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Sales readiness and training platform with scalable content creation, readiness scorecards, and certifications. Now part of the Showpad-Bigtincan revenue enablement entity under Vector Capital.
Brainshark is a sales readiness and training platform originally founded in 1999 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company was acquired by Bigtincan in 2021 and became part of the combined Showpad-Bigtincan revenue enablement platform following the October 2025 merger under Vector Capital. Brainshark is recognized for its scalable content creation tools, sales readiness scorecards, and structured certification workflows.\n\nBrainshark's core capabilities include video-based training content authoring (narrated slide decks and microlearning modules), formal curriculum design, readiness assessments and knowledge checks, coaching submissions where reps record practice pitches for manager review, and readiness scorecards that give sales leaders a real-time view of team certification status. The platform is particularly well-suited for large enterprise rollouts, compliance training, and onboarding programs where organizations need to certify thousands of reps on product knowledge, messaging, and process adherence.\n\nWithin the combined Showpad entity, Brainshark contributes the readiness and training layer, complementing Showpad's content management and Bigtincan's digital sales room capabilities. The combined platform creates an end-to-end revenue enablement stack from content management through training certification and buyer engagement. Brainshark's integrations include Salesforce, Microsoft SharePoint, and major SCORM-compliant LMS environments.
Indoor vertical farming company using AI-optimized growing systems. San Francisco, CA. Raised $940M+ including $400M from SoftBank. Partners with Walmart for US farms.
Plenty is a San Francisco-based indoor vertical farming company that uses AI, machine learning, and robotics to grow leafy greens and other produce in controlled indoor environments. The company has raised over $940 million from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund, which invested $200 million in 2017, and has positioned itself as the technology leader in data-driven indoor agriculture.\n\nPlenty's farms use precisely controlled light, temperature, humidity, and nutrient conditions to grow crops that are free from pesticides, use 99% less land, and consume significantly less water than conventional field agriculture. The company's AI systems continuously optimize growing conditions based on sensor data, learning to improve yields and quality across crops and growing cycles.\n\nIn 2022, Plenty announced a landmark partnership with Walmart to supply leafy greens from a new large-scale facility in Compton, California. This partnership provided both a major commercial anchor and significant additional funding from Walmart, validating Plenty's technology and business model at scale. The company also operates a dedicated strawberry R&D partnership with Driscoll's, the world's largest berry company, demonstrating the platform's potential beyond leafy greens.
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