Category: API
My Super Short Twitter Wishlist
Elon Musk has successfully acquired Twitter. Many people seem convinced he will ruin it in short order. And while that’s of course conceivable, it is also possible that he will fix some long running problems. It’ s not like Twitter had been…
My Super Short Twitter Wishlist
Elon Musk has successfully acquired Twitter. Many people seem convinced he will ruin it in short order. And while that’s of course conceivable, it is also possible that he will fix some long running problems. It’ s not like Twitter had been…
An open-source alternative to Google’s firebase – Our investment in Appwrite’s $10M seed round
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in Announcement, API, Blog, EldadFux, Featured, founders, GitHub, open source, SaaS, seed investment, Seedcamp, startupThis post is by Polina Stavrovski from Seedcamp At Seedcamp, we are energised by the wave of open source companies that have emerged in the tech ecosystem over the last few years. Appwrite is no exception to this rule. When we first reached out cold to Appwrite’s founder Eldad Fux and he pitched us his…
Our investment in Liveblocks $1.4m pre-seed round to make any product collaborative in minutes
This post is by Polina Stavrovski from Seedcamp All product teams have experienced the frustration of not being able to build collaboratively in real-time with team members. Liveblocks is on a mission to solve this pain point. Remote collaboration is now table stakes for any productivity app, and Liveblocks makes that trivial to implement. We’re…
Liveblocks is an API that lets you add real-time collaboration to your product
This post is by Romain Dillet from Fundings & Exits – TechCrunch Meet Liveblocks, a startup that has been working on a set of APIs so that it’s easier to build a collaborative product. Essentially, it lets you create multiplayer experiences on the web or in your app. The company started with a live presence…
Our investment in Sikoia’s $2.3M seed round to cut through the Fintech noise with a plug & play data and API platform
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This post is by Polina Stavrovski from Seedcamp Sikoia Co-Founders from left to right: Alastair Bulger (CCO), Harry Singh (Technical Director), Alexis Rog (CEO), and Stephen Simmons (Chief Data Officer) The financial ecosystem is a tricky one. Many different entities have to interact with tedious workflows that make transparent and data-driven decision-making difficult. Sikoia aims…
Balance raises $25M in a Ribbit Capital-led Series A to grow its ‘consumer-like B2B checkout platform’
This post is by Mary Ann Azevedo from Fundings & Exits – TechCrunch Balance, a payments platform aimed at B2B merchants and marketplaces, has raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Ribbit Capital. Avid Ventures participated in the financing, in addition to existing backers Lightspeed Ventures, Stripe, Y Combinator Continuity Fund,…
Ramp and Brex draw diverging market plans with M&A strategies
This post is by Ryan Lawler from Fundings & Exits – TechCrunch Earlier today, spend management startup Ramp said it has raised a $300 million Series C that valued it $3.9 billion. It also said it was acquiring Buyer, a “negotiation-as-a-service” platform that it believes will help customers save money on purchases and SaaS products.…