Workstream’s text-based recruitment tool gets a $48M bet from BOND and beyond
It isn't only tech giants that are struggling to fill open roles with talented individuals, it's your local Jamba Juice, too.
Since 2017, San Francisco-based Workstream has been working on an answer to recruitment for the hourly worker. The subset of employees are in high demand right now b
Atheneum nabs $150M to build out its ‘research as a service’ platform for virtual surveys and interviews
Data is the new oil, as the saying goes, and today a startup that is helping companies mine for it is announcing a major funding round to expand its business on the back of strong growth.
Atheneum, which provides a platform for companies to conduct and analyze research sourced through virtual inter
Point Pickup acquires e-commerce platform GrocerKey for $42M to allow for same-day delivery
Point Pickup Technologies, a last-mile delivery service, has acquired white-label e-commerce platform GrocerKey for $42 million, according to the company. With the acquisition, Point Pickup now allows retailers to offer same-day delivery under their own brand name, rather than under third parties l
Blue Origin successfully launches 17th New Shepard suborbital rocket mission
Update: After a few holds, Blue Origin successfully launched the New Shepard rocket at around 10:30 AM ET / 7:30 AM PT, with a landing of the first stage at around 10:38 and the capsule at 10:40.
Blue Origin’s last launch was its landmark first human flight, carrying Jeff Bez
UK names John Edwards as its choice for next data protection chief as gov’t eyes watering down privacy standards
The U.K. government has named the person it wants to take over as its chief data protection watchdog, with sitting commissioner Elizabeth Denham overdue to vacate the post: The Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) today said its preferred replacement is New Zealand’s privacy
PawaPay raises $9M seed backed by MSA, 88mph and Mr Eazi’s Zagadat Capital
When companies create digital payments-facing solutions for African countries outside Nigeria and South Africa, building around mobile money is key. It’s literally a no-brainer.
The concept is ubiquitous in East Africa, but since mobile money is a telecom operators-led initiative, there are t
‘No-code’ process automation platform, Leapwork, fires up with $62M Series B
Copenhagen-based process automation platform Leapwork has snagged Denmark’s largest-ever Series B funding round, announcing a $62 million raise co-led by KKR and Salesforce Ventures, with existing investors DN Capital and Headline also participating.
Also today it’s disclosing that its
Mental health startup Intellect gets $2.2M to expand across Asia
Intellect, a Singapore-based startup that wants to make mental health care more accessible in Asia, announced it has raised $2.2 million in pre-Series A funding. It is taking part in Y Combinator's current batch, which will hold its demo day at the end of this month.
The round was led by return
Jolla hits profitability ahead of turning 10, eyes growth beyond mobile
Jolla, the Finnish startup behind the Sailfish OS, which formed almost a decade ago when a band of Nokia staffers left to keep the torch burning for a mobile Linux-based alternative to Google’s Android, announced today it’s hitting profitability.
The mobile OS licensing startup describe
Taktile makes it easier to leverage machine learning in the financial industry
Meet Taktile, a new startup that is working on a machine learning platform for financial services companies. This isn't the first company that wants to leverage machine learning for financial products. But Taktile wants to differentiate itself from competitors by making it way easier to get sta
The SEC and the DOJ just charged this startup founder with fraud, saying he lied to Tiger and others
Today, both the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Manish Lachwani, co-founder of mobile app testing company HeadSpin, with fraud. The SEC says he violated antifraud provisions, and the civil penalties it’s seeking include a permanent injunction, a c
Solo.io integrates a cloud native API gateway and service mesh into its enterprise platform
Connecting to all the services and microservices that a modern cloud native enterprise application requires can be a complicated task. It’s an area that startup Solo.io is trying to disrupt with the new release of its Gloo Mesh Enterprise platform.
Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Solo has
Dawn Aerospace conducts five flights of its suborbital spaceplane
While the rocket launch sector is quickly becoming crowded, the same can't be said for companies developing suborbital spaceplanes. This means there's plenty of room to grow for startups like Dawn Aerospace, which has now completed five test flights of its Mk-II Aurora spaceplane that is de
Peter Beck on Rocket Lab’s public listing debut, space SPACs and the Neutron rocket
Peter Beck's earliest memory is standing outside with his father in his hometown of Invercargill, New Zealand, looking up at the stars and being told that there could very well be people on planets orbiting those stars looking right back at him.
“For a three or four year old, that was a mind-