Hustle, a peer-to-peer messaging and text campaign platform, closed a $30 million Series B funding round led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from GV and Salesforce Ventures. The funding comes on the heels of securing prominent clients in the business and technology sectors, including
Voci Technologies Inc. (Voci), a provider of enterprise speech-to-text transcription and analytics, today announced the close of an $8 million Series B funding. The round was led by Grotech Ventures and Harbert Growth Partners. Voci, a Carnegie Mellon spinoff, is a leading provider of software
DigitalGenius raised $14.8 million in Series A financing, led by Global Founders Capital. MMC Ventures, Paua Ventures, Kairos Ventures, Runa Capital, Spider Capital, Salesforce Ventures, RRE Ventures, Lumia Capital, Compound Ventures, and Lerer Hippeau Ventures also participated. Founded in 2013 by Dmitry Aksenov and Mikhail Naumov,
According to a recent SEC filing, Zingle, a software solution that helps businesses communicate with customers via texting and other mobile messaging channels, raised $1 million in financing from an undisclosed investor. Zingle’s real-time enterprise platform is designed to allow businesses to engage, support, and respond
DraftJS Plugins, a tool that combines various rich text editing features with only a few lines of code, has released its 2.0 product version. Its new features include rich text editing toolbars, drag and drop functionalities, and resizing and alignment ability for Atomic Blocks-like images. DraftJS
Snippet is a Chrome extension that allows users to build frequently typed text “snippets” into short terms. Common uses for the app include profile links, favorite emojis, phrases, addresses, and emails. Snippet was built by web developer Shiven Sinha.
According to a recent SEC filing, digital media, VR, and AR startup Boost Media has raised $4.1 million in financing from an undisclosed investor. Boost Media uses crowdsourcing and split testing to help businesses find effective words and images for their online ads. Marketers can source,
Wibbitz announced it has raised $20 million in Series C financing led by BDMI, with participation from Associated Press, Lool Ventures, Horizons Ventures, The Weather Channel, TF1 and NantMobile. Wibbitz is a text-to-video technology platform that automatically creates premium, short-form videos using text content. Its platform
Made for small to mid-sized businesses, Pidgins’ SMS Text Messaging solution makes it easy to start texting with customers, whether it’s scheduling appointments, updating customers with important information, or even conducting sales activities. Pidgins was the brainchild of founder Brandon Davis.
Artificial intelligence startup Amenity Analytics completed $7.6 million in Series A financing from Intel Capital and State of Mind Ventures. Amenity Analytics’ text analytics platform combines AI and human intelligence to allow customers to identify actionable signals from unstructured data. Business professionals across a variety