Its platform enables employees to better understand and manage their pre-tax benefits from one dashboard.
Scaling across Series A to C
There is a lot of great content on the start-up phase, but there is little available on how founders can grow a company from $1 million to $25 million in annual revenues.
Employee leave startup Cocoon launches after raising $20M in new funding
The platform is available in across all 50 states and is designed for any type of employee leave, like parental, medical, caregiver or bereavement.
SoftBank sinks $200M into Andela, propels company into unicorn territory
CEO Jeremy Johnson sees more competition coming into the global tech talent hiring space as he saw the number of Andela applicants increase 5x in the past six months.
Mirror CEO exits company, following 2020 acquisition by Lululemon
Brynn Putnam has stepped down as CEO of Mirror. The news arrives via a leaked memo to staff also viewed by TechCrunch that notes her exit from the top spot at the connected fitness startup she founded back in 2016. Putnam will continue on as an advisor through next July. This comes a little over […]
Rippling launches computer inventory management as more workers remain remote
The dashboard enables businesses to automatically store, ship and retrieve employee computers in a way that is remote and hands-free.
Alternative financing startup Pipe snaps up Stripe and HubSpot execs, expands to UK
Pipe, a two-year-old startup that aims to be the “Nasdaq for revenue,” announced today it has snagged former Stripe EIC Sid Orlando and HubSpot’s ex-Chief Strategy Officer Brad Coffey to serve on its executive team. The Miami-based fintech also revealed today its first expansion outside of the United States with its entry into the U.K. […]
Former Instacart CFO Sagar Sanghvi joins Accel as its newest partner
Instacart‘s chief financial officer Sagar Sanghvi has departed from the on-demand grocery delivery company after nearly six years and is returning to his investing roots. Specifically, Sanghvi has joined Accel as a partner focused on global growth-stage consumer and enterprise investments. Prior to becoming CFO of Instacart, Sanghvi served as the company’s vice president of […]
Casper cuts its CMO, CTO and COO amid further layoffs
Casper has laid off dozens of employees, including three C-Level executives: its chief marketing officer, chief technology officer and chief operating officer, sources say. The mattress company declined to comment. The round of layoffs, communicated to employees on Friday, largely impacted retail and operations teams, signaling that the business may be undergoing a broader restructuring. […]
Spain’s Factorial raises $80M at a $530M valuation on the back of strong traction for its ‘Workday for SMBs’
Factorial, a startup out of Barcelona that has built a platform that lets SMBs run human resources functions with the same kind of tools that typically are used by much bigger companies, is today announcing some funding to bulk up its own position: the company has raised $80 million, funding that it will be using […]