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Email startup Superhuman is launching an AI-powered instant replies feature today with the company looking to double down in AI-fueled functionality this year. The feature gives you three contextual replies…

Superhuman launches AI-powered instant replies

Email is a necessary evil. Startups have taken note. We’re looking at two of them, Gated and EtherMail.

Email will be with us until the universe dies, so these startups are working to make it better

Identity governance and administration (IGA) — that’s probably not something you think of every waking hour of your day, but somebody on your IT team probably is.

BalkanID brings AI to identity governance and administration to take on SailPoint

Since our last column, another smattering of tech startups has laid off employees. We get it. Layoffs happen. But as we conduct yet another week of analysis into a depressing…

If you must conduct layoffs, don’t be a jerk

Superhuman worked to optimize and refine their product early to create a version of “growth hacking” that would not only help the company attract users, but serve them best and…

Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra explains how to optimize your startup’s products for lasting growth

After making investments in 57 startups together, Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra and Eventjoy founder Todd Goldberg are back at it with a new $24 million fund and big ambitions amid…

Todd and Rahul’s Angel Fund closes new $24 million fund

Back in 2018, Day One Ventures launched in Silicon Valley specifically designed to be both a VC and an investor that would also lead marketing and communications for its portfolio.…

Two-year-old Day One Ventures raises new $52.5M fund to invest in Valley startups

Email startup Superhuman has been lauded by plenty in the tech community as a simpler and faster way to navigate email, but at $30 per month, the service’s hefty subscription…

Email startup Superhuman debuts a cheaper $10/month tier for students and academics

Email is one of those things that no one likes but that we’re all forced to use. Superhuman, founded by Rahul Vohra, aims to help everyone get to inbox zero.…

Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra says recession is the ‘perfect time’ to be aggressive for well-capitalized startups

An email app with a waitlist? No, this isn’t 2004 and I’m not talking about Gmail. Superhuman has managed to attract and maintain constant interest for its subscription email product,…

Extra Crunch Live: Join Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra for a live discussion of email, SaaS and buzzy businesses

The hits keep on coming with Extra Crunch Live: Next week, we’ll have Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra live for a chat on Tuesday, June 16 at 2 PM…

Extra Crunch Live: Join Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra for a live Q&A on June 16 at 2pm EDT/11 AM PDT

Two years ago, dormmates Justin Wenig and Nicholas Diao struggled to get into a popular computer science class at Columbia University. The duo eventually got into that class, but after…

Coursedog lands $4.2 million to make class scheduling smarter

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Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra on waitlists, freemium pricing and future products

“No matter what Gmail — or any other company for that matter — does, it doesn’t really change our focus on our customers.”

Superhuman CEO Rahul Vohra on waitlists, freemium pricing and future products

In 2016, we profiled a then-24-year-old named Jeremy Fiance who had managed to pool together $6 million for a fund focused on his alma mater, UC Berkeley, where as a…

The House Fund closes its second fund with $44 million to pour into UC Berkeley grads, alums and faculty

Eight years after raising a $1.5 million proof-of-concept fund, Boldstart Ventures, a New York-based venture firm whose portfolio companies have been enjoying some serious momentum lately, just closed two new…

New York’s Boldstart Ventures has raised $157 million across two funds to back nascent enterprise startups

The founder of one of 2019’s most buzzworthy startups is putting on his VC hat.

Superhuman founder seeks to raise debut venture fund

Email will likely never die, but if new apps can change how we think about using it, maybe it will feel like the worst parts have croaked. In the wake…

Subscription email app Tempo hits the right minimalist notes

While Slack is trying to kill email, a new email startup backed by Kleiner Perkins is trying to make corporate email more like Slack. Consider is an email service for…

Kleiner Perkins bets on a premium email service that’s bringing Slack-like Groups into Gmail

Superhuman, the buzzy and currently invite-only email startup that you might have come across even if you yourself don’t have access if you’ve ever encountered a “Sent via Superhuman” email…

Superhuman removes email location logging, will turn read receipts off by default
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Superbacklash

Hot startup Superhuman has been getting some backlash, as often happens when someone notices the precise methodology that a startup is using to enable a core feature. We’re well into…

Superbacklash

A $30-per-month email service capturing the adoration of investors and founders in Silicon Valley is perhaps an unsurprising story in a subscription-obsessed landscape, yet we’re only now hearing how stealth-y…

My six months with $30/month email service Superhuman

A little less than two years ago, we reported on Jeremy Fiance, a then 24-year-old recent UC Berkeley graduate who’d just taken the wraps off his new firm, The House Fund.…

Jeremy Fiance, the 26-year-old founder of House Fund, ups his VC ambitions

Reinventing the email experience is an area numerous startups have tried to tackle over the years, with some apps focused more on triage, others on making a better desktop alternative…

Rapportive founder’s new startup Superhuman is what Gmail would be if built today

You know those times when you spend multiple emails trying to set up a meeting time, and a meeting place, and once it’s all done you then have to leave…

Super.cc Launches To Bring Calendaring Into Your Email Inbox

Even though every major tech company in the world, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, has tried to tackle scheduling, the reality is that the options suck. If we can’t afford…

SuperCalendar Aims To Fix Your Scheduling Woes With A Mix Of Tech And ‘Superhuman’ Power