We are witnessing the greatest paradigm shift in power since the advent of the venture capital industry. Since taking my first VC role in 2012, I’ve seen more change in the past year than all other years combined. Six years after Ellen Pao’s landmark gender discrimination case against Kleiner …
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Customer engagement service Freshworks, which you may still remember under its old name of Freshdesk, today announced that it has acquired Natero, a customer success service with some AI/ML smarts that helps businesses prevent churn and manage their customers. The acquisition, Freshworks CEO Girish Mathrubootham told me, will help …
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ZenHub, a project management tool for GitHub, today announced the launch of Workspaces, a feature that makes it easier for teams to use its service — and GitHub — by allowing them to tweak the service to the needs of specific teams while still using GitHub as the ground …
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Of the many categories in the tech world, none is more ferociously competitive than enterprise. For decades, SAP, Oracle, Adobe, Microsoft, IBM and Salesforce, to name a few of the giants, have battled to deliver the tools businesses want to become more productive and competitive. That market is closing …
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Away‘s new lofty valuation proves how far you can get with excellent branding. The direct-to-consumer seller of Instagrammable luggage has collected $100 million in Series D funding at a $1.4 billion valuation in a round led by Wellington Management, with support from Baillie Gifford, Lone Pine Capital and Global …
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A high demand for engineering talent in our digital world has driven companies that need to make these technical hires to cast their nets wider in the search for good people. Now, a company that has built a platform that it says helps companies do this in a more …
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Photo: Courtesy of @lvmh Instagram. The LVMH Group has partnered with Robyn Rihanna Fenty (pop superstar Rihanna to the rest of us) to create Fenty—a new luxury fashion Maison (yes, a whole house!), based in Paris, the couture capital. Looks like fans hoping for the songstress-cum-makeup maven-cum-creative director to release …
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In this section of my exploration into innovation in inclusive housing, I am digging into the 200+ companies impacting the key phases of developing and managing housing. Innovations have reduced costs in the most expensive phases of the housing development and management process. I explore innovations in each of these …
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T-Mobile and Sprint have been playing footsie for years, and the pair announced their impending merger last year. The deal, valued at $26 billion, is still winding its way through regulatory review, but recent leaks suggest it won’t be the slam dunk the carriers had expected. With the deal …
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Wirex is all about innovation. We were the first platform to offer a Visa card that lets you spend digital currency, the first Europe-headquartered crypto-friendly company to hold an FCA e-money licence and the first to introduce CryptobackTM – a crypto rewards programme that pays out in BTC. 2019 has been …
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