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Uber Technologies operates the world’s leading rideshare service and also one of the country’s biggest food-delivery services behind DoorDash. Drivers for Uber services can earn anywhere from $15-$40 per hour. Here are salaries for corporate and technical employees at Uber in the Bay Area. Data comes from H1-B filings with the Department of Labor for […]
DoorDash is officially launching flower delivery on Valentine’s Day. Now customers can send fresh, same-day delivery of flowers to loved ones. The company is partnering with more than 3,000 local and national florists across the country for on-demand delivery, making it easier for customers to discover and gift their favorite floral bouquets. This news follows […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW. & SANTA ANA — Knightscope, a maker of security robots, has inked a strategic partnership with Allied Universal, a leading global security and facility services company with revenues at approximately $20 billion and more than 800,000 employees worldwide. Knightscope will provide its Autonomous Security Robots (ASRs) to the company’s U.S.-based customers to help […]
SAN JOSE — Students at San Jose State University (SJSU) will now have one less excuse for being late to class. The SJSU Ginger Market has been transformed into an autonomous retail experience, enabling students, faculty, and staff to grab the items they want and go—without having to scan anything or wait in line to […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Lovewick, a new app that helps couples stay in love once they’ve found it, announced on Valentine’s Day it has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding led by Corazon Capital, a fund managed by former Match Group, Tinder, and OkCupid executives, and joined by other notable investors including Leadout Capital and Gaingels. […]
PALO ALTO — Databook, a technology platform for sales intelligence, has secured $50 million in Series B funding. The oversubscribed round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from DFJ Growth and previous investors Threshold, Microsoft’s Venture Fund M12, Salesforce Ventures and Haystack. The funding will be used to accelerate hiring across all areas […]
SAN FRANCISCO — Flexport, a global logistics platform, has secured a massive $935 million Series E investment round led by Andreessen Horowitz and MSD Partners with a strategic investment from Shopify, as well as participation from existing partners DST Global, Founders Fund, SoftBank Vision Fund 1, and other investors including Kevin Kwok. The investment brings […]
In filings with the SEC, Apple revealed that the median salary for an employee at the company is $68,254 per year. The median is the midpoint of all salaries at the company, not an average, and is lower due to the large number of retail employees that work at Apple stores which pay around $17 […]
Here are the 25 top companies based in Silicon Valley and San Francisco to watch for winter 2022. These companies have big news, filed for IPOs or recently went public. This list will be updated quarterly for each season.
PALO ALTO – Salt Security, an API security company, has raised $140 million in Series D funding, led by CapitalG, Alphabet’s independent growth fund, with participation from all existing investors. The latest investment brings the valuation of Salt Security to $1.4 billion. Salt Security plans to use the additional capital to expand R&D investment, fuel […]
SANTA CLARA — AMD announced that AMD EPYC™ processors will power the new C2D virtual machine offering from Google Cloud, bringing customers strong performance and compute power for high-performance (HPC) memory-bound workloads in areas like electronic design automation (EDA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This announcement continues the momentum for AMD EPYC processors, marking the third […]
PALO ALTO — Branch, a cross-platform solution for mobile linking and attribution, has raised $300 million in new funding giving the company a $4 billion valuation, led by existing investor NEA. Branch, which has over 500 employees and 16 offices around the globe, has been used by more than 100,000 mobile brands since its founding in 2014, […]