Tag: Startups
Jet co-founder Nate Faust is building a more sustainable e-commerce experience with Olive
Nate Faust has spent years in the e-commerce business — he was a vice president at Quidsi (which ran Diapers.com and Soap.com), co-founder and COO at Jet (acquired by Walmart for $3.3 billion) and then a vice president at Walmart. Over time, he said it slowly dawned on him that…
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Zolve raises $15 million for its cross-border neobank aimed at global citizens
On Wednesday, he announced Zolve, a neobanking platform for individuals moving from India to the U.S. (or the other way around). The startup works with banks in the U.S. and India to provide consumers access to financial products seamlessly — without paying any premium or coughing up any security deposit. In…
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Krisp nearly triples fundraise with $9M expansion after blockbuster 2020
Krisp, a startup that uses machine learning to remove background noise from audio in real time, has raised $9M as an extension of its $5M A round announced last summer. The extra money followed big traction in 2020 for the Armenian company, which grew its customers and revenue by more…
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Notable Health seeks to improve COVID-19 vaccine administration through intelligent automation
Efficient and cost-effective vaccine distribution remains one of the biggest challenges of 2021, so it’s no surprise that startup Notable Health wants to use their automation platform to help. Initially started to address the nearly $250 billion annual administrative costs in healthcare, Notable Health launched in 2017 to use automation…
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We’re talking startup sales with Zoom CRO Ryan Azus at TechCrunch Early Stage
TechCrunch is excited to announce that Zoom chief revenue officer (CRO) Ryan Azus is joining us at TechCrunch Early Stage on April 1. Azus has worked at Cisco, RingCentral and most recently Zoom. In his previous roles he held a number of sales titles, including his final role at RingCentral…
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Inside Rover and MoneyLion’s SPAC-led public debuts
If we are not careful, every entry of this column could consist of SPAC news. Special purpose acquisition companies, or blank-check companies, whatever you prefer to call them, are enormous business today. But they aren’t the only thing going on, and we’ll get to other things shortly. Consider this an…
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