September 17, 2020
Which 5 cloud startup categories are the hottest?
Hello from the midst of Disrupt 2020: after this short piece for you I am wrapping my prep for a panel with investors from Bessemer, a16z and Canaan…
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September 15, 2020
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says the pandemic forced the company to reevaluate what work means
Dropbox CEO and co-founder Drew Houston, appearing at TechCrunch Disrupt today, said that COVID has accelerated a shift to distributed work that we have been talking about for…
Read articleSeptember 12, 2020
Extra Crunch Friday roundup: Edtech funding surges, Poland VC survey, inside Shift’s SPAC plan, more
I live in San Francisco, but I work an East Coast schedule to get a jump on the news day. So I’d already been at my desk for…
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Willo, a freemium video interview SaaS, scores ~$320K during the remote work boom
Glasgow, Scotland-based video interview startup Willo has scored a £250,000 (~$320k) seed round of funding after watching demand for its asynchronous Q&A style video platform leap up during…
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12 Paris-based VCs look at the state of their city
Four years after the Great Recession, France’s newly elected socialist president François Hollande raised taxes and increased regulations on founder-led startups. The subsequent flight of entrepreneurs to places…
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InfoSum raises $15.1M for its privacy-first, federated approach to big data analytics
Data protection and data privacy have gone from niche concerns to mainstream issues in the last several years, thanks to new regulations and a cascade of costly breaches…
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Box benefits from digital transformation as it raises its growth forecast
Box has always been a bit of an enigma for Wall Street, and perhaps for enterprise software in general. Unlike vendors who shifted to the cloud tools like…
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How Salesforce beat its own target to reach $20B run rate ahead of schedule
Salesforce launched in 1999, one of the early adherents to what would eventually be called SaaS and cloud computing. On Tuesday, the company reached a huge milestone when…
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Salesforce confirms it’s laying off around 1,000 people in spite of monster quarter
In what felt like strange timing, Salesforce has confirmed a report in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal that it was laying off around 1,000 people, or approximately 1.9% of…
Read articleAugust 25, 2020
Industry experts say it’s full speed ahead as Snowflake files S-1
When Snowflake filed its S-1 ahead of an upcoming IPO yesterday, it wasn’t exactly a shock. The company which raised $1.4 billion had been valued at $12.4 billion…
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