Amit Kumar

Recruiting operations platform ModernLoop lands $3.3M to create better technical hiring experiences

ModernLoop automates many of the repetitive tasks recruiters do while also scheduling and balancing the interviewing workload so the right mix of people are involved and trained.

Accel, Tiger and Stripe’s COO back Mexico City-based Higo as it raises $23M for its B2B payments platform

Just six months after raising $3.3 million in seed funding, Mexico City-based Higo announced today it has raised $23 million in a Series A round led by Accel. Tiger Global Management also participated

Operations observability platform Avenue launches with $4M

Avenue is building a command center for operations teams.

VCs see opportunities for gaming infrastructure startups and incumbents

As the infrastructure for developing games becomes more advanced, studios have turned to buying best-in-class technology from others instead of building everything from scratch (often with inferior qu

HotelTonight, Slack stakeholder Accel stays on top with $2.5B fund

Sources confirm Accel has nabbed $2.5 billion -- its largest pool of capital yet -- for three new funds.

With A Slew Of US Investors, Zimmber Launches Home Service Marketplace For India

A who's-who of big time American investors are bringing the marketplace investment thesis behind HomeJoy and Handy to India -- backing the new startup Zimmber. Ram Shriram, the founder of Sherpalo Ven

Confirmed: Yahoo Loses Amit Kumar, Its Small Business VP And GM

Yet more personnel changes afoot at Yahoo. Amit Kumar, pictured here, the company’s GM and VP running its small business division, has left the company. Re/code first reported earlier today sour

Dapper MashupAds Turn Your Website Into Contextual, Display Ads

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/dapper-screen-215x153.png" width="215" height="153" /> The most important ad for a company or brand is its Website. So why not use that Webs

Yahoo Loses Search Monkey Product Manager

<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/searchmonkey_logo.png" width="180" height="184" />Yahoo may be pushing ahead with its strategy to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2008/04/24/the-new-yahoo-s

Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web – Expect The Internet To Organize Itself In A Hurry

Yahoo’s embrace of all things open continues today – expect an announcement in an hour or so that they are expanding their Open Search Platform that we wrote about last month. In that prev

Yahoo Announces Open Search Platform

Yahoo will soon be allowing third parties to enhance the Yahoo Search experience. The new platform, codenamed “SearchMonkey” and officially called Open Search Platform, will consist of a s