SkySafe, a six-month-old, San Diego, Ca.-based company whose technology can disable drones that are flying where they shouldn’t, has raised $3 million in seed funding. Andreessen Horowitz led the round, with participation from Founder Collective, SV Angel, and BoxGroup. No doubt the company is serving a fast-growing need, particularly given the number of drones poised to […]
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Led by Thrive Capital, a Startup Raises Seed Funding to Tackle the Tedious Stuff for Freelancers
If you’ve ever worked as a freelancer, you know the last thing you want to do — after lining up gigs, submitting your work, and reworking your project (when that last person on the client side decides he or she wants something entirely different) — is to handle all the administrative stuff. Think invoicing. Expenses. […]
A Slick New 401(k) Platform, From TaskRabbit Cofounder Kevin Busque
In recent years, Kevin Busque began to notice something at TaskRabbit, the outsourced jobs marketplace that he co-founded seven years ago with his wife, and TaskRabbit’s CEO, Leah. The company employs a lot of younger employees, and according to Busque (who was long the company’s VP of Technology but also tackled HR for some time), […]