Tag: Startups
Chinese online education app Zuoyebang raises $1.6 billion from investors including Alibaba
The rivalry between China’s top online learning apps has become even more intense this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest company to score a significant funding round is Zuoyebang, which announced today (link in Chinese) that it has raised a $1.6 billion Series E+ from investors including Alibaba…
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Use Git data to optimize your developers’ annual reviews
3 metrics can help you understand true performance quality Alex Circei 16 hours Alex Circei Contributor Alex Circei is CEO and co-founder of Waydev, a Git analytics tool that measures engineers’ performance automatically. More posts by this contributor If you care about remote employees, start tracking their performance The end…
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US seed-stage investing flourished during pandemic
As the United States entered its first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns, there were wide expectations in startup land that a reckoning had arrived. But the expected comeuppance of high-burn, high-growth startups fueled by cheap capital provided by venture capitalists raising ever-larger funds, failed to arrive. Instead, the very opposite came…
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Five VCs discuss what surprised them the most in 2020
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Today is our holiday look-back at the year, bringing not only our own Danny and Natasha and Chris and Alex into the mix, but also five venture capitalists who we…
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Video: TechCrunch’s editors choose their top stories of 2020
[embedded content] As the year draws to a close, we asked members of our edit staff to choose a story or two that defined the last 12 months for their beat. Kirsten Korosec: Uber evolved from a company trying to cover everything in transportation to one focused on ride hailing…
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Letterhead wants to be the Shopify of email newsletters
You’re probably investing in an email newsletter these days, whether you’re an international brand, a nonprofit or a local news publisher. Maybe email is even your focus now, because you got burned by Facebook, Google or other closed platforms during the past decade. The problem is that the tools you…
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