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A new trend is emerging in the world of startups and, to many, it couldn't have come too soon. Why are there so few women in senior roles? Women going through menopause are commonly known to drop out of leadership roles, for instance. In the U.K., menopause is responsible for about 14 million l

To get a roundup of technewss's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 28, 2021. What a day. Duolingo went public. Algolia raised an epic round. Crypto prices rose. And we're being treat

Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich are the founders of of MKT1, a strategic marketing firm that does much more than just marketing. As we mentioned the last time we spoke with the company, it offers a plethora of services ranging from marketing consulting and organizing recruiting and mentoring wor

Whether you're just starting to build your SaaS empire or you're further along in your journey, you don't want to miss TC Sessions: SaaS 2021 on October 27. This day-long virtual event, dedicated to the increasingly sophisticated world of software-as-a-service, features some of the sect

It’s hard to argue that any technology company has had a greater impact in the past decade than BioNTech, the mRNA-based therapeutics pioneer behind the world’s most widely-used COVID-19 vaccine. Developed in record time in partnership with Pfizer, thanks to an existing partnership to w

Single-use plastic containers make up a huge amount of the world’s waste, but so far no one has come up with a good way to replace them that’s also easy for consumers and cost-effective. Algramo may have cracked this nut with a combination of reusable containers and distribution points

What's big enough, bold enough and influential enough to inspire more than 10,000 people around the world to carve out three days from their intensely busy schedules? If you said technewss Disrupt 2021, the grand matriarch of startup tech conferences, well friend, you'd be right on the mon

When I first came to the United States from the Dominican Republic, nobody wanted to hire me for a job in tech. Rather than recognize the skills I possessed, employers could only see my still-developing English and my lack of a college degree. They failed to take into account my years of experience

Jason Saltzman is a serial entrepreneur. He first co-founded SeamlessDocs and then went on to found The Alley, a coworking space based out of New York City. Following Alley’s joint venture partnership with Verizon, Saltzman left to build something new and became fascinated with the debt conso

Voice-based and other personal assistant apps — which use natural language and hefty AI engines in the back end to source information to address your various questions, do your e-commerce bidding, or control one electronic device or another in your home — have been around for years, but

European customer engagement platform Dixa has raised a Series C funding round of $105 million, led by growth equity investor General Atlantic. Existing investors Notion Capital, Project A and Seed Capital also participated. In February last year, it raised $36 million in Series B funding, led by N

Class, a virtual classroom that integrates exclusively with Zoom, announced today that it has raised $105 million in a financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund II. The 10-month-old startup has now raised a total of $146 million in known venture funding to date, which eclipses the amount of capital rai

The tyranny of the Excel spreadsheet continues, especially in rostering staff. Nowhere is this more acutely felt in today's COVID-pressured hospital wards, which are now depleted not just by the disease but by staff burnout from patchy over- or underscheduling of staff hours. Two doctors realiz

Alex Lim, a British-born VC based in the Bay Area who invested in Hopin, UiPath, Discord, and many other unicorns has decided to up stakes and leave Sand Hill Road behind for Blossom Capital in London. Blossom is fast making a name for itself both in Europe and internationally, having invested in b