Enterprise

Canva launches a proper enterprise product — and they mean it this time

Back in 2019, Canva, the wildly successful design tool, introduced what the company was calling an enterprise product, but in reality it was more geared towards teams than fulfilling true enterprise requirements. On Thursday, the company changed that, announcing a new enterprise version that is truly geared towards the needs of larger organizations. That includes […]

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Finout lands cash to grow its cloud spend management platform

In 2021, Roi Ravhon, Asaf Liveanu and Yizhar Gilboa came together to found Finout, an enterprise-focused toolset to help manage and optimize cloud costs. (We covered the company’s launch out of stealth in 2022.) Ravhon, Finout’s CEO and previously the director of engineering at observability platform Logz.io, says that he was spurred to start Finout

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Google to build first subsea fibre optic cable connecting Africa with Australia

Google is preparing to build what will be the first subsea fibre optic cable connecting the continents of Africa and Australia. The news comes as the major cloud hyperscalers battle it out for business dollars, with Google playing catchup with AWS and Microsoft’s Azure. Notably, Google’s announcement follows widespread outages across Eastern Africa, which have

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HoundDog.ai helps developers prevent personal information from leaking

HoundDog.ai, a startup that helps developers ensure their code doesn’t leak personally identifiable information (PII), came out of stealth Wednesday and announced a $3.1 million seed round lead by E14, Mozilla Ventures and ex/ante, in addition to a number of angel investors. Unlike other scanning tools, HoundDog actually looks at the code a developer is

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DeepL, the AI language translation startup, nabs $300M on a $2B valuation to focus on B2B growth

Yet more major funding is being poured into a startup focused on AI. Today, DeepL – the company that builds automated text translation and writing tools that compete against the likes of Google Translate and Grammarly – announced that it’s raised an additional $300 million. It is now valued at $2 billion, post-money.  This round

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Microsoft’s Power Automate no-code platform adds AI flows

Microsoft wants to put its Copilot everywhere. It’s only a matter of time before Microsoft renames its annual Build developer conference to Microsoft Copilot. Hopefully, some of those upcoming events will be a bit less lackluster than this year’s edition, which lacks any real standout announcements after Microsoft already announced its new Arm-based laptops and

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Microsoft intros a Copilot for teams

Microsoft wants to make its brand of generative AI more useful for teams — specifically teams across corporations and large enterprise organizations. This morning at its annual Build dev conference, Microsoft announced Team Copilot, the latest expansion of its Copilot family of generative AI tech. Unlike Microsoft’s previous Copilot-branded products, Team Copilot isn’t so much

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Pinecone launches its serverless vector database out of preview

Pinecone, the vector database startup founded by Edo Liberty, the former head of Amazon’s AI Labs, has long been at the forefront of helping businesses augment large language models (LLMs) with their own data. Most recently, though, the company completely rearchitected its product to launch Pinecone Serverless, which frees its customers from having to think

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