Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Markus Witte, the co-founder of the language learning platform Babbel. Witte spoke to the duo about being early to the online language industry and how the company has survived these past 20 years of market disruption. He also…
Instagram has a feature where you can add music directly to your posts — a popular option among users who want to add life to their content and show off their musical taste. However, if you’re feeling a bit in the dark about how to do it, we’re here to walk you through it. First,…
Employee performance reviews take time and effort — and aren’t always conducted very efficiently. According to surveys, nearly 60% of businesses use basic spreadsheets to track and monitor staff performance, and it takes on average one to two weeks for managers to complete a single employee review. Seeking to make the performance review process easier…
A partner at Grellas Shah, David Siegel is an accomplished startup lawyer and litigator who has extensive experience in handling a broad range of corporate, transactional, and intellectual property matters, including work on multi-million-dollar financings and acquisitions. Early-stage founders face many challenges. Some of the trickiest and most foreign are legal because the legal world…
News aggregator app SmartNews had a tough 2023, beginning with widespread layoffs in January and wrapping up with a leadership change that saw co-founder Kaisei Hamamoto assume the role of CEO after the abrupt departure of former CEO Ken Suzuki last month. More alarming, as the landscape continues to shift dramatically, and sometimes unpredictably, for the…
Tack One, a Singapore-based startup, wants to help make sure your kids, elderly parents and pets are safe with AI-powered location technology. Today, the company unveiled its new generation of GPS device, Tack GPS Plus, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2024. The startup launched its GPS tracker in 2021 to address the pain point of…
Here, a fractional short-term vacation rental marketplace, has shut down its investment platform after just over two years of operation. The Miami-based startup, which had raised a known $5 million in funding, posted on its website on January 3 that it was shutting down the platform “due to the current interest rate environment and economic…
Guilherme Rodrigues, Luciano Junior and Rafael Crespo met while working at VTEX, a commerce company providing tools for managing web storefronts; however, they bonded over wanting brands to have more control over their website front ends. That’s how Deco.cx came about. The trio created an open source front-end development platform for Deno, JSX and Tailwind…
You can spend all day long curating custom playlists for every mood, picking tracks based on tempo or intensity, but whether you’re corner-carving or just commuting, you’ll never perfectly match the cadence and energy of every drive. Will.i.am, the singer and songwriter turned entrepreneur, says he has cracked the code to doing just that with…
Over a decade ago, a simple to-do list app called Clear launched to much fanfare due to how it capitalized on the smartphone’s touch interface to build a new kind of app: one without buttons and menus and that is instead operated via gestures and swipes. Now Clear’s developer is debuting the next generation of…
