Several years ago, entrepreneur Dhiraj Sharma’s first company, a software consultancy, was hired by an HR technology company to develop an app to improve the employee onboarding experience. Rather than create a one-off, ad-hoc solution, Sharma ran a platform, Simpplr, which later grew into its own company. Today, Simpplr sells what is essentially an internal … Read more
Ann Lai, a general partner at Bullpen Capital, has been fired from the firm, she says. The investor described the termination experience as “discriminatory and retaliatory” in a LinkedIn post published Monday. Lai helped raise Bullpen Capital’s most recent fund, a $145 million investment vehicle, the first investment vehicle in which she was named an … Read more
Ryan Breslow, the sassy founder and former CEO of Bolt, told MinRegion in 2022 that he would be leaving the one-click checkout company to start a new company in the health and wellness industry called Love. Well, today is not only Global Love Day, but also the launch of Love. Love already raised $7.5 million … Read more
You blinked and suddenly there are only two weeks left to apply for the Startup Battlefield 200 at MinRegion Disrupt 2023. You may have been planning to submit – or complete – your application, but life is full distractions. So consider this a timely reminder of the magnitude of this striking opportunity. Don’t let it … Read more
Poparazzi, the once-popular photo-sharing app that reached the top of the App Store in 2021, is shutting down. The company announced the news via a Medium blog late last week, informing users that the app would be discontinued and users would have until June 30, 2023 to download their content. Last year, the founders of … Read more
First Republic Bank (FRB), which teetered on the brink of collapse in the weeks following the Silicon Valley Bank crisis, has finally collapsed, but with a relatively quick fix for the next chapter: Today, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) ) announced that it was being shut down by the California Department of Financial Protection … Read more
In this increasingly AI-driven era, creative and media teams will likely need to use the technology to up their game when analyzing their creative assets and A/B testing – or someone else will just beat them to it. Alison is an Israeli startup that analyzes creative work such as characters, colors, sounds and text. It … Read more
MinRegion disrupts 2023 will take place September 19–21 in San Francisco and — if you don’t already know — it’s the big tent of the startup world. It attracts founders, investors, CEOs, tech professionals, scientists, policy makers, researchers and entrepreneurs. Here you will find inspiration, gain knowledge, forge new relationships and discover tools to build … Read more
The Wall Street Journal went under the hood of the lab-grown meat industry, also known as cultured or cell-grown meat, and the struggles within it. The Journal specifically took a look at what’s going on at UPSIDE Foods, which received a blessing from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regarding its process of making farm-raised … Read more
There are noodles of benefits to having a diverse workforce, but, as inBeta founder James Nash points out, you can’t simply take your homogeneous workforce, add diversity, agitate, and hope for the best. Often something subtle stands in the way of diversity in startups: companies depend on employee referrals in the beginning, but if the … Read more