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Was Loom’s $975M exit a fair price?

When Atlassian announced it was buying Loom for $975 million last week, it turns out after close analysis that it was a good deal for all concerned.

Was Loom’s $975M exit a fair price?

Atlassian announced this morning that it is acquiring video messaging service Loom for $975 million, the same company that had a $1.53 billion valuation in May 2021 when it announced…

Atlassian to acquire former unicorn Loom for $975M

Loom, an enterprise collaboration video messaging service, has laid off 34 employees, or 14% of its total staff, sources say. Employees across product and people operations were impacted. The venture-backed…

a16z-backed Loom lays off 14% of staff, one year after becoming a unicorn

Erica Chidi, the co-founder of LOOM and a first-generation Nigerian-American, learned how to wrap the language of self-care around her body from an early age. She spent the early part…

Loom spins up a pregnancy and postpartum education program

Census, a startup that helps businesses sync their customer data from their data warehouses to their various business tools like Salesforce and Marketo, today announced that it has raised a…

Census raises $16M Series A to help companies put their data warehouses to work

Forget the calendar invite. Just jump into a conversation. That’s the idea powering a fresh batch of social startups poised to take advantage of our cleared schedules amidst quarantine. But…

Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps

You have to actually get work done, not just video call all day, but apps like Zoom want to take over your screen. Remote workers who need to stay in…

Around is the new floating head video chat multitasking app

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Instagram founders join $30M raise for Loom work video messenger

Why are we all trapped in enterprise chat apps if we talk 6X faster than we type, and our brain processes visual info 60,000X faster than text? Thanks to Instagram, we’re not as camera-shy anymore. And everyone’s trying to remain in flow instead of being distracted by multi-tasking. That’s why…

Instagram founders join $30M raise for Loom work video messenger

If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many emails can you replace with a video? As offices fragment into remote teams, work becomes more visual and social media…

Slack off — send videos instead with $11M-funded Loom

According to Loom founder Chase White, there’s a familiar cycle that tech entrepreneurs go through: When they’re first getting started, they sell equity to angel investors, then they use the…

Loom helps entrepreneurs lure freelance developers with equity

Only days after revealing its first dedicated photo management and sharing application Carousel, Dropbox is announcing it has acquired cloud photo storage and sync service Loom, a favorite among iOS…

Dropbox Acquires Cloud Photos Startup Loom And Document Collaboration Service Hackpad

Loom, a simple but well-built photo-sharing app targeting the mainstream, has been focused on building something of an iCloud alternative which also helps users to free up disk space on…

Space-Saving iCloud Alternative Loom Now Supports Video, Too

Loom, the new cloud storage and syncing service emerging from the ashes of Y Combinator-backed Popset, is today opening its doors, and heading into beta. Though the company’s long-term vision…

Loom Lets You Sync & Store Your Photos In The Cloud, Save Space On Your Devices

Barely a month or two after launching the Y Combinator-backed photo-sharing service Popset, the team realized they were solving the wrong problem. Users weren’t struggling to share their photos with groups;…

Loom Is Building A Better iCloud

The rumors were swirling, swirling! But they’re no longer rumors, now are they? I’m talking, of course, about LucasArts’ huge announcement that they just made: a whole bunch of their…