Toss Lab raises $13 million Series B for its collaboration platform JANDI, the ‘Slack of Asia’
As Slack ramps up its investment in Asia, Toss Lab, the South Korea-based creator of enterprise collaboration platform JANDI, is preparing to become a more formidable rival. The startup announced today that it has raised a $13 million Series B led by SoftBank Ventures Asia, the early-stage venture
What will a Wish IPO look like? We may know soon
Wish, the San Francisco-based, 750-person e-commerce app that sells deeply discounted goods that you definitely don’t need but might buy anyway when priced so low — think pool floats, guinea pig harnesses, Apple Watch knockoffs — said yesterday that it has submitted a draft regist
Jeff Lawson on API startups, picking a market and getting dissed by VCs
Last week technewss sat down virtually with Jeff Lawson, the CEO and co-founder of Twilio as part of our long-running Extra Crunch Live series. As I expected, the chat was a good use of time.
Why? Lawson was early on the idea that software companies could deliver their features not through a web a
The startup world needs a ‘Black Minds Matter’ awakening
I was recently part of an open forum about being Black in America, as well as in the startup space.
A white founder asked, “What can I do as the founder of a very early-stage startup?” The group gave various suggestions that included the obvious (or at least I would hope it's obvious), “W
Watch these 6 startups compete in Pitchers & Pitches tomorrow
What do you get when you combine six early-stage startup founders with a panel of top VCs and savvy technewss editors? It's Pitchers & Pitches, a rapid-fire pitch competition with a hefty side of advice to turn your 60-second pitch into a key that unlocks opportunity.
Grab a snack, bring y
Your first sales hire should be a missionary, not a mercenary
As the first sales hire at Cloudflare, I learned firsthand from both our high growth and my own mistakes how to build a world-class sales team. Early hires are the cultural cornerstones of an organization. As Vinod Khosla described the initial hires at Sun Microsystems, “Initial hiring is way mor
Four days left on early-bird savings for TC Sessions: Mobility 2020
Want to save $100 on your pass to TC Sessions: Mobility 2020? Silly question, right? Of course, you do. Here's the thing. You have just four days left to buy in at the lowest price. Knock this easy task off your to-do list and buy your pass before the early-bird savings disappear on September 4
Student-led accelerator Envision reaches demo week for class one, looks to class two
Back in early July, technewss covered the Envision Accelerator. The program was put together by a group of students and recent graduates, often with some early venture capital experience, to help give some young startups a boost, and to shake up industry diversity metrics at the same time.
Now on
Bambuser raises $45M after shifting focus to live video shopping
Bambuser is a name you may not have heard in a while, but the Stockholm-headquartered company is announcing today that it has raised $45 million in new funding this year, with $34.5 million of that amount raised during the pandemic.
Bambuser’s history goes back more than a decade (the first T
Now providing healthcare access to nearly 1.5 million kids, Hazel Health raises $33.5 million
Hazel Health was founded five years ago to provide telemedicine services to children in public schools. Launched by a former Apple software engineer and serial entrepreneur, Nick Woods, and named after one of Woods’ children, Hazel Health has grown to work with school districts responsible fo
Founded by an Impossible Foods and Google data scientist, Climax Foods raises $7.5 million to tackle the cheesiest market
"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">Oliver Zahn began his professional career studying the stars. The founder of Climax Foods, a startup that’s using data science to replace animal proteins with plant-based substitutes, spent years at the University of California at Berkeley with his eyes fixed firm
LA-based The Skills is launching a MasterClass for athletes featuring Michael Phelps, Maria Sharapova and more
A new Los Angeles startup is betting that enough consumers are interested in paying between $69 and $149 per year to receive lessons in life and sports from celebrity athletes like Maria Sharapova and Shaun White to make a billion-dollar business.
That’s the gamble that Maveron, Global Found
Dialpad acquires video conferencing service Highfive
VoIP provider Dialpad, the company behind the popular video conferencing service UberConference, today announced that it has acquired Highfive, a well-funded video conferencing startup that focuses on providing businesses with conference room solutions. The two companies did not disclose the purcha
Cosmose, a platform that analyzes foot traffic in physical stores, gets $15 million Series A
Cosmose tracks foot traffic in brick-and-mortar stores to help predict customer behavior, providing data that is increasingly important as companies try to weather COVID-19’s economic impact. Today the startup announced it has raised a $15 million Series A. The round was by Tiga Investments,