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AI Marketing Platform Hightouch Reaches Unicorn Status After $80M Series C

Crunchbase News

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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Zola Electric closes $90M funding round to scale technology and enter new markets

TechCrunch

Millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa and emerging markets continue to live without access to electricity. Zola Electric , one such provider, is announcing today that it has closed $90 million in new funding to enter new markets and drive distributed renewable energy. The company has evolved since then. “More than 2.2

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AI & the enterprise: protect your data, protect your enterprise value

CIO

In 2018, I wrote an article asking, “Will your company be valued by its price-to-data ratio?” This will require the adoption of new processes and products, many of which will be dependent on well-trained artificial intelligence-based technologies. The long-term impact may eventually erode shareholder confidence and market position.

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Robinhood buys Say Technologies for $140M to improve shareholder-company relations

TechCrunch

consumer investing and trading service Robinhood announced this morning that it will acquire Say Technologies in a $140 million cash deal. Say Technologies is a venture-backed startup, having raised $8 million in 2018, per Crunchbase data. Say has the technology to connect retail investors to the companies that they own.

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Togetherness: Achieving Sales and Marketing Alignment

Speaker: Jeff Davis, Founder, jd2 Consulting Group

Studies show failure to align sales and marketing teams around the right processes and technologies costs B2B companies 10% or more of revenue per year. In today’s B2B business environment sales and marketing can no longer operate in silos. September 13th 2018, 11 AM PST, 2 PM EST, 7 PM GMT.

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Pulled Ant Group IPO costs Alibaba nearly $60B in market cap

TechCrunch

Ant was spun out of Alibaba, which owns a one-third stake in the financial technology powerhouse. Ant would have sported a possible market valuation of more than $300 billion at its IPO price. Ant’s delay has cost its former parent company around $60 billion in market capitalization in a single day.

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REEF Technology raises $700M from SoftBank and others to remake parking lots

TechCrunch

Even after the collapse of WeWork, the investors are doubling down on a similar business model as part of a syndicate investing $700 million into REEF Technology. Meanwhile, REEF Technology and Oaktree are collaborating on a $300 million real estate investment vehicle, the Neighborhood Property Group, as Bloomberg reported on Monday.

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Staying Relevant in Sales as AI and Technology Continue to Take Over

Speaker: John Barrows, CEO, JBarrows Sales Training

Technology and Artificial Intelligence are evolving faster than ever and disrupting every industry and role, specifically Sales. As sales professionals if we don’t figure out how to leverage technology while keeping the human element we’re going to get replaced. October 25th 2018, 11 AM PST, 2 PM EST, 7 PM GMT.