Sourceress, an AI recruiter, closed $3.5 million in financing. Six investors participated in the round, among them Lightspeed Venture Partners, Y Combinator, OpenAI, and Dropbox. By using tailor-made machine learning models, Sourceress defines what a company is looking for in a role. It then identifies and
Software startup Qubole announced it has acquired $25 million in financing, led by SingTel Innov8 and Harmony Partners. CRV, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and IVP also participated in the offering. Qubole delivers a self-service platform for big data analytics built on Amazon Web
AdRoll, an independent performance marketing platform, announced Toby Gabriner has been named chief executive officer as a transition from his current role as president. As a four-time CEO and five-time president of high-growth companies, Gabriner brings nearly two decades of digital advertising expertise to AdRoll.
Security leader ProtectWise™ named Adam Cecil as chief financial officer. Cecil brings a decade of executive leadership experience for emerging companies, and has spent 30 years in finance. Most recently, he was CFO of high-growth startup CommercialTribe. Prior to that, he was CFO at AlchemyAI,
The travel tool Flight Deals Hound constantly scans for international and domestic flight deals near users’ specified locations, and sends personalized email alerts to them as soon as deals are found. Flight Deals Hound was created by Founder Anna Wu.
Chia is an eco-friendly cryptocurrency that aims to harness cheap, abundant, unused storage space on hard drives to verify transactions on the blockchain, resulting in a cryptocurrency that’s less wasteful, more decentralized, and more secure. The makers plan to sell Chia to the public in
Chatbox for Education lets teachers around the globe teach students online via educational templates. Students can converse with instructors through the chatbot on a specific topic, and then learn that topic through text, images, or video. Students then take quizzes and submit their results to
TrackStreet announced the completion of $2 million in seed financing, led by Okapi Venture Partners, with participation from SaaS Capital and Stage Venture Partners. TrackStreet monitors Internet marketplaces and freestanding websites to help give brand owners the tools they need to understand sales and distribution trends
Chandra Ambadipudi, chief executive officer of Clairvoyant, a global technology consulting and services company, has joined the EduBrisk board of directors. EduBrisk is an e-learning platform for students, parents, and teachers. “Chandra is a highly motivated senior leader in software engineering and big data, with a
The intelligent fire camera SmokeD is designed to see smoke from a distance of 10 miles, detect wildfire in around five minutes, and send an alert directly to users’ phones. Each notification is sent to 3,000 mobile app users who verify the alerts and help