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OpenAI leads $23.5M round in Mem, an AI-powered note-taking app

TechCrunch

The investment values Mem at $110 million post-money and brings the startup’s total raised to $29 million. “We’re confident in our unique approach to self-organizing and generative knowledge management. But today, the OpenAI Startup Fund revealed that it led a $23.5

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Magical makes $35M appear to move data between webpages

TechCrunch

Like all founders, I wore many hats including sales, recruiting, and customer support,” Sambhi told TechCrunch in an email interview. We see so many knowledge workers still relying on these manual, outdated ways of working,” Sambhi said. But the goal is to introduce paid plans with premium features in the future.

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Nana nabs $6M for an online academy and marketplace dedicated to appliance repair

TechCrunch

A lot of the focus in online education — and, let’s face it, education overall — has been about professional development for knowledge workers, education for K-12 and how best to deliver cost-effective, engaging higher learning to those in college and beyond. “There are 5.9 and try their luck there.

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Oyster snaps up $20M for its HR platform aimed at distributed workforces

TechCrunch

The company is already working in 100 countries, and CEO and Tony Jamous (who co-founded the company with Jack Mardack) said in an interview that the plan is to expand that list of markets, and also bring in new services, particularly to address the opportunity in emerging markets to hire more people. “There are 1.5

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Glean aims to help employees surface info across sprawling enterprise systems

TechCrunch

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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How Anjali Sud stopped worrying about YouTube and reinvented Vimeo

The Verge

So one of the things that’s really interesting about that is you talked about how much money Netflix has to spend on content. Warner Media is going to spend all of AT&T’s money on content. Kind of at the basic level, YouTube doesn’t spend any money on content compared to the amount of content on YouTube.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Antitrust jitters, SPAC odyssey, white-hot IPOs, more

TechCrunch

But I was surprised to find myself editing an interview Alex Wilhelm conducted with Plaid CEO Zach Perret the next day in which the executive said growing the company on its own is “once again” the correct strategy. Watching Plaid and Visa sing “ Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off” in harmony after the U.S.

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