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Switchboard creates virtual rooms to foster better collaboration

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This was a problem not only for my music lessons but for remote work across the globe, where teams are trying to build products, manage projects or brainstorm new ideas together. Switchboard allows users to run multiple web-based apps including Google Docs, Figma, Trello and Jira in a single “virtual room.”

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Founded by Adyen and Affirm alums, Ansa aims to help merchants create virtual wallets for customers

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Founded last year by former Adyen product manager Sophia Goldberg and ex-Affirm software engineer JT Cho, San Francisco-based Ansa is building what it describes as a white-labeled digital wallet infrastructure to help businesses process small payments and offset high credit card fees for smaller transactions.

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Grain lands $16M led by Tiger Global to turn virtual meetings into ‘libraries’

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Think of the student wanting to record part of a virtual lecture, or a colleague wanting to flag the most important bits of information conveyed in an online meeting. Even then — perhaps especially then — the company’s proposition made sense in a wide number of scenarios. Podium has roughly 2,000 employees.).

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Product School raises $25M in growth equity to scale its product training platform

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Meanwhile, big global brands and companies who need product managers to grow their businesses can’t sit around waiting for people to graduate. Product School provides certificates for individuals as well as team training, and says it has experienced an upwelling of business since COVID switched so many companies into digital ones.

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Countable brings in $12M for virtual brand communities

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Existing investor Canaan Partners led the round and was joined by Ulysses Management and Global Catalyst Partners. Enterprise engagement company Countable raised $12 million in Series A funding so that brands can more easily engage with customers, even in a way that shows a brand’s values and stance on issues.

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Teradici Brings Virtual Desktops to Azure Stack

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Ziad Lammam, vice president of product management for Teradici, said the availability of CAS on Azure Stack makes it possible to employ the PC-over-IP (PCoIP) […]. The post Teradici Brings Virtual Desktops to Azure Stack appeared first on DevOps.com.

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GV partner Terri Burns is joining us to judge the Startup Battlefield

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This year, at our second virtual Startup Battlefield , GV partner Terri Burns will be joining us as one of our judges. Burns previously worked as a developer evangelist and front-end engineer at Venmo and an associate product manager at Twitter. ” Disrupt 2021 runs September 21-23 and will be 100% virtual this year. .