StartupNation

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The pandemic has made life difficult in innumerable ways, but it has also presented business opportunities to savvy entrepreneurs. Company closures left spaces for startups to fill, and the unprecedented environment prompted the creation and development of specific markets. Starting a company amid the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Gloat , an internal marketplace for corporate talent, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series D round led by Generation Investment Management, bringing the startup’s total raised to $192 million. Generation, notably, is chaired by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Image Credits: Gloat.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

During the mid-aughts, Alberta was booming thanks to the high price of oil. During his free time, he started a blog to tell his friends back home about his life out west, and also to recommend TV shows. Then, in 2021, Morrison left Calgary for Halifax, Nova Scotia, back east. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. There’s the argument that startup tensions are inevitable and common, so should we spotlight every time something bubbles to the surface, especially at the cost of an underrepresented founder who may just be doing their best?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2022

I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! If it feels like we’ve been over-indexing on expense/spend management news, it’s because there has just been so darn much of it.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

A startup called Tapcart is now doing the same for mobile commerce. Following a year of 3x revenue growth, in part driven by the pandemic, Tapcart is today announcing the close of a $50 million round of Series B funding, led by Left Lane Capital. Tapcart’s founders Sina Mobasser and Eric Netsch at their Santa Monica HQ.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Demand for high-tech employees 244% higher than 2020, but post-pandemic slowdown looms. The OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index is a quarterly report and data series tracking vacancies and hiring patterns at high-tech companies in Israel and abroad. Total job vacancies rise by 244% percent from Q3 2020 to Q3 2021. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.

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