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After launching its Open Office Hours program in September, YC is expanding the program and turning it into a monthly thing. The announcement comes after a pilot program where over 650 Black and Latino founders applied, and YC partners met with 50 teams teams in 2 days of office hours. Michael Seibel, the YC partner leading Open Office Hours, said “Silicon Valley investors often say… Read More
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We’ve seen startups try to replace or automate the work of executive assistants, but Esper is trying to do something different — it aims to help those assistants make smarter decisions. The company was founded by chairman Joe Lonsdale (also a founder at Palantir and Formation 8) and CEO Andrew Lee (previously founder at JamLegend and then, post-acquisition, a product… Read More
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Digital audio listening is in the midst of a historic transition from standalone usage through dedicated hardware and applications to embedded experiences — something that will reshape the $65+ billion global audio sector. We have already seen early signs, with audio embedded in smartphones becoming the dominant digital listening experience. Read More
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It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the myriad of options in the haircare section of your local store, but it turns out that of all those products, the formula within most shampoo and conditioner doesn’t vary much across brands. A new Y Combinator company, Function of Beauty, is looking to change all that. The company lets the user choose a scent and describe their own hair type,… Read More
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TRData, a London-headquartered startup with a development team based in Ukraine and the majority of customers in Russia, makes for an interesting European tech story. Read More
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It didn’t take long. A little bit more than two weeks after launching an OS X app, Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is launching a Windows version. Like on OS X, this app takes advantage of the complete rewrite of WordPress.com. Read More
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Talk about “peak hours” with any engineer who is working on a video streaming website, and it will send shivers down their spine. French startup Streamroot is making sure that everything will run smoothly when it comes to bandwidth, delivery time, adaptive bitrate and all the other key technical words in the world of online video streaming. In particular, Streamroot uses… Read More
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Houzz, the popular service for giving you house envy and connecting you with the right home professionals to cure it, is launching an interesting new feature for its iOS users today. The new Sketch feature makes it easier for homeowners to annotate photos on the service to discuss their remodeling ideas with their housemates and professionals. The company also today announced that it now… Read More
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It’s been a while since we heard from Server Density, the UK.-based SaaS server monitoring startup, but sometimes that’s the nature of quietly going about building a business. Today, however, the largely bootstrapped company is disclosing that it has raised $1.5 million in seed funding led by SP Ventures. Read More
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Australia’s tech darling Atlassian went public on the U.S. stock market Thursday, after months of speculation.
With 1,259 employees in five countries, Atlassian’s bread and butter has been enterprise software, which it says aims to help teams “get stuff done.”
Apparently, people around the world like getting stuff done, because the company listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker code TEAM with a valuation of US$4.4 billion (A$6 billion). At a time when investors are increasingly nervous about tech IPOs, it is a remarkably healthy price.
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