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Writer CEO May Habib Joins World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Class of 2024

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Monday, April 8, 2024
Software, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, HR, Organization, Growth, Insight Partners, MELI, Vanguard, Aspen, Politics, Stanford University, ICONIQ, Creativity, Accenture, WEF, Multimedia, Privacy, Marketing, Uber, Aspen Institute, Balderton Capital, Work

Today CEO and co-founder of Writer , the full-stack enterprise generative AI platform, May Habib announced her inclusion in the 2024 World Economic Forum ( WEF ) Young Global Leaders , a prestigious group recognized for their impact in their respective fields on a global scale.

Key Points: 
  • Today CEO and co-founder of Writer , the full-stack enterprise generative AI platform, May Habib announced her inclusion in the 2024 World Economic Forum ( WEF ) Young Global Leaders , a prestigious group recognized for their impact in their respective fields on a global scale.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240408625210/en/
    May Habib, CEO and co-founder of Writer (Photo: Business Wire)
    The Forum of Young Global Leaders is a two decades-long initiative that spotlights the people driving global advancement and change.
  • “I’m humbled to be included in this program, and proud that Writer can be involved in something this impactful,” said Habib.
  • Habib and the Writer team have successfully raised over $126M in funding from notable investors, including ICONIQ Growth, Balderton Capital, and Insight Partners.

Coro Secures $100 Million Funding Round to Drive Aggressive Growth to Transform Cybersecurity for SMEs

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Thursday, March 28, 2024
Technology, Finance, Security, Fintech, Banking, Professional Services, Software, Networks, Data Management, Asset Management, Organization, Growth, EIP, Partner (business rank), SME, Empower, General partnership, Acquisition, JVP, Glass, EDR, Leg, MSP, Haymarket Media Group, Balderton Capital, Risk management

This funding round brings the total funds raised to $255 million in the last 24 months.

Key Points: 
  • This funding round brings the total funds raised to $255 million in the last 24 months.
  • Coro is an all-in-one cybersecurity solution offering an enterprise-grade security software platform to SMEs covering endpoint protection, email & user protection and network & cloud protection.
  • In October 2023, Coro created a new cybersecurity paradigm with the launch of Coro 3.0, the industry’s first modular cybersecurity platform.
  • Throughout 2023, Coro continued to receive industry accolades for customer satisfaction, product performance, company growth, and best places to work.

Photoroom Secures $43M in Series B Funding, Launches Next Generation AI Photo-Editing Features for Businesses

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024
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PARIS, Feb. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Photoroom, the world's most popular AI photo editor, has successfully closed a $43 million Series B funding round. The funding round, led by previous investor, Balderton Capital and new investor, Aglaé, with YCombinator participating, brings Photoroom's total funding to $64 million.

Key Points: 
  • A suite of new and improved features will revolutionize AI photo-editing for businesses with greater quality, control and ease.
  • PARIS, Feb. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Photoroom , the world's most popular AI photo editor, has successfully closed a $43 million Series B funding round.
  • The announcement comes as Photoroom launches its first foundation model tailor-made for product photography, Photoroom Instant Diffusion (Photoroom ID for short).
  • The foundation AI model and subsequent investment marks a significant milestone in Photoroom's journey to revolutionize AI photo-editing for businesses, and cements Photoroom's position as a leader in visual AI.

ACX and Sylvera partner to broaden access to high-quality carbon credit investment and trading

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Environmental Product Declaration, Organization, Balderton Capital, Entrepreneurship, Investment, AA, AAA, Salesforce, ACX, VCM, Index Ventures, ARR, Software, Partnership, Growth, Insight Partners, Risk management, Renewable energy, Carbon, SAN, Afforestation

Carbon data provider and exchange collaborate to launch a standardized contract of highly-rated carbon credits, promoting quality in the market.

Key Points: 
  • Carbon data provider and exchange collaborate to launch a standardized contract of highly-rated carbon credits, promoting quality in the market.
  • It is the first step in the partnership as the two companies team up to bring further transparency and improve accessibility in carbon credit trading.
  • This standardized contract is a first of its kind, giving buyers a scalable way to access high-quality carbon credits.
  • Sylvera is a leading carbon data provider on a mission to incentivize investment in real climate action.

Writer, the Full-Stack Generative AI Platform, Announces $100 Million Series B to Help Deliver Generative AI to the Enterprise

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Monday, September 18, 2023
Software, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, Knowledge, LLM, Balderton Capital, ICONIQ, UI, Venture round, Marketing, Workplace, Vanguard, Stanford University, Creativity, Organization, Google Knowledge Graph, Traction, Growth, HR, CIO, Seed, Insight Partners, Accenture, Sales

Writer , the leading full-stack generative AI platform for enterprises, announced its Series B funding round of $100 million today.

Key Points: 
  • Writer , the leading full-stack generative AI platform for enterprises, announced its Series B funding round of $100 million today.
  • Writer is the only generative AI platform built from the ground-up for the enterprise.
  • “Any CIO who's tried to build an internal generative AI application will tell you that the last mile of quality is the hardest.
  • Writer announced its $21 million Series A round in 2021 and raised $5 million in seed funding in 2020.

Udemy Appoints Sohaib Abbasi as Independent Chair of its Board of Directors

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Thursday, July 13, 2023
Learning, Balderton Capital, Interim, Vice, University, Stevie Awards, TPG Inc., Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Enterprise software, Organization, Abbasi, Oracle Corporation, SAN, Red Hat, McAfee, Glassdoor, Computer science, Independent, Management, Udemy, New Relic

SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Udemy (Nasdaq: UDMY), a company dedicated to improving lives through learning, announced that it has appointed Sohaib Abbasi as Independent Chair of its Board of Directors, effective immediately.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Udemy (Nasdaq: UDMY), a company dedicated to improving lives through learning, announced that it has appointed Sohaib Abbasi as Independent Chair of its Board of Directors, effective immediately.
  • The appointment of an Independent Chair further emphasizes Udemy’s ongoing commitment to strong governance and shareholder interests.
  • “Sohaib brings more than 30 years of industry and strategic leadership experience to Udemy’s Board,” said Udemy’s President and CEO, Greg Brown.
  • “I am excited to take on the role of Independent Chair,” said Abbasi.

Soundtrack Your Brand Closes Funding Led by Matt Pincus' MUSIC to Unlock Premium B2B ARPU, Accelerate Growth and Pursue Market Consolidation

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Balderton Capital, Music, Partnership, MUSIC, B2B, Fuel Venture Capital, Pincus, DIG, B2C, ARPU, EBITDA, ARR, Yoy, Growth, Publishing, Telia, Soundtrack

STOCKHOLM, N.Y., June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Soundtrack Your Brand, the leading global music streaming service for businesses, today announced its $15 million pre-growth round led by MUSIC, a holding company led by Matt Pincus in partnership with Liontree, JS Capital Management and Schusterman Family Investments.

Key Points: 
  • "It's hard to believe but, before Soundtrack Your Brand, business owners had no legitimate option to play music on demand for their customers," says Pincus.
  • Soundtrack Your Brand unlocking the B2B market represents one of few tangible solutions to increasing ARPU for streaming worldwide.
  • "Our mission to bring transparency and accountability to the dysfunctional background music market is gaining momentum," Soundtrack Your Brand CEO Ola Sars said.
  • Moving into 2024, the company will raise in an additional growth round to fund the further consolidation of the global background music market.

Coro Raises an Additional $75M Bringing the Total Raised to $155M in 12 Months

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Data Management, Security, Technology, Software, Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Workload, Balderton Capital, Software as a service, JVP, Transport, Education, Health, Automation, Cryptocurrency, Risk management, Medical device

Coro continues to experience dramatic growth across all aspects of its business. The Company’s modern approach to cybersecurity – delivering enterprise grade security through a single platform that unifies, simplifies and automates workloads -- has been validated by more than 5000 mid-market customers across every vertical industry. Over the past year, Coro tripled its revenue, customer and employee base, and signed more than 100 new channel partners. The Company also expanded its footprint in Chicago, where a new business enablement center is under development to support the company’s direct sales team and rapidly growing network of resellers. Coro projects it will again grow 300% year-over-year in 2023, extending its extraordinary record to a 5th year in a row.

Key Points: 
  • Coro , the modern cybersecurity platform for mid-market organizations, today announced a $75M funding round, bringing the total funding raised in the last 12 months to $155M.
  • Coro continues to experience dramatic growth across all aspects of its business.
  • Over the past year, Coro tripled its revenue, customer and employee base, and signed more than 100 new channel partners.
  • Coro projects it will again grow 300% year-over-year in 2023, extending its extraordinary record to a 5th year in a row.

Attio Raises $23.5 Million Series A to Usher in a New Era of CRM that Combines Modern Data Architecture with a Cutting-Edge User Experience

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Thursday, March 2, 2023
UX, Architecture, Engineering, IPO, Salesforce, Balderton Capital, Intelligence, OpenAI, Ecosystem, SAN, CRMS, CRM, Redpoint Ventures, Coca-Cola, API, Sales, Video game, Causality

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Attio, the company building the CRM of the future, today announced $23.5 million in Series A funding led by Redpoint Ventures, with continued participation from existing investors Balderton Capital and Point Nine. Attio has now secured $31.2 million from both American and European investors. The company will use the funding to accelerate engineering and product development and expand its go-to-market presence globally.

Key Points: 
  • Attio is a radically new type of CRM that empowers companies to achieve what was, up until now, previously impossible for CRMs.
  • With a powerful data model built on cutting-edge, modern architecture, Attio makes it possible for companies to rapidly build a real-time CRM that fits their business' unique workflows and data structures.
  • That's why we've spent the last three years building a powerful architecture from scratch specifically for CRM," said Nicolas Sharp, co-founder, and CEO of Attio.
  • However, focusing on that alone won't cut it unless you also build a robust data model to help businesses evolve and scale."

Attio Raises $23.5 Million Series A to Usher in a New Era of CRM that Combines Modern Data Architecture with a Cutting-Edge User Experience

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Thursday, March 2, 2023
UX, Architecture, Engineering, IPO, Salesforce, Balderton Capital, Intelligence, OpenAI, Ecosystem, SAN, CRMS, CRM, Redpoint Ventures, Coca-Cola, API, Sales, Video game, Causality

SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON, March 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Attio, the company building the CRM of the future, today announced $23.5 million in Series A funding led by Redpoint Ventures, with continued participation from existing investors Balderton Capital and Point Nine. Attio has now secured $31.2 million from both American and European investors. The company will use the funding to accelerate engineering and product development and expand its go-to-market presence globally.

Key Points: 
  • Attio is a radically new type of CRM that empowers companies to achieve what was, up until now, previously impossible for CRMs.
  • With a powerful data model built on cutting-edge, modern architecture, Attio makes it possible for companies to rapidly build a real-time CRM that fits their business' unique workflows and data structures.
  • That's why we've spent the last three years building a powerful architecture from scratch specifically for CRM," said Nicolas Sharp, co-founder, and CEO of Attio.
  • However, focusing on that alone won't cut it unless you also build a robust data model to help businesses evolve and scale."