Michael Brown, a longtime general partner with Battery Ventures, was just elected to the role of chairman of the National Venture Capital Association three years after joining its board of directors. Earlier this week, we caught up with Brown to ask about his new, year-long role with the 48-year-old trade [CONTINUE READING]
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Twelve years ago, Joby Aviation consisted of a team of seven engineers working out of founder JoeBen Bevirt’s ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains. Today, the startup has swelled to 800 people and a $6.6 billion valuation, ranking itself as the highest-valued electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) company in [CONTINUE READING]
If you have a service-based business, ThryvPay says it has a payment processing solution that is less expensive, more flexible, and easier to use. And it is making the ThryvPay App available as a standalone app free of charge for non-Thryv customers. ThryvPay App and Small Business Service Providers According [CONTINUE READING]
“No thanks, I don’t need more customers,” said absolutely no small business owner ever. More customers means more revenue and more profits, so every business wants to drive more of them. But that can be easier said than done, especially in the middle of 2021. The last year and a [CONTINUE READING]
In the world of table tennis, most players have to choose between affordable equipment and items suitable for competition. But CounterStrike Table Tennis aims to change that. The idea started with the founder’s college hobby and eventually blossomed into a full business. Read about the journey in this week’s Small [CONTINUE READING]
Motional, the $4 billion joint venture between Aptiv and Hyundai, is exploring the company’s potential involvement in autonomous trucking or logistics, its CEO said today during a live session at TechCrunch’s 2021 Mobility Event. “The beauty of what’s on the other side of the coin is that the same core [CONTINUE READING]
Community has never felt louder in startupland. Bringing people together over a shared interest is innate to human nature. And, coming out of a lonely, draining pandemic, every startup wants to find a way to cultivate community, conversation and camaraderie as part of its value proposition. Last week, though, the [CONTINUE READING]
BukuWarung, a fintech focused on Indonesia’s micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), announced today it has raised a $60 million Series A. The oversubscribed round was led by Valar Ventures, marking the firm’s first investment in Indonesia, and Goodwater Capital. The Jakarta-based startup claims this is the largest Series A [CONTINUE READING]
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