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How to craft the perfect email subject line

The Next Web

Even those of us who are tasked with creating email marketing campaigns aren’t immune to information overload: We all know what it’s like to be bombarded with email messages – all competing for a share of our attention during a busy day. What gets your attention? How do you decide which emails to trash unopened and which to read?

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Scratchpad snags $13M Series A to simplify Salesforce data entry

TechCrunch

In fact, the company caught the attention of Craft because they were hearing about Scratchpad from their portfolio companies. He says that lead investor David Sacks, who has built some successful startups himself, really got what they were trying to do, and the deal came together fairly easily.

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Magical makes $35M appear to move data between webpages

TechCrunch

But Magical’s cloud- and browser-centered approach has attracted the attention of investors like Coatue Management, which led the startup’s $35 million Series A funding round. We see so many knowledge workers still relying on these manual, outdated ways of working,” Sambhi said.

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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

sgEngage

Highlights from that report: Most workers toggle between apps 10 times an hour , costing organizations 32 days per worker, per year of workplace productivity Staff spends 25% of their time looking for information they need to do their jobs Knowledge workers spend 40% of their time on work about work.

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Nigerian data and intelligence company Stears raises $3.3M, backed by Mac VC and Serena Ventures

TechCrunch

So less text-heavy way of publishing and more of forecast and prediction around sectors that matter to knowledge workers and their organizations.”. As a data and intelligence company, Stears finds itself in a sweet spot where it is incentivized to pursue political projects that would draw attention if it were a media or tech company.

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BigChange raises $102M for a platform to help manage service fleets

TechCrunch

It’s from the north, specifically Leeds — a city that has an impressive number of startups in it even if these have not had anything like the funding or attention that startups in cities and areas in the South have attracted. The other part of the decentralisation story here focuses on what BigChange is actually building.

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As companies search for hourly workers, Fountain brings in $85M to assist them

TechCrunch

That translated into revenue growth of 220% year over year in 2021 — and attention from some new investors, including SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, which led Fountain’s new $85 million Series C round. We help you find who you are looking for — that person who is fine working in a cold warehouse or on that early morning shift.”.