Smart growth tactics can put account-based marketing within reach for startups and SMBs
For many startups and SMBs, successfully setting up account-based marketing strategies can feel like a pipe dream. Startups still struggling to find product-market fit wouldn't dream of being able to identify and map out their ideal customer profile (ICP) clearly enough. At the same time, small
Dear Sophie: Marriage-based green card versus EB-1C green card?
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 dreams,” says
Mindbody acquires ClassPass in all-stock deal and secures $500 million investment
ClassPass, the subscription-based fitness marketplace most recently valued at $1 billion, is today announcing that it has been acquired by Mindbody.
Mindbody is a bit like the OpenTable of the fitness world. Its booking software is used by studios, gyms and other experience-based service providers
HR platform Hibob raises $150M at a $1.65B valuation
"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">On the heels of Personio raising a big round yesterday, one of its competitors and another big startup in the area of HR has also picked up some funding. Hibob, a London-based company that targets the mid-market with an all-in-one platform that handles various human res
Weights & Biases raises $135M Series C to keep building MLOps software
Update: The round in question was $135 million, not $100 million as originally noted. I apologize for the mistake!
What do you call AI these days? ML in a suit.
ML, or machine learning, is a big market today. That is thanks to modern corporations accreting data like hoarders and dat
Browser-based hardware design tool Flux raises $12M
Things were trending toward remote collaboration well before the world ground to a screeching halt under the heels of a pandemic, but the past year and a half have undoubtedly been a major catalyst for rethinking the way people work. It's a phenomenon Flux has been thinking about for a while no
Canadian startup Rose Rocket raises Series A to scale its transport software business
Freight transportation-focused Rose Rocket recently raised a $25 million round.
The Toronto-based startup calls the round a Series A, with Addition Capital and Shine Capital leading the deal.
Per venture data aggregated by Carta, average logistics-themed Series A rounds since the st
Karat raises $110M on a $1.1B valuation to grow its technical interviewing-as-a-service platform
In the global race for technical talent, companies are on the hunt for ways to speed up and scale the hiring process to snap up the best candidates before their competitors get to them. Today, a company that has built a solution to help with one aspect of that — the interviewing process ̵
General Catalyst, Tiger Global lead $25M investment into Blank Street's micro specialty coffee shops
Vinay Menda and Issam Freiha are two coffee-obsessed friends who came to New York from Dubai and Lebanon to study at NYU and Columbia, respectively, and started researching the New York coffee scene.
In the U.S, they saw a coffee shop on every corner, but found the experience slow and overpriced: t
From $0 in revenue to a $7.25B valuation: Why TripActions’ $275M raise has fintech to thank
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, TripActions was primarily known for merging many aspects of corporate trip booking — flights, hotels and rental cars — with expense tracking.
But Palo Alto-based TripActions was among the startups that was hit very hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, the glo
Nothing raises another $50M
In the wake of the July 31 launch of its first product, the Ear (1), Nothing today announced a “Series A Extension” of $50 million, bringing its total funding to $74 million to date. The round follows the February announcement of a $15 million Series A.
Shortly after that, Nothing announced a
Eden Life raises $1.4M seed to provide home services to busy Africans
Living in Lagos, the commercial city of Nigeria, is not for the faint of heart. The city, occupied by around 14 million people, is the largest in sub-Saharan Africa.
And due to traffic congestion and long working hours, most busy professionals find it hard to cope with mundane tasks ranging from
Funnel, a no-code tool for marketers to organize disparate data sources, raises $66M in ‘pre-IPO’ round
The world of marketing has become a world of marketing tech. But marketers are not necessarily engineers, so working with the terabytes of data their campaigns produce can be a challenge. Today, a Stockholm startup called Funnel, which has built a no-code platform to help manage that process, is an
Jow raises $20 million for its meal and grocery planning service
French startup Jow has raised a $20 million funding round led by Eurazeo. Jow wants to make it easier to cook at home by taking care of menu ideas and helping you manage your online orders of groceries. The company has partnered with national food retailers so that your oder is seamlessly processed