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Korl raises $5M to craft customized customer communications for sales teams
Customer success software startup Korl Inc. says it’s on a mission to help businesses of all sizes unlock more revenue growth opportunities after raising $5 million in seed funding to coincide with the general availability of its platform. Today’s round was led by MaC Venture Capital and Underscore VC, and saw participation from Stage 2 ...
Despite strong earnings beat, Workday’s stock wobbles on disappointing guidance
Workday Inc. delivered better-than-expected revenue and reaffirmed its full-year outlook on subscription sales, but its guidance for the current quarter did not impress investors very much, and its stock was trading lower after-hours. The human resources software company delivered first-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.23 per share, beating Wall Street’s ...
Big-data visualization company Domo smashes Wall Street’s targets and its stock soars
Business intelligence and data visualization software firm Domo Inc. is flying high in late trading today on the back of a solid earnings and revenue beat and impressive growth in its operating income. The company also offered a strong profit forecast for the current quarter. The company reported a first-quarter loss before certain costs such ...
Snowflake gains momentum with solid earnings and revenue beats
Snowflake Inc. added to its momentum as it delivered its first-quarter financial results for the new fiscal year today, beating expectations on earnings and revenue to send its stock higher in late trading. The company, which sells cloud-based data warehouse tools for businesses, delivered first-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 24 ...
DataHub gets $35M in funding to provide the context needed for AI reliability and safety
Open-source metadata startup DataHub, owned and operated by Acryl Data Inc., said today it has closed on a $35 million Series B funding round led solely by Bessemer Venture Partners. The round brings the company’s total amount raised to more than $65 million, and will enable it to accelerate the development of its flagship context ...
AI tax startup Filed bags $17.2M to turbocharge tax return processing
Tax software startup Filed Inc. said today it has raised $17.2 million in funding to try and fix what it says is the accounting industry’s broken talent pipeline with artificial intelligence. The funding came via seed and preseed rounds led by backers that include Northzone, Day One Ventures, J Ventures, Raine, Neo and Greens Ventures. ...
Salesforce targets a more human touch for financial services firms, with AI agents
Salesforce Inc. has unveiled a series of prebuilt templates for creating AI agents that can perform the duties of loan officers, banking and insurance agents, financial advisers and more. The templates can be found in a special version of Salesforce’s Agentforce artificial intelligence development platform that’s embedded within the Financial Services Cloud. It’s aimed at ...
Gravitee raises $60M to help developers tame API complexity
Digital traffic pipeline management startup Gravitee Topco Ltd. said today it has closed on a $60 million Series C funding round, bringing its total amount raised to date to more than $125 million. The latest round was led by Sixth Street Growth and saw participation from previous investors Riverside Acceleration Capital and Albion VC. The company ...
With a flurry of new model features, Google outlines plan to build a universal AI assistant
Google LLC wants to combine the emerging “agentic” capabilities of its Gemini artificial intelligence assistant with advances in areas such as robotics and physics to create a new kind of “world model” that can imagine things in the same way as humans can. That vision of a universal AI assistant that can make plans by ...
New AI Mode promises to make Google Search, and Shopping, much more intelligent
Google Search is building on the generative artificial intelligence search experiences introduced with AI Overviews last year, as part of a broader effort that will ultimately see it go beyond simply providing information. The enhanced search capabilities were announced at Google’s annual developer conference I/O near its Mountain View headquarters. They’re centered on a new ...
