For all the hullabaloo that San Francisco is over — long live “Zoom towns” and the rise of remote work — the reality is much more mixed, according to a new report from Brookings Institution.
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Built in SF: Autonomous Vehicle Company Pony.ai Closes Its Series D at $8.5B Valuation
Pony.ai, a giant in the robotaxi space, announced Monday that it closed its Series D round. Although the company didn’t disclose the amount raised, the fresh injection of capital sent its valuation soaring to $8.5 billion.
Built in SF: These 5 Bay Area Companies Topped Forbes’ Best Startup Employers List
San Francisco may be foggy, but the future of the startup scene here continues to look mighty bright. The Bay Area is overflowing with fresh career opportunities for local and global talent looking to get their careers started.
LA Times: Op-Ed: Silicon Valley’s huge diversity problem holds tech back
The “nerds will rule the world” trope was inspirational for kids like me in the 1980s, a cliche in the 1990s, an ascendant notion in the 2000s, and today it’s canon. Silicon Valley emerged as the nerds’ triumphant new world of possibility where glasses, acne, poor social skills and other comic stereotypes become irrelevant — brilliant ideas win the day on merit alone.
Built in SF: Employees Finish First at These San Francisco Companies
Whether it’s a sales team tracking time spent on demos, engineers carefully monitoring page loading times or writers counting clicks, defining success and measuring progress toward it is incredibly important. This is especially true for people teams, which arguably have the toughest metric of all to quantify and track: happiness.
Tech Crunch: Here’s what you’ll learn at TechCrunch Early Stage in San Francisco this April
TechCrunch Early Stage is the ultimate educational resource for a founder who is just getting started. We’ve tapped experts across myriad startup core competencies, from fundraising to operations to marketing, to outline step-by-step guides on how you can set up and grow your business.
Miami’s Community News: REMOOV, A SAN FRANCISCO-BASED, HIGH-TECH HAULING STARTUP, MAKES ITS EAST COAST U.S. DEBUT IN MIAMI
When entrepreneur and investor Luis Perez saw a gap in the marketplace for a high tech, white glove haul service, he decided to create one—and in 2014, Remoov was launched. Using original algorithms to automate the appraisal and resale process of pre-owned items quickly and efficiently, Remoov helps homeowners and corporations declutter by picking up unwanted goods, selling what they can for the owner’s profit, donating what can be repurposed and responsibly disposing of remaining items.
Built in SF: Proptech Platform Homebound Raises $75M Series C, Hiring for 25+ Roles
Santa Rosa-based proptech company Homebound announced Tuesday that it raised $75 million in Series C financing. The round was led by Khosla Ventures and also included hundreds of millions in debt financing from Goldman Sachs, according to TechCrunch.
Built in SF: Flexport Grabbed $935M, Apple Acquired AI Music, and More SF Tech New
Last week was a busy one for Bay Area-based tech companies, but then again, when is it not? Companies across industries brought in huge amounts of capital, from fintech to fraud compliance, web3 and more. This is the Built In SF weekly refresh. Flexport raised $935M.
Bay Area Inno: Former Apple engineer raises $10M to build out web3 development platform
Samir Arora spent a decade at Apple. Beginning in the early 1980s, he worked on developing graphical user interfaces and the Lisa and Macintosh computers, and then focused on building platforms for developers. By the mid-1990s, he co-founded NetObjects, an early website building tool that was acquired by IBM in 1997.
