| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.09.2019 | 10 Principles for Improving Productivity at Work | These days there is a lot of pressure on us to be productive and save time. When time equals money, and work output is synonymous with performance, we need to not only be doing great work; we need to be doing efficient work. B But productiv... |
| 19.11.2018 | Term Sheet — Monday, November 19 | THE 2019 INVESTOR’S GUIDE
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| 15.11.2018 | Citrix pays $200M to acquire Sapho, which connects legacy software with ‘micro apps’ | As large organizations grapple with adopting modern work practices without throwing out all of their legacy software, a company that works with them is making an acquisition that it hopes will help with that process. Citrix today is announc... |
| 19.09.2018 | Sapho brings machine learning to the enterprises | Access to up to date information is essential for businesses, but as data proliferates it's too often the case that people spend time searching for the information they need to do their jobs.
Employee experience portal Sapho is integrating ... |
| 19.09.2018 | Sapho announces AI tools that surface prejudicial decision-making | It’s a perennial problem for enterprises: too many system-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings to juggle. Firms in 2017 used about 16 cloud-hosted apps on average, up about 33 percent year-over-year, and 70 percent of those firms said they expecte... |
| 24.05.2018 | New consolidated identity system simplifies access to enterprise systems | Employee experience platform Sapho is announcing a new identity solution to simplify how employees authenticate into systems and access their data and daily workflows.
Sapho's patent-pending Consolidated Identity system means employees can ... |
| 23.01.2018 | Fewer than five percent of enterprise apps will move to the cloud in 2018 | A new study of over 160 IT directors and chief technology officers at companies with more than 1,000 employees shows that while 78 percent are planning to upgrade their enterprise applications, the cloud doesn't feature in many plans.
The s... |
| 22.01.2018 | Why disrupting government pot policy is so much harder than the taxi commission | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The recent legalization of recreational marijuana... |
| 22.01.2018 | Why disrupting government pot policy is so much harder than the taxi commission | The recent legalization of recreational marijuana in California and other states now totals to 45 states that have legalized some form of marijuana. However, the federal government has never endorsed even medical marijuana. The Obama admini... |
| 28.07.2017 | Microsoft’s slow creep back into mobile | Peter Yared Contributor
Peter Yared is a co-founder and the CTO at Sapho.
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| 19.04.2017 | Sapho gets $14M more to make legacy software more useful with ‘micro apps’ | In recent years, Microsoft, Facebook and Slack (and many more) have all built new productivity platforms for workers to integrate and communicate about dozens of other API-enabled enterprise apps, but what about productivity tools for those... |
| 19.04.2017 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, April 19 | M&A ACTION
Mega M&A: Verizon hasn’t exactly been on the sidelines when it comes to splashy M&A (Yahoo, AOL, Vessel, Fleetmatics…), but CEO Lowell McAdam may still be itching for something more. (Perhaps he hasn’t won enough awar... |
| 19.04.2017 | Sapho Closes $14M Series B Funding | Sapho, a San Bruno, Calif.-based provider of productivity apps for the modern workforce, closed $14m Series B funding.
The round was led by Caffeinated Capital with participation from new investor Felicis Ventures and existing backers Alsop... |
| 14.03.2017 | Microsoft Teams rolls out to Office 365 users around the world | As we reported last week, Microsoft is today launching its own business collaboration tool in an effort to fend off the challenge from Slack.
Teams is now available to Office 365 users in 181 markets and 19 languages. Where Teams is likely ... |
| 21.02.2017 | Sapho integrates its app platform with IBM Domino | There's increasing demand from companies to build apps that integrate with their existing enterprise systems.
Specialist in consumer-like micro apps Sapho is announcing new integration with the IBM Domino social business platform, that will... |
| 10.12.2016 | Software is due for a bundling event | Peter Yared Contributor
Peter Yared is a co-founder and the CTO at Sapho.
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| 06.12.2016 | SaaS to the max: The limits of shifting from on-site to cloud services | Enlarge / Software as a Service offerings are pushing further and further into territory companies would have never considered outsourcing. Just how much can a company practically put into cloud application provider's hands?
Nicoelnino/Gett... |
| 11.09.2016 | Why app development is going micro | Peter Yared Contributor
Peter Yared is a co-founder and the CTO at Sapho.
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| 31.08.2016 | 3 corporate departments that chatbots will disrupt | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Last month, when Peter Yared, the CTO and cofound... |
| 31.08.2016 | 3 corporate departments that chatbots will disrupt | Last month, when Peter Yared, the CTO and cofounder of Sapho, moderated a panel on the role of chatbots in the enterprise at VentureBeat MobileBeat 2016, opinions were drastically varied. People had varying opinions as to when, and more imp... |
| 24.08.2016 | Hate the software you have to use at work? You are not alone | Are you frustrated with clunky workplace systems? Do you wish that you could work with a more modern streamlined solution?
You're in good company, a new study by app platform specialist Sapho in conjunction with research firm Forrester reve... |
| 17.06.2016 |
Former LA VC Gets Backing For Enterprise Alerting, Micro Apps Startup
| Fouad ElNaggar, a former venture capitalist who had been responsible for the Los Angeles office of Redpoint Ventures, has scored funding for a new startup, Sapho. According to Sapho, it has raised $9.5M in a Series A funding, which was led ... |
| 16.06.2016 | Micro App Company Sapho Raises $9.5M, Proves Apps Are Still Cool | Sapho, a company that makes micro apps, just raised $9.5 million in a Series A funding round. New investor Alsop Louie Partners led, and SoftTech VC, Caffeinated Capital, Morado Ventures, AME Cloud and Bloomberg Beta participated. Customers... |
| 15.06.2016 | Sapho, maker of single-purpose enterprise ‘micro apps’, raises $9.5M led by Alsop Louie | We are in the middle of a major wave of startups building software to improve workplace productivity; now a company focused on making legacy enterprise apps more useful (and used) is picking up traction and announcing funding. Sapho — which... |
| 15.06.2016 | Micro App Platform Sapho Completes $9.5M Series A Funding | Sapho, a San Bruno, CA-based provider of a platform that allows organizations to transform existing business systems into micro apps that connect people with data and workflows, completed a $9.5m Series A funding.
The round was led by Alsop... |
| 15.06.2016 | Sapho: Apps in chat are the future of work | The startup Sapho unveiled its micro apps and Sapho Micro App platform on Wednesday, joining a growing field of startups building bots for use with enterprise software.
The platform allows users access to Sapho Micro Apps — single-purpose b... |
| 18.04.2016 | Facebook Messenger’s ‘rich bubbles’ make dumb bots usable | In the week since its launch, Facebook Messenger’s bot platform has seen a litany of complaints, with users arguing that it is tedious and unusable. The reality underlying the feedback is that natural language processing isn’t ready for pri... |
| 18.04.2016 | Facebook Messenger’s ‘rich bubbles’ make dumb bots usable | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
In the week since its launch, Facebook Messenger’s bot platform has seen a litany of complaints, with users arguing that it is tedious ... |
| 03.04.2016 | How Google’s AI paved the way for the next generation of bots | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Bots are fast becoming all the rage in tech, offering users the ability to use a messaging app to type in simple English requests to se... |
| 03.04.2016 | How Google’s AI paved the way for the next generation of bots | Bots are fast becoming all the rage in tech, offering users the ability to use a messaging app to type in simple English requests to services like Uber. The user interface is just like texting a friend, and it’s far simpler to enter a messa... |
| 13.02.2016 | Bits are beating atoms: The Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon shuffle | Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon have been dubbed the four horsemen of the tech industry. They are the biggest consumer companies and dominate the discussion through new initiatives such as drones and acquisitions such as Oculus.
As our ... |
| 09.01.2016 | What Donald Trump’s hammer would do to U.S. tech | Over the holidays, I heard Donald Trump giving his stump speech in South Carolina on my car radio. It strikes me that, for all we hear about Trump’s outlandish statements in the press, there’s very little reported about his actual message.
... |
| 01.11.2015 | If 87 unicorns fell in the Valley, would they make a sound? | A lot of noise has been made about the inflated valuations of Aileen Lee’s unicorns and the amount of money they have raised. There are rumors that uber-unicorn Uber is now raising an additional $1 billion, in order to continue to fuel grow... |
| 01.11.2015 | If 87 unicorns fell in the Valley, would they make a sound? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
A lot of noise has been made about the inflated v... |
| 08.08.2015 | 14 of the most promising seed-stage enterprise startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Last year, when we published a blog post identify... |
| 15.07.2015 | How Twitter lost the stream wars | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Unlike other category-defining Internet companies... |
| 15.07.2015 | How Twitter lost the stream wars | Unlike other category-defining Internet companies, Twitter has struggled to meet both user growth metrics and Wall Street’s expectations. There are a lot of possible explanations for Twitter’s user growth problems, but they really boil down... |
| 14.06.2015 | Regulating the sharing economy: How Uber et al will soon face new rules | Uber’s fifth year anniversary highlights that sharing economy services have rapidly become persistent and mainstream. Uber facilitates over one million rides a day. It’s estimated Airbnb will make $6 billion in gross bookings in 2015.
Legac... |
| 12.05.2015 | Push Comes To Shove: The New Way We Interact With Information | Guest author Peter Yared is co-founder and CTO at the push-notification startup Sapho.
Since its inception in the 1960s, the modern computer has offered humans the same “pull computing” paradigm: make a query, get a response. Or, as we ofte... |
| 09.05.2015 | Goodbye, SaaS — hello, Containers-as-a-Service | When Salesforce’s Marc Benioff first started pitching on-demand CRM software, people thought he was insane and were convinced software-as-a-service would never work. Although we are now living in a SaaS heaven with all of the benefits of so... |
| 09.05.2015 | Goodbye, SaaS — hello, Containers-as-a-Service | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
When Salesforce’s Marc Benioff first started pitc... |
| 13.02.2015 | Small screens, big decisions: How mobile is forcing businesses to rethink software | One of the biggest problems in software is feature bloat. Even sprightly new companies that base their competitive strategy on minimalism and ease of use can eventually fall prey to the same force that bogged down their predecessors.
For ex... |
| 13.02.2015 | Small screens, big decisions: How mobile is forcing businesses to rethink software | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
One of the biggest problems in software is feature bloat. Even sprightly new companies that base their competitive strategy on minimali... |
| 08.11.2014 | The Rise And Fall Of The Full Stack Developer | Peter Yared Contributor
Peter Yared is a co-founder and the CTO at Sapho.
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| 23.08.2014 | Why Are PC Sales Up And Tablet Sales Down? | Peter Yared Contributor
Peter Yared is a co-founder and the CTO at Sapho.
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| 26.07.2014 | BMW Vs. Tesla: A Real Live Innovator’s Dilemma | Peter Yared Contributor
Peter Yared is a co-founder and the CTO at Sapho.
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| 25.06.2014 | Sapho has visions of a Google Now for enterprise software, grabs $3M | Investors have just bankrolled Sapho, a stealthy startup with mobile apps that aggregate alerts and basic functions from lots of enterprise software companies already use.
With the new $3 million in seed funding, Sapho intends to bolster it... |
| 25.06.2014 | Ex-CBSi Execs Get $3M For Sapho, A Smart Stream For Disparate Enterprise App Updates | As executives at CBS Interactive, Fouad ElNaggar, Peter Yared, and Charles Christolini were all too familiar with one of the biggest IT problems that big companies face: millions of dollars get invested into software for companies to work b... |
| 25.06.2014 | Sapho has visions of a Google Now for enterprise software, grabs $3M | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Investors have just bankrolled Sapho, a stealthy startup with mobile apps that aggregate alerts and basic functions from lots of enterp... |
| 14.06.2014 | Google’s Push Past Search | Peter Yared Contributor
Peter Yared is a co-founder and the CTO at Sapho.
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