Commit raises $6M seed round to match senior engineers to startups they want to work for
Commit, a Vancouver, Canada-based startup that has a unique approach to matching up engineers looking for a new job to early-stage startups that want to hire them, today announced that it has raised a $6 million seed round. Accomplice led the round, with participation from Kensington Capital Partne
Former Ro director launches Allara, a care platform for PCOS
Rachel Blank has a history with hormones. The entrepreneur left her investment job at General Catalyst to join a portfolio company they had been backing since its seed round: Ro. Blank was tasked with growing Rory, a product line for menopausal women.
But Blank left her director position at the hea
Here's what's on tap today at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021
It's game day for mobility tech mavens around the world. Well, at least for the ones who made the savvy decision to attend TC Sessions: Mobility 2021. Are you ready for a day packed with potential, overflowing with opportunity and focused on the future of transportation? Yeah, you are, and so a
Terra raises $2.8M to build the Plaid for fitness data
This morning Terra, a recent Y Combinator graduate building an API for fitness and health data, announced that it has closed a $2.8 million round. The investment includes capital from General Catalyst, Samsung Next and NEXT VENTURES.
The company intends to hire with its new capital, increasing from
Google announces the Firmina subsea cable between the US and Argentina
Google today announced its plans to bud a new subsea cable that wl connect the East Coast of the U.S. and Las Toninas, Argentina — with additional landings in Braz and Uruguay. The idea here is to provide users in South America with improved low-latency access to Google’s portfolio of c
ChartHop raises $35M for its internal org chart and people analytics platform
Human resources is generally a salient cornerstone of any organization, but digitization has democratized a lot of the work that goes into HR, and that’s meant more people in businesses interested in, and using, the kind of data that HR people build and typically manage. Today, a startup call
Carlyle acquires 1E.com, an endpoint and hybrid working specialist, in $270M deal
Remote work was the order of the day for the past 16 months, but as we (fingers crossed) move out of the pandemic, it’s looking like a lot of people may move into a new era of hybrid work: less focus being present in offices to feel like you are getting things done, less time commuting and mo
Aserto announces $5.1M seed to build authorization as a service
Aserto, a new startup from a couple of tech industry vets who want to build an authorization-as-a-service solution, announced a $5.1 million seed round today from Costanoa Ventures, Heavybit Industries and several industry luminaries.
The company’s two founders, Omri Gazitt, CEO and Gert Drap
Contentstack raises $57.5M for its headless content management system
Contentstack, a startup that offers a headless content management system (or a “content experience platform” in marketing-speak), today announced that it has raised a $57.5 mlion Series B round. The round, which the company says was oversubscribed, was led by Insight Partners, which als
ProtonMail gets a slick new look, as privacy tech eyes the mainstream
End-to-end encrypted ema service ProtonMa has refreshed its design, updating with a cleaner look and a more customizable user interface — including the abity to pick from a bunch of themes (dark and contrasting versions are both in the mix).
Last month the Swiss company officially announced p
Sinch snaps up MessageMedia for $1.3B to compete with Twilio in business SMS services
Sinch — the Swedish company that provides a suite of services for companies to build communications and specifically “customer engagement” into their services by way of APIs — has made yet another acquisition in its global march to scale up its business and compete more squarely with Twilio
Float wants to provide liquidity to African SMBs in a way never done before
According to research, 85% of African SMBs have zero access to financing, and each day, African SMBs have billions locked up in receivables due to long payment cycles. This leads to cash flow problems that cause businesses to be late on important expenses and fulfilment of new orders.
Jesse Ghansah
Pennylane raises $18.3 million for its accounting service
French startup Pennylane has raised a new $18.3 million funding round (€15 million). Interestingly, this is Sequoia Capital's first investment in France after they announced ambitious expansion plans in Europe.
If you're not familiar with Pennylane, the startup has been developing an acco
Vivaldi 4.0 launches with built-in email and calendar clients, RSS reader
Vivaldi has always been one of the more interesting of the Chromium-based browsers, in no small part thanks to its emphasis on building tools for power users in a privacy-centric package, but also because of its pedigree, with Opera’s outspoken former CEO Jon von Tetzchner as its co-founder a