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Jun 15, 2020 • 24min
So you want to talk about race in tech with Ijeoma Oluo
“A lot of people denigrate the value of talking about race and racism in technological spaces,” said Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race, which has surged to the top of the New York Times best sellers list in paperback nonfiction, two and a half years after its initial January 2018 […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 15, 2020 • 3min
Uber shares tumble 5% as reports indicate it will lose the Grubhub deal to European rival
Reports this morning indicate that Uber, the American ride-hailing giant with a global footprint, will lose out on its attempt to buy Grubhub, an American food ordering and delivery service. Uber competes with Grubhub domestically with its Uber Eats service; a tie-up between the two could have given Uber suffocating market share in the United […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 12, 2020 • 4min
API platform Postman delivers $150M Series B on $2B valuation
APIs provide a way to build connections to a set of disparate applications and data sources, and can help simplify a lot of the complex integration issues companies face. Postman has built an enterprise API platform and today it got rewarded with a $150 million Series C investment on a whopping $2 billion valuation — […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 12, 2020 • 6min
This startup just raised $12 million from top VCs to offer financial planning as an employee perk
Companies increasingly recognize that one of the greatest stresses for their employees is financial wellness. Even at innovative tech startups, people typically bump up against the limits of how much they know about wealth management pretty fast. But providing financial education to a workforce, which has become increasingly common, is largely useless as most employees […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 11, 2020 • 5min
Conversa Health raises $12M Series B for its digital health platform
It’s no surprise that the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating the digital health space and so it’s also no surprise that a lot of the startups in this area are currently getting funded. Conversa Health, a Portland, Oregon-based startup that provides a virtual care and communication platform for personalized healthcare, is among these startups. The company […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 11, 2020 • 5min
Vendr raises $4M from David Sacks’s Craft Ventures to reduce SaaS bills
When TechCrunch last checked in with the Y Combinator-backed Vendr in October, the company had just raised $2 million, and was crowing about its profitability. Profitable seed-stage companies aren’t super common, so the startup stood out. Today Vendr is back with more news, namely that it has raised $4 million more, this time led by […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 10, 2020 • 5min
Flatfile scores $7.6M seed investment to simplify data onboarding
One of the huge challenges companies like enterprise SaaS vendors face with new customers is getting customer data into their service. It’s a problem that Flatfile founders faced first hand in their jobs, and they decided to solve it. Today, the company announced a healthy $7.6 million seed investment to expand on that vision. The […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 10, 2020 • 5min
Yugabyte lands $30M Series B as open source database continues to flourish
It’s been a big period of positive change for Yugabyte, makers of the open source, cloud native YugabyteDB database. Just last month they brought on former Pivotal CEO Bill Cook as CEO, and today the company announced it has closed a $30 million Series B. 8VC and strategic investor WiPro led the round with participation […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 9, 2020 • 16min
Acceleprise announces 26 SaaS startups from its trio of accelerators
The TechCrunch crew has worked to keep tabs on this year’s startup accelerator classes. Conventional wisdom in startup land states that great companies are founded during more trying economic times. Well, a recession was declared yesterday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. We should, therefore, see some breakout startups in the next few years. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 9, 2020 • 4min
Portobel turns food producers into direct-to-consumer businesses
A startup called Portobel is working to help food producers shift their businesses so that they can support direct-to-consumer deliveries. Portobel is backed by Heroic Ventures and led by Ranjith Kumaran, founder or co-founder of file-sharing company Hightail (acquired by OpenText) and loyalty startup PunchTab (acquired by Walmart Labs). Kumaran told me that he and his […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
