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Local services marketplace Thumbtack lays off 250 employees

Thumbtack CEO Marco Zappacosta announced in a blog post today that the company has laid off 250 employees.

Much has been written about the impact that COVID-19 and the resulting social distancing/shelter in place measures are having on small businesses (and the steps that internet platforms like Facebook and Yelp — which, after all, make money f

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Online knowing looks most likely to be a vital beneficiary of the social distancing and quarantine steps that are being applied worldwide as countries come to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic.In turn, this looks established to buoy some family member veterans of the area. To wit: Preply, a 2013-founded tutoring industry, is today introducing a $10 million
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Startups across the nation and around the globe are looking for ways to relieve shortages of much-needed individual safety equipment as well as sanitizers made use of to halt the spread of COVID-19. While some of the largest privately held technology business, like SpaceX and Tesla, have actually moved to producing ventilators, smaller sized business are additionally trying
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Rebecca Minkoff has some advice for e-commerce companies right now

When Rebecca Minkoff first moved to New York City, the then-18-year-old was making $4.75 an hour.

“I just kept working for this designer and someone was telling me what to do every day. I just didn’t like that. And I thought if I’m going to work as hard, it’s going to be for myself and I want to call my own shots,” she said. “I didn’t want to be tol

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Air Physician, the health and wellness technology startup that attaches tourists with neighborhood medical professionals, has increased $7.8 million in Collection A funding. The round is led by Kamet Ventures (the AXA-backed venture contractor), as well as The Phoenix Az Insurance Company.Founded in 2016, Air Physician intends to empower travellers that obtain unwell when abroad and need non-emergency advice or
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TechCrunchfavorite companies from 500 Startups& latest demo day

Today 500 Startups hosted a virtual demo day for its 26th batch of startups, a group of companies that TechCrunch covered back in February.

500 is not the only accelerator that moved its traditional investor pitch event online; Y Combinator made a similar move after efforts to flatten the spread of COVID-19 required changes that made its

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The massive bailout plan that the UNITED STATE government passed recently to ward off an economic collapse from measures put in area to alleviate the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic is offering billions to American small companies. Yet start-ups that got venture resources cash might be left out.So the nation's financial investment organizations and l.
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Attract, engage and retain employees in the new remote-work era

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Irene DeNigris, chief people officer of iCIMS, has a passion for cultivating a highly engaged, high-performance culture.

When looking for answers, where do people first turn? For many, it’s Google.

During the first half of March, we saw Google searches for “work from home” reach a 12-month high, garnering at least 50% more s

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Leading VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting real estate proptech

Several months ago, we surveyed more than 20 leading real estate VCs to learn about what was exciting them most in the real estate tech sector and hear their opinions on proptech trends like co-working, flexible office space and remote office space.

Since we published our survey, COVID-19 has flipped the real estate sector on its head as more

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Experience Disrupt SF online with the Disrupt Digital Pro Pass

Earlier this month we announced the launch of the Disrupt Digital Pass for TechCrunch’s flagship Disrupt SF event (September 14-16) as a way to help ensure that, no matter what, TechCrunch fans everywhere would be able to enjoy the big interviews at the show. We also hinted that we were working on a Pro edition of the Digital Pass for people who

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When is it time to stop fundraising?

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Russ is the co-founder and CEO of DocSend. He was previously a product manager at Facebook, where he arrived via the acquisition of his startup Pursuit.com, and has held roles at Dropbox, Greystripe, and Trulia. Follow him here: @rheddleston and @docsend
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Google, Amazon.com and also Microsoft are the property managers. Amidst the coronavirus financial situation, start-ups require a break from paying rent. They re in a money crunch. Income has stopped streaming in, resources markets like venture financial obligation are hesitant and startups as well as small-to-medium sized businesses are at risk of either needing to lay off massive numbers of staff members a.
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Compete in Startup Battlefield and Launch at Disrupt SF 2020

Early-stage founders: Don’t miss your chance to follow in the footsteps of tech giants. We know COVID-19 has created challenges for startup founders, but fear not. Disrupt SF is still proceeding as scheduled, with a Disrupt Digital Pass Virtual option. Launch your startup in the world’s most famous pitch competition, Startup Battlefield. The

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Russ HeddlestonContributor Russ is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of DocSend. He was previously an item manager at Facebook, where he showed up by means of the purchase of his start-up Pursuit.com, and has held duties at Dropbox, Greystripe, and Trulia. Follow him here: @rheddleston and @docsendMore articles by this contributorMany owners will have started
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Jupe is a new startup aiming to address hospital room shortfalls with modular, mobile space

We’re already entering into a healthcare crisis due to the global coronavirus pandemic, and creative solutions to address shortfalls in supplies, protective equipment and more are being developed to help where possible. A new startup — with a founding team that includes an emergency room doctor, a crisis response expert and a public health res

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AnorakGreg Castle on early-stage investing during a crisis

As the venture landscape adjusts to the COVID-19 pandemic and seismic shifts in public markets, early-stage VCs are reassessing which bets they’re making, along with questions they’re asking of founders who are exploring bleeding-edge technology.

AnorakGreg Castle on early-stage investing during a crisis

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Anorak Ventures is a small seed-investment firm that bets on emerging tech like

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Zyl resurfaces old photos to create collaborative stories

French startup Zyl has released a major update of its mobile app for iOS and Android. The app is all about finding long-forgotten memories of important life events in your photo library.

Zyl scans your photo library and magically finds photos that matter. Every day, the app sends you a notification to tell you that you can unlock a new memory — a n

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CRM has actually for years been mostly a story of software program to manage client contacts, information to assist agents do their work, as well as devices to handle incoming demands and outreach approaches. Now to include in that we're starting to see a new style: apps to aid representatives track just how they work and to work better.Today comes the current start-up in that category, a Dutch
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Turbo Systems hires former Looker CMO Jen Grant as CEO

Turbo Systems, a three-year old, no-code mobile app startup, announced today it has brought on industry veteran Jen Grant to be CEO.

Grant, who was previously vice president of marketing at Box and chief marketing officer at Elastic and Looker, brings more than 15 years of tech company experience to the young startup.

She says that when Looker got

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Barbara SprengerContributor Barbara Sprenger does dual responsibility as Chief Executive Officer of The Satellite Centers, a network of adaptable offices, and Satellite DeskWorks, cloud-based software application to take care of co-work spaces, exec collections and also corporate flexible space.All co-working isn't WeWork. As well as not all entrepreneurs are 30-year-old guys.I understand this well,
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Business Owner First (EF), the London-headquartered firm builder and also skill first investor, introduced its newest mate of deep tech companies in an initial online Trial Day, amid the unique coronavirus pandemic.Presenting start-ups, in the style of a slick pre-recorded video clip, are composed of groups developed across EF's 3 European places: L.
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Greetings pals, as well as welcome back to TechCrunch's Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week.If you missed out on Friday's major episode, it was an enjoyable one so put in the time if you have the minutes; we're working out into a brand-new organizing lineup that is forming up to be our fantastic, so we're having a blast even if we need to videotape rem
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

The three of us were back today — Natasha, Danny and Alex — to dig our way through a host of startup-focused topics. Sure, the world is stuffed full of COVID-19 news — and, to be clear, the topic did come up some — but Eq

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SendBird adds voice and video to popular chat API

SendBird has built a highly successful business with a chat API, but the company never intended to stop there, and today it announced it was adding voice and video capabilities to its communications platform.

“We’re creating more of an interaction platform to allow not just text messaging, but also voice calling and video recording capabilities on t

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Cell and gene therapy startup ElevateBio raises $170M

While economic conditions and the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic may not make for the best atmosphere for raising funding, some companies are still announcing round closures with significant money committed. Cambridge-based ElevateBio, for instance, revealed a $170 million Series B funding on Monday, with participation from new investors The

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Smart telescope startups vie to fix astronomysatellite challenge

Josh Nadeau is a Canadian journalist based in St. Petersburg who covers the intersection of Russia, technology and culture. He has written for The Economist, Atlas Obscura and The Outline.

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Starlink, the satellite branch of Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, has come under fire in recent months from astronomers over c

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Watchdogs have actually begun to raise the issue that brand-new working methods and on-line task required by the spread of the coronavirus pandemic are developing new collections of privacy, safety and security and also information defense challenges. Today a start-up is introducing a development round of funding to aid on-line organisations browse those concerns better.DataGuard, a.
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The coronavirus pandemic has almost halted a great deal of company activity, yet today comes information of a deal that emphasizes how M-A is still occurring in some fields despite (not since of) everything else going on. One.com-- the big hosting provider in Europe with about 1.5 million clients, itself got just over a year back by PE firm
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Founders should use this pause to re-assess processes and strategies

Canceled conferences will force startups to focus on scalable lead generation
Dan Wheatley is CEO/co-founder of StraightTalk Consulting, a SaaS operations and growth consultancy that works with B2B founders to implement long-term, data-driven growth strategies.

Described by Sequoia Capital as the black swan event of 2020, the long-term economic fallout

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Meri Williams steps down as CTO of UK challenger bank Monzo

Monzo, the U.K. challenger bank that now counts over 4 million account holders, has lost its CTO, TechCrunch has learned.

According to multiple sources, Meri Williams, who joined the fast-growing fintech in September 2018 to much fanfare, announced internally that she was departing, saying that she wanted to voluntarily help with cost-cutting

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