Typed, Mirakl, Cloudsmith, DeepFactor and Blackbird.AI raises funds | Fivetran acquires HVR | Salesforce has announced new Slack features | Salesforce has declared a significant victory in the fight against global climate change | project44 acquires Conv

The SaaS News Roundup

Data integration software Fivetran acquires data replication technology HVR. Customers of Fivetran now have access to a broader set of high-performance data replication solutions, including HVR’s change data capture connectors. Fivetran also raised a funding round of $565M.

Business Canvas, the company document management SaaS behind Typed, has announced a $2.5M seed round led by Mirae Asset Venture Investment. The seed funding will be used to speed up product development and the global open beta launch of its AI-powered document management platform.

Salesforce has announced new Slack features just a few months after announcing integrations with Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, and Tableau. According to the company, the features are intended to “build a digital HQ” at enterprises that are embracing hybrid work.

Salesforce has declared a significant victory in the fight against global climate change. Utilizing 100 percent renewable energy and purchasing carbon offsets has effectively achieved Net Zero energy usage across its value chain.

project44 acquires customer experience provider Convey for $255M to become a definitive global leader in modern digital supply chain technology. It said that the new AI capabilities from Convey would improve collaboration, bolster workflow automation and defend against business disruption with end-to-end visibility and predictive order intelligence.

Mirakl raised $555M in Series E funding from Silver Lake to accelerate the growth of leading enterprises and online marketplaces. The company said it targets hiring 350 engineers, growing its team to 500 by 2023, expanding its geographic reach, with a dual focus on growing its Paris and Boston headquarters.

Package management SaaS provider Cloudsmith raised $15M in Series A from Tiger Global and others to grow its team, deliver on its product roadmap and continue expanding into international markets.

DeepFactor raises $15M in Series A from Insight partners and others to continue developing its AppSec observability platform, automatically observing billions of live telemetry events to detach anomalies without making code changes.

Blackbird.AI, an AI-powered platform that combats disinformation, raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by Dorilton Ventures to support hiring, scale-up engineering and sales teams.