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'A totally new era of e-commerce': Glossier's tech boss explains why she left...

Pawan Uppuluri left a stable job at Amazon after 14 years to become chief technology officer at Glossier.The tech veteran was excited by the opportunity to widen the digital sales channel at the beauty...

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This tiny Canadian e-commerce startup raised $2 million entirely over Zoom to...

E-commerce platform Blackcart is set to launch later this month having raised $2 million in venture funding, solely over Zoom, during the coronavirus pandemic. The try-before-you-buy fashion startup...

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Brex and Zendesk crunched their customer data and created a presentation to...

Brex, the fintech startup that sells primarily to other startups, just shared its framework for handling customer support during the economic crisis.Many startups have been advised by investors and...

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Meet the 26 healthcare startups that top VCs say are poised to take off amid...

Business Insider asked 13 top venture capital investors which startups they think will thrive despite the coronavirus pandemic, and why.We asked them to pick two companies, including one they're not...

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This people-counting startup with funding from Peter Thiel and baseball...

Startup Density tracks how many people go into buildings and uses predictive analytics to recommend adjustments to meetings and cleaning schedules, and its product has seen a boom in sales due to the...

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These far-flung US regions could become the next big startup hubs as techies...

The COVID crisis has forced tech companies to embrace remote work, and many have come to realize their employees can be just as productive working out of the office as in it.Some are now planning to...

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A French startup just raised $65 million in the middle of the coronavirus...

Aircall just raised a $65 million Series C funding round in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.The fundraising effort was going well until governments around the world started shutting down their...

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The next-gen leaders of enterprise venture capital think software is going to...

The rising stars of Silicon Valley's enterprise venture practice shared predictions about what the next year has in store for the industry.Many pointed to the need for better collaboration and...

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Check out the pitch deck children's language learning startup MyBuddy.ai used...

MyBuddy.ai – the firm using AI to help children around the world learning to speak English – has raised $1 million in seed funding. The online language learning market is projected to be worth more...

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An inside look at Eaze's latest pitch deck reveals vastly scaled back...

Business Insider took a deep dive into cannabis startup Eaze's financial projections from 2017 to the present.Internal documents and interviews reveal the once-brash startup's vastly scaled-back...

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A political strategist turned VC thinks Trump's war with Twitter and Facebook...

Bradley Tusk, the founder and CEO of Tusk Venture Partners, told Business Insider that President Trump's executive order targeting social-media giants like Twitter and Facebook could create...

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Cannabis startup Caliva laid off 20 employees, including a top retail exec,...

The cannabis startup Caliva laid off 20 employees from its corporate office on March 30, the company confirmed.The cuts mostly affected employees in the retail-management division and included...

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Brex, the $3 billion fintech startup, is laying off 62 workers and...

Brex, the startup known for its startup-friendly credit card and banking services, announced that it was cutting the jobs of 62 employees on Friday. The startup, which just raised $150 million earlier...

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'Nobody talks about failure in Silicon Valley': I started a food delivery...

Gagan Biyani cofounded Udemy, an online education company worth $2 billion. He also started the Growth Hackers Conference and worked as interim head of growth at Lyft when it was less than 30...

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Steph Curry and Zoom CEO Eric Yuan just backed her college financing startup,...

Amira Yahyaoui founded Mos, an education startup helping college students apply for and manage financial aid, near the end of 2017 after experiencing the hardships many students feel throughout the...

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The president of the Center for American Entrepreneurship apologized for...

On Saturday, Backstage Capital founder Arlan Hamiltontweeted advice to her white peers calling for action in support of the protests against police brutality across the United States.In response,...

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A Lime investor predicts only 2 or 3 scooter players will win after COVID-19,...

Scooter startups are at a crossroads with COVID-19 and potential capital scarcity forcing an increased focus on sustainability and careful use of cash.In the US, the market has matured, allowing two to...

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How logistics startup Beacon won backing from US tech billionaires Jeff...

Logistics startup Beacon has raised $15 million in a fundraising round backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. The UK firm, which aims to disrupt the world of international freight shipping, has previously...

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Nextdoor cofounder Sarah Leary is joining early-stage venture firm Unusual...

On Tuesday, Unusual Ventures announced in a Forbes report that Sarah Leary, the cofounder and former vice president of neighborhood social media site Nextdoor, was joining the firm as a partner...

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Silicon Valley billionaires are lining up to condemn racism. But the tech and...

In memos to employees and public social media posts, Silicon Valley leaders voiced support for the call for social justice in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.But their expressed...

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