roll-up rival Elevate Brands in an all-share deal, raises $64M+
E-commerce aggregators have collectively raised hundreds of millions of dollars over the last several years to push ahea...
IT総合 Hostaway unlocks $175M to expand its vacation rental management platform
Tourism and travel have come roaring back into business post-pandemic, and today a startup called Hostaway that’s ...
IT総合 NomuPay, formed from pieces of failed fintech Wirecard, says it’s raised $53.6M for cross-border payments
We still see regular updates on the calamitous fallout of the 2020 collapse of Wirecard, the now-insolvent fintech out o...
IT総合 Anne Boden, founder of UK’s Starling Bank, steps down as CEO
Anne Boden nearly lost a grip on Starling Bank years ago when the neobank was in the middle of a coup effort led by its ...
IT総合 Elon thinks AI could become humanity’s uber-nanny: excerpts from a dinner convo
After months of moving fast and breaking things at Twitter, Elon Musk’s been on a crash course of a different sort...
IT総合 DataOps.live gets $17.5M from Snowflake, others for DevOps-style tools aimed at data experts
DevOps has changed the game for how developers build, deploy, update and monitor applications across their network. Now,...
IT総合 Datasembly grabs $16M to give brick-and-mortar retail pricing a big data intel boost
Online shopping often feels like a one-way street from the point of view of the physical retail world: e-commerce has a ...
IT総合 Romania’s FlowX.ai raises $35M for its AI-based approach to application integration
“Digital transformation” and AI remain very buzzy terms in the world of enterprise software, and today a sta...
IT総合 Restaurant365 gobbles up $135M to supersize its software for the food service industry
The price of food continues to go up and up, but surprisingly that hasn’t (yet?) played out as pressure on the wid...
IT総合 Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo raise $192M in a joint round to boost cloud security business
Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo, two players in the world of physical cloud security — respectively video surveillanc...
IT総合 Kustomer, the CRM startup acquired by Meta last year for $1B, spins out on a $250M valuation
Meta’s grand experiment in building an enterprise-ready customer service platform has come to a close: the parent ...
IT総合 Linda Yaccarino leaves NBCUniversal, adding fuel to the Twitter CEO fire
Linda Yaccarino, the woman hotly tipped as the next CEO of Twitter, has not made any statements confirming or denying th...
IT総合 TikTok turns up on the volume on its music play with NewMusic search feature
TikTok has upended how music is discovered, used and consumed these days; now, its long-term effort to build a business ...
IT総合 Wingcopter, Germany’s drone delivery startup, raises another $44B from the EIB
Wingcopter, a startup out of Germany that has made a name for itself in the world of delivery drones used primarily for ...
IT総合 Wingcopter, Germany’s drone delivery startup, raises another $44M from the EIB
Wingcopter, a startup out of Germany that has made a name for itself in the world of delivery drones used primarily for ...
IT総合 Triumph raises $14M for an SDK to add real-money tournaments into games
The surge of interest in e-sports, online fantasy leagues and more extensive online financial infrastructure have made t...
IT総合 Last call to register for today’s filming of TechCrunch Live with Persona and Index Ventures
Identity management used to mean making sure you had your drivers license when you left the house, but these days it’s n...
IT総合 Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning
After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an ...