The seismic shift in how we work requires a reassessment of how we manage, even for — or especially for — seasoned leaders.
Canva CEO Melanie Perkins will tell us about the journey to a $15B valuation at Disrupt
The design space has undergone major changes in the last decade. What once was dominated by a single player in Adobe has now become a burgeoning software landscape, with a handful of major players answering the needs of designers across every industry. One such player is Canva, the startup valued at over $15 billion. The […]
Corporate venture capital follows the same trend as other VC markets: Up
We’ve seen non-venture funds flow into the later stages of startup land, pushing VCs toward earlier-stage and more venture-y deals. Why would CVCs be immune to the same trend?
Find trends, advice and value at these special breakout sessions during TC Disrupt 2021
TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 takes place September 21-23, and we’re here to call out just some of the awesome content we have scheduled over three very busy days. The Disrupt agenda so far features more than 80 interviews, panel discussions, events and breakout sessions that span the startup tech spectrum…with more to come! You gotta pay […]
Twitter experiencing widespread outages
Twitter users in Canada and parts of the U.S. appear to be having trouble accessing the social media platform on Friday morning. Reports from third-party web monitoring service Downdetector indicate the issue is impacting users across Canada and mainly the eastern parts of the U.S. near the Canadian border, though users from more states continue […]
Forbes jumps into hot media liquidity summer with a SPAC combo
Is it the most exciting debut? No. But it does highlight that with enough gumption, one can take a magazine business into the digital age and keep aggregate revenue growing. That’s worth something.
Stonehenge Technology Labs bags $2M, gives CPG companies one-touch access to metrics
Stonehenge Technology Labs wants consumer packaged goods companies to gain meaningful use from all of the data they collect.
Accounting platform Synder raises $2M to automate e-commerce bookkeeping
The company bills itself as an easy accounting platform for e-commerce businesses.
Andreessen Horowitz just rolled out a $400 million fund that’s expressly for seed deals
Andreessen Horowitz is begun to announce new funds almost as routinely as some startups have begun announcing follow-on rounds. After announcing a third biotech fund in February 2020 that’s currently investing $750 million; a pair of new funds totaling $4.5 billion last November; and, most recently, a new $2.2 billion crypto-focused fund, the firm is […]
Zeal banks $13M to offer employers a ‘build your own’ payroll product infrastructure
Enterprises use Zeal to pay large volumes of workers and keep payment data on their own native systems.