Cosmos Video – a ‘Club Penguin for adults’ to socialise and work – raises $2.6M from LocalGlobe

Source: Microsoft
All over the world startups are piling into the space marked “virtual interaction and collaboration”. What if a startup created a sort of ‘Club Penguin for adults’? Step forward Cosmos Video, which has a virtual venues platform that...

Google, Intel, Zoom and others launch a new alliance to get enterprises to use more Chrome

Source: Microsoft
A group of industry heavyweights, including Google, Box, Citrix, Dell, Imprivata, Intel, Okta, RingCentral, Slack, VMware and Zoom, today announced the launch of the moderncomputing.com. The mission for this new alliance is to “drive...

Turing nabs $32M more for an AI-based platform to source and manage engineers remotely

Source: Microsoft
As remote work continues to solidify its place as a critical aspect of how businesses exist these days, a startup that has built a platform to help companies source and bring on one specific category of remote employees — engineers — is...

JetBrains presses go on its Space project management platform for developers

Source: Microsoft
With Slack being acquired by Salesforce for $28bn, the world of collaborative tools for teams is on fire right now. Notion is super hot and last year Frame.io raised $50 million and Microsoft has Fluid. Now, after some months in private beta,...

Hibob raises $70M for its new take on human resources

Source: Microsoft
Productivity software has been getting a major re-examination this year, and human resources platforms — used for hiring, firing, paying and managing employees — have been no exception. Today, one of the startups that’s built what...