Paul Gillin
Latest from Paul Gillin
Continuing a nearly three-year campaign to shift sales responsibility for the bulk of its accounts from direct to indirect channels, IBM Corp. today announced an overhaul of its partner support program that increases partner access to its resources, incentives and support while …
Machine learning takes on the all-too-human discipline of space planning
Chris Lord relates the story of a space planner at one higher educational institution who faced a conundrum: Plenty of square footage had been allocated for study space, but students were complaining that there weren’t enough places to sit. Both sides were …
Zip brushes up user interface of its procurement platform
Procurement management software startup Zip today announced several new user interface features in its product. Zip, which is the business name of ZipHQ Inc., simplifies the procurement process by routing and tracking requests, asking conditional questions, and documenting the status of requests …
MariaDB stock drops in early trading following IPO
Following through on an announcement it made in February, database management system provider MariaDB plc went public today on the New York Stock Exchange through a merger with Angel Pond Holdings Corp. Ordinary shares and warrants began trading under the symbols “MRDB” …
Startup says it can reliably detect AI-generated content
The media, academia and business worlds have been swooning over the sophistication of OpenAI LLC’s ChatGPT natural language generator, but content marketers have reasons for concern. That industry thrives on search engine optimization and is hypersensitive to intellectual property issues such as …
Acceldata open-sources its core platform and selected libraries
Data observability startup Acceldata Inc. today released its platform under an Apache open-source license, saying it hopes the move will ensure that stable and community-validated versions of data observability libraries are available. This move covers the core data platform and six projects, which …
AI chip startup EnCharge AI raises $21.7M to build integrated stack for edge uses
The list of startups building hardware to process artificial intelligence applications just grew longer with the addition of EnCharge AI Inc. Today the company announced a $21.7 million Series A funding round to support the development of a semiconductor hardware and software …
Talent management platform maker Beamery vaults to unicorn status with its latest funding round
Beamery Inc., the developer of a talent management platform, today announced a $50 million Series D funding round that brings its total funding to $228 million and a valuation of more than $1 billion. The nine-year-old London-based firm has assembled an impressive …
Trilio raises $17M for its cloud-native data protection service
Cloud-native data protection firm Trilio Data Inc. said today it has secured $17 million in a new Series B funding and appointed serial entrepreneur Massood Zarrabian as chief executive. The new round brings Trilio’s total funding to $36 million. The company said it …
No-code platform Creatio overhauled with composable architecture, AI assists
No-code platform developer Creatio Inc. today announced what it says is a major platform release that incorporates a composable architecture, an overhauled user interface and intelligent recommendations for workflow design and automation. Creatio makes a business processes management platform that nontechnical users can employ …