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The software they’ve built streamlines management processes and offers tools to provide performance reviews, feedback and goals, along with functionality to set agendas and action items for one-on-one meetings. The company raised $25 million in Series C funding last month, which brought its valuation to a reported $200 million. As businesses turn to Kubernetes to automate application deployment at scale, cybersecurity companies have scrambled to protect these new, container-based systems. One of the emerging leaders in the field is Tigera, which builds tools that extend existing firewall technology to protect Kubernetes clusters. The company ensures customer compliance through a zero-trust model that encrypts traffic and enforces admin-set policies.

To solve that problem, the aptly named Very Good Security acts as a sort of digital data bank, storing datasets within its own servers. Lemonaid Health is an intuitive telemedicine platform that allows users to access prescriptions and quality healthcare from the comfort of their homes. Lemonaid can assist patients with everything from hair loss and acne to anxiety, depression, insomnia and more.

Designing and installing solar panels traditionally involves a lot of back-and-forth travel. Aurora Solar wants to eliminate the legwork with desktop software that can produce detailed system designs and cost estimates for residential and commercial customers. Aurora Solar says its technology is currently capable of reaching more than 90 percent of the U.S. population, and has been used in some 2 million projects worldwide. Udemy is an online course marketplace that offers curricula for a wide range of tech, business and leadership skills, from coding and programming to drawing.

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CEO Madeline Duva has led the company since 2017, after leading early smartphone software firm China Mobilsoft through an acquisition. Directly taps its clients — including Microsoft, LinkedIn, Airbnb and Samsung — to transform what they dub “super users” into third-party customer support superstars. Directly pays those super users for detailed answers to support questions, which are then combined with machine learning to serve up automated responses to similar queries in the future.

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With the ability to personalize labels and send customer notifications, Shippo also tries to help customers keep branding consistent across all touchpoints. CEO Laura Behrens Wu and President Simon Kreuz started Shippo in 2014 as an API, but later began to build out their own applications. Webflow wants to take no-code web development and publishing a step further, offering a platform where users can non-coders and coders alike can visually develop responsive websites to help accelerate their marketing. CEO Vlad Magdalin left his engineering job at Intuit to start Webflow with his brother Sergie and a friend, Bryant Chou, in 2012.

With support from educational content specialists and subject matter experts, the platform helps students understand and retain study materials, while offering personalized assistance through live tutoring sessions. Affected workers will receive ten weeks of pay with an additional two weeks of pay for every full year beyond two years of tenure. Healthcare benefits will remain active for the rest of the month plus an additional three months of health insurance. A mile away, Jason Feng is selling print papers out of his newsstand to residents in North Beach. Feng starts work at 6 a.m., seven days a week, at his newsstand at Columbus Avenue and Stockton Street. He says he sells 40 to 50 papers a day, a mix of English- and Chinese-language daily papers.

With custom training, transparency and the support of the entire team behind her, Alexis Fagin knew from the start that she had found the right place to work. These companies are using artificial intelligence to innovate across a wide range of industries. The San Francisco-based cloud communications specialist had 8,199 employees as of March 31, 2022, according to a press release of its first quarter OlPcSf.org 2022 financial results. Prior to this layoff the proptech firm had already reduced capacity by over 830 positions, primarily by reducing third party resourcing and eliminating fixed expenses. Earlier this year, Stripe was reported to have laid off an estimated 50 people from TaxJar, a tax compliance startup that it acquired in 2021. The first round of redundancies was similarly announced through a staff letter CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote on Nov. 3.

Its deep repository of courses means that many course offerings provide detailed instruction on highly specialized topics. More than 14,000 companies have worked with Udemy to provide their employees with learning and development opportunities. Headquartered in SF since its founding, ThousandEyes is a network performance monitoring company that offers SaaS products to help client businesses gain insights into their users’ digital experiences. It offers software that observes clients’ network activities in order to improve digital workflow, troubleshoot issues and maintain network quality.

• The company’s customers are engineers moving the needle on robotics, autonomous vehicles, mapping technology, security systems and more.
• It would be the tech company’s second round of cuts since November which saw 11,000 staff or around 13% of its workforce let go.
• Impacted workers will receive 12 weeks of pay, plus one week for every year of service at Twilio.

One of Y Combinator’s more successful alums, the company has more than $50 million in reported funding. Plaid started out in 2012 building APIs that helped users access their bank accounts within applications. The technology has driven Plaid into unicorn status, with $350 million in reported funding. Investors like Visa and Mastercard hopped on the bandwagon for its $250 million Series C last year. Duo Security offers a zero-trust security platform with multi-factor authentication capabilities and other access management solutions to bolster cybersecurity strategy for its customers. Duo’s product is designed to meet the needs of businesses and organizations of all sizes, such as schools, government agencies, banking apps, telemedicine services and retailers.