Today we are excited to announce our $22 million Series B funding round, which was led with significant investment from @M12vc: https://t.co/mUAjjG5RRQ @crunchbasenews
— Arkose Labs (@ArkoseLabs) March 24, 2020
Now up on @CrunchbaseNews: @ArkoseLabs raises $22M from @M12vc, @PayPal and @USVP_ for its anti-fraud platform after seeing its revenue grow by 400% in 2019.https://t.co/25pV3Y2OCW pic.twitter.com/ms62wiBSoq
— Mary Ann Azevedo (@bayareawriter) March 24, 2020
Silicon Valley may end up with large numbers of abandoned employee equity, as startups cut jobs amid the coronavirus-caused economy uncertainty.https://t.co/7j8JrMAg1Y
— Axios (@axios) March 25, 2020
"Many joined the call happily smiling, expecting another team meeting or bonding activity amid the new work from home culture. Instead, according to people on the call, their boss [...] announced that everyone on the call was being laid off." https://t.co/mWCySZUjHX
— issie lapowsky (@issielapowsky) March 25, 2020
You see so many tech and media employees wearing their company's merch proudly....remember that your institutional loyalty will never be returned in kind. (Every experienced journo figures this out) https://t.co/AHbWstkOyu
— Heidi N. Moore (@moorehn) March 25, 2020
Layoffs in the age of coronavirus: held entirely on Zoom
— Biz Carson (@bizcarson) March 25, 2020
"People were crying and people were panicking," said one TripActions employee who was abruptly let go on the videoconference. "It was like 100 different videos of just chaos."https://t.co/PW1PGpkS3I
this is insane ! https://t.co/LXkg7bseQZ
— Mike Murphy (@mcwm) March 25, 2020
Corporate-travel startup TripActions Inc. laid off hundreds of employees to save cash amid the coronavirus pandemic. It was valued at $4B in an Andreessen Horowitz-led round last year. https://t.co/SQ6630g49k @WSJVC
— Yuliya Chernova (@ychernova) March 24, 2020
Sonder lays off 400: https://t.co/LmvHxRzAnG
— Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) March 24, 2020
Hundreds of tech employees are getting laid off amid the coronavirus outbreak — but now it's all happening over Zoom.
— Donie O'Sullivan (@donie) March 26, 2020
https://t.co/zW8CJezT7z
Folks are getting laid off via Zoom.
— Laurel Wamsley (@laurelwamsley) March 25, 2020
"Workers surreally watched as everyone realized what was happening and began processing in their separate Zoom squares, some soundlessly crying." https://t.co/8cllr6ooz0
Oh good, I needed a new nightmare to add to the rotation. https://t.co/BpLNLap011 pic.twitter.com/KSrPbannNj
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) March 26, 2020