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Aug 27, 2020 • 8min
Course Hero, a profitable edtech unicorn, raises rare cash
Like any successful founder, Andrew Grauer had bright, long-term ambitions for Course Hero from the moment he launched it in 2006. He started the business to create a place where students could ask questions and get answers similar to Chegg, which launched 15 months before Course Hero . But as he slowly built it, he […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 26, 2020 • 4min
Payments services company Finix adds $30 million to its Series B
Finix, a startup that provides payments-related services to other companies, announced it has extended its Series B financing with a $30 million investment led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and American Express Ventures. The fintech startup has now raised over $96 million in venture capital. According to CEO and co-founder Richie Serna, $90 million of that […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 26, 2020 • 5min
Eden intros SaaS tools in a bid to become a more comprehensive office management platform
Eden, the office management platform founded by Joe du Bey, is today announcing the launch of several new enterprise software features. The company, which offers a marketplace for office managers to procure services like office cleaning, repairs, etc., is looking to offer a more comprehensive platform. The software features include a COVID team safety tool […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 25, 2020 • 6min
Visual collaboration startup MURAL raises huge $118M Series B
This morning MURAL announced that it has raised $118 million in an outsized Series B. The visual collaboration startup provides a whiteboard-like digital environment that allows for users to cooperate and brainstorm. MURAL announced that it had raised $23 million earlier this year, though that investment closed in 2019. The $23 million round was a […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 25, 2020 • 5min
Conan is coming to Disrupt 2020
In 2010, TV show host Conan O’Brien was abruptly asked to give up the time slot he’d been handed just six months earlier by his longtime employer NBC. Instead, he famously gave the network the figurative finger, taking his act to the basic cable network TBS later that same year and — embraced by legions […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 24, 2020 • 3min
SugarCRM acquires Node to gain predictive customer intelligence
SugarCRM announced this morning it has acquired customer intelligence startup, Node. The companies did not reveal the purchase price, but the deal has closed. While Sugar gains a ton of AI expertise, it also adds a customer prediction element to the platform such as figuring out the customers most likely to convert or most likely […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 24, 2020 • 5min
Overlooked teams up with college newspapers to build a news-focused social network
George Sehremelis is building what he calls a “social news network,” with the aim of combatting the spread of misinformation and fake news online. “My goal has always been make an impact on the 2020 election,” Sehremelis told me — a tall order, particularly when the big social networks are struggling to solve these same […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 21, 2020 • 4min
Cobalt.io grabs $29M Series B to continue building out pentesting platform
The promise of SaaS has always been about taking tedious, expensive manual tasks and finding a way to build a platform to automate them. Cobalt.io is doing that with pentesting, the process of testing an application for security vulnerabilities before it goes out the door. Today, the startup announced a $29 million Series B led […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 21, 2020 • 4min
DoorDash expands with on-demand grocery delivery
DoorDash is announcing that customers can now order groceries through the DoorDash app from partners including Smart & Final, Meijer and Fresh Thyme. Additional stores like Hy-vee and Gristedes/D’Agnostino are supposed to be added in the next few weeks. Through these partnerships, DoorDash says it has a delivery footprint covering 75 million Americans in markets […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 20, 2020 • 3min
Airbnb has confidentially filed to go public
In a turn of fortune, Airbnb today announced that it has filed to go public, albeit confidentially. The move puts the home-sharing service on a path to a public offering sooner rather than later, and comes after reports that the company was prepping an IPO filing this month. Those same reports indicated that Airbnb could […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
