Browsing Category: Startups

  • MediaRadar’s new product helps event organizers maximize sales

    MediaRadar CEO Todd Krizelman describes his company as having “a very specific objective, which is to help media salespeople sell more advertising” by providing them with crucial data. And with today’s launch of MediaRadar Events, Krizelman hopes to do something similar for event organizers. These customer groups might actually be one and the same, as …

    September 26, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Europe shows the way in online privacy

    Alastair Mitchell Contributor Share on Twitter Alastair Mitchell is a partner at multi-stage VC fund EQT Ventures and the fund’s B2B sales, marketing and SaaS expert. Ali also focuses on helping US companies scale into Europe and vice versa. After passively watching for many years as tech giants developed dominant market positions that threaten consumer …

    September 26, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Gatsby raises $15M Series A for its modern web development platform

    Gatsby, a platform that uses modern web technologies like React and GraphQL to help developers build better sites faster, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A round led by CRV. Previous investors Trinity Ventures, Mango Capital, Fathom Capital and Dig Ventures also participated, as did Kong CEO Augusto Marietti and Adobe …

    September 26, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Kobalt’s edge in changing the music industry

    Kobalt Music Group is driving the music industry to provide more transparency and faster royalty payments to musicians and challenging the traditional record labels and publishers with its own alternative service offerings that don’t take ownership of copyrights. Competition and market size are headwinds in its future growth, however, and the incumbents are thriving not …

    September 26, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Learn how to help build a sustainable gig economy at Disrupt SF

    A handful of years ago, the on-demand or “gig” economy was seen as an innovative system of modern work that provided workers and consumers alike with flexibility, independence and convenience. It seems like every week a new on-demand or labor marketplace startup would stroll through Sand Hill Road with a slick logo and a new …

    September 26, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Beyond Pricing raises $42M to tell you what to charge on Airbnb

    Most people just guess how to price their vacation rental based on minimal research, or take platforms like Airbnb’s suggestions that just want to maximize their own revenue. Beyond Pricing aligns itself with home owners, taking 1% of bookings to optimize their rates on a daily basis. As you might expect of a startup that …

    September 26, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Terminal raises $17M led by 8VC to source and build remote teams of engineers

    As LinkedIn announces the next stage of its own ambitions in the world of recruitment by bringing in more big data insights, another one of the startups indirectly chipping away at its position among knowledge workers by providing a way of hiring and building entire teams in remote locations is announcing another round of funding. …

    September 26, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Battlefield vets StrongSalt (formerly OverNest) announces $3M seed round

    StrongSalt, then known as OverNest, appeared at the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC Battlefield in 2016, and announced a product for searching encrypted code, which remains unusual to this day. Today, the company announced a $3 million seed round led by Valley Capital Partners. StrongSalt founder and CEO Ed Yu says encryption remains a difficult proposition, and …

    September 26, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator introduces 14 new startups at demo day

    The Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, based in New York, is ready to once again unveil its latest class of startups. Thus far, ERA has produced 190 startup which have raised more than $450 imllion in capital and exceed $2 billion in valuation collectively, according to the accelerator. So without any further ado, let’s take a look …

    September 26, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Honeycomb.io raises $11.4M to help developers observe and debug their apps

    As companies continue to expand the number of cloud-based tools and apps that are used to run their businesses, DevOps continues to grow as a field of IT to help developers meet those demands. In one of the more recent moves, Honeycomb.io, which developers use to observe code on live apps, microservices and other processes …

    September 26, 2019 | by Raheel