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TikTok’s new Creator Marketplace API lets influencer marketing companies tap into first-party data – TechCrunch

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TikTok’s new Creator Marketplace API lets influencer marketing companies tap into first-party data – TechCrunch

TikTok makes it easy for brands and agencies to work with the influencers who use its service. The company is introducing a new “TikTok Creator Marketplace API” that enables marketing companies to integrate more directly into TikTok’s Creator Marketplace, the video app’s internal influencer marketing platform. Launched in late 2019, the Creator Marketplace website allowed … Read more

Get your pitch-off on with our Disrupt Startup Alley companies on upcoming episodes of Extra Crunch Live – TechCrunch

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Get your pitch-off on with our Disrupt Startup Alley companies on upcoming episodes of Extra Crunch Live – TechCrunch

Disrupt is just around the corner and this year the show is filled to the brim with incredible panels and conversations, an absolutely stacked Startup Battlefield cohort of companies launching on our stage, investor insights and a virtual exhibition hall full of exciting new products and services in Startup Alley . We can hardly wait! … Read more

Revenue-based financing startup Jenfi raises $6.3M to focus on high-growth Southeast Asian companies – TechCrunch

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Revenue-based financing startup Jenfi raises $6.3M to focus on high-growth Southeast Asian companies – TechCrunch

Many Southeast Asian digital companies encounter early-stage obstacles when looking for growth finance. They may not want to sell equity in their business, but they often struggle to secure working capital loans from traditional financial institutions. This is where Singapore-based Jenfi comes in, offering revenue-based funding of up to $ 500,000 with flexible repayment plans … Read more

Factal, which alerts companies of breaking news events, raises $3.3M after doubling revenue in 2020

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Factal, which alerts companies of breaking news events, raises $3.3M after doubling revenue in 2020

Click to enlarge: Icons on a map represent the places where Factal, based in Seattle, reported relevant incidents worldwide within 24 hours from February 3rd to 4th, 2021. (Factal image) New funding: Factal, the Seattle-based startup that monitors breaking news to help companies assess risk to their business, raised $ 3.3 million in a Series … Read more

Are tech employees coming back to downtown Seattle? Here’s what companies are planning for

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Are tech employees coming back to downtown Seattle? Here’s what companies are planning for

Downtown Seattle and the headquarters of Amazon during the COVID-19 pandemic. (GeekWire photo / Kurt Schlosser) The plywood is falling off, restaurants that have survived add hours, and vehicle traffic in Seattle is growing from the ghost towns a year ago. With downtown, Belltown, and South Lake Union ready for tens of thousands of employees … Read more

U.S. companies can mandate vaccinations; holiday travel

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Natalia Dubom from Honduras will receive the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at Miami International Airport on Friday. The vaccine will be offered to all arriving passengers through Sunday as part of a Florida Emergency Management Agency program.

U.S. companies can require employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a statement Friday. Federal EEO laws do not prevent employers from requiring that all workers physically entering a workplace be vaccinated, so long as employers adhere to reasonable precautions of the American with Disabilities Act and other laws … Read more

6 tips from Seattle tech companies on how to support racial equity programs

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6 tips from Seattle tech companies on how to support racial equity programs

Panel participants for sea.citi’s conversation about DEI efforts: Stephan Yu from Facebook and sea.citi (top left), Neal Myrick from the Tableau Foundation (top right), Kim Vu from Remitly (bottom left) and Luanda Arai by sea.citi. As people across the country celebrate the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, companies committed to doing more for … Read more

Tech companies predict the (economic) future – TechCrunch

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Stonks, flying burritos and my boss’s boss’s boss’s boss – TechCrunch

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly newsletter for startups and markets. It’s based largely on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but it’s free and made for your weekend reading. Would you like it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Login here. The earnings season is coming to an end, and … Read more