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5 investors discuss the future of RPA after UiPath’s IPO Robotic process automation (RPA) has certainly been getting a lot of attention in the last year, with startups, acquisitions and IPOs all coming together in a flurry of market activity. It all seemed to culminate with UiPath’s IPO last month. The company that appeared to come out of nowhere in 2017 eventually had a final private valuation of $35 billion. It then had the audacity to match that at its IPO. A few weeks later, it still ha...

HYPR Raises $35M Series C Led by Advent International USA - English News provided by Share this article NEW YORK, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --  HYPR, The Passwordless Company™ today announced it has raised $35 million in a Series C financing, doubling the companys total funding to over $70 million. The investment is led by Advent International through Advent Tech, the firms dedicated global technology fund. Advent has significant experience in cyber technology, including recent early-stag...

Developer-security startup Snyk raised $300 million to take its valuation to $4.7 billion. Its valuation has quadrupled since January 2020 as it drives the "shift left" movement. CEO Peter McKay says Snyk will not have an IPO this year, but may pursue acquisitions.  Apart from Zoom and perhaps now Roblox, it would be hard to name a company that has blown up more over the past difficult year than Snyk.  The developer-security startup anno...

Dooly closes on $20M for AI-based tools to help salespeople with their busywork Robotic process automation has taken the enterprise world by storm by providing a set of tools for those doing repetitive, volume-based tasks to use software to remove some of that labor to let those people focus on more complicated tasks. Today a startup that’s taken some of that ethos and is applying it to more individualized work — that of salespeople — is announcing some funding. Dooly, a Vancouver, Canada...

Amid rise in remote work, Dooly announces $25.5 million CAD to scale sales enablement platform Vancouver-based Dooly has raised $25.5 million CAD ($20.3 million USD) in funding as the company looks to scale its sales enablement software, which aims to reduce the administrative burden on sales professionals. Dooly touts itself as “the fastest way” to update Salesforce, take notes, and manage deals for sales professionals. The startup’s software is designed to act as a conne...

AlleyWatch This bi-weekly column covers the latest news from venture capital firms in NYC for the first half of February 2021 featuring must-know news including news for Eniac, Thrive, and much more.

Another week and the biggest story in a sea of big stories continues to center on SPACs, these special purpose acquisition companies that raise capital through IPOs expressly to acquire a privately held company and take it public. But some industry watchers as starting to wonder: Is the party just getting started, with more early […]

AlleyWatch This bi-weekly column covers the latest news from venture capital firms in NYC for the first half of February 2021 featuring must-know news including news for Eniac, Thrive, and much more.

This bi-weekly column covers the latest news from venture capital firms in NYC for the first half of February 2021 featuring must-know news including news for Avid Ventures, Eniacl, and much more.

Slim.ai announces $6.6M seed to build container DevOps platform We are more than seven years into the notion of modern containerization, and it still requires a complex set of tools and a high level of knowledge on how containers work. The DockerSlim open-source project developed several years ago from a desire to remove some of that complexity for developers. Slim.ai, a new startup that wants to build a commercial product on top of the open-source project, announced a $6.6 million seed round t...