Talkdesk, the provider of cloud-based contact center software, has raised $100 million in new funding from Viking Global Investors and DFJ.
View More Talkdesk nabs $100M at more than $1B valuation for its smart call centersCategory: Dropbox
GoodTime raises $5 million to bring artificial intelligence into the interview process
GoodTime, the algorithmically enhanced interview process management platform, has raised $5 million in a new round of funding led by Bullpen Capital. The company uses natural language processing to link interview candidates with the right interviewers inside an organization. The idea is to make the hiring process run more smoothly for large organizations and give […]
View More GoodTime raises $5 million to bring artificial intelligence into the interview processThe Freewrite Traveler offers distraction-free writing for the road
If you’ve ever tried to write something long – a thesis, a book, or a manifesto outlining your disappointment in the modern technocracy and your plan to foment violent revolution – you know that distractions can slow you down or even stop the creative process. That’s why the folks at Astrohaus created the Freewrite, a […]
View More The Freewrite Traveler offers distraction-free writing for the roadChina’s secret startup advantage: liquidity
This year’s rush of IPOs from Chinese tech companies has dominated headlines, but what’s more interesting is how quickly they got there. Traditionally, “going public” represented the gratifying culmination of sleepless nights and missed birthdays that went into building a company. The peak of a lengthy climb, where founders and VCs would finally see the […]
View More China’s secret startup advantage: liquidityDropbox overhauls internal search to improve speed and accuracy
Over the last several months, Dropbox has been undertaking an overhaul of its internal search engine for the first time since 2015. Today, the company announced that the new version, dubbed Nautilus, is ready for the world. The latest search tool takes advantage of a new architecture powered by machine learning to help pinpoint the exact […]
View More Dropbox overhauls internal search to improve speed and accuracyOn-demand trucking app Convoy raises $185M at $1B valuation
CapitalG, the growth equity arm of Alphabet, has led the $185 million round in Convoy, its first investment in the Seattle-based tech-enabled trucking network. The round brings Convoy’s total raised to $265 million and values the company at $1 billion. New investors T. Rowe Price and Lone Pine Capital participated in the financing alongside existing […]
View More On-demand trucking app Convoy raises $185M at $1B valuationDropbox drops some enhancements to Paper collaboration layer
When you’re primarily a storage company with enterprise aspirations, as Dropbox is, you need a layer to to help people use the content in your system beyond simple file sharing. That’s why Dropbox created Paper, to act as that missing collaboration layer. They announced some enhancements to Paper to keep people working in their collaboration […]
View More Dropbox drops some enhancements to Paper collaboration layerWeTransfer is getting weird…
What do you do if you’re a European startup competing against the likes of Box and Dropbox, and are looking to make a splash in international markets like the U.S.? Well, if you’re the Dutch startup WeTransfer (which raised a cool $25 million about three years ago to take the U.S. market by storm), you […]
View More WeTransfer is getting weird…Global unicorn exits hit multi-year high in 2018
Unicorn exits are taking flight. With the IPO window wide open, an apparent record number of venture-backed companies privately valued over $1 billion have launched public offerings this year.
View More Global unicorn exits hit multi-year high in 2018Slack raises, Dropbox and Snap report earnings, and Magic Leap is real
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Matthew Lynley and Alex Wilhelm were joined by 500 Startups CEO Christine Tsai for what turned out to be a super packed episode. We kicked off with the latest from Slack: $400 million new dollars at a shiny, […]
View More Slack raises, Dropbox and Snap report earnings, and Magic Leap is realDropbox announces COO Dennis Woodside is leaving as its second quarterly check-in with Wall Street once again outperforms
Back when Dennis Woodside joined Dropbox as its chief operating officer more than four years ago, the company was trying to justify the $10 billion valuation it had hit in its rapid rise as a Web 2.0 darling. Now, Dropbox is a public company with a nearly $14 billion valuation, and it once again showed […]
View More Dropbox announces COO Dennis Woodside is leaving as its second quarterly check-in with Wall Street once again outperformsDropbox hires a new VP of product and VP of product marketing
After a largely successful IPO, Dropbox is adding another couple of hires today as it looks to continue its consumer-slash-enterprise growth playbook: bringing on a new VP of product in former CEO and president of Wealthfront Adam Nash; and a new VP of product marketing and global campaigns in Naman Khan. Both have extensive from […]
View More Dropbox hires a new VP of product and VP of product marketing