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Topline Pro grabs $5M to help home service businesses scale online

TechCrunch

Nick Ornitz, co-founder and CEO, started the company with Shannon Kay after meeting in business school. They launched the current subscription product, which starts at $75 per month, in January of 2022. In fact, this is becoming a hot area for startups to play in and for investors to flock.

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“I guess we’ll know we’ve made it when a woman can get away with behaving like Elon Musk.” Talking With VC Ashley Mayer About Finding Your Career, Taking Box Public, And Why She’s Not Interested In Reading Yet Another Female CEO Takedown

Hunter Walk

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. But for the first time since abandoning my law school plan A, my mandate was clear: I needed to work at a startup. First, congrats! Enter Box.

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Fintech Roundup: The gloves are off in the spend management space

TechCrunch

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! Coincidentally, the same day, Emburse — a nearly $200 million-in-ARR expense software company — announced it was doing the exact opposite.

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Tech industry reacts to Adam Neumann’s a16z-backed return to real estate

TechCrunch

Andreessen Horowitz announced on Monday that it has written its largest single check to-date into Neumann’s new startup, Flow. The stealthy startup is trying to reinvent real estate (again), but instead of commercial properties, which WeWork focused on, Neumann is looking into revolutionizing rental properties.

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2021 — YC Year in Review

Y Combinator

In June, I wrote a blog post comparing YC to CRISPR. When a founder is accepted into YC, we modify the startup’s DNA, edit it, to include key alleles that make success more likely. In the end, however, the secret to success of any startup lies squarely with the founders — their vision and their execution. funded, went public.

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2021 — YC Year in Review

Y Combinator

In June, I wrote a blog post comparing YC to CRISPR. When a founder is accepted into YC, we modify the startup’s DNA, edit it, to include key alleles that make success more likely. In the end, however, the secret to success of any startup lies squarely with the founders — their vision and their execution.

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Newsletter: GoDaddy’s startup pick + WSJ’s miracle material

OurCrowd

Startup of the Week: GoDaddy bets on Tailor Brands. The Startup Nation’s startup government. Startup of the Week: GoDaddy bets on Tailor Brands. Join us on Sunday to meet the CEO of Tailor Brands , a fast-growing startup backed by GoDaddy and other top-drawer investors, as noted in TechCrunch. Introductions.

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