YEC community members were recently asked, "What’s one aspect of recruiting that companies often get wrong? Why do you think that is, and how can they improve?" Appetizer Mobile's CEO, Jordan Edelson, responded by stating, "Understanding the candidate’s motives and desires for their future going...
Papercup has announced that it has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Octopus Ventures with participation from Local Globe, Sands Capital, Sky and Guardian Media Ventures, Entrepreneur First and BDMI. It brings the London-based company’s total raised to date to...
Fetcher, the talent acquisition platform formerly known as Scout, closed a $27 million Series B funding round led by Tola Capital with participation from G20 Ventures, KFund and Accomplice. The new money — $7 million in debt and $20 million in equity — brings the...
Trust is key for any relationship to be successful, and this is especially true for manager-employee relationships. Managers rely on their employees to carry out the daily tasks necessary for the success of their business. Employees rely on their managers for guidance, support and leadership....
The medical world has come a long way from the traditional, centralized way of conducting clinical trials, but there’s still a lot of modernization left to do. Curebase provides the infrastructure — physical and digital — for distributed clinical trials and will be doubling down...
Lumos, a startup that wants to provide an end-to-end solution for enterprises to manage all of the SaaS apps their employees use, is coming out of stealth. The company plans to take on the SaaS management market by combining security features like role-based access control...
RelationalAI, a startup that wants to change the way data-driven applications are built by combining a database system with a knowledge graph, announced that it has raised a $75 million Series B funding round led by Tiger Global. Previous investors Madrona Venture Group, which led...
Copper, a digital banking service aimed at teens, has raised $29 million in Series A funding in a “preemptive” round led by Fiat Ventures. The investment comes just over seven months after the startup revealed it had raised $9 million in a seed round, and...
Real, a mental health app, has raised a $37 million oversubscribed Series B. The round was led by Owl Ventures, with participation from former Cityblock CEO Iyah Romm and chief health officer Dr. Sylvia Romm. Returning investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Female Founders Fund, Forerunner...
A relative newcomer vying for a slice of the sales market is Amplemarket, based in San Francisco and Portugal, which announced that it has raised $12 million in back-to-back seed and Series A funding rounds. Amplemarket was launched in 2019 by MIT alumnus João Batalha...
