After soaring above $23B, Qualtrics’ founder and CEO reflect on a stellar debut
Amidst all of the the sturm und drang of l’affaire GameStop, Qualtrics went public today.
After pricing its stock above its raised IPO range, the company received a warm welcome from public investors. After starting its trading life worth $41.85, Qualtrics closed the day worth $45.50, up some
The somewhat boring reason it appears that Robinhood yanked trading on some securities
After enduring a day’s worth of taking a beating across social media, government and the various app stores of the mobile world, Robinhood took to its own blog and CEO’s Twitter account to explain why it had halted trading of some stocks earlier today.
That Robinhood had restricted tr
Early Snapchat employee debuts Yoni Circle, a social storytelling app for womxn
An early Snapchat employee who once architected the “Our Stories” product, Chloë Drimal, has now launched her own social app, Yoni Circle. Described as a membership-based community, the app aims to connect womxn using storytelling — including through both live video chat sessions
Talent and capital are shifting cybersecurity investors’ focus away from Silicon Valley
Just when we thought things couldn't get worse in 2020, we received the news on the SolarWinds hack and its impact on more than 18,000 businesses and potentially dozens of U.S. government agencies — including the departments of Commerce, Energy and Treasury.
We're just beginning to und
Pivoting to home fitness, Aviron offers gamified rowing machines
Few tech sectors had more to gain from the events of 2020 than home fitness. Interest in the category was swift, as gyms were declared one of the bigger problem areas amid the worldwide spread of COVID-19. Suddenly home workouts were more than just luxury.
For YC-backed Aviron, it was the ideal tim
Webull, M1 and Public remove restrictions on ‘meme stocks’ after citing trade settlement firm as the cause
Three of the popular retail stock market trading apps that have hosted much of the activity related to the Wall Street Bets subreddit-spurred run on stocks including GameStop (GME) and AMC, among others, have removed all restrictions on their exchange by their users. M1, Webull and Public had restr
Mind the gap: E-commerce marketers should revise their TAM and SAM estimates
2021 is going to be another glorious year for e-commerce.
It is that time of the year when most of us are looking back at the “total addressable market” estimates to plan for specific campaigns. Unlike us, if you had your 2021 kick off in Q3, bless your soul. You are an enlightened bein
Coinbase is going public via direct listing
Coinbase plans to go public by way of a direct listing, the company announced in a blog post today.
The cryptocurrency exchange was founded in 2012 and allows users to buy and trade decentralized tokens like bitcoin and ethereum. The company has raised over $540 million in funding as a private comp
Report: WeWork could be getting SPAC’d soon, too
According to a new report in the WSJ, WeWork, the co-working juggernaut that saw its attempt at a public offering blow up in spectacular fashion in the fall of 2019, might become a publicly traded company by merging with a blank-check company.
Specifically, says the WSJ, the New York-based outfit h
Hear from Arlan Hamilton on finding the next big opportunities in tech at TC Sessions: Justice
I’m very excited to announce Arlan Hamilton, founder and managing partner of Backstage Capital, will be joining us in a fireside chat at TC Sessions: Justice on March 3.
Backstage Capital has raised more than $12 million to invest in more than 150 companies led by people of color, women and/o
Apple’s Tim Cook warns of adtech fuelling a ‘social catastrophe’ as he defends app tracker opt-in
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has urged Europe to step up privacy enforcement in a keynote speech to the CPDP conference today — echoing many of the points he made in Brussels in person two years ago when he hit out at the “data-industrial complex” underpinning the adtech industry
Inspirit launches to bring Minecraft creativity to biology class
Aditya Vishwanath, the founder of Inspirit, wants to bring the creativity associated with Minecraft to the day-to-day schoolwork of students around the world.
“These students are coming from TikTok and playing Roblox games [that are] highly interactive and highly engaging,” he said. “Then, th
Urban-X launches its latest cohort as the world catches up to the accelerator’s climate thesis
Urban-X, the accelerator launched by the venture capital fund Urban US and BMW’s MINI subsidiary to invest in companies that primarily address sustainable and resilient living in the cities of the future, has launched its latest cohort.
This ninth cohort of companies are coming to market at a
GGV Capital just announced $2.52 billion across new funds for ‘entrepreneurs around the world’
GGV Capital, the now 20-year-old venture firm that has long invested primarily in the U.S. and China, just closed on a whopping $2.52 billion in fresh capital commitments across four new funds, it announced this morning.
Much of the money will be invested through the firm’s eighth flagship fu