Proptech startup Knock secures $20M to grow SaaS platform for property managers
In recent years, the U.S. has seen more renters than at any point since at least 1965, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Census Bureau housing data.
Competition for renters is fierce and property managers are turning to technology to get a leg up.
To meet that demand,
Magical raises $3.3M to modernize calendars
Calendars. They are at the core of how we organize our workdays and meetings, but despite regular attempts to modernize the overall calendar experience, the calendar experience you see today in Outlook or G Suite Google Workspace hasn’t really changed at its core. And for the most part, the a
Fintech Marqeta expands into credit card space days after filing for an IPO
Marqeta is expanding into the consumer credit card space to help other brands launch credit card programs.
The move comes just days after the payment card issuing company reportedly filed confidentially for an initial public offering, making it the latest fintech to make a move to the public mark
App monitoring platform Sentry gets $60 million Series D at $1 billion valuation
Application performance monitoring startup Sentry announced today that it has reached unicorn status, raising a $60 million Series D with a post-funding valuation of $1 billion. The round was led by Accel and New Enterprise Associates, both returning investors, and Bond.
Accel led Sentry’s se
Facebook knew for years ad reach estimates were based on ‘wrong data’ but blocked fixes over revenue impact, per court filing
Some more internal emails Facebook really doesn’t want you to see: Turns out in 2017 COO Sheryl Sandberg had already known for years there were problems with a free ad planning tool the company offers to marketeers to display estimates of how many people campaigns running on its platform may
Yext brings more answers to its site search by processing unstructured data
Yext Answers allows businesses to provide a better search experience on their own websites — but as the name implies, the goal is really to make sure consumers get the answers they’re looking for.
“If we deliver a link [in response to a search query], we consider it a failure on our s
Leverage Edu raises $6.5 million to help Indian students land in top colleges abroad
Each year, millions of students in India rush to get an admission in universities abroad. Often they don't know which program they should focus on, or the college that is right for their skillset and ambition.
Scores of legacy and newfound firms are attempting to offer counselling to these stud
Event networking app Grip raises $13M, as pandemic forces events to stay virtual
With offline events now firmly moved to online for the foreseeable future, startups in the networking space had to pivot fast in the face of the pandemic. One of those was Grip, previously better known as a networking app for physical conferences (including technewss Disrupt, at one point). Since
Emerging as an Eastern powerhouse, Earlybird Digital East Fund launches new $242M fund
Earlybird Digital East Fund — a fund associated with Germany's Earlybird VC, but operating separately — has launched a €200 million ($242 million) successor fund. The fund's focus will remain the same as before: a seed and Series-A fund focusing on what's known as “Emerging
With over 1.3 million users, Nigerian-based fintech FairMoney wants to replicate growth in India
"speakable-summary" style="text-align: left;">There are more than 1.7 billion underbanked people globally, the majority of which are from emerging markets. For them, accessing loans can be difficult, which is a problem fintechs try to solve. One way they do this is by promoting financial inclusion b
TikTok’s China twin Douyin has 550 million search users, takes on Baidu
The advance of short videos is reshaping how information is created, disseminated and consumed online. Snappy 15-second videos aren’t just for entertainment. On Chinese short-video apps Douyin and Kuaishou, people can get their daily dose of news, learn to cook, practice English, hunt for job
Glassdoor now lets you filter company ratings by demographics
Despite efforts from companies to create equitable environments, it’s clear that employees of certain demographics, like Black women, sometimes have very different experiences from their counterparts. Glassdoor aims to better surface those experiences through a new feature that allows folks t
Apple Pay will soon work on BART and Muni
If you’ve ever tried to hop on the bus in San Francisco and were bummed to find that Apple Pay wasn’t an option (unlike in New York, Beijing and plenty of other major cities): good news! That’s changing. Apple has announced that support for Clipper (the payment system for BART, Mu
For the first time the US DOT is carving out budget for climate and environmental justice projects
As part of the grant-making associated with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Infrastructure for Rebuilding America program, the agency will for the first time carve out some of that program’s $889 million budget for projects addressing climate change and environmental justice.
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