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Its deep repository of courses means that many course offerings provide detailed instruction on highly specialized topics. More than 14,000 companies have worked with Udemy to provide their employees with learning and development opportunities. Headquartered in SF since its founding, ThousandEyes is a network performance monitoring company that offers SaaS products to help client businesses gain insights into their users’ digital experiences. It offers software that observes clients’ network activities in order to improve digital workflow, troubleshoot issues and maintain network quality.

SunPower files for bankruptcy, lays off more than 350 CA employees

As of 2023, the Bay Area still boasts 49% of all big tech engineers and 27% of startup engineers. However, around the time of the pandemic, a different narrative emerged about SF in particular and the Bay Area more broadly. The sudden ubiquity of remote work made founders and employees question the necessity of moving to a place with a notoriously high cost of living, plus plenty of civic safety and cleanliness issues. Showdowns with local governments and the rise of Zoom had many tech leaders suddenly uncertain about growing their Bay Area footprint. In June, Santa Clara-based streaming giant Netflix announced 300 jobs cut in a second round of layoffs as subscriptions fell and revenue slowed.

Deep Ink Ventures has bought a 16-story office building in San Francisco’s Mid-Market for the discount price of $122 per square foot, with plans to create a “vertical village” of homes and offices. Crusoe Energy Systems offers technology to alleviate the frequency and impact of natural gas flaring, which happens when natural gas is burned during the extraction process of oil from the earth. Crusoe converts that gas into power for high-energy-demand computing processes like cryptocurrency mining.

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The new startup, called Harness, bills itself as tech’s first “continuous delivery-as-a-service” platform. Through machine learning technology, it works to automate the entire continuous delivery cycle and protect infrastructure when deployments fail. Since its founding, the company has raised $80 million in funding and brought on big-name clients like McAfee, SoulCycle and Home Depot.

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That experience led Ravasio to found Hipcamp, a platform where private landowners open their property for campers. The company provides a handy alternative to adventure seekers frustrated by the perennially booked-out public campground system. Hipcamp has attracted $50 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Jay-Z’s Marcy Venture Partners and Will Smith’s Dreamers VC, among others. This year, Fyusion unveiled new three-dimensional imaging technology that gives marketers a way to show off products against backdrops both realistic and fantastical. The company launched in 2013 with tech that turned smartphone photos into augmented reality holograms, but it has since pivoted to help sales and marketing teams create immersive experiences around products like furniture and clothing.

The technology impressed Microsoft enough to turn them from a customer to an investor. The software giant’s VC arm, M12, contributed to Directly’s $20 million Series B in April of 2019. With a human driver at the wheel, navigation systems can afford to get a little confused by tunnels, parallel frontage roads and overlapping bridges every once in a while. While the autonomous driving space is competitive, few companies have approached the GPS problem quite like Swift Navigation. More than 60 percent of the United States has access to only one high-speed internet provider — or none at all.

• Since then, Postman has built technology that touches all elements of the API workflow, from shared contexts for building APIs to simulating behavior before production.
• Fadi Berbery is the owner of Smoke Signals, a Polk Street shop which will celebrate 30 years of selling newspapers and magazines this spring.
• As startups scale and enterprises adapt to changing business conditions, it can be hard for employees to keep track of individual and team goals.
• The OpenAI issue was caused by an “upstream provider,” according to the artificial intelligence organization.

Departing workers will be offered the opportunity to remain employed with Robinhood through October 1, 2022 and receive their regular pay and benefits, including equity vesting. They will also be offered cash severance, payment of COBRA medical, dental and vision insurance premiums and job search assistance — including an opt-in Robinhood Alumni Talent Directory. The company will pay 14 weeks of severance for all departing employees, and more for those with longer tenure. In his note to staff announcing the layoffs, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said the company will cut staffing numbers by around 14%.

The side jobs never provided the level of artistic fulfillment she sought, and memories of school plays at Borel Middle School, where she first started acting, popped up more frequently. During her teenage years, she wasn’t landing lead roles but had still fallen in love with theater. Largely raised by a OLPC San Francisco single mother and living in a studio apartment on Second Avenue, Novak was acutely aware that she had far less training and resources than her more affluent peers who attended programs and classes outside of school. There’s no schedule, no guidance.” Yamashita reached out to Supervisor Rafael Mandelman’s office for answers.

With support from educational content specialists and subject matter experts, the platform helps students understand and retain study materials, while offering personalized assistance through live tutoring sessions. Affected workers will receive ten weeks of pay with an additional two weeks of pay for every full year beyond two years of tenure. Healthcare benefits will remain active for the rest of the month plus an additional three months of health insurance. A mile away, Jason Feng is selling print papers out of his newsstand to residents in North Beach. Feng starts work at 6 a.m., seven days a week, at his newsstand at Columbus Avenue and Stockton Street. He says he sells 40 to 50 papers a day, a mix of English- and Chinese-language daily papers.