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Accord, which offers a platform to manage sales processes, secures $10M

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Accord , a collaboration platform designed to support business-to-business (B2B) sales, today announced that it raised $10 million in Series A funding from Matrix Partners, Nat Friedman and Y Combinator. Ross was one of the first salespeople at Stripe back in 2015, while Ryan was an early sales hire at Google Cloud.

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What to expect from AI in the enterprise in 2025

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As AI offerings from cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud develop in 2025, we can expect to see more competitive pricing that could help keep a check on costs for enterprises. However, this will depend on the speed at which new AI-ready data centers are built relative to demand.

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No-code business intelligence service y42 raises $2.9M seed round

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The service, which was founded in 2020, integrates with over 100 data sources , covering all the standard B2B SaaS tools from Airtable to Shopify and Zendesk, as well as database services like Google’s BigQuery. And that in turn led him to also found a second company that focused on B2B data analytics. Image Credits: y42.

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Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI

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Google is also among Anthropic’s investors, having pledged $300 million in Anthropic for a 10% stake in the startup. ” Other Anthropic backers include James McClave, Facebook and Asana co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and founding Skype engineer Jaan Tallinn.

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Newly minted unicorn Tackle plans to use $100 million Series C to accelerate the future of software sales

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.” Tackle solved that by coming up with a solution for independent software vendors (ISVs) to list onto major cloud marketplaces: those of Amazon’s AWS, Microsoft’s Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM-owned Red Hat.

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Daily Crunch: US dangles reward up to $10M for info on 6 elite Russian military hackers

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A little less aspiration, a little more traction, please: Show me the money : In a world where $90 million can go missing for a few weeks because of a bug, Streamlined raised $4 million to take on B2B payments. Muéstrame el dinero : Minka raised $24 million to facilitate faster payment services across Latin America.

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Krisp nearly triples fundraise with $9M expansion after blockbuster 2020

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B2B revenue recently eclipsed B2C; the latter was likely popularized by Krisp’s inclusion as an option in popular gaming (and increasingly beyond) chat app Discord, though of course users of a free app being given a bonus product for free aren’t always big converters to “pro” tiers of a product. Image Credits: Krisp.