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News that Adobe will buy upstart design software unicorn Figma for $20 billion was the single largest event in startup land this week, a surprise upset over the Ethereum Merge…

After the Figma-Adobe deal, which design startups are acquisition targets?

Ethyca, the privacy-by-design technology startup that has built a unique set of APIs, detection tools and analytics to make it easier for organizations to adhere to data privacy policies like…

Ethyca raises $7.5M, open sources Fides for developers to build privacy tools directly into their codebases

One of the biggest problems in the world of e-commerce is the predicament of shopping cart abandonment: when shoppers aren’t getting to what they want fast enough — whether it’s…

Constructor finds $55M for tech that powers search and discovery for e-commerce businesses

If you miss hanging out with your co-workers but don’t want to spend a single second more on Zoom, the latest product from Donut might be the answer. The startup…

Donut launches Watercooler, an easy way to socialize online with co-workers

If 2020 hasn’t been wild enough, there’s an extra special twist going down at Disrupt 2020 beyond the fact that, for the first time ever, the conference will be fully…

Meet the Disrupt 2020 ‘TC10’

Let’s just say it has been a year. While a few ambitious startups like InVision and GitLab built their corporate cultures and talent hiring with a remote-first mentality, the reality…

Hear how working from home is changing startups and investing at Disrupt 2020

FirstMark Capital, the New York-based VC firm whose portfolio includes Shopify, Riot Games, Pinterest, Airbnb, InVision and more, has today announced the close of its two newest investment vehicles. FirstMark…

FirstMark Capital announces new funds with a fresh $650 million in investment capital

No business is immune to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. We’ve seen Airbnb — a company particularly susceptible to this black swan event — go through an insane design…

InVision adds new features to Freehand, a virtual whiteboard tool, as user demand surges

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Decrease user churn by better managing expectations

Plus, competitor ads analysis for Facebook, budget explainer ads and more.

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Decrease user churn by better managing expectations

Y Combinator graduate Vendr helps companies manage and renew enterprise software.

Vendr, already profitable, raises $2M to replace your enterprise sales team

We’ve aggregated the world’s best growth marketers into one community. Twice a month, we ask them to share their most effective growth tactics, and we compile them into this Growth…

Getting more people to open your emails

It’s been four years since TechCrunch published my blog post The SaaS Adventure, which introduced the concept of a “T2D3” roadmap to help SaaS companies scale — and, as an…

T2D3 Software Update: Embracing the Founder to CEO (F2C) Journey

We’ve aggregated the world’s best growth marketers into one community. Twice a month, we ask them to share their most effective growth tactics, and we compile them into this Growth…

What’s the right way to sponsor a YouTube influencer?
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How to get people to open your emails

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We’ve aggregated the world’s best growth marketers into one community. Twice a month, we ask them to share their most effective growth tactics, and we compile them into this Growth…

How to get people to open your emails

We’ve aggregated the world’s best growth marketers into one community. Twice a month, we ask them to share their most effective growth tactics, and we compile them into this Growth…

How to get your ads working, and whether PR is worth it

We’ve aggregated the world’s best growth marketers into one community. Twice a month, we ask them to share their most effective growth tactics, and we compile them into this Growth…

How to work with top influencers and avoid ad blockers

Brianne Kimmel on her debut fund: “I want to be mindful that I am a female GP and I feel honored to have that title.”

Work Life Ventures raises $5M for debut enterprise SaaS seed fund

Troops helps sales teams communicate via Slack.

VCs bet $12M on Troops, a Slackbot for sales teams

A high demand for engineering talent in our digital world has driven companies that need to make these technical hires to cast their nets wider in the search for good…

Karat nabs $28M led by Tiger Global to grow its human-powered online interview platform for engineering jobs

Today InVision announced even deeper integrations with Jira, letting users embed actual InVision prototypes right within a Jira ticket. The company also announced the Jira app for InVision Studio, letting…

InVision announces new integrations with Jira

Amid calls for a dozen different global cities to replace Silicon Valley — Austin, Beijing, London, New York — nobody has yet nominated “nowhere.” But it’s now a possibility. There…

Remote workers and nomads represent the next tech hub

You’ve probably noticed: Design has become central for many businesses that might have once considered it an afterthought. Indeed, with sales and marketing so thoroughly optimized at this point —…

Sketch, maker of popular design tools, just landed $20 million in Series A funding from Benchmark in its first outside round

With more industries and organizations recognizing design as a pillar of business, a battle is brewing among makers of design tools. And with a fresh $40 million in Series C…

Figma gets $40 million Series C to put design tools in the cloud

InVision, the design company valued at $1.9 billion, has today announced the acquisition of Australia-based Trunk. Trunk is focused wholly on file versioning for designers. In the world of engineering,…

InVision acquires design file versioning startup Trunk

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InVision, valued at $1.9 billion, picks up $115 million Series F

“The screen is becoming the most important place in the world,” says InVision CEO and founder Clark Valberg. In fact, it’s hard to get through a conversation with him without hearing it. And, considering that his company has grown to $100 million in annual recurring revenue, he has reason to…

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InVision, valued at $1.9 billion, picks up $115 million Series F

Design tools are becoming increasingly important to just about every brand out there. Today, a new entrant joins the race. Framer X, a revamped version of three-year-old Framer, was founded…

Framer X design tool steps in the ring with InVision, Adobe, and Sketch

InVision today announced a newly expanded integration and strategic partnership with Atlassian that will let users of Confluence, Trello and Jira see and share InVision prototypes from within those programs.…

InVision deepens integrations with Atlassian

To Clark Valberg, the screen is the most important place in the world. And he’s not the only one who thinks so. It isn’t just tech companies spending their money…

InVision CEO Clark Valberg to talk design at Disrupt SF

Since its debut on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage in September 2016, demand for a service like productboard, which gives companies a holistic view of product development and encourages input from across an…

As product development incorporates more feedback, development toolkit productboard raises $8M

InVision, the software a service challenger to Adobe’s design dominance, has just released a new version of its mobile app for iOS and is beta-testing new features for Android users…

InVision mobile app updates include studio features and desktop to mobile mirroring