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Twitter launches US e-commerce pilot that lets users shop from profiles

5 years 2 months ago
Twitter this morning will launch a pilot in the U.S. aimed at testing the potential for e-commerce on its platform. The company is introducing a new “Shop Module” that offers brands, businesses and other retailers the ability to showcase their products to Twitter users directly on the business’ profile. Users will then be able to […]
Sarah Perez

Relief looks to negotiate on behalf of users struggling with debt

5 years 2 months ago
Jason Saltzman is a serial entrepreneur. He first cofounded SeamlessDocs and then went on to found The Alley, a coworking space based out of New York City. Following Alley’s joint venture partnership with Verizon, Saltzman left to build something new and became fascinated with the debt consolidation and relief space. That’s how Relief, cofounded by […]
Jordan Crook

Noetic Cyber emerges from stealth with $15M led by Energy Impact Partners

5 years 2 months ago
Noetic Cyber, a cloud-based continuous cyber asset management and controls platform, has launched from stealth with a Series A funding round of $15 million led by Energy Impact Partners. The round was also backed by Noetic’s existing investors, TenEleven Ventures and GlassWing Ventures, and brings the total amount of funds raised by the startup to […]
Carly Page

Class, a Zoom-only virtual classroom, nears unicorn status after SoftBank check

5 years 2 months ago
Class, a virtual classroom that integrates exclusively with Zoom, announced today that it has raised $105 million in a financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund II. The 10-month old startup has now raised a total of $146 million in known venture funding to date, which eclipses the amount of capital raised by founder Michael Chasen’s […]
Natasha Mascarenhas

Patchwork Health raises £3.5M to fix the staff scheduling disaster inside stressed hospitals

5 years 2 months ago
The tyranny of the Excel spreadsheet continues, and especially in rostering staff. Nowhere is this more acutely felt in today’s COVID-pressured hospital wards, which are now depleted not just by the disease but by staff burnout from patchy-over or under-scheduling of staff hours. Two doctors realized this and decided to create a startup. Patchwork Health […]
Mike Butcher

Business messaging platform Gupshup raises $240 million from Tiger Global, Fidelity and others

5 years 2 months ago
Gupshup, a business messaging platform that began its journey in India 15 years ago, surprised many when it raised $100 million in April this year, roughly 10 years after its last financing round, and attained the coveted unicorn status. Now just three months later, the San Francisco-headquartered startup has secured even more capital from high-profile […]
Manish Singh
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