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COVID-hit UK startups cry out for help, as UK gov trails Europe in its response The UK government is reportedly looking at a range of options to support the startup industry, possibly involving a co-investment model involving state-owned funds (via the British Business Bank) and private VC funds. Investors have …

Yaguara nabs $7.2M seed to help e-commerce companies understand customers better Yaguara, a Denver-based startup that wants to help e-commerce companies understand their customers better to deliver more meaningful experiences, announced a $7.2 million seed investment today. The round was led by Foundation Capital with participation from Gradient Ventures, Rainfall …

Daily Crunch: Airbnb offers housing for healthcare workers Airbnb says it will subsidize housing for 100,000 workers at the front lines of COVID-19 care, Groupon gets a new CEO and Stripe invests in a universal checkout startup. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 26, 2020. 1. Airbnb to provide free …

tools to Jira Cloud A couple of months back, Atlassian obtained Code Barrel, the Sydney-based business behind the preferred Automation for Jira low-code device for– you presumed it– automating several elements of Jira. Unsurprisingly, Atlassian after that laid out to incorporate most of these functions right into the core Jira …

landed even more offers internationally in 2019 than in the past We all understand the turbulent tales of female-founded start-ups like Glossier and also ezCater. As well as we likewise understand just how those success tales hide the much more difficult time hundreds of various other females business owners have …

Cioplenu, an Augsburg-based startup that is building what it dubs an “operating system” for the production floor, has raised €4.2M in seed financing. Berlin-based Cherry Ventures led the round, and Munich’s 42Cap, which led Cioplenu’s pre-seed round in 2018, joined three fairly high-profile angels in the round. The three angels …

Salesforce today announced that Keith Block, the company’s co-CEO, is stepping down. This leaves company founder Marc Benioff as the sole CEO and chair of the CRM juggernaut. Block’s bio has already been wiped from Salesforce’s leadership page. Block stepped into the co-CEO role in 2018, after a long career …

Kenya based B2B e-commerce startup Sokowatch has raised $14 million in Series A funding toward its mission of revamping supply-chain markets for Africa’s informal retailers. From Nairobi, the company has created a platform that connects merchants directly to local and multinational suppliers — such as Unilever and Proctor and Gamble …

In their embrace of more digitized ways of working, many organizations have adopted robotics to automate repetitive processes. Now those organizations are seeking to scale these solutions with artificial intelligence to go beyond the routine to the innovative. In May 2019, Deloitte surveyed 523 executives in a range of industries …

HBR Staff/Pexels/Unsplash Unlike the earth’s climate, the climate for business deals remained stubbornly unchanged in 2019 — or did it? Business deals are both a lagging and a leading indicator of economic transformations. Some reflect past conditions; others signal emerging trends. A review of the past year’s most remarkable deals …