"As we look to the future, the menu of investment opportunities is unprecedented — from mobile internet to online brands, enterprise SaaS to AI, crypto to deep tech in healthcare, new age consumer brands and beyond," Sequoia wrote in a blog post announcing its new fund.
Enterprise Holdings, which operates the rental car brands Enterprise, National and Alamo, says it will end its discount program for NRA members next month, along with Avis and Budget.
Netvibes had an early lead back in the era when 'personal start pages' were the new new thing, but (and we won t go into the long story here) a large pivot towards enterprise saw it moving into more of a dashboard for Fortune 500 brands, enterprises and agencies (including Coca Cola, HP, L'Oreal, US Dept. of Energy, Digitas, McCann Worldgroup, Edelman, Lufthansa, Sage).
For large agencies, brands and enterprises, Netvibes for Enterprise adds advanced collaboration features and offers custom deployment and development.
The company was previously servicing a number of brands and enterprise customers, including Realtor.com, Hotels.com and R/GA.
TrackMaven, which is focused on big brands and enterprise marketers, aggregates data from different sources, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, content marketing data, traffic and SEO data, and so on.
Another key choice, particularly for "Platform First" players, is whether to go consumer (develop your own brand) or enterprise (be an enabling technology for other brands).
They license the trademark to HBI Branded Apparel Enterprise (a subsidiary of Hanesbrands) for Playtex-branded apparel and Playtex Products Inc (a subsidiary of Energizer Holdings) for baby products, gloves and feminine products.
We continue to manage the company for the long term, with a commitment to preserving our many assets and brand labels and evolving MSO as a 'how to' brand building enterprise".
While there has always been a mix of small developers and larger brands and enterprises targeting consumers with apps, it is only now that larger enterprises have started to take the space more seriously, with the idea that the performance of their apps can be used to measure how well their brands are performing.
They are hoping that a brand new enterprise, without the legacy costs and practices of traditional publishing, can find traction.
