Artifact, the personalized news reader built by Instagram’s co-founders, is now open to the public, no sign-up required. Last month, Instagram’s creators Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, unveiled their latest venture as an invite-only experience, promising their news app would later evolve to include social...
Jae Lee, a South Korean serial entrepreneur and his co-founder Danny Woo have built Kempus, an anonymous online community for U.S. college students. Kempus aims to create a reservoir of knowledge to help students reach their ultimate goal, in Lee’s words, “the upstream of getting...
Stelo Labs, a web3 security company, raised $6 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company was co-founded by Ben Scharfstein, CEO, and Aman Dhesi, CTO. Both have backgrounds in product management — Scharfstein worked at Google, and Dhesi held roles at...
In today’s digitally driven world, tech departments are often the ones driving companies forward. It makes sense, then, that organizations would want to prioritize this team’s hiring budget and build out a robust department with distinct roles and skill sets. While it may take some time to...
Snap has announced on their fourth-quarter earnings call that it’s technology will eventually be powered by AI. Investors wanted to get a sense of how Snap was thinking about the latest developments in AI — particularly in buzzy areas like generative AI. One pointed to...
TikTok’s footprint in the social media space exploded in 2022, as the short-from video site became the favorite of Gen-Zers and younger users. Its flexibility and popularity encourage creators and consumers to turn to the site for engaging, entertaining content spanning everything from humor to...
Working at an agency is a well-known source of potential stress, as most agency professionals can attest. It’s not uncommon for advertising, marketing and PR pros to face burnout, given the high-paced, always-on nature of their work. Agency executives who are leading partially or fully...
Method, a startup that aims to make it easier for fintech developers to embed repayment, balance transfers and bill pay automation into their apps, announced that it closed a $16 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Truist Ventures, Y...
