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Sprinklr lays off more than 100 employees

The new job cuts come over a year after the company cut about 4% of its headcount in February last year.

Despite recent successes, IPO market still won’t fully open until 2025

Experts say macroeconomic factors including the upcoming election and the current state of the economy will deter too many IPOs this year.

Alliance DAO is attracting fewer US founders amid crypto crackdown

The graduates of Alliance DAO are often useful indicators of investor appetite and user adaption trends within the crypto space. The latest batch of the stage-agnostic crypto accelerator, unveiled tod

From Connie Chan to Ethan Kurzweil, venture capitalists continue to play musical chairs

When Keith Rabois announced he was leaving Founders Fund to return to Khosla Ventures in January, it came as a shock to many in the venture capital ecosystem — and not just because Rabois is a big n

Midi is building a digital platform for an oft-overlooked area of women’s health

When Joanna Strober was around 47, she stopped sleeping. While losing sleep is a common symptom of perimenopause, she first had to go to multiple providers, including driving 45 minutes out of San Fra

OpenAI inks strategic tie-up with UK’s Financial Times, including content use

OpenAI, maker of the viral AI chatbot ChatGPT, has netted another news licensing deal in Europe, adding London’s Financial Times to a growing list of publishers it’s paying for content acc

Deal Dive: Givebutter is turning a profit making tech for nonprofits

Givebutter recently raised $50 million for its CRM platform for nonprofits as startups building tech for that industry gain momentum.

The FTC’s ban on noncompete clauses could be good for startups. But it also might be struck down.

The Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to ban the use of most noncompete agreements on Tuesday. This ruling means companies can’t require employees who aren’t senior executives to wait a s

Rubrik’s shares end trading up almost 16% on the company’s public debut

This share price gives Rubrik a fully diluted valuation of $6.6 billion, up 88% from its last primary valuation of $3.5 billion in 2019.

Chilean instant payments API startup Fintoc raises $7 million to turn Mexico into its main market

Fintoc's API lets online businesses accept instant payments coming directly from the customer's bank account. This method, known as A2A, offers an alternative to credit card transactions.

Carv raises $10M Series A to help gamers monetize their data

LinkedIn testing Premium Company Page subscription with AI-assisted content creation

LinkedIn — the social platform that targets the working world — has quietly started testing another way to boost its revenues, this time with a new service for small and medium businesses.

Vorlon is trying to stop the next big API breach

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the bedrock of everything we do online. APIs allow two things on the internet to talk with each other, including connected devices or phone apps. But the

Design firm Zypsy will do $100K worth of work for 1% equity for early-stage startups

Zypsy, a design firm with a track record of helping early-stage startups, has launched a new and somewhat unique venture investment program. It will be offering 10 startups up to $100,000 of brand and

Paraform raises $3.6M seed round to connect startups with recruiter networks

Layoffs usually drive attention and sympathy toward affected employees, but rarely does anyone talk about what happens to the recruiters who are sometimes also asked to leave when companies decide to

Naval Ravikant’s Airchat is a social app built around talk, not text

Airchat is a new social media app that encourages users to “just talk.” A previous version of Airchat was released last year, but the team — led by AngelList founder Naval Ravikant and former Ti

Deal Dive: Not all climate startups are focused on carbon

Windfall Bio sells methane-eating microbes to companies to help them reduce their carbon footprint in the short-term.

Google’s Gradient backs Patlytics to help companies protect their intellectual property

Patlytics, an AI-powered patent analytics platform, wants to help enterprises, IP professionals and law firms speed up their patent workflows, from discovery, analytics, comparisons and prosecution t

Checkr, the background-screening platform last valued at $5B, cuts 32% of workforce

Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks, has laid off 382 employees — 32% of its workforce.

Sprinto raises $20M to bring automation to security compliance management

Sprinto, a startup offering a security compliance and risk platform, has raised $20 million in new investment led by Accel.
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