Uber loses a lawsuit over driver classification, we survey mobility investors, and new data suggests a COVID-19 vaccine should be easier to transport. This is your daily crisis for February 19, 2021. The big story: Uber loses the UK legal challenge The UK Supreme Court has reiterated previous rulings that the Uber drivers who brought … Read more
AccountsIQ, a financial management software (FMS) startup founded by a team of accountants (if accountants want to be entrepreneurs, you know startups are one thing) has raised $ 5.8 million in funding. The Dublin-based company, which caters to medium-sized businesses that run multiple businesses, is backed by Finch Capital, the fintech-focused VC that recently launched … Read more
A few weeks ago, SentinelOne announced that it would acquire Scalyr, a high-speed logging platform, for $ 155 million. As recently as this morning, CrowdStrike hit the ground running next, announcing it would buy the unlimited logging tool Humio for $ 400 million. In Humio, CrowdStrike gets a company that offers the ability to collect … Read more
If you’ve ever tried getting on the bus in San Francisco and found that Apple Pay isn’t an option (unlike New York, Beijing, and many other major cities), good news! It changes. Apple has announced that support for Clipper (the payment system for BART, Muni, Caltrain, AC Transit and a number of other transit agencies … Read more
After the Swedish cloud communications company Sinch raised $ 690 million from SoftBank for acquisitions in December, it implemented its strategy in this department. Today the company announced that it is acquiring Inteliquent, a US voice communications connectivity provider currently owned by private equity firm GTCR, for $ 1.14 billion in cash. To fund the … Read more
Metropolis is a new Los Angeles-based startup looking to compete with BMW’s ParkMobile for part of the automated parking management market. Upgrading ParkMobile’s license plate-based service with a computer vision-based system that detects cars entering and leaving garages has been Metropolis’ mission since founder and CEO Alex Israel founded the company in 2017. Israel, a … Read more
Nature’s Fynd, the food technology company with a new range of foods grown from mushrooms in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park, is making its first products available for pre-order. Nature’s Fynd had managed to attract some serious investors, including Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management and Bill Gates-backed mutual fund Breakthrough Energy Ventures. The company … Read more
The only people Whoever really understands a relationship is whoever is in it. Fortunately, we will have an open conversation with both parties on the relationship between Ironclad CEO and co-founder Jason Boehmig and his investor and board member Accel partner Steve Loughlin. Loughlin led Ironclad’s Series A deal back in 2017, making it one … Read more
You landed on Human Capital, a weekly newsletter that contains the latest information on diversity, equity, inclusion and work. Register here to receive the newsletter every Friday at 1 p.m. There are some new laws designed to prevent the use of nondisclosure agreements in workplace situations that involve all forms of discrimination and harassment. That … Read more
We surveyed five investors from the Brussels, Belgium ecosystem, and overall the mood was upbeat. Investors are backing companies in smart living, life sciences (“a really promising sector for Belgium”), B2B, “industry 4.0,” fintech, mobility, health and music tech. Food tech appears “an overcrowded space.” Another says: “COVID confirmed our strategy to invest in local … Read more