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One-click housing startup Atmos raises another $4M from Khosla, real estate strategics, and TikTok star Josh Richards Oct 30, 2020

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Atmos wants to make designing a house as simple as a single click. Well, that vision is now getting a double click from VCs. The company, which we profiled back in July, announced today that it raised another $4 million, this time from Evan Moore at Khosla Ventures, real estate strategic investors like David Gerster […]

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One-click housing startup Atmos raises another $4M from Khosla, real estate strategics, and TikTok star Josh Richards Oct 30, 2020

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Donut launches Watercooler, an easy way to socialize online with coworkers Oct 30, 2020

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If you miss hanging out with your coworkers but don’t want to spend a single second more on Zoom, the latest product fromÂ Donut might be the answer. The startup is launching its new Watercooler product today while also announcing that it has raised $12 million in total funding, led by Accel and with participation from […]

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Upgrade adds rewards program to its credit card Oct 29, 2020

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Fintech startup Upgrade has been quite successful with its two flagship products —Â a low-cost credit card and personal loans. The company is making its credit card more attractive by adding rewards. Upgrade Card consumers will earn 1.5% cash back on all purchases made with the card — there’s no specific category, no partner retailer, no […]

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Anima’s latest update draws on the popularity of design and no-code tools Oct 29, 2020

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Anima, the company that turns design prototypes into code, has today announced the launch of Anima 4.0, which will allow designers to create prototypes in Figma that are translated into components in React with the click of a button. The company was founded by Or Arbel (cofounder of Yo!), Avishay Cohen (who led R&D at […]

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Rockset announces $40M Series B as data analytics solution gains momentum Oct 28, 2020

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Rockset, a cloud-native analytics company, announced a $40 million Series B investment today led by Sequoia with help from Greylock, the same two firms that financed its Series A. The startup has now raised a total of $61.5 million, according to the company. As co-founder and CEO Venkat Venkataramani told me at the time of […]

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Let’s move beyond 2020 and start thinking about the 2020s Oct 28, 2020

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Seasonality is critical for the media. End-of-year wrap-ups, best books for the summer, things to do this weekend — they’re all methods to note not only the passage of time, but also to begin to set the tone for what is about to come. Everyone covered the end of the 2010s with aplomb, a decade […]

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Ant Group could raise as much as $34.5B in IPO in what would be world’s largest IPO Oct 27, 2020

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The long-anticipated IPO of Alibaba-affiliated Chinese fintech giant Ant Group could raise tens of billions of dollars in a dual-listing on both the Shanghai and Hong Kong exchanges. Shares for the company formerly known as Ant Financial are expected to price at around HK$80, or roughly 68 to 69 Chinese Yuan. The company is selling […]

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This startup wants to fix the broken structure of internships Oct 27, 2020

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Internships are an opportunity for students to experiment with new career paths and land a full-time offer ahead of graduation. For companies, the weeks-long programs help recruit and train job-ready hires. While the stakes are high, the coronavirus-spurred office closures and market volatility made a number of tech companies slim down or cancel their internship […]

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Linktree raises $10.7M for its lightweight, link-centric user profiles Oct 26, 2020

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Simple, link-centric user profiles might seem might not seem like a particularly ambitious idea, but it’s been big enough for Linktree. The Melbourne startup says that 8 million users — whether they’re celebrities like Selena Gomez and Dua Lipa or brands like HBO and Red Bull — have created profiles on the platform, with those […]

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