Betaworks Studios, a subsidiary of New York seed fund Betaworks, has raised $4.4M.
View More WeWork backs New York tech clubhouse Betaworks StudiosCategory: WeWork
Proxy raises $13.6M to unlock anything with Bluetooth identity
You know how kings used to have trumpeters heralding their arrival wherever they went? Proxy wants to do that with Bluetooth. The startup lets you instantly unlock office doors and reserve meeting rooms using Bluetooth Low Energy signal. You never even have to pull out your phone or open an app. But Proxy is gearing […]
View More Proxy raises $13.6M to unlock anything with Bluetooth identityUnicorns aren’t profitable, and Wall Street doesn’t care
On Wall Street’s leniency toward unprofitable tech companies and outsized exits.
View More Unicorns aren’t profitable, and Wall Street doesn’t careThe next frontier in real estate technology
From entertainment to transportation, technology has upended nearly every major industry — with one notable exception: real estate.
View More The next frontier in real estate technologyWeWork Labs is launching a food tech accelerator
WeWork Labs, the coworking giant’s startup program that relaunched just over a year ago, is announcing a new initiative focused on food and agriculture startups — WeWork Food Labs. Roee Adler, the global head of WeWork Labs, told me that there will be two main pieces to the Food Labs program. First, there will be […]
View More WeWork Labs is launching a food tech acceleratorTetrate nets $12.1 million to bring microservices to the corporate masses
Tetrate, a company bringing commercial services and support to the open source projects –Istio and Envoy — providing network management functions for the microservices that make up modern mobile applications, has launched with $12.1 million in new financing. The company, founded by top engineers at Google who started the Istio project, raised its initial financing […]
View More Tetrate nets $12.1 million to bring microservices to the corporate massesTalent Garden raises €44M to expand in cities ignored by the WeWork-style spaces
Finding myself talking at a startup conference in Kosovo three years ago (as one does), I realized how close I was to Albania, a place which held some fascination for me. I managed to grab a lift with a friendly techie to Tirana, where they arranged for me to speak to the local tech community. […]
View More Talent Garden raises €44M to expand in cities ignored by the WeWork-style spacesWeWork confirms it has laid off 300 employees
The well-funded co-working giant says the cuts were perfunctory. The company plans to add an additional 6,000 employees in 2019.
View More WeWork confirms it has laid off 300 employeesTiger Global and Ant Financial lead $500M investment in China’s shared housing startup Danke
A Chinese startup that’s taking a dorm-like approach to urban housing just raised $500 million as its valuation jumped over $2 billion. Danke Apartment, whose name means “eggshell” in Chinese, closed the Series C round led by returning investor Tiger Global Management and newcomer Ant Financial, Alibaba’s e-payment and financial affiliate controlled by Jack Ma. […]
View More Tiger Global and Ant Financial lead $500M investment in China’s shared housing startup DankeAirbnb, Automattic and Pinterest top rank of most acquisitive unicorns
It takes a lot more than a good idea and the right timing to build a billion-dollar company. Talent, focus, operational effectiveness and a healthy dose of luck all play a part.
View More Airbnb, Automattic and Pinterest top rank of most acquisitive unicornsToronto’s OneEleven launches space in London, but will its scale-up services fly?
Last time I checked London was awash with co-working spaces, shared office spaces, spaces of every shape, size and color. If there’s one sector that always makes money during a boom, it’s the sector that makes the spades and pick-axes for the gold-rush. And that’s exactly what’s happened to London’s tech scene: a property boom. […]
View More Toronto’s OneEleven launches space in London, but will its scale-up services fly?WeWork just made its first acquisition of 2019, snapping up a visitor identity and behavior company
WeWork is diving more aggressively into software sales. Just six months after spending $100 million in cash on Teem, a Salt Lake City-based office management startup, the company has acquired Euclid, a data platform that tracks the identity and behavior of people in the physical world. WeWork isn’t saying what it’s paying for the nine-year-old, […]
View More WeWork just made its first acquisition of 2019, snapping up a visitor identity and behavior company