Zendesk Faces Investor Ire, Freshworks Prepares for IPO

Helpdesk automation service provider Zendesk (NYSE: ZEN) recently announced its third quarter results that surpassed market expectations. The company continues to invest in growing its market reach even as it faces the ire of its investors.

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Siemplify CEO Amos Stern (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What stage are you at? How many customers? What kind of adoption are you seeing and what are you hearing from the customers? Amos Stern: We have north of 70 enterprise customers. We have raised $58 million in four rounds. Today, we have a very mature solution and market. Customers are saying that

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November 13 – Rendezvous Meetup to Discuss Competing with Heavily Funded Startups

For entrepreneurs interested to meet and chat with Sramana Mitra in person, please join us for our bi-monthly and informal group meetups. If you are living in the San Francisco Bay Area or are just in town for a visit, we hope you will add these meetups to your calendar and join us. Pre-registration is required,

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Cloud Stocks: HubSpot Focuses on Its Platform

Earlier this week, inbound marketing specialist HubSpot (NYSE:HUBS) reported its third quarter results. While the quarter’s performance outpaced market expectations, a rather lackluster outlook failed to impress the Street. Its stock fell 6% in the after-hours trading session post the announcement of the results.

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2019: SourceScrub, San Francisco, CA

SourceScrub at its core is a business intelligence database surrounded by a platform that allows the user to find companies or investment opportunities that meet a given criteria. Its main value proposition is that its platform can help uncover founder-owned businesses that either aren’t very active in marketing or have yet to transact.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Siemplify CEO Amos Stern (Part 1)

Enterprises have made tremendous investment in cyber security. Amos discusses how to extract value out of existing investments. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Siemplify. Amos Stern: I’m the CEO and Co-Founder of Siemplify. We’ve been around since the beginning of 2015. I’m originally from Israel. I

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alok Nandan of Emergent Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Alok Nandan was recorded in September 2019. Alok Nandan, General Partner at Emergent Ventures (USA), discusses explainable AI in the context of his fund’s investment focus.

Pluralsight Growing Through Large Partnerships

A Global Markets Insight report published earlier this year estimates the global e-learning market to grow 7% annually to over $300 billion by 2025. The academic sector is expected to grow at over 50% CAGR and the corporate or enterprise segment is expected to grow at 8%. Cedar Valley, Utah-based Pluralsight (Nasdaq: PS), a leading

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