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With Money From Walmart’s Marc Lore, Stealth Startup Archer Buys Its Way Into The Electric Air Taxi Race

ByJeremy BogaiskyForbes Staff

The company has rapidly built up a team of talented engineers with rich compensation packages including bonuses of two to three times salary, poaching top names from Kitty Hawk and Joby and setting tongues wagging in the small world of West Coast dreamers trying to build the future of air travel.

Guild Education Makes First, $80 Million Acquisition To Build Out Job Marketplace Amid Covid-19 Layoffs

ByAlexandra WilsonForbes Staff

Rehab 2.0: YC-Backed Ophelia Raises $2.7 Million To Help People Quit Opioids Without The Burden And Cost Of Rehab

ByBérénice MagistrettiContributor

Pandemic, Philanthropy And Racial Equity Disrupting Money Allocation

ByKori HaleContributor

6 hours ago

New York Startup Hyperscience Raises $60 Million In Bid To Become Automation Software’s Next Breakout

New York startup Hyperscience has raised $60 million from Bessemer Venture Partners to spread the gospel of automation in a time of remote work due to the coronavrius.

11 hours ago

Founders, Leadership Teams And The Glue That Binds Successful Startups

With COVID-19 continuing to disrupt our world, understanding the dynamics behind effective team management is critical to ensuring that startups can survive and prosper in the long run.

Jun 2, 2020

Cofounder Of Neighborhood App Nextdoor Turns VC, Joins Unusual Ventures As Partner

Exclusive: Sarah Leary, cofounder of popular and at-times controversial neighborhood app Nextdoor, has joined two-year-old VC firm Unusual Ventures as a partner focused on early-stage consumer startup companies.

Jun 2, 2020

OurCrowd To Raise $100 Million For Pandemic Innovation Fund Investing In Y-Shaped Recovery

OurCrowd announced today it plans to raise $100 million for its new Pandemic Innovation Fund

May 30, 2020

How To Cold Pitch A VC In the Time Of Covid-19

The need for funding is more acute than ever for many tech founders. Given the competing demands for investors, it’s more important than ever to make your cold pitch email succinct. Here are tips for writing an impactful cold pitch email to score a meeting with a venture capitalist.

May 29, 2020

Post-Pandemic Music Industry Predictions: The Consolidation Of Power

The music industry has been slowly consolidating for years, and the pandemic may accelerate this trend. Major financial transactions around mergers, acquisitions and institutional interest estimate the industry value doubling in a decade, but how will this impact festivals, startups and artists?

May 29, 2020

Didi Chuxing’s Robotaxi Unit Lands $500 Million From SoftBank-Led Group

The fund-raising comes against the backdrop of SoftBank’s decision to sell about $41 billion in assets to stem losses on some of its other investments.

May 29, 2020

Embracing "Pricing-Market Fit" as a Cloud-Native Company -- in a COVID-19 World

In this second installment of our Cloud-Native Entrepreneur’s Playbook, we evaluate the most-common pricing models used by enterprise-focused, cloud companies and consider how companies can best think about in the current market. We call this journey finding “pricing-market fit”.

May 29, 2020

Meet The Agritech Entrepreneurs Who Just Raised $6 Million To Help Farmers In Kenya Grow Their Business

Apollo Agriculture, a Kenyan ag-tech company which uses machine learning and automated operations technology to help small-scale farmers access everything they need to maximize their profitability, raised $6 million in a Series A round, led by Anthemis Exponential Ventures.

May 28, 2020

People Are Noticing That The Food System Is Flawed...Now What?

We have to work together to improve the complex issues within our food systems - no one type of investment or and one form of innovation can do it alone.

May 28, 2020

Exclusive: Why All-Star Investors Think $350 Million Video Startup Loom Is The Next Big Thing In Remote Work Tech

The company's greatest challenge will be converting the two million users that have joined the platform during lockdown into lifelong users.

May 28, 2020

Next Billion-Dollar Startups: Online Pharmacy Capsule Leads Healthcare- And Tech-Heavy List

This year's Next Billion-Dollar Startups list reflects the bright spots in a tough economy, notably healthcare.

May 28, 2020

Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2020

For the sixth year in a row, Forbes, in partnership with TrueBridge Capital Partners, has searched the country for the next unicorns. In a tough year, these 25 fast-growing companies stand out.

May 28, 2020

Biotech R&D Software Startup Benchling, Started By MIT Undergrads, Scores $850 Million Valuation Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Forbes Under 30 alum Sajith Wickramasekara scores an $850 million valuation for his biotech R&D startup Benchling. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the company is helping big biotech companies work on potential therapeutics and vaccines for Covid-19.

May 28, 2020

A New Wave Of Disruptors Joins The Next Billion-Dollar Startups List

As investors, entrepreneurs, and startups respond to the dramatic changes precipitated by the coronavirus pandemic, it’s become even more clear that disruption and adaptation will be the defining business trends of 2020.

May 28, 2020

Six New Unicorns, One Acquisition And Four Companies With 200-Plus Layoffs: How Last Year’s Next Billion-Dollar Startups Have Fared

When language-learning app Duolingo surpassed the $1 billion valuation mark, becoming the fifth company on last year's Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups list to do so. Here's how the other companies on the list have fared.

May 28, 2020

startup

With Money From Walmart’s Marc Lore, Stealth Startup Archer Buys Its Way Into The Electric Air Taxi Race

The company has rapidly built up a team of talented engineers with rich compensation packages including bonuses of two to three times salary, poaching top names from Kitty Hawk and Joby and setting tongues wagging in the small world of West Coast dreamers trying to build the future of air travel.

Guild Education Makes First, $80 Million Acquisition To Build Out Job Marketplace Amid Covid-19 Layoffs

Rehab 2.0: YC-Backed Ophelia Raises $2.7 Million To Help People Quit Opioids Without The Burden And Cost Of Rehab

Pandemic, Philanthropy And Racial Equity Disrupting Money Allocation

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