Knō Magazine

By Omar Choudhry

News about startups, entrepreneurship, data privacy and business

Nested, the online estate agent that makes home sellers ‘chain-free’, raises further £120M
TechCrunch - Steve O'Hear
Nested, the London-based “data-driven” estate agency that provides a cash advance to help you buy a new home before you’ve sold your old one, has raised a further £120 million in funding. The new round
Domio raised $12 million in Series A funding to build ‘apart hotels’ across the US
TechCrunch - Connie Loizos
Hotels can be pricey, and travelers are often forced to leave their rooms for basic things, like food that doesn’t come from the minibar. Yet Airbnb accommodations, which have become the go-to alternative
Jane VC, a new fund for female entrepreneurs, wants founders to cold email them
TechCrunch - Kate Clark
Want to pitch a venture capitalist? You’ll need a “warm introduction” first. At least that’s what most in the business will advise. Find a person, typically a man, who made the VC you’re interested in
Twilio acquires email API platform SendGrid for $2 billion in stock
TechCrunch - Frederic Lardinois
Twilio, the ubiquitous communications platform, today announced its plan to acquire the API-centric email platform SendGrid for about $2 billion in an all-stock transaction. That’s Twilio’s largest acquisition
TravelPerk grabs $44M to take its pain-free SaaS for business travel global
TechCrunch - Natasha Lomas
Only six months ago Barcelona-based TravelPerk bagged a $21 million Series B, off the back of strong momentum for a software as a service platform designed to take a Slack-like chunk out of the administrative
A New VC Crop of Series A Firms
haystack.vc - Semil Shah
Many of the most storied brands in venture capital made their name by being the investor of record in a specific company’s “Series A” round — largely …
The Top 7 Messenger Apps in the World
Inc Magazine - By Larry Kim
Connect with your audience on the messenger apps they use most! From ads to drip campaigns, brands are using messenger apps to better connect with their users. With record-breaking engagement (up to 80%!)
Online Marketing As We Know It Is Changing With The Rise Of Generation Z
Forbes - Jia Wertz
It seems that on a regular basis, we hear about Millennials, their habits, likes and dislikes, and how businesses can best market to them. But believe it or not, it’s time to start looking at the next
All 700 employees at this startup work remotely. Here's why one of its top execs says it's given them a major edge over competition.
Business Insider - Zoë Bernard
When InVision was founded in 2011, its CEO and founder, Clark Valberg, knew he'd have to get creative to maintain a competitive edge. Google had recently increased its presence in Manhattan, making it
SaaS at scale: Here’s how five cloud tech experts are building enterprise software empires
geekwire.com - Tom Krazit
Until very recently, very few people actually liked the enterprise software they were forced to use at work, from the technology managers grumbling …
WhatsApp founder, Brian Acton, says Facebook used him to get its acquisition past EU regulators
TechCrunch - Natasha Lomas
WhatsApp founder, Brian Acton, who left Facebook a year ago — before going on to publicly bite the hand that fed him, by voicing support for the #DeleteFacebook movement (and donating $50M to alternative
New California law may force all businesses to reveal data practices
financialpost.com - The Associated Press
A Rhode Island software company that sells primarily to businesses is nonetheless making sure it complies with a strict California law about …
Learn the Art of Marketing Your Brand with Little or No Budget
Entrepreneur - Rachna Baruah
A few tricks that can help you push your brand ahead of the clutter with little or no money (sounds enticing, doesn't it?) Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You're reading
Cleo, the ‘digital assistant’ that replaces your banking apps, picks up $10M Series A led by Balderton
TechCrunch - Steve O'Hear
When Cleo, the London-based “digital assistant” that wants to replace your banking apps, quietly entered the U.S., the company couldn’t have expected to be an instant hit. Many better-funded British startups
Cluep, a Canadian startup that raised just $500K, acquired for $40M
TechCrunch - Kate Clark
Everyone loves a tale of a bootstrapped startup founder’s journey to an eight-figure exit. The team at Toronto-based Cluep have a good one. The founders of the adtech startup raised less than $500,000
The Best Elevator Pitch: 17 Ways to Persuasively Tell Your Story
Inc Magazine - By Alison Davis
Forget rhetoric. Ban tech talk. Here's how to create a compelling pitch. Maybe you're starting a company or managing an initiative in a large corporation. Or you're promoting a product or service--or Or
| Google, Facebook dealt blow by EU lawmakers in copyright fight
fin24.com
Tech platforms and internet activists have protested the outcome of a European Parliament vote to back copyright rules that would help video, music …
Everything You Need To Know About The Law The EU Just Passed That Could Change The Internet As We Know It
buzzfeednews.com - Ryan Broderick
The extremely controversial copyright could have profound ramifications for how the internet works — and, yes, maybe make memes illegal. Frederick …
Marketing Tactics That You Should Start Doing Today
Entrepreneur - Sherina Kapany
It is a tool that makes you as a brand, much more relatable to your consumers Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. You're reading Entrepreneur India, an international franchise
Tokens can better incentivize startup employees than equity
TechCrunch - Joyce Yang
Token structuring and tokeneconomics are among of the most important considerations when designing a blockchain. When thinking about how best to distribute these tokens, founders often think about how
Location marketing platform Uberall raises further $25M and acquires competitor Navads
TechCrunch - Steve O'Hear
Berlin-based location marketing startup Uberall has raised a further $25 million in funding — adding to a $25 million Series B raised earlier this year — and acquired competitor Navads. Terms of the acquisition
ShipBob brings in $40M to help e-commerce businesses compete with Amazon
TechCrunch - Kate Clark
Nowadays, those of us who shop for everyday goods online are accustomed to said goods arriving on our doorstep 24 to 48 hours after we click ‘buy.’ That’s because of Amazon; the e-commerce giant’s next-day
Salesforce updates Sales Cloud ahead of Dreamforce with increased automation
TechCrunch - Ron Miller
Dreamforce, Salesforce’s massive customer conference is coming later this month to San Francisco, but the news is starting already well ahead of the event. Today, the company announced updates to its Sales
Microsoft commits to fixing custom apps broken by Windows 10 upgrades
TechCrunch - Ron Miller
Microsoft wants to make life easier for enterprise customers. Starting today, it is committing to fix any custom applications that may break as a result of updates to Windows 10 or the Office 365 product
Dating app Bumble says buzz off to Facebook, plans Hive space expansion next year
TechCrunch - Ingrid Lunden
Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder and CEO of social and dating app Bumble, said today that Facebook’s move into dating is a “huge validation, the best thing that could happen to the dating space, maybe But
We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It
buffer.com - Joel Gascoigne
Last month, Buffer spent $3.3 million – about half of all the cash we had in the bank – to buy out our main venture capital (VC) investors.Starting …
Glossier CEO Emily Weiss on why the company won’t sell on Amazon
TechCrunch - Sarah Perez
E-commerce beauty startup founder, Glossier CEO Emily Weiss, dished on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 this morning about some of the company’s top competitors in the e-commerce space, including Amazon
A top-tier app in Apple’s Mac App Store stole your browser history
TechCrunch - Zack Whittaker
A popular top-tier app in Apple’s Mac App Store was found pilfering browser histories from anyone who downloads it. Yet still, at the time of writing, the rogue app — Adware Doctor — stands as the No.1