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Fintech Wagestream helps 50,000 furloughed staff access wages early as...
London fintech startup Wagestream helps employees access their salaries earlier in the month to cover expenses and avoid drawing expensive payday loans.The company has been working with numerous NHS...
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This CEO says that Sequoia Capital inadvertently started a 'herd mentality'...
On March 5th, legendary venture capital firm Sequoia Capital published the now-infamous "Black Swan" letter, warning startups of the coronavirus crisis. A startup CEO now criticizes the letter, saying...
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30 startups creating the future of work that will prosper in 2020, according...
As the coronavirus crisis forces people to work remotely, tools that help them stay connected and productive are booming in popularity.We asked a select group of VCs to name enterprise startups that...
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Hot startups like Bird, Wonderschool, and ZipRecruiter have been doing...
Layoffs at some high-profile startups — including Bird, Wonderschool, and ZipRecruiter — were announced via mass video calls.Experts say that's hardly best management practice.Even during an extended...
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Check out the pitch deck that London fintech Yapily used to raise $13 million...
London-based fintech Yapily has raised $13 million from Lakestar to help the company continue its personnel and geographic growth.The company sells its open banking API into Fortune 500 companies as...
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How SoftBank-backed GetYourGuide plans to survive travel's 'nuclear winter'...
SoftBank-backed travel startup GetYourGuide has described the COVID-19 pandemic as a "nuclear winter" for the travel industry.The company runs an online marketplace that lets people book tours and...
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25 books C-suite leaders and billionaire investors say all entrepreneurs...
Though there is no single way to approach entrepreneurship, reading remains one of the best ways to learn what it takes to launch a business. Billionaire moguls like Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett have...
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European governments hope emergency funding will help avert mass collapse of...
This story was delivered to Business Insider Intelligence Connectivity & Tech Briefing subscribers earlier this morning.To get this story plus others to your inbox each day, hours before they're...
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'Some companies are very, very ready to hire': This VC-created job board...
Silicon Valley startups have been slammed by layoffs over the past month, as the coronavirus pandemic has squeezed business and threatened to dry up funding. But close to 180 startups have sent in...
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Venture-backed startups are laying off thousands of tech workers as the...
Venture-backed startups have begun laying off employees, as the coronavirus and the subsequent economic shutdown has wreaked havoc on companies large and small. Business Insider is keeping a list of...
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Startup employees are scrambling to offload equity options as layoffs sweep...
EquityBee, a startup that lets startup employees sell vested equity options to a group of investors, said its activity in March was an all-time high as layoffs swept across Silicon Valley's startup...
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Apple is reportedly in the process of snapping up NextVR, its third...
Apple is reportedly in the process of acquiring virtual-reality video-streaming service NextVR for $100 million, according to 9to5mac's Zac Hall.The smartphone giant has been on a buying spree over the...
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Notion's angel investors are eyeing 'beautiful' returns after the startup...
Notion, a startup that is notoriously shy about taking venture capital, just raised funds at a $2 billion valuation.The deal terms were good news for early investors, who put in only a small amount of...
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As startup investors flee deals, this venture capital hotshot is launching a...
European venture capital firm Blossom Capital is launching an angel network to help fund founders at the seed and pre-seed stage.The new network, Cultivate, comes as peers back away from deals and...
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Airbnb could run out of cash in one year, even with the $1 billion it just...
The $1 billion in cash Airbnb announced Monday that it has raised likely won't last the company very long.Even before the coronavirus epidemic hit, the travel startup was losing money; thanks to the...
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Here's an exclusive look at the pitch deck used by mental health startup...
Swedish mental health startup Mindler has raised €8 million ($8.7 million) from Ventech and Schibsted Growth.The company operates in Sweden and the Netherlands to provide access to psychologists and...
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The CEO of AI startup Node raised new funding during the coronavirus crisis....
Artificial intelligence startup Node raised $6 million in fresh funding from Mark Cuban, Canaan Partners, and others, and launched a new product amid the coronavirus crisis. CEO Falon Fatemi advises...
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29 tech startup founders and CEOs share their biggest challenges as they face...
The coronavirus crisis is an unexpected blow to many enterprise startups. Some CEOs have experienced previous downturns, including the Great Recession in 2008 and the tech dot-com crash in 2000. Others...
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Silicon Valley startups are being forced to cut costs or die in the worst...
According to PitchBook data, a handful of top-tier Silicon Valley venture-capital firms have startups that are bearing the brunt of the current financial crisis.Many startups are experiencing the...
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Y Combinator startup WorkClout used this pitch deck to raise $2.3 million in...
Software startup WorkClout raised $2.3 million in a seed fundraising round backed by Y Combinator, Spider Capital and Mehta Ventures. The firm – a graduate of Y Combinator's winter cohort – helps...
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