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Buzzy travel media startup Culture Trip quietly plans to lay off nearly half...
Buzzy travel media startup Culture Trip plans to lay off almost half its UK staff after similar redundancies in New York, Business Insider has learned.Culture Trip's proposed cuts come as the...
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This online startup makes shopping and caring for beautiful house plants...
An indoor house plant you never see in person that is packed into a cardboard box and shipped across the country to your door sounds like a recipe for disaster, but it's something online startup Léon...
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Startup advocates worry venture-backed companies that got money under the...
Advocates of startups are worried that new guidelines issued by Small Business Administration may have retroactively disqualified many businesses from the small-business loan program Congress enacted...
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A tiny 33-person UK startup built a video chat tool for doctors and patients...
Healthcare messaging service AccuRx has seen "crazy" demand in recent months since the UK went into lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.AccuRx offers ways for doctors to talk to patients via SMS...
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UK founders are confused about accessing a £250 million scheme intended to...
The UK government has launched a £250 million rescue fund for startup founders whose businesses are struggling during the pandemic, but entrepreneurs are confused about whether they'll be eligible.The...
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A top early-stage VC thinks the coming economic crisis could...
In a Talkshow broadcast on April 22, Founders Fund general partner Keith Rabois discussed his predictions for the startup ecosystem with Haystack VC founder and general partner Semil Shah.Both are...
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Startups are making nasal swabs, clinical testing booths, and fever detection...
Some startups are pivoting their core operations to boost coronavirus relief efforts, or to tap into a new source of revenue as business slows."It's almost like a wartime situation," said Chris Prucha,...
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Venture capitalists reveal the startups that changed everything in the past...
The past decade was an eventful one for the startup world.The rise of smartphones, online marketplaces, the sharing economy, and cheap access to the cloud have enabled entirely new business models —...
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These are the 15 European health startups investors think will blow up during...
Health startups are in the spotlight as governments around the world struggle to contain the coronavirus pandemic.Investors are eyeing disruptive firms, with investment in European health startups up...
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Delivery startup Bringg used this pitch deck to raise $30 million from the...
Delivery software startup Bringg raised more than $30 million in a fundraising round backed by Salesforce and Siemens' investment wing Next47. Bank of America analysts have hyped the online delivery...
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A startup that helps marketing and sales teams automatically send gifts and...
Postal.io wants to automate physical marketing and communication in the same way digital marketing has been automated.The company just launched with a $9 million Series A funding round led by venture...
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A NEW WORLD ORDER: A VC who left his job in the dot-com crash thinks today's...
In a Talkshow broadcast with Haystack VC founder Semil Shah, Founders Fund general partner Keith Rabois shared his predictions for the ongoing economic crunch resulting from coronavirus-induced...
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Airbnb expects revenues to be slashed by more than half this year, CEO says
Because of the COVID-19 crisis, Airbnb is now on track for revenues of less than half what it earned in 2019, CEO Brian Chesky said in a letter to staff.Chesky's letter also announced layoffs affecting...
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Airbnb is ending ambitious efforts to expand into transportation and film....
Airbnb is scaling back its broad ambitions to disrupt the broader travel industry, as its business gets wiped by the coronavirus. Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky sent out a memo to Airbnb employees on Tuesday,...
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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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Elon Musk's theater of the absurd is a sign of the times for tech
Greetings, and welcome to the first Trending for the month of May.This is where we talk tech every Wednesday. If you want to get Trending in your email inbox every week, just click here.This week:...
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5 immediate steps to navigate your stock options if you've been laid off from...
Exercising your stock options after getting laid off from a startup can be an expensive endeavor.Startups typically grant early hires stock options, which means that those employees have the option to...
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A founder asked 500 venture capitalists if they were still investing during...
The COVID-19 pandemic has sent venture capitalists into retreat, with research suggesting a third of investors pulled out of UK seed deals in March.Ismail Jeilani, founder and CEO of education startup...
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UK fintech startup Countingup used this pitch deck to raise $5 million bridge...
UK fintech startup Countingup has raised £4 million ($5 million) in funding from ING Ventures. The company, which provides a business account that does your accounting, also received funds from Triple...
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We got an exclusive look at the pitch deck health startup Owkin used to raise...
US-French health startup Owkin has raised a $25 million funding round led by BPI France Large Venture, with co-investments from Cathay Innovation and MACSF.Previous investors such as GV, F-Prime...
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