StartUp - TheIndianSubcontinent

Attract, engage and retain employees in the new remote-work era

Irene DeNigrisContributor

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

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 28 March 2020

Write comment (93 Comments)

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

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 27 March 2020

Write comment (90 Comments)

This member of the $100M ARR club keeps surprising

Monday.com surpassed $130M ARR before the remote-work boom

As efforts to flatten the spread of COVID-19 pushes employees from their offices, remote work is undergoing a surge in popularity.

Well-known remote-work-friendly companies like Zoom have seen a rise in usage, while Slack has already reported that it is successfully converting new users into paying

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 26 March 2020

Write comment (90 Comments)

Russ HeddlestonContributor

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

More posts by this contributor

No one wants to prepare for their

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 28 March 2020

Write comment (99 Comments)

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.

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 27 March 2020

Write comment (93 Comments)

Helm.ai raises $13M on its unsupervised learning approach to driverless car AI

Four years ago, mathematician Vlad Voroninski saw an opportunity to remove some of the bottlenecks in the development of autonomous vehicle technology thanks to breakthroughs in deep learning.

Now, Helm.ai, the startup he co-founded in 2016 with Tudor Achim, is coming out of stealth with an announcement that it has raised $13 million in a seed

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 26 March 2020

Write comment (99 Comments)

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

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 28 March 2020

Write comment (91 Comments)

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

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 27 March 2020

Write comment (91 Comments)

What we&ve learned from building 40,000+ links for clients

Amanda MilliganContributor

Amanda Milligan is the marketing director at Fractl, a prominent growth marketing agency that’s helped Fortune 500 companies and boutique businesses alike earn quality media coverage, backlinks, awareness and authority.

Since our agency opened in 2012, we’ve learned a lot about how to build quality links through c

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 26 March 2020

Write comment (95 Comments)

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

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 28 March 2020

Write comment (100 Comments)

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

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 27 March 2020

Write comment (93 Comments)

Y Combinator is fast-tracking investments in startups tackling COVID-19

Y Combinator wants to bring more startups through its accelerator that can help with the COVID-19 crisis, and the firm is looking to expedite the pace of its application process so it can put money behind the efforts sooner.

The accelerator’s most recent batch “presented” just last week in a virtual demo day that was adjusted in light of the early o

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 26 March 2020

Write comment (99 Comments)

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,

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 28 March 2020

Write comment (98 Comments)

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.

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 27 March 2020

Write comment (99 Comments)

OfferUp, a top online in addition to mobile market application, presented today it s enhancing $120 million in a new round of funding led by competing sector letgo s bulk capitalist, OLX Group, as well as others. As a component of the deal, OfferUp will certainly similarly be getting letgo s identified company, with OLX Group acquiring a 40% threat in the newly incorporated

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 26 March 2020

Write comment (95 Comments)

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

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 28 March 2020

Write comment (93 Comments)

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

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 27 March 2020

Write comment (96 Comments)

Spotinst rebrands as Spot and announces new cloud spend dashboard

Spotinst, the startup that helps companies find lower-cost spot instances in the cloud, announced today that it was rebranding as Spot. It also announced a brand new cloud usage dashboard to help companies get a detailed view of their cloud spend.

Amiram Shachar, co-founder and CEO at Spot, says the new product is designed to give customers much

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 26 March 2020

Write comment (94 Comments)

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.

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

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 27 March 2020

Write comment (97 Comments)

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

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 27 March 2020

Write comment (94 Comments)

Public optimism doesn&t convert to checks, founders report

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.

How quickly our world has changed. In late February, TechCrunch covered the news that TripActions, a unicorn four times over, had secured a $500 million credit line to help it scale its corporate travel-focused business; however,

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 26 March 2020

Write comment (90 Comments)

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

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 27 March 2020

Write comment (95 Comments)

Early today, Quick, a start-up framework platform-agnostic login in addition to check out remedies, presented that Stripe has actually led a $20 million economic investment into its organisation. Prior investors Index Ventures and additionally Susa Ventures took part in the round. Susa previously joined the company s late-2019 round that Index led.Coming in late March, the brand-new

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 27 March 2020

Write comment (98 Comments)

After a complex trip to the shop to obtain an air filter back in 2012, 2 N.C. State University pupils, Thad Tarkington along with Kevin Barry, created the concept to make this routine residence maintenance procurement a subscription-based business. The following year, their start-up FilterEasy had a couple of hundred customers. Quick in advance to currently, as well as also

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 26 March 2020

Write comment (95 Comments)

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

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 27 March 2020

Write comment (90 Comments)

When Eliot Buchanan attempted to utilize his credit report card to pay his Harvard tuition expenses, the settlement was rejected due to the reality that the college asserted it doesn t accept credit rating. Recognizing the very same problem exists for numerous various purchases like board, rental fee as well as supplier settlements, he released Plastiq. Plastiq aids people make usage of financial institution card to pay, or get

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 26 March 2020

Write comment (91 Comments)

Battery analytics software startup Twaice raises €11M Series A led by Creandum

Twaice, the Munich-based startup that has built analytics software to help with battery management in electric vehicles and other devices, has raised €11 million in Series A funding.

Leading the round is European early-stage venture capital firm Creandum, with participation from existing investors Cherry Ventures, UVC Partners and Speedinvest,

Details: Category: Startup World; Published: 26 March 2020

Write comment (98 Comments)

Page 65 of 89