SaaStr events couldn’t happen without our partners, and we wanted to give a special shout-out to some of our newest sponsors for SaaStr Annual...

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. Looking back on its explosive growth,...

SaaStr Scale is our biggest digital / on-line event of the year and its streaming LIVE TODAY – Wednesday, December 7th! SaaStr Scale is starting...

Armed with some data from our friends at CrunchBase, I broke down the largest NYC Startup funding rounds in New York for November 2022.  I have included...

The largest organizations (1000+ employees) on average use at least 177 SaaS applications to run various parts of their operations.  Each of these integrations represents a potential security risk as organizations entrust third-party vendors with sensitive data.  This information security concern is addressed through SOC2, an auditing protocol built on five key principles to ensure vendors are appropriately managing and protecting the customer data and the data of their clients.  Laika is an end-to-end compliance platform that enables software and tech providers to be fully compliant with all requirements through automation.  In addition to SOC2, the platform also handles ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI DSS, and HIPAA requirements, making it versatile across a broad array of industry users. Compliance with enterprise requirements can be a daunting proposition for smaller providers that don’t have the internal resources to dedicate to compliance teams but absolutely critical if these companies want to sell into larger organizations.  Laika allows companies of all sizes to offload this burden with an industry-leading and secure solution that brings down the cost of compliance and also is powerful enough to offer continuous monitoring as organizations scale, coupled with expert guidance along the way. AlleyWatch caught up with Laika Founder and Co-CEO Austin Ogilvie to learn more about the business, the company's strategic plans, latest round of funding, which brings the total funding raised to $98M, and much, much more...

Patented tobacco processing technology expected to be disruptive to the recreational cannabis pre-roll market Perth, Australia, Vancouver, British Columbia and Greenville, North Carolina, Nov 3,...