In a marketing, advertising or public relations agency, there are so many different departments, teams and “moving parts” that new and experienced team members alike often lack key information needed to complete a task or make progress on a client project. Rather than have employees...
Performance management startup SocialCrowd has raised a $1.6 million pre-seed round led by Bread and Butter Ventures. Launched in 2022, SocialCrowd is a SaaS platform that provides performance management software, letting companies set goals for their employees and reward them when they are achieved. A customer can...
Attentive.ai, a startup building vertical software for landscaping and construction services in the U.S., has raised $7 million in a new funding round as it looks to enhance its AI-led offerings and expand them to more businesses. Led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India,...
Google has announced a ton of new features for classroom management, accessibility, and AI-powered features for creating questions and lesson plans as part of the Bett ed-tech event in the UK. Google already allows teachers to add questions to a YouTube video as part of its Classroom...
One of the most common complaints in the business world is about being forced to attend unnecessary meetings. Nobody wants to sit through an in-person meeting or video conference to hear things that could have instead been summed up in an email message. To help...
Paris-based startup Nabla just announced that it has raised a $24 million Series B funding round led by Cathay Innovation, with participation from ZEBOX Ventures — the corporate VC fund of CMA CGM. This funding round comes just a few months after Nabla signed a large-scale partnership with Permanente Medical...
As search engine incumbents — namely Google — amp up their platforms with GenAI tech, startups are looking to reinvent AI-powered search from the ground up. It might seem like a Sisyphean task, going up against competitors with billions upon billions of users. But this new breed of search upstarts believes...
The statistics don’t lie: More than three-quarters of all businesses reach their customers using social media, and about the same number of social media users have bought things they found via social media. With nine out of 10 users following one or more brands on social media,...
Fave, the app for superfans to connect with like-minded music lovers and obsess over their favorite artists, secured $2 million in an ongoing round. Notably, the round is expected to surpass $6 million and is backed by returning investors such as the Female Founders Fund...
Before launching, a company is often still refining its identity and values, which makes building a strong brand voice right from the get-go somewhat of a conundrum. Without a deep understanding of the target audience, it is difficult to tailor a brand voice that resonates...
