by Natasha Mascarenhas | Jun 25, 2022 | Business Enhancements, Startups
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Just as one company’s success shouldn’t cast a halo on its vertical’s brethren, one company’s layoffs don’t quite mean that its...
by Natasha Mascarenhas | Jun 25, 2022 | Business Enhancements, Startups, Venture Capital
Just as one company’s success shouldn’t cast a halo on its vertical’s brethren, one company’s layoffs don’t quite mean that its competitors are equally screwed. Instead, I think that changes within a particular startup can be used as benchmark questions for their...
by Natasha Mascarenhas | Jun 24, 2022 | Business Enhancements, Startups, Venture Capital
Given this year’s changing venture capital climate, it’s not a stretch to imagine that we’re going to see a lot more of the following: down rounds disguised as extension rounds, recapitalization events conflated with secondary activity and vaguely defined references...
by Natasha Mascarenhas | Jun 23, 2022 | Business Enhancements
Ro, a healthcare unicorn that last raised $150 million just months ago at a $7 billion valuation, has cut 18% of its staff to “manage expenses, increase the efficiency of our organization and better map our resources to our current strategy,” leadership wrote in an...
