Coming off of a year of 350% growth, we’ve extended our Series B round to a total of $45.5M, led by Fifth Wall, with participation from Robert Downey Jr.’s FootPrint Coalition, H/L Ventures's CityRock Venture Partners, Cyrus Capital Partners, and Keyframe. Today I am thrilled to announce that Sealed has raised an additional $29.5 million in equity funding to super-charge our efforts on our mission to stop home energy waste and electrify all homes. Launched in 2020, Zen currently has 1,000+ users of its subscription service, with around 30 companies, including over a dozen enterprises, signed up for its enterprise version to offer the service to their employees.Ĭongrats Daniel, Ion-Alexandru, and the team at Zen (YC S21) on the round! So they joined forces to build Zen alongside top ergonomists and physical therapists. Alex started coding when he was 11 years old, spending time in engineering roles at places like Adobe, Intuit, and eventually developed a severe case of "Forward Head Posture," a postural deformity that's often caused by unhealthy posture habits (like slouching while coding). and Ion-Alexandru S., Zen was built to address a problem both of them (and many of us) face personally: health problems that are caused and exacerbated by hours of sitting at a desk everyday.ĭaniel went from playing Division I football and doing splits at Yale University to working for over 8 hours a day with terrible low back pain and carpal tunnel from typing hunched over his computer while at Adobe. With user-privacy as a main focus, Zen uses your webcam to mirror your posture and gently alerts you when you slouch, helping to improve your posture.įounded by Daniel J. For more information, visit (YC S21) has raised $3.5M in pre-seed funding to help you improve your posture using your webcam, without recording or storing any visuals. Hightouch's hundreds of customers range from fast-growing startups like Plaid, Betterment, Ramp, and Lucidchart to large enterprises like AXS, Nando's, and AutoTrader. In November, Hightouch announced $40M in Series B financing at a $450 million valuation led by ICONIQ Growth, early investors in Snowflake. Hightouch is the world's leading Data Activation platform, syncing data from warehouses directly into SaaS tools.
Hightouch concluded a record Q1 and is on track to exceed 300% growth in new sales this year, as it evangelizes the idea of taking action on data locked away in warehouses like Snowflake. We've built a highly strategic engineering function, where engineers wear multiple hats, deeply understand our customers, and actively contribute towards product and design," said Curl. "Hightouch is known for product innovation, and when asked what our secret is, people are surprised to hear that we attribute it to engineering culture. Hightouch CTO and Co-Founder Josh Curl says that Stein aligns exceptionally well with Hightouch's vision: that engineering is not a function for executing on purely technical problems, but rather, is the heart of where innovation occurs. And the passion and vision from Tejas, Kashish, and Josh convinced me that joining Hightouch was a special opportunity." "The Hightouch mission of taking action on warehouse data resonated with me immediately. Syncing data out of the warehouse became an increasingly popular pattern – that's when I realized that warehouses are now playing a role much bigger than analytics," said Stein. The rapid adoption of cloud data warehouses like Snowflake and BigQuery was noteworthy, but the trend that's even more interesting is how they're being used. "Even before I was aware of Hightouch, I had noticed a shift in how companies think about their data systems. Stein joins Hightouch from Opendoor, where he served as Head of Pricing Engineering and Infrastructure Engineering during a period of rapid growth – as the company grew revenue to north of $8 billion and went public through a 2020 SPAC merger.Īt Hightouch, Stein will oversee the engineering team, which is expected to grow to 50 by the end of 2022.
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