Dauren Kerimkulov advises boards, shareholders and foreign investors on strategy and corporate development in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. gettyIn my experience, cross-border deals rarely fail in the data room. They fail months earlier, somewhere between the second dinner and the first draft of a term sheet, because one side misread who decides or how long…
Joel Campbell is the Chief Financial Officer at TreviPay, a fully managed B2B payments platform for global brands. gettyCFOs rarely debate whether their companies should build an ERP from scratch. Finance defines the controls, reporting requirements and policies the system needs to support, then relies on technology built and maintained by specialists. Order-to-cash processes remain…
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Jay Roxe is Chief Marketing Officer at Inriver. gettyEarlier this year, my company fielded a benchmark study of 405 senior technology, data and marketing executives across industrial manufacturing and wholesale distribution. We asked two kinds of questions. First, how capable do you believe your product data operations are? Second, what do those operations actually deliver?…
By Arnab Bose, Chief Product Officer, Asana. gettyThe rapid rise of AI agents has prompted predictions about the “death of the user interface.” As agents become more capable, it’s easy to imagine a future where work happens entirely through prompts and conversations. However, that misses the bigger transformation underway. Enterprise software isn’t losing its…
OpenAI has acquired an AI travel agent called Odessia, according to Odessia’s founder, Francis Davidson. Davidson says in a post announcing the deal that he’s now working for OpenAI, helping the AI lab with the future of travel. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this looks like an acqui-hire. Davidson’s announcement focused largely…
While established venture firms continue to attract capital, first-time fund managers are facing one of the toughest fundraising environments in years. But that didn’t stop Sahir Raoof, a former SignalFire investor and executive at two healthcare startups, from raising $27.5 million for his first solo VC fund. Raoof’s firm, Proximal Ventures, is betting that AI…
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Pankaj Prasoon is Sr Director Finance Tech & Strategy at LinkedIn, leading finance technology and building AI fluency across finance teams. gettyConsumption pricing hands finance an operating expense with the volatility of a commodity, a demand curve tied to its own success and no natural owner. Every cost that finance manages has a behavior we…
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