On February 18, 2021, Torii, a management and automation solution for Software as a Service (SaaS) portfolios, announced a $10 million Series A funding round led by Wing Venture Capital with participation from its prior investors, Entree Capital, Global Founders Capital, Scopus Ventures, and Uncork Capital.
Last week, we mentioned why Kubernetes is an important management concern for cloud-based cost management. To manage Kubernetes from a financial perspective, Amalgam Insights believes that the foundational starting point needs to be in discovering and documenting the relevant technical, …
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“On February 2, 2021, Tidelift announced several updates to its Tidelift Subscription designed to help companies manage open source in their IT and software environments. Amalgam Insights has covered Tidelift in the past as an emerging vendor dedicated to solving …
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For Box, the SignRequest purchase “is a multi-billion dollar opportunity when the analytics, automation, workflows, and business process optimization opportunities are all taken into account.”
Rather than purchasing the company outright or creating their own version, the vendors choose to take a minority stake in these companies while having some shared go-to-market or partnering strategy. This additional step beyond cooperation involving an equity investment is a trend that Amalgam Insights calls “Investipartnering” where companies choose to make equity commitments with go-to-market partners. Recent examples include: