The U.S. Postal Service is currently hiring for more than 40,000 seasonal positions as preparations continue for the 2021 winter holidays, the agency’s peak season for mail and package deliveries. Seasonal opportunities include but are not limited to city and rural mail carriers, mail handlers and drivers. Job seekers can find and apply for open […]
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Ketch Scores $21 Million Series A1
SAN FRANCISCO — Ketch, an operator of a data control platform for privacy, governance and security, has closed on a Series A1 funding round, raising $20 million. This is a follow-up to a series A funding round that closed in March of this year, bringing the total of its series A investment to $43 million. […]
Intuit Launches Venture Capital Division
MOUNTAIN VIEW— Intuit Inc., the financial software company known for TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint and Credit Karma, is getting into the venture capital business with the launch of Intuit Ventures, its corporate venture capital arm. Intuit Ventures will help accelerate innovation for businesses and consumers through the companies it invests in, driving future innovations for consumers and small businesses. The […]
Siebel Scholars Names 2022 Class
REDWOOD CITY –The Siebel Scholars Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2022 Siebel Scholars award. Now in its 21st year, the Siebel Scholars program annually recognizes nearly 100 exceptional students from the world’s leading graduate schools of business, computer science, and bioengineering. The 82 distinguished students of the Class of 2022 join past Siebel Scholars classes […]
Intel Breaks Ground on 2 Arizona Chip Plants
Intel has broken ground on two new leading-edge chip factories at the company’s Ocotillo campus in Chandler, AZ. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger celebrated the start of construction at a ceremony Friday on the largest private investment in Arizona history and reiterated the company’s commitment to investing in U.S. semiconductor leadership. (Photo above: Keyvan Esfarjani (from […]
Pronto Reels in $4 Million Seed Round
CUPERTINO — Pronto, a provider of partner ecosystem management, has raised $4 million in seed funding. Pronto helps companies harness the full potential of their business partnerships by offering a highly secure, customizable, collaborative platform on which companies and partners can manage, automate, and track the development of their solutions and go-to-market efforts. The new investment was […]
Awning Emerges From Stealth With $9.3 Million
SAN FRANCISCO — Awning, a technology platform and brokerage built exclusively for real estate investing, has emerged from stealth with $9.3 million in funding led by Global Founders Capital. The round also includes participation from MassMutual Ventures and several strategic angel investors including Side co-founders Guy Gal and Ed Wu, SafeGraph founder Auren Hoffman, Scale […]
GenEdit Closes $26 Million Series A
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO — GenEdit, Inc., a biotechnology company with a mission to develop curative therapies through targeted in vivo delivery of genetic medicines, has closed a $26 million Series A financing. New investors Eli Lilly, KTB Network, Ltd., Company K Partners, Korea Investment Partners, DAYLI Partners, KB Investment, IMM Investment, and TIMEFOLIO Asset Management, join existing […]
Ripple Foods Grows With $60 Million Round
BERKELEY — Ripple Foods, a maker of plant-based dairy products made from peas, announced a $60 million Series E funding round led by Rage Capital, Ajax Strategies, and S2G Ventures, as well as additional key investors including OurCrowd, GV, Prelude Ventures, Euclidean, Fall Line Capital, and Tao Capital Partners. It’s no secret that the plant-based food category […]
Bigeye Opens Eyes With $45 Million Series B
SAN FRANCISCO — Bigeye, the provider of a leading data observability platform, has snagged $45 million in Series B funding. Bigeye says it has doubled usage each of the last four quarters and added to its existing roster of customers, like Instacart, with new customers, including Clubhouse, Recharge, and Udacity. Led by Coatue and with […]
Iron Ox Closes $53 Million Series C
SAN CARLOS — Iron Ox announced that it has closed a $53 million “Series C” funding round, led by new investor Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Iron Ox, which launched autonomous farming in 2018, grows produce in proprietary greenhouses designed from the ground up to mitigate the environmental impacts of agriculture — a data-driven approach backed by plant […]
Plug and Play Selects 153 Startups for Winter Batch
SUNNYVALE — Plug and Play has chosen 153 startups to join their Winter 2021 Batches. These companies will participate in one of the following programs that will run through November: Energy, Enterprise Tech, Fintech, Health, Insurtech, Internet of Things, Mobility, Real Estate & Construction, and Travel & Hospitality. The participating startups will be fully immersed in Plug and Play’s global network of over 30,000 startups, 500 industry-leading […]