Month: March 2020
Millions of Americans could lose their jobs in a coronavirus recession. Many won’t get severance pay
Daniel Grill | Tetra Images | Getty Images The odds of slipping into a recession are…
We Are Nations: Dealing with coronavirus in business
Disclaimer: This is a guest piece from Patrick Mahoney, CEO of We Are Nations As I…
Circle Pharma Raises $45 Million in Series B Financing
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Circle Pharma, Inc., a macrocycle drug discovery and development company focused on…
Have hundreds of unicorns missed their exit window as Q1 IPOs grind to a halt?
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the…
Oura raises $28 million for its health and sleep tracking ring
Smart rings are still a relatively young category in the wearable hardware world, but the Oura…
Spectro Cloud launches with $7.5M investment to help developers build Kubernetes clusters their way
By now we know that Kubernetes is a wildly popular container management platform, but if you…
The Dispatch, a news organization built on Substack, passes $1M in annual revenue
Is there an audience for a center-right news publication focused on original reporting and analysis? That’s…
CoreStack Announces $8.5 Million Series A Financing Round Led by Naya Ventures
BELLEVUE, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CoreStack, a Seattle-based venture-backed startup that empowers enterprises to achieve continuous and autonomous cloud…
World's First Analysis of Collaboration Platform Microsoft Teams Released by SWOOP Analytics
SYDNEY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SWOOP Analytics has released the world’s first benchmarking of Microsoft Teams, revealing chat is the…
Addapptation snares $1.3M seed to build a better UX for Salesforce
Addapptation, a startup that wants to build a practical design layer on top of Salesforce and…
Equity Tuesday: Wild markets, a neat early-stage round and the closed IPO window
Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your…
CORRECTING and REPLACING Allied Esports Entertainment Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019 Financial Results
IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Please replace the release dated March 16, 2020 with the following corrected version due…
Veteran VC Mike Volpi discusses investing and fundraising in ‘a very difficult time’
Last week, I talked with Mike Volpi, longtime Index Ventures partner and the former head of…
Glu Launches MLB Tap Sports Baseball 2020
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Glu Mobile Inc. (NASDAQ: GLUU), a leading developer and publisher of mobile games, today…
Stocks set to bounce as Wall Street attempts rebound from the Dow’s third-worst day ever
Stock futures and premarket trading in exchange-traded funds pointed to a bounce on Tuesday following the…
Font Vella sponsors Team Heretics, renews Vodafone Giants deal
Danone Waters’ Spanish bottled water brand Font Vella has announced a sponsorship deal with Team Heretics,…
TV 2 Norway secures Norwegian broadcast rights to BLAST Premier
TV 2 Norway has secured the Norwegian broadcast rights to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive series BLAST Premier.…
Bango Enables Carrier Billing Subscriptions for Hatch Gaming Platform
CAMBRIDGE, England–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bango (AIM: BGO), the mobile commerce company, announces it has launched carrier billing payment…
Wall Street says these things must happen before the market will stop plunging and bottom
With stocks nose-diving again, Wall Street strategists are mostly punching in the dark because of the…