Crane Venture Partners raises €419 million across four vehicles
Crane Venture Partners announced €419 million in committed capital across four investment vehicles and plans to build an inception-to-seed platform with MassMutual Ventures. The vehicles include Crane III at €146 million, a €129 m...
Thatch raises $108 million at $1 billion valuation
Health-benefits platform Thatch raised $108 million from existing investors at a $1 billion valuation, TechCrunch reported. The company was valued at $410 million when it raised a $40 million Series B 17 months earlier. Thatch off...
Salesforce launches AIforce interface layer for enterprise agents
Salesforce unveiled AIforce, a layer intended to let users and agents access Salesforce data, workflows and business logic from interfaces including Claude and Slack. The company said requests run under existing permissions and bu...
Salesforce and Google Cloud expand agent and infrastructure partnership
Salesforce and Google Cloud expanded their partnership to connect Salesforce's headless architecture with Gemini Enterprise and move Salesforce workloads onto Google Cloud through Hyperforce. Salesforce said its capabilities can n...
Siemens deploys Salesforce agents for inbound sales leads
Siemens says it has deployed Salesforce Agentforce to engage and qualify inbound sales leads for its 18,000 sellers. Salesforce says Siemens receives more than 2,500 unqualified leads a month and now engages all inbound leads acro...
Snowflake makes per-user AI spending quotas generally available
Snowflake made per-user quotas for AI generally available, allowing administrators to set individual spending limits across warehouse compute, Cortex AI Functions, Cortex Agents and CoWork, and Snowflake CoCo. The quotas can block...