This startup wants to help teams get more out of virtual meetings
If the pandemic-triggered proliferation of online meetings is killing your team productivity and sapping the attention of overloaded info workers, German startup tl;dv might have just the tool: It’s built an extension for videoconferencing platforms, like Zoom and Google Meet, which bolts on
A field guide for startup board members in an up-and-down market
Brad Feld, a venture capitalist of 25 years and author of several books, has just republished a book that first came out in 2013 and to which Feld, with the help of co-authors Matt Blumberg and Mahendra Ramsinghani, has added quite a bit for this new, second edition.
Called “Startup Boards: A
Daily Crunch: One week after expanding internationally, Dukaan says it has onboarded 1,000+ DTC brands
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Can they kick it? Yes, they can: Playermaker tracks athlete performance
If you’re a coach who’s ever thought, “Man, I wish there was a footwear-mounted performance tracker for my soccer team,” boy, do I have some excellent news for you. Playermaker, founded in 2016, is already in use by more than 250 teams, and the company today announced a $40
Fearless Fund’s Arian Simone on why a downturn is business as usual for minority founders
Arian Simone sat poised center stage at the Embrace Ambition Summit to share words that many entrepreneurs in the audience understood far too well.
“Women of color are the most founded, entrepreneurial demographic,” she said at the biannual business conference hosted by the Tory Burch
Dear Sophie: Which visa is best for bootstrapping a startup?
Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.
“Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their drea
Wealthsimple, valued at $4B last year, joins the fintech layoffs list
Canadian fintech giant Wealthsimple, which was valued at $4 billion as of last year, is laying off 159 people — or about 13% of its staff.
The Toronto-based company has been a leader in the realm of democratizing financial products for consumers, including stock trading, crypto asset sales and pe
DataStax proves it’s still possible to raise nine-figures at higher valuation in 2022
When DataStax hired Chet Kapoor as CEO in October 2019, one of the first moves he made was to bring in his old pal Sam Ramji to be chief strategy officer, someone he had worked with for many years and was deeply involved in open source throughout his career. The two had worked together successfully
GreyNoise to expand its threat intel collection after securing $15M in funding
GreyNoise Intelligence, a Washington, D.C.-based cybersecurity startup that analyses internet scanning traffic to help organizations separate threats from internet “background noise,” has landed $15 million in Series A funding to expand its threat collection capabilities and help protec
AlphaSense, an analysis and business intel search engine, finds $225M at a $1.7B valuation
Google showed the way when it came to the world understanding and valuing the importance of a good search engine to unlock all the information you could find on the internet. The next iteration of that has been vertical search: providing tools to delve into very specific information silos for parti
Sana, which offers health insurance plans to SMBs, raises $60M and doubles valuation since October
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have for decades struggled with being able to offer their employees health insurance.
Sana, a startup that wants to make offering health insurance plans more accessible to those businesses, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round.
Nothing teases phone (1) design ahead of next month’s launch
It’s hard to get a thrill from glimpses of unreleased smartphone hardware these days, given the baked-in maturity of the mobile market and the general form and function sameness of the sticky rectangles we humans routinely spend hours poking at and peering into each day.
But this rear-view de
What the wave of layoffs says about the value of crypto exchanges
The crypto sell-off of the last several days was preceded by staffing cuts at several companies in the business of facilitating the trading of decentralized assets and tokens. Reductions at Gemini and Crypto.com were superseded today by news that Coinbase is cutting more than 1,000 staff. Given tha
A decade after the bubble burst, 5 climate tech investors explain why they’re all in
Climate tech has been one of the biggest successes of the last few years. By 2025, investors are expected to sink $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion annually into a wide range of startups that promise to upend everything from travel and commuting to agriculture, construction and more. Oh, and they'll