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These 14 Companies in San Francisco Received Funding in April 2020
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One company received $1B in funding. Another was given $45M dollars. A third received $660M. The list goes on and on. The 14 companies listed below received funding in April of 2020 despite the onset of COVID-19. Which companies are you familiar with, and which do you want to learn more about?
Company: Notion
Website: www.notion.so
Funding Date: April 2nd, 2020
Funding Type: Venture – Series Unknown
Funding Amount: $45M
Address: 930 Alabama St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Overview from their Crunchbase profile:
"Notion is for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. The app blends everyday work apps into one. It serves as an all-in-one workspace for note-taking, task management, and project management. The app can be accessed via most web browsers. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California."
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Company: Airbnb
Website: www.airbnb.com
Funding Date: April 6th, 2020
Funding Type: Private Equity
Funding Amount: $1B
"Airbnb is a community marketplace for people to list, discover and book unique spaces around the world through mobile phones or the internet. Airbnb connects travelers seeking authentic experiences with hosts offering unique, inspiring spaces around the world.
Airbnb is a trusted online marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations and experiences around the world. Unlock local experiences and travel through the eyes of a local.
Whether the available space is a castle for a night, a sailboat for a week, or an apartment for a month, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to showcase these distinctive spaces to an audience of millions. By facilitating bookings and financial transactions, Airbnb makes the process of listing or booking a space effortless and efficient.
With 4,500,000 listings in over 65,000 cities in 191 countries, Airbnb offers the widest variety of unique spaces for everyone, at any price point around the globe. Airbnb was founded in August 2008 Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, and is currently headquartered in San Francisco, California."
Company: Stripe
Website: www.stripe.com
Funding Date: April 16th, 2020
Funding Type: Series G
Funding Amount: $600M
Address: 510 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94103
"Stripe is a global technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Businesses of every size from new startups to public companies like Salesforce and Facebook use the company's software to accept online payments and run complex global operations.
Stripe combines economic infrastructure with a set of applications for new business models like crowdfunding and marketplaces, fraud prevention, analytics, and more. Stripe navigates global regulatory uncertainty and partners closely with internet leaders like Apple, Google, Alipay, Tencent, Facebook, Twitter to launch new capabilities.
Stripe wants to help more companies get started and thrive and ultimately to grow the GDP of the internet."
Company: ForgeRock
Website: www.forgerock.com
Funding Date: April 21st, 2020
Funding Type: Series E
Funding Amount: $93.5M
Address: 201 Mission St Suite 2900, San Francisco, CA 94105
"ForgeRock® is the digital identity management company transforming the way organizations interact securely with customers, employees, devices, and things. Organizations adopt the ForgeRock Identity Platform™ as their digital identity system of record to monetize customer relationships, address stringent regulations for privacy and consent (GDPR, HIPAA, FCC privacy, etc.), and leverage the internet of things. ForgeRock serves hundreds of brands, including Morningstar, Vodafone, GEICO, Toyota, TomTom, and Pearson, as well as governments like Norway, Canada, and Belgium, securing billions of identities worldwide. ForgeRock has offices across Europe, the USA, and Asia."
Company: Shippo
Website: www.goshippo.com
Funding Type: Series C
Address: 731 Market St #200, San Francisco, CA 94103
"Shippo is a multi-carrier shipping API and web app. E-commerce businesses, marketplaces, and platforms are able to connect to multiple shipping carriers around the world from one API and dashboard, through Shippo. Businesses can get shipping rates, print labels, automate international documents, track shipments, and facilitate returns.
The company processes millions of shipments per month for more than 35,000 customers. Businesses are able to instantly access multiple shipping carriers for real-time rates, shipping labels, international paperwork, package tracking, and return logistics. Shippo was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California."
Company: CircleCI
Website: www.circleci.com
Address: 201 Spear St. #1200, San Francisco, CA 94105
"CircleCI's continuous integration and delivery platform helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deployment process. CircleCI offers a modern software development platform that lets teams ramp quickly, scale easily, and build confidently every day.
Velocity is critical for software teams in today's competitive landscape, but maintaining speed can be difficult as apps and systems grow larger and more complex. CircleCI's platform allows developers to rapidly release code (for web and mobile apps) they trust by automating the build, test, and deploy process. CircleCI enables developers to detect and fix bugs before they even reach customers. Thousands of leading companies including Facebook, Kickstarter, Shyp, and Spotify rely on CircleCI to accelerate delivery of their code and enable developers to focus on creating business value fast.
CircleCI is a Bay Area Best Places to Work 2018 award winner from the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in beautiful downtown San Francisco with a global remote workforce, CircleCI is venture backed by Scale Venture Partners, DFJ, Baseline Ventures, and Harrison Metal Capital."
Company: Node
Website: https://hello.node.io
Funding Amount: $6M
Address: 260 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
"Node is an AI-as-a-service solution intended for platforms that leverages people and company data. With Node, applications can deliver predictions that allow users to make smarter decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. The platform owers predictable business outcomes, which enterprises can use to seamlessly build advanced AI into customer-facing and internal applications without investing years and millions of dollars on risky AI experiments.
Node enables users to make smarter connections and decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California."
Company: Bugcrowd
Website: www.bugcrowd.com
Funding Type: Series D
Address: 921 Front Street, First Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111
"Bugcrowd connects companies and their applications to a crowd of tens of thousands of security researchers to identify critical software vulnerabilities. Powered by Bugcrowd's platform, companies of all sizes can run both private and public bounty programs to efficiently test their applications and reward valid vulnerabilities.
Based in San Francisco, Bugcrowd is backed by Blackbird Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Paladin Capital Group, Rally Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. Bugcrowd is a trademark of Bugcrowd, Inc."
Company: Figma
Website: www.figma.com
Address: 116 New Montgomery St #700, San Francisco, CA 94105
"Figma is a professional-grade online tool created specifically for interface design and enables product teams to create, test, and ship designs. In addition to interface design, customers are using Figma for tasks like visual whiteboarding, diagramming and slide creation, as well as virtual design sprinting, city building, and Minecraft skin creation."
Company: Vercel
Website: www.vercel.com
Funding Type: Series A
"Vercel provides a cloud platform that optimizes the entire development and deployment experience for frontend teams. Vercel is the company behind Next.js, a React framework chosen by enterprises and a key technology in the Jamstack architecture (JavaScript / APIs / Markup). Jamstack is focusing on separating the frontend from the back-end with new abstraction methods that favor an improved developer experience and site performance."
Company: Noah
Website: www.noah.co
Funding Date: April 22nd, 2020
Funding Type: Series B
Address: 76 Sacramento St #400, San Francisco, CA 94111
"Noah is a finance company for homeowners to tap into their home value to meet their financial goals without incurring new monthly payments or interest. By partnering with homeowners, Noah offers homeowners in select metro areas across the United States upfront financing in exchange for a share in a percentage of their home's future appreciation or depreciation."
Company: Remote
Website: www.remote.com
Funding Type: Seed Funding
"Remote take care of global payroll, benefits, compliance and taxes, so can focus on people."
Company: Digits
Website: www.digits.com
Funding Date: April 23rd, 2020
"Digits is a fin-tech company offering a visual, machine learning-powered expense monitoring dashboard for startups and small businesses."
Company: Vida Health
Website: www.vida.com
"Vida Health is a virtual care platform designed from the ground up to treat multiple chronic health conditions simultaneously, through a balance of machine learning that personalizes each person's treatment and a human connection with real life health coaches and therapists who bring the empathy and accountability people need to reach their goals."
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But i can't access it from another pom.xml with ${env.MY_MATH}. I can only access it with System.getenv("MY_PATH") inside JAVA. I need to access it in another pom.xml. Maybe there are some other plugins that are doing that? I know that i can pass it with mvn -DMY_PATH=some/path install but it will just set it inside the pom where i passed this var and i need it to be setted as global env.

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Researchers Believe That Eye Drops Could Cure Jet Lag
Travel will never be the same.
by The Points Guy / May 13 2017
One of the downsides of international travel is the jet lag that comes with long flights that cross many time zones. Aside from staying hydrated and sleeping during flight, there's not a whole lot the world traveler can do to combat jet lag. But, researchers at a Scottish university believe they may have found a cure — eye drops.
Scientists found a class of cells in the eye that are sensitive to light and help to regulate the body's circadian rhythm, also known as the body's biological clock. The cellular group, known as retinal ganglion cells, send information to the brain about light's changing intensity, which controls sleep-related impulses. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh believe they can use this discovery to manipulate the body's internal clock.
While still quite a way off, researchers believe eye drops could be used to alter signaling to the brain which could help reduce the effects of jet lag after traveling across the world. This may not help you on your next long-haul flight, but it's encouraging to see scientists working towards a solution that could finally alleviate symptoms of jet lag that so many travelers currently can't evade.
Using "Nanodrops" to Repair Corneas Could Ultimately Replace Glasses
This Odd-Looking Sleep Mask Could Conquer Jet Lag

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NICK'S SEAFOOD, in the Cockle Bay Wharf section of Darling Harbour, has just commenced it's 20th year of operation in one of the most competitive restaurant scenes of Sydney. It is an institution, there is no doubt. Darling Harbour is probably 80% restaurants, Cockle Bay Wharf side is probably 95% restaurants and the Nick's Group now own six popular restaurants in this tourist heavy waterfront precincts of Sydney. Years and years ago I used to spend a bit of time with one of the family that owns Nick's and it is with great thanks to that awesome lady I got an invite to visit and review all their venues over the next six months, starting with Nick's Seafood.
Nick's is on the water on Cockle Bay Wharf in Darling Harbour, the view is sensational and the restaurant is huge. They can seat hundreds and hundreds of people and on our Monday night visit, of which we arrived at 545pm, by the time it hit 7pm it was getting packed. I repeat, ON A MONDAY NIGHT! Nick's Seafood is popular among all the tourists staying locally. You can eat a full lobster for about $50- and look over boats and the beautiful Darling Harbour. Every table will offer water views, even if some are glimpses. As the sun sets the lights of Darling Harbour come into their own, it really is something to take in.
Nick's is fully licensed and the alcohol menu is suitable for both tourists and Aussie locals. I would happily take my parents to this venue, which speaks volumes. I think it probably lacks in attention from Aussies due to the touristy reputation of the area but before a show, or before taking the parents on another Vivid Cruise this year, I think a big seafood feast is in order. Due to the years of experience from the Nick's Wholesale Seafood business, I know the seafood in their own venues is going to be the best of their own crop.
The service is very friendly and mostly efficient but take into account they could be serving over 200+ people on any given night so a little leeway is probably required. The staff that served us were incredibly friendly and one of the wait staff, a knowledgable French lass, assisted us in selecting our entire meal. We gave her the dishes we loved, of which there was six mains, and she chose the two that would a) photograph the best and b) that we would love the best, and her selections were flawless.
You do not operate a restaurant in Sydney for 20yrs, that still packs out, unless you know what you are doing! The Nick's Group reputation in seafood is high, and their skills in running a venue are honed on twenty plus years experience.
From the venue name you probably guessed it is mostly seafood. They do have a chicken, a beef and a couple of vegetarian dishes on offer, they really cater to all but emphasise this place is seafood. Their wild mushroom risotto sounds marvellous and my dining guest, Laarni from @threespoonsfull nearly ordered their chicken breast. One thing I did not realise until writing this review was that they offer a bar menu, a very small menu for you to order and sit up at the bar. And best of all, for the squillionaire boat owners that moor their boats at Cockle Bay or King Street or anywhere in Darling Harbour, they offer a boat menu! You can order a full meal to be prepared for your boat. Now all I need to do is win a lotto over $30MIL and I will order from this menu regularly!
We shared an entree, a dessert and had a main each (with sampling benefits of course). The baby octopus is some of the best baby octopus I have had in the last decade. They were actually small, it was a little crispy where it needed to be and it held the flavour perfectly. The plate was huge and as full as I got I continued until they were all gone.
Lobster and Moreton Bay Bugs are two of my favourite things on Planet Earth to eat. It is a rarity to be able to devour an entire lobster and for the size $48- is cheap as chips. I will return for this dish alone. The thermidor was a delicious choice and was the suggested sauce from the waitress. I will work my through them all on subsequent visits. Usually I would pick bugs over lobster but for me the lobster won out this time. The pricing comparison was too large for a similar amount of meat to the lobster and I also think this was the first time I had devoured them from a grill. My fave bugs are local to home and for a less price they offer quite a bit more. A dish I order for my birthday every year.
Now, as for dessert, I was nearly speechless, it was perfection and the presentation was award worthy. I could happily visit on the weekend for a morning tea coffee and a Heavenly Crunch before doing stuff in the CBD, there are worse ways to start your day!
Over the last decade or two I have basically written Nick's Seafood off as being part of the greater commercial tourist venues of the Darling Harbour District. While this is still mostly accurate, the seafood is fresh and delicious and you don't operate a venue this large in Darling Harbour, let alone six of them, for twenty years without knowing what you are doing. Nick's is worth it for the under $50- lobster alone.
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