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Oct 29, 2019 • 4min
Less than 2 weeks left for early bird savings to Disrupt Berlin 2019
Entrepreneurs, founders, investors and all startup fans in between — take heed. The days for saving serious dough on tickets to Disrupt Berlin 2019areseriously numbered. Right now, early bird pricing starts at €445 + VAT and, depending on the type of pass you purchase, you can save up to €500. But this bird takes flight for parts unknown on 8 November at 11:59 p.m. (CEST). Get serious, beat the deadline and save. Buy your early bird pass to Disrupt Berlin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 28, 2019 • 3min
Welcome to the Jungle raises $22.3 million to make recruitment easier
French startup Welcome to the Jungle has raised a new $22.3 million funding round (€20 million). The startup is both a media company and a tech startup that wants to empower tech companies when it comes to recruitment. It doesn’t find the right candidate for you, it helps you get exposure, track application and facilitate onboarding. Gaia Capital Partners is leading the round with existing investors Bpifance, XAnge and Jean-Paul Guisset also participating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 25, 2019 • 3min
Medium says it will compensate writers based on reading time, not claps
Medium is announcing significant changes to its Partner Program, where subscribers pay for access to exclusive content, and the revenue gets split with writers. The biggest change is that writers will now be compensated based “primarily” on reading time, rather than claps. In a post, Medium’s Emma Smith describes reading time as “a closer measure of quality and resonance with readers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 25, 2019 • 4min
Swiftmile will become the ‘gas station’ for electric bikes and scooters in Austin
Anyone who has tried to ride an electric scooter knows the likelihood of finding one with a charged battery is quite low. Swiftmile, which just landed a contract with the city of Austin, supplies cities and private operators with docks equipped to park and charge both scooters and e-bikes. What Swiftmile offers serves as a win for operators, riders and cities alike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 24, 2019 • 6min
A bike lover’s take on the Cowboy e-bike
Electric-bike maker Cowboy recently let me spend a couple of weeks with one of their e-bikes. It’s a well-designed e-bike that makes biking effortless, even if you’re going uphill. Cowboy is a Brussels-based startup. The company raised a $3 million seed round a couple of years ago and an $11.1 million (€10 million) Series A round last year. The company designs e-bikes from scratch. Components feel more integrated than in a normal e-bike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 23, 2019 • 3min
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow
Databricks is a SaaS business built on top of a bunch of open source tools, and apparently it’s been going pretty well on the business side of things. In fact, the company claims to be one of the fastest growing enterprise cloud companies ever. Today the company announced a massive $400 million Series F funding round on a hefty $6.2 billion valuation. Today’s funding brings the total raised to almost a $900 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 22, 2019 • 4min
YellowHeart allows musicians and concert organizers to take more control of resold tickets
YellowHeart is trying to solve a problem that should be familiar to anyone who’s ever tried to buy a ticket to a popular concert: Those tickets will often get snatched up by scalpers, who then resell them at a much higher price. In fact, the startup’s CEO, Josh Katz, said he founded the company because he’s a music “megafan” himself, and he was “just tired of getting ripped off by scalpers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 21, 2019 • 3min
Tilting Point acquires game monetization startup Gondola
Tilting Point announced yesterday that it has acquired Gondola, a company that aims to increase to improve game monetization by optimizing in-game offers and video ads. Tilting Point CEO Kevin Segalla described his company’s model as “progressive publishing” — usually, mobile game developers starting working with Tilting Point because they need help with user acquisition, and then develop a deeper publishing relationship over time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 18, 2019 • 3min
The Information will launch Ticker, a tech news app that costs $29 per year
Since it was founded by journalist Jessica Lessin in 2013, The Information has stood out in the tech news landscape for its focus on an ad-free, subscription-driven business model (a focus that seems increasingly prescient). Now, the upcoming launch of an app called Ticker suggests that the company is looking to expand its audience while maintaining that subscription model. The Information describes Ticker as its first consumer app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 17, 2019 • 4min
&Open helps businesses distribute gifts to reward customer loyalty
&Open is a startup with an unusual name, and one that fills an unusual niche in the business world. It has built a gift giving platform, so that businesses can reward loyalty with a small token of appreciation. The gift depends on the business and the circumstances, but it could be something like a book or a tea towel and a recipe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
