TechCrunch

MARCH 19, 2021

Organizations spend ungodly amounts of money — millions of dollars — on business intelligence (BI) tools. Data discovery applications allow analysts to link with data sources and perform self-service analysis, but still come with major pitfalls. Yet, adoption rates are still below 30%. Why is this the case?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Pouyan Salehi says that he wasn’t really looking to add capital, but the investors understood his vision and the money will help accelerate the product roadmap. The company has now raised a total of $16.6 million including the $3.6 million seed round we covered in October.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Hibob last raised money about 10 months ago, a $70 million round in December 2020 (a round led by SEEK and Israel Growth Partners). General Atlantic led the round, with past investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, Eight Roads and Entrée Capital among the others investing. When it announced its funding yesterday at a $6.3

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

We thought, ‘What if we accelerated [the African remote network] and just enabled applicants from anywhere?’ But there was one condition: Toptal had to raise more money. So investors are stuck in limbo — as are employees who joined hoping that the company would raise money down the line so their stock options would convert.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

But it’s reasonable to say that knowledge workers in particular devote a sizeable chunk of their workdays to sifting through data, whether to find basic contact info or domain-specific files. According to McKinsey, employees spend 1.8 hours every day — 9.3

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Brookings: The AI revolutions winners and losers wont be who or where youd think A new Brookings Institution analysis of AIs effects on jobs and job losses suggests highly educated urban workers will be most at risk of losing their jobs. Brookings, a D.C.-based

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

billion knowledge workers coming into the workforce in the next 10 years, mostly from emerging economies, while in developed economies there are some 90 million jobs unfilled,” Jamous said. Related to that wider social mission, Oyster has a pending application to become a B-Corporation. “There are 1.5

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