Pinterest adds favorites, notes and a new toolbar after increased use of boards during pandemic
Pinterest today is adding a few new features — notes, favorites and a board toolbar — aimed at helping those who use their boards for making lists of gift ideas, or who have a hard time navigating and sorting through boards with a larger number of items. The additions follow a blowout t
UserLeap raises $16 million to bring better qualitative data to PMs
Product managers can only be successful if they can make effective use of both quantitative and qualitative data. But mapping the former to the latter, and collecting high-quality data, is a huge challenge to organizations looking to rapidly productize and innovate.
UserLeap, a company founded by s
Koan raises $1M more as it adds a free tier to its OKR software
This week Koan, a startup that provides objectives-and-key-results (OKR) and status-tracking software, announced that it has raised an additional $1 million, added a free tier to its service and acquired a design firm with which it has worked.
Koan, which raised $3 million in seed funding last Octo
This is not a review of Apple’s new AirPods Max headphones
I’ve had Apple’s AirPods Max headphones for less than 24 hours, so there is no way I would attempt to write a review of any sort. But I do have some of those oh so popular these days “first impressions” to share. Mostly on build quality, but I’ll throw a few first list
Survey: Americans think Big Tech isn’t so bad after all
In government, there's rare bipartisan consensus on taking down Big Tech.
Capping a 16-month investigation, a Democratic-controlled House committee recently identified Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google as monopolies that snuff out competition and innovation, equating the Big Four to oil barons
With another $2.5 million in funding, Julia Collins’ Planet FWD launches climate-friendly snack brand
Planet FWD, the climate-friendly food startup founded by Zume co-founder Julia Collins, is today launching its first product, Moonshot Snacks. The climate-friendly snack is carbon neutral, organic, kosher, plant-based, non-GMO and has no sugar added.
The crackers come in three flavors: sourdough s
Boast.ai raises $23M to help businesses get their R&D tax credits
Nobody likes dealing with taxes — until the system works in your favor. In many countries, startups can receive tax credits for their R&D work and related employee cost, but as with all things bureaucracy, that’s often a slow and onerous task. Boast.ai aims to make this process far
LeafLink raises $40M from Founders Fund, others to cultivate its cannabis wholesale market
LeafLink is today announcing it raised a $40 million Series C financing round, led by Founders Fund with participation from Thrive Capital, Nosara Capital and Lerer Hippeau. This round of financing brings the total amount raised by the company to more than $90 million.
This financing round is Found
Hunters raises additional growth funding from Snowflake Ventures
Only a few months after announcing its $15 million Series A round, Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity firm Hunters today announced that it has received additional growth funding from Snowflake Ventures for its Open Extended Threat Detection & Response service (XDR). With this, Snowflake’s ventu
Aira takes key investment to build its fantastic smartphone wireless charging pad into vehicles
Aira is the company behind one of the most exciting wireless power innovations, and now this technology could be headed into vehicles. The wireless power company just announced a strategic investment from Motherson, a Tier 1 global auto parts supplier.
Aira’s technology allows companies to bu
Facebook hit with antitrust probe for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts
Facebook’s bad week just got worse: It’s being investigated in Germany for linking usage of its VR product, Oculus, to having a Facebook account.
The tech giant raised the hackles of the VR community this summer when it announced it would be merging users of the latest Oculus kit onto a
India cabinet approves setting up a ‘massive network’ of public Wi-Fi hotspots
More than one billion people in India today have a mobile connection, thanks in part to the proliferation of low-cost Android smartphones and the world’s cheapest mobile data plans in recent years.
This scale was unimaginable just three decades ago, when India had fewer than 2.5 million telep
Instagram launches shopping in Reels, its TikTok rival
Instagram today is launching Shopping in Reels, its TikTok competitor. The new feature was announced in October as something the company had in the works, as part of a ongoing series of shopping-related updates to the Instagram app. With today’s launch, both businesses and creators will be ab
Cleo, the AI-powered ‘financial assistant’, raises $44M Series B led by EQT Ventures
Cleo, the London-founded “financial assistant” that takes the form of an app and chatbot and now counts the U.S. as its largest market, has raised $44 million in Series B funding.
Leading the round, which I understand actually closed earlier this year, is EQT Ventures. Also participatin