by admin | Mar 5, 2021 | News
Square buys a majority stake in Jay-Z’s Tidal, WhatsApp improves its desktop app and Hopin raises even more funding. This is your Daily Crunch for March 4, 2021. The big story: Square acquires Tidal Square announced this morning that it has purchased a majority stake...
by admin | Mar 4, 2021 | News
When Okta announced that it was acquiring Auth0 yesterday for $6.5 billion, the deal raised eyebrows. After all, it’s a substantial amount of money for one identity and access management (IAM) company to pay to buy another, similar entity. But the deal ultimately...
by admin | Mar 4, 2021 | News
For founder Najette Fellache, coming to the Bay Area a few years ago from Nantes, France was a way to grow a company she’d founded and which was already was beginning to count major U.S. corporations like GE, Tesla, Amazon, and Medtronics as customers. What that...
by admin | Mar 4, 2021 | News
Kara Nortman Contributor Share on Twitter Kara Nortman is a partner at Upfront Ventures. More posts by this contributor Consumer-oriented investors may have an edge investing in digital health There’s no overstating it: 2020 was a hell of a year. When future...
by admin | Mar 4, 2021 | News
It’s not uncommon these days to hear of U.S.-based investors backing Latin American startups. But it’s not every day that we hear of Latin American VCs investing in U.S.-based startups. Berkeley-based fintech Flourish has raised $1.5 million in a funding round led by...
by admin | Mar 4, 2021 | News
Maintaining company culture when the majority of staff is working remotely is a challenge for every organization — big and small. This was an issue, even before COVID. But it’s become an even bigger problem with so many employees working from home. Employers have to...
