Startups

Pylon lands $17M investment to build a full service B2B customer service platform

Last year Pylon, an early San Francisco startup, was just trying to build its product and bring it to market with a fresh $3.2 million seed investment in its pockets. That product involved helping companies track, manage and route B2B customer conversations in channels like Slack, Microsoft Teams and Discord. What the company learned, however,

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Fast-growing neobank Comun has secured $21.5M in new funding just months after its last raise

Comun, a digital bank focused on serving immigrants in the United States, has raised $21.5 million in a Series A funding round less than nine months after announcing a $4.5 million raise, TechCrunch is the first to report. This is a crowded space, filled with a number of startups, including Tanda, Bloom Money, Majority, Welcome

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Eric Ly from KarmaCheck shares his entrepreneurial lessons after decades in the industry

Eric Ly has a storied career: he started as an engineering intern at IBM, and twenty years later found himself co-starting and serving as the founding CTO of LinkedIn. After that, he went on to start a slew of companies, including his most recent one, KarmaCheck, which uses AI-driven technology to make background checks easier.

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