Airbnb boosts host protection, adds wifi-speed verification

Last night, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky took to Twitter to share what he’s seeing in the company’s data. The broad strokes version was that the pandemic-induced flexibility in our... Read more »

Sweetgreen’s IPO pricing guidance illuminates valuation range for tech-enabled companies

Sweetgreen, a fast-casual restaurant chain that attracted ample venture capital during its life as a private company, set early terms for its IPO this morning. The well-known salad-slinger expects to... Read more »

Medium snatches up Projector and beefs up management team

Content publishing platform Medium is acquiring a small startup called Projector. As part of the deal, the entire Projector team is joining Medium with Projector’s co-founder and CEO Trevor... Read more »

15 sectors pi Ventures expects deep tech to disrupt in the next 5 years

With so much of the startup news cycle focused on unprecedented funding round sizes and record amounts of time bootstrapping, we don’t often step back from the numbers to... Read more »

Calixa snags $12M Series A to build sales tool for product-led companies

Calixa, the early stage startup that is building a tool specifically tuned for product-led sales cycles, announced a $12 million Series A today led by Kleiner Perkins with participation... Read more »

Frequency Therapeutics redesigns study after disappointing Phase 2 results, debuts new hearing loss and MS drugs

In Frequency Therapeutics’ short lifetime as a company, it’s had its ups and downs. On Tuesday, during an R&D event day, the company unleashed a slew of announcements that... Read more »

Flagship Pioneering’s new venture is betting on tRNA to treat “thousands of diseases”

On Tuesday, Flagship Pioneering, the major investor behind Moderna, announced yet another addition to their portfolio of RNA-curious companies. Following a year of hype around mRNA, a new company,... Read more »

Talent Hack raises $17 million led by Emergence to power the fitness creator economy

The Great Resignation, the pandemic-caused seismic shift in the way we work, play and live, and the boom of the creator and influencer economy has led to a surge... Read more »

Amazon-backed D2C beauty brand MyGlamm becomes unicorn with $150 million funding

The Good Glamm Group, the parent firm of direct-to-consumer beauty brand MyGlamm, is the latest Indian startup to join the unicorn club. The Mumbai-headquartered startup has raised $150 million... Read more »

Amazon-backed D2C beauty brand MyGlamm becomes unicorn with $150 million funding

The Good Glamm Group, the parent firm of direct-to-consumer beauty brand MyGlamm, is the latest Indian startup to join the unicorn club. The Mumbai-headquartered startup has raised $150 million... Read more »
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