Beamery closes $28M Series B to stoke support for its ‘talent CRM’
Beamery, a London-based startup that offers self-styled “talent CRM”– aka ‘candidate relationship management’ — and recruitment marketing software targeted at fast-growing companies, has closed a $28M...
View ArticleThe Predictive Index brings in $50M to help businesses create winning teams
Funding will get you a long way, but people, at the end of the day, are the key to a successful business. The Predictive Index, which develops behavioral and cognitive employee assessments, has raised...
View ArticleUdacity adds 14 hiring partners as AI, VR and self-driving talent wars heat up
Udacity is positioned perfectly to benefit from the rush on talent in a number of growing areas of interest among tech companies and startups. The online education platform has added 14 new hiring...
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Bad PR ideas, esports, and the Valley’s talent poaching war
Sending severed heads, and even more PR DON’Ts I wrote a “master list” of PR DON’Ts earlier this week, and now that list has nearly doubled as my fellow TechCrunch writers continued to experience even...
View ArticleAs stocks recover, private investors aren’t buying the hype
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today we need to talk about what we’re hearing from the private markets and the...
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Around is the new floating head video chat multitasking app
You have to actually get work done, not just video call all day, but apps like Zoom want to take over your screen. Remote workers who need to stay in touch while staying productive are forced to juggle...
View ArticleThe pace of startup layoffs may be slowing down
Startups hit the brakes in March as COVID-19 took a toll on the global economy. As certain industries ground to a halt, cohorts of startups made staffing cuts, including those focused on serving...
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Is Substack really worth $650M?
Substack didn’t invent the paid newsletter, but the startup’s early success with the model is enticing previous backers to more than double down on the media startup. The Exchange explores startups,...
View ArticleLate-stage capital is having a ‘cascading effect’ on European VC activity
Capping off our dig into the early-stage venture capital market, we’re taking a quick look at Europe this morning. Previously, The Exchange tucked into the United States’ early-stage market for startup...
View ArticleCanadians are polite, but we’re still recruiting your biotech talent, America
Michael May Contributor Share on Twitter Michael May is the president and CEO of the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine. Jayson Myers Contributor Share on Twitter Jayson Myers is...
View ArticleWhere and when to spend your recently raised dollars
The market today has a lot of activation energy, even as the pandemic continues to play out. We’re seeing ample capital, a focus on distributed investing, more first-check investors than ever before,...
View ArticleHow my company is winning the war for engineering talent
Konstantin Richter Contributor Share on Twitter Konstantin Richter is the founder and CEO of Blockdaemon, an independent blockchain infrastructure platform. The engineering talent war is real. It has...
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From the American heartland, a startup boom
It felt like something of a coming-of-age party for the Chicago startup scene, a city that has long held a leading position in the larger Midwest market, when Sprout Social went public. The company...
View ArticleWhy we rebuilt our equity plan for flexibility (and how you can, too)
Colin Turner Contributor Share on Twitter Colin Turner is co-founder and COO of Postscript, an SMS marketing platform leveraged by thousands of Shopify businesses. Mailchimp made headlines last month...
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Searchlight puts new capital to work with expanded talent intelligence tools
Someone’s education and work history can be similar to other resumes in a pile, but Searchlight aims to improve how companies measure a person’s soft skills to provide not only a differentiator, but...
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Lawtrades aims to change how your company utilizes legal resources
Similar to other industries embracing contract work, Lawtrades is giving legal professionals a way to become independent and run their own virtual law practices. Raad Ahmed and Ashish Walia started the...
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Daily Crunch: India announces plans for digital rupee, 30% tax on crypto profits
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, February 1, 2022! I...
View ArticleThe truth about management in Silicon Valley: It doesn’t exist
George Arison Contributor Share on Twitter George Arison is the co-founder and CEO of online used car marketplace Shift. More posts by this contributor Shift’s George Arison shares 6 tips for taking...
View ArticleVirtual CISO startup Cynomi raises $3.5M to help SMBs automate cybersecurity
Cynomi, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that has built a virtual CISO platform for SMBs and service providers, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding led by Flint Capital. Typically, virtual CISO —...
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