Startups de América Latina podrán crecer y a transformar sus negocios con la ayuda de Microsoft

► Con el objetivo de brindar acceso a negocios, herramientas tecnológicas, así como a una conexión con comunidades que ayuden a generar nuevas oportunidades de crecimiento, clientes e ingresos, Microsoft presenta el Programa Microsoft para Start-ups, con el cual destinará a nivel global $500 millones de dólares en los próximos dos años para fortalecer y ayudar precisamente a las nuevas empresas…

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Microsoft Ventures invests in SaaS ‘Lively Technique Administration’ startup Workboard

Workboard, a SaaS platform that helps corporations execute their methods, at the moment introduced a $9 million Collection A spherical that included participation from Microsoft’s formal enterprise fund.

Floodgate and new investor Microsoft Ventures led the spherical, which pushes complete funding to $12.1 million. Launched final yr, Microsoft Ventures has now invested in additional than 40 startups.

Workboard helps corporations see by their strategic plans through the use of analytics and synthetic intelligence on a cloud-based platform referred to as “Lively Technique Administration” that works throughout cellular apps and incorporates a Slack bot.

“To realize and maintain benefit, corporations should activate short-range strategic priorities, localize them to front-line groups, and measure outcomes objectively to be taught and iterate quicker than ever earlier than.” Workboard CEO Deidre Paknad stated in an announcement. “Workboard permits organizations to activate smarter methods quicker and make strategic priorities remarkably clear and interactive.”

Present prospects embody Samsung, IBM, Sony, Slack, Visioneer, eight×eight, Catalina and others. The Four-year-old firm relies in Redwood Metropolis, Calif.

“Workboard optimizes technique administration for faster decision-making and higher implementation,” Nagraj Kashyap, company vp at Microsoft Ventures, stated in an announcement. “It’s a promising answer at a time when enterprises wish to remodel all facets of their companies.”

Microsoft stated it launched its first formal enterprise fund to make new investments in corporations that align with its personal pursuits in areas, together with cloud computing, enterprise applied sciences and machine studying.

The Redmond, Wash.-based firm had beforehand taken a much less structured method to investing in startups, in distinction with different tech corporations such Intel and Google, which have their very own formalized enterprise packages.

“On condition that the transfer to the cloud stays the one largest precedence for the trade, figuring out the bleeding-edge corporations who complement and leverage the transition to the cloud is essential to our funding thesis,” Kashyap stated final yr. “Firms growing product and companies that complement Azure infrastructure, constructing new enterprise SaaS purposes, selling extra private computing by enriching the Home windows and HoloLens ecosystems, new disruptive enterprise, client productiveness, and communication merchandise round Workplace 365 are fascinating areas from an funding perspective.”

New Post has been published on https://takenews.net/microsoft-ventures-invests-in-saas-lively-technique-administration-startup-workboard/

Microsoft Ventures invests in SaaS ‘Lively Technique Administration’ startup Workboard

Workboard, a SaaS platform that helps corporations execute their methods, at the moment introduced a $9 million Collection A spherical that included participation from Microsoft’s formal enterprise fund.

Floodgate and new investor Microsoft Ventures led the spherical, which pushes complete funding to $12.1 million. Launched final yr, Microsoft Ventures has now invested in additional than 40 startups.

Workboard helps corporations see by their strategic plans through the use of analytics and synthetic intelligence on a cloud-based platform referred to as “Lively Technique Administration” that works throughout cellular apps and incorporates a Slack bot.

“To realize and maintain benefit, corporations should activate short-range strategic priorities, localize them to front-line groups, and measure outcomes objectively to be taught and iterate quicker than ever earlier than.” Workboard CEO Deidre Paknad stated in an announcement. “Workboard permits organizations to activate smarter methods quicker and make strategic priorities remarkably clear and interactive.”

Present prospects embody Samsung, IBM, Sony, Slack, Visioneer, eight×eight, Catalina and others. The Four-year-old firm relies in Redwood Metropolis, Calif.

“Workboard optimizes technique administration for faster decision-making and higher implementation,” Nagraj Kashyap, company vp at Microsoft Ventures, stated in an announcement. “It’s a promising answer at a time when enterprises wish to remodel all facets of their companies.”

Microsoft stated it launched its first formal enterprise fund to make new investments in corporations that align with its personal pursuits in areas, together with cloud computing, enterprise applied sciences and machine studying.

The Redmond, Wash.-based firm had beforehand taken a much less structured method to investing in startups, in distinction with different tech corporations such Intel and Google, which have their very own formalized enterprise packages.

“On condition that the transfer to the cloud stays the one largest precedence for the trade, figuring out the bleeding-edge corporations who complement and leverage the transition to the cloud is essential to our funding thesis,” Kashyap stated final yr. “Firms growing product and companies that complement Azure infrastructure, constructing new enterprise SaaS purposes, selling extra private computing by enriching the Home windows and HoloLens ecosystems, new disruptive enterprise, client productiveness, and communication merchandise round Workplace 365 are fascinating areas from an funding perspective.”

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