by Connie Loizos | Oct 21, 2020 | Business Enhancements, Startups, Venture Capital
Yin Wu has cofounded several companies since graduating from Stanford in 2011, including a computer vision company called Double Labs that sold to Microsoft, where she stayed on for a couple of years as a software engineer. In fact, it was only after that sale she she...
by Natasha Mascarenhas | Oct 21, 2020 | Business Enhancements, Startups
“More than 50% of our founders still are in their current jobs,” said John Vrionis, co-founder of seed-stage fund Unusual Ventures. The fund, which closed a $400 million investment vehicle in November 2019, has noticed that more and more startup employees are thinking...
by Frederic Lardinois | Oct 21, 2020 | Business Enhancements, Startups
Contrast, a developer-centric application security company with customers that include Liberty Mutual Insurance, NTT Data, AXA and Bandwidth, today announced the launch of its security observability platform. The idea here is to offer developers a single pane of glass...
by Alex Wilhelm | Oct 21, 2020 | Business Enhancements, Startups
Last night Datto priced its IPO at $27 per share, the top end of its range that TechCrunch covered last week. The data and security-focused software company had targeted a $24 to $27 per-share IPO price range, meaning that its final per-share value was at the top of...
by Anthony Ha | Oct 21, 2020 | Business Enhancements, Startups
TechCrunch readers probably know that privacy regulations like Europe’s GDPR and California’s CCPA give them additional rights around their personal data — like the ability to request that companies delete your data. But how many of you have actually...
by Alex Wilhelm | Oct 21, 2020 | Business Enhancements, Startups
Last week, Yext CEO Howard Lerman dropped by Extra Crunch Live for a chat about his former startup, pivoting and becoming the CEO of a public company. Yext, which focuses on business information and enterprise search products, went public in 2017, making it one of the...
