TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Several years ago, entrepreneur Dhiraj Sharma’s first company, a software consultancy, was hired by an HR tech firm to develop an app to improve the employee onboarding experience. Managers can create an employee directory, as well as social workspaces that can be customized for various teams and departments.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And some of the best startups can come from people who experience the problem firsthand, even if they are not the most technical,” Shostak noted. Jamie Shostak: Back in 2017, I ran into a tall German guy at the coffee machine of a co-working space in Melbourne: Michael. “Every startup has to start with an idea.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Total raised: $12 million. Over the years, the company managed to raise $12 million, including a $10 million Series A led by GV (Google Ventures) back in 2017. The company announced plans to add 1,000 electric delivery vehicles from Chanje Energy, a California-based and China-backed startup founded in 2015.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Until August this year, Pony was gearing up to go public in New York with a $12 billion valuation through a SPAC merger. The company put those plans on hold as it struggled to gain assurances from Beijing that it wouldn’t become the next target of a crackdown against Chinese technology companies going public in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

It’s not limited to any particular size of company, either — everything from fledgling startups and scaleups , to billion-dollar public entities such as Netflix have all “downsized” or put their hiring plans on pause this year. “The biggest driver of our hiring is our financial independence,” Yen said.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

And yes, they’re hiring! Jessica Willis, the CEO and founder of Pocketnest (and also a top female founder in the Midwest) noticed that the next generation does business differently, and most financial institutions leave them out. So what are the companies that are putting Detroit on the tech hub map? But not Pocketnest. Altimetrik.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The New York-based company also previously raised (but did not announce) a $13 million Series A — also led by SoftBank Ventures Asia — and $10 million in seed funding. The experience inspired him to start his first business at an early age, turning his grandmother’s empty apartment into a short-term rental space for backpackers.

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