Accord launches B2B sales platform with $6M seed
The founders of Accord, an early-stage startup focused on bringing order to B2B sales, are not your typical engineer founders. Instead, the two brothers, Ross and Ryan Rich, worked as sales reps seeing the problems unique to this kind of sale firsthand.
In November 2019, they decided to leave the c
Lang.ai snags $2M to remove technical burden of implementing AI for businesses
Lang.ai, which has developed a no-code platform for businesses, closed on a $2 million seed funding round.
The company's SaaS platform aims to allow business users to structure any free-text data with custom categories built through a drag & drop interface, based on AI-extracted concepts.
Huawei files suit over security threat designation
Earlier this week, Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei spoke rather diplomatically about the company's hopes of holding talks with the new U.S. administration. The hardware giant is also taking a less conciliatory route, challenging its FCC designation as a national security threat.
The company this week f
Quilt, an audio social network focused on self care, raises $3.5 million in seed
The era of social audio 1.0 is in full swing, and while podcasts and Clubhouse have led the way, there are many other audio startups joining the fold. Quilt, an audio social network that focuses on wellness and community, has raised a $3.5 million seed round led by Mayfield Fund, with partner Rishi
TikTok’s forced sale to Oracle is put on hold
The insane saga of a potential forced sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations is reportedly ending — another victim of the transition to methodical and rational policymaking that appears to be the boring new normal under the presidency of Joe Biden.
Last fall, the U.S. government under President D
Accessibility overlay startup accessiBe closes $28M Series A
If you want to make your website accessible right now but lack the resources for the kind of serious revamp it would take, an “accessibility overlay” may take the pressure off while the work gets done. Though critics argue that these tools may not be a permanent solution, accessiBe feel
Level closes $1.5M to provide financial services to gig workers
This morning Level, a Seattle-based startup that offers credit to gig-economy workers, announced that it has raised a $1.5 million pre-seed round. Level intends to provide various services to gig-economy workers, starting with a financing product.
The goal of Level today is to furnish access to cre
LA-based SoLo Funds raises $10 million to offer an alternative to predatory payday lenders
"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">SoLo Funds wants to replace payday lenders with a community-based, market-driven model for individual lending, and now has $10 mlion to expand its business in the U.S.
Payday lenders offer high-interest, short-term loans to borrowers who are at their most vulnerable, an
Nobl9 raises $21M Series B for its SLO management platform
SLAs, SLOs, SLIs. If there’s one thing everybody in the business of managing software development loves, it’s acronyms. And while everyone probably knows what a Service Level Agreement (SLA) is, Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) may not be quite as well
Facebook to test downranking political content in News Feed
After years of optimizing its products for engagement, no matter the costs, Facebook announced today it will “test” changes to its News Feed focused on reducing the distribution of political content. The company qualified that these tests will be temporary, impact a small percentage of
SecuriThings snares $14M Series A to keep edge devices under control
Managing IoT devices in a large organization can be a messy proposition, especially when many of them aren’t even managed directly by IT and often involve integrating with a number of third-party systems. SecuriThings wants to help with a platform of services to bring that all under control,
With subscriptions, Fiverr expands beyond project-based payments
Fiverr is adding a new way for freelancers on the marketplace to charge for their work — three- or six-month subscriptions.
Through this feature, sellers on Fiverr can offer to provide a defined set of work each month. They also can offer discounts to subscribers, although it’s not required
Powder raises $14 million for its social app for game clips
Meet Powder, a French startup that helps you share video clips of your favorite games, follow people with the same interests and interact with them. The company has raised a $14 million Series A round led by Serena.
Powder wants to build the video infrastructure for social gaming. While many commun
Israeli startup CYE raises $100M to help companies shore up their cyber-defenses
Cybersecurity startup CYE has raised $100 million in a new growth round, led by investment firm EQT and with participation from 83North.
CYE was founded in 2012 by Reuven Aronashvili to help companies shore up their security posture. It does this in large part by conducting offensive operations aga