Dastgyr, a B2B marketplace connecting suppliers to mom-and-pop retailers in Pakistan, announces today that it has raised a $3.5 million seed round led by SOSV. It aims to connect over 2 million underserved retailers in Pakistan and millions more in…
Lucinda Revell: Letting her work speak for herself
By Kimberly Monitto Lucinda Revell has never seen being a woman in a male dominated industry as a weakness. Instead, she credits having confidence in her work, the tangible evidence of her accomplishments, as the reason she receives the same…
#SinceSOSV: Arkademi
Arkademi is an Indonesia edtech company with the goal to help people to get access to any vocational courses with very accessible cost. People can learn anywhere and anytime on the go and seamlessly with their super practical app. We…
YUNA & CO. Collaborates with Non-Profit Movement Lipstick for Difabled (LUD): Encouraging Women with Disabilities to Break the Limits and Be More Confident
Jakarta, 5th January 2020 – Yuna & Co., Indonesia’s first personal styling platform powered by machine-learning technology, today announced its latest collaboration with the non-profit movement, Lipstick Untuk Difabel (LUD). The collaboration aims to encourage Indonesian women to unleash their…
Patrick Riley: Founders’ Mental Health Matters
The startup scene is often characterized by fast-paced growth, euphoric wins, and an endless hunger to always be better. Yet, it is also a humbling experience full of crushing lows, strings of failure, and incessant stress. In 2017, the GAN…
How Vu Van found a voice through her AI app
By Ayesha Lal A self-identified “hard-core operator” and tireless entrepreneur, Vu Van is the co-founder of Google-backed ELSA, the world’s smartest AI assistant for pronunciation training and language learning. Recently recognized by Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards 2020 in…
Adam Najberg on 8 reasons why you need PR from day one
By Kimberly Monitto It was 2016, in a Las Vegas hotel on the outskirts of the strip because, well, money was tight. Adam Najberg was working for DJI, a drone company headquartered in Shenzhen, China, when a crisis hit. A…
How Fritz Demopoulos found his multi-billion-dollar ideas
“We were having a drink at The Den in Beijing,” Fritz Demopoulos recalls. The year was 1999, and The Den was the spot for power brokers to hobnob back then. “Rupert Murdoch has told us that News Corp, one of the biggest…
How Yara Paoli Built and Scaled Growth Culture at Skyscanner and Preply
At any given moment, Skyscanner is running hundreds of experiment permutations on its websites, serving over 60 markets all over the world. The company hit 100 million monthly users in late 2019, having been acquired by Ctrip for £1.4 billion…
Make a Virtual of Necessity: Inside the Quest to Engineer a Virtual Tech Conference
Clockwise from top left: Yu-Kai Chou, gamification pioneer and author; Paolo Ertreo, product designer at Dropbox; James LaLonde. co-founder Yodo1; Yara Paoli, Chief Growth Scientist at Growth OS. A version of this article appeared on Jumpstart Magazine on July 3, 2020. The…