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Nov 18, 2020 • 8min
Airbnb files to go public
Airbnb filed to go public today, bringing the well-known unicorn one step closer to being a public company. The financial results show a company on the rebound, but smaller than it was. Its more granular financial results also make clear how hard the pandemic was on the travel-reliant unicorn. Regarding Airbnb’s worth, investors will have […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 17, 2020 • 5min
Cooper raises $2M to build a professional network centered on introductions
In a period of social distancing, making new professional connections feels harder than ever. So Amsterdam-based Cooper is building a network that’s all about making and receiving introductions. “Everything that happens in the network is based on on the foundation of introductions,” CEO Robert Gaal told me. “You should never get an unwanted message, and […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 17, 2020 • 6min
Deep Vision announces its low-latency AI processor for the edge
Deep Vision, a new AI startup that is building an AI inferencing chip for edge computing solutions, is coming out of stealth today. The six-year-old company’s new ARA-1 processors promise to strike the right balance between low latency, energy efficiency and compute power for use in anything from sensors to cameras and full-fledged edge servers. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 16, 2020 • 6min
DoorDash files to go public
After filing earlier this year, DoorDash dropped its public S-1 filing this morning, bringing clarity to its numbers and moving it closer to a public debut that should happen before the end of the year. The company is one of several startups that we expect to see IPOs from before the year ends, despite some […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 16, 2020 • 4min
Getaround tops up $25M debt financing to its $140M Series E
Silicon Valley peer-to-peer car rental startup Getaround has secured a $25 million loan from Horizon Technology Finance Corporation. The financing announcement comes one month after Getaround raised $140 million from investors, including SoftBank Vision Fund, Menlo Ventures, Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus’ Reinvent Capital. Getaround’s raise signals that the company is looking for new ways […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 13, 2020 • 4min
JumpCloud raises $75M Series E as cloud directory service thrives during pandemic
JumpCloud, the cloud directory service that debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in 2013, announced a $75 million Series E today. The round was led by BlackRock with participation from existing investor General Atlantic. The company wasn’t willing to discuss the current valuation, but has now raised over $166 million, according to Crunchbase data. Changes in […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 12, 2020 • 4min
Bootstrapped Clearfind wants to cut your software spend, for a small fee
Software is eating the world, and that grub can be costly. As the market for enterprise tools and software continues to balloon, organizations are spending more and more on that software across an increasingly complicated and rapidly evolving landscape. That’s where Clearfind comes in. Clearfind was founded (and bootstrapped) by James Layfield and Jocelyn Simon. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 12, 2020 • 4min
Mozart Data lands $4M seed to provide out-of-the-box data stack
Mozart Data founders Peter Fishman and Dan Silberman have been friends for over 20 years, working at various startups, and even launching a hot sauce company together along the way. As technologists, they saw companies building a data stack over and over. They decided to provide one for them and Mozart Data was born. The […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 11, 2020 • 4min
Molotov launches free ad-supported streaming service Mango
French startup Molotov provides a TV streaming service in France that replaces the traditional set-top box. You can access live TV, subscribe to premium channels, watch content after they air and record content in the cloud. Today, the company is launching a different service, its own ad-supported on-demand streaming service — or AVOD service for […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 11, 2020 • 5min
With $29M in funding, Isovalent launches its cloud-native networking and security platform
Isovalent, a startup that aims to bring networking into the cloud-native era, today announced that it has raised a $29 million Series A round led by Andreesen Horowitz and Google. In addition, the company today officially launched its Cilium platform (which was in stealth until now) to help enterprises connect, observe and secure their applications. […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
