Tag: WebEX

Zoom is now ‘the Facebook of video apps’

Given our uncertain and nightmarish times, I’m going to cut right to it. A lot of us are wondering just how full of shit Zoom is. Because right now, at the terrifying end of one era and the beginning of another whose shape has yet to be known, this i……

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Looking back at Zoom’s ascent a year after it filed to go public

The friendly videoconference tool wasn’t an overnight consumer sensation Alex Wilhelm 7 hours Zoom, a video chat service then popular with corporations, filed to go public on March 22, 2019. Best known in venture and corporate circles, Zoom was far from a household name at the time. However, the groundwork…

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NEA, venture capital’s quiet giant, closes on $3.6 billion

With its new fund, NEA will continue its strategy of investing across stages in technology and healthcare deals, with a focus, the firm says, on early stage deals and some growth investments. “We are deeply grateful to our limited partners for their commitment to NEA and their confidence in our…

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Smart TV hub Solaborate secures $10M Series A and a go-to-market partnership

When siblings Labinot and Mimoza Bytyqi fled the war in Kosovo in 1999, arriving as refugees on the West Coast of the US, they would have had no idea they’d go on to launch a technology company together. But as adults, the pair set up attacking the $6.7 billion telepresence…

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