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Marketing and personalization startup Hightouch locked up an $80 million Series C led by Sapphire Ventures , minting it as a new unicorn at a $1.2 Founded in 2018, the company has raised $172 million, per Crunchbase. “Our vision is to use AI to help marketers break free of manual work. billion valuation.
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Speaker: Ian Thompson, Head of Business Intelligence at King, and Zara Wells, Strategic Customer Success Manager at Looker
He’ll also cover the various other ways that King uses analytics across their entire company, from finance to performance marketing. September 11, 2018 11:00 AM PDT, 2:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM GMT Taking a "human approach" to creating an organization wide data culture. Come learn to crush analytics with King.
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Speaker: Steve Benson, Founder and CEO, Badger Maps
To stay competitive in today’s market, you need to implement a formal coaching approach that is aligned with your buyer’s journey and internal processes to drive results. August 30th 2018, 11 AM PST, 2 PM EST, 7 PM GMT. Fortunately, Steve Benson is here to help you create that approach.
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Speaker: John Barrows, CEO, JBarrows Sales Training
If we as sales professionals are not adding any context to the content then we bring no additional value to what marketing and technology are already doing. October 25th 2018, 11 AM PST, 2 PM EST, 7 PM GMT. One way we can keep our relevance is by continuing to look for ways we can add context throughout the sales process.
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Speaker: Jeff Davis, Founder, jd2 Consulting Group
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billion Marketo acquisition in 2018. The easy answer is that it’s about taking a potential rival off the market. For Salesforce and Slack, it was the digital workplace , but both saw a shift coming in their markets and made a huge offer for a key company to get ahead of it.
Speaker: Richard Cheng, Associate Product Manager, Mark43
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Speaker: Jim O'Leary, VP of Product Management, and Brian Elmi, Director of Product Management, NTENT
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million in a seed round of funding that closed in 2018 and was led by ConsenSys Ventures and included participation from SoFi. . Prince describes BlockFi as a financial services company for crypto market investors that offers a retail and institutional-facing suite of products. The Jersey City, New Jersey-based startup raised $1.6
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