Tag: Venture capital
‘The more willingness to have conversations and to do research, [that will] help sellers down the line as they think about the right fit for them,’ says Sydney Hockett, vice president of Evergreen Services Group. When it comes to selling an MSP business, owners have a lot of options. Merging or selling to a holding…
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For the week ending July 12, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including AMD, K3 Technology, Microsoft, Orca Security and Nasuni. The Week Ending July 12 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is chip designer AMD for a strategic acquisition in the AI technology space.…
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Here’s a look at 10 open-source software tools – many for building AI applications or managing huge volumes of data – that are either already widely used or are gaining in popularity. A Software Free-For-All Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and…
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‘The technical side is easy, it’s the business side that gets complicated. It’s managing employees that gets complicated, so it’s taking that as seriously as they take their technology stack,’ Strety CEO Brian Dosal tells CRN about the goal of the company’s new platform. BrightGauge founders Larry Garcia and Brian Dosal have partnered again to…
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More than doubling the amount of acquisitions over the same period last year, Accenture is focusing on expanding its footprint into “new growth areas” and completed 27 acquisitions in 2024 so far. The Dublin-based global solution provider, No. 1 on CRN’s 2024 Solution Provider 500, completed 12 acquisitions in the first half of 2023. “We…
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For the week ending June 21, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Nvidia, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huntress, Digital Ocean and Riverbed. The Week Ending June 21 Topping this week’s Came to Win is Nvidia which – for a short time, at least – became the…
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As solution providers position themselves to capture AI opportunities, here’s how seven channel CEOs think they can make their mark. There’s no hotter topic in the IT channel right now than AI, with solution providers across the market making their choices on how to build out their AI technology stacks and bringing new solutions to…
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Kyle Hanslovan tells CRN that the funding round—which more than doubles Huntress’ valuation to surpass $1.5 billion—will boost the company’s R&D and M&A efforts with a focus on key segments for partners. Huntress announced Tuesday it has raised $150 million in funding to accelerate its expansion into new product segments, as part of a drive…
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For the week ending June 14, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including AWS, Mistral AI, Fortinet, Pax8 and Confluent. The Week Ending June 14 Topping this week’s Came to Win is Amazon Web Services for its plan to invest $230 million in AI startups, including…
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Venture capital continues to flow to startups developing artificial intelligence and generative AI technology. Here’s a look at 10 companies that successfully raised new funding in May. Follow The Money The venture capital space continues to show signs of exiting the slump it has been in since early 2022. But while startups in such technology…
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