Poised, a San Francisco, CA-based personalized digital communications coach, raised $4.5m in seed funding.
The round was led by Wing Venture Capital, with participation from Jeff Weiner’s Next Play Ventures, Slack Fund, Hyphen Capital, Concrete Rose Capital, Andre Iguodala, Brianne Kimmel, Julia Lipton, Adam Grant and Jack Chou, among others.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to build the product, team and educational content, and to launch in general availability.
Founded in 2020 and led by Charles Hua, CEO, Vicky Sehrawat, CTO, and Soumya Mohan, COO, Poised provides a personalized digital communications coach to help professionals improve communications skills in online meetings and improve their spoken communication in general.
Pace launches out of private beta with a plan to scale virtual group therapy
One in five people have a mental health illness. Pace, a new startup founded by Pinterest and Affirm executives, wants to pay attention to the other four in that statistic.
“Nobody is perfectly mentally healthy all the time,” said Jack Chou, Pace co-founder. “It’s a non-existent idea, everyone is sort of swimming in between being clinically mentally unhealthy and perfectly mentally happy.”
While diagnosable mental health conditions might get an individual medication or therapy, those that live in a grey space might still need resources to stay afloat. After Chou experienced the detrimental effects of burnout while working for Pinterest and Affirm, and co-founder Cat Lee, formerly of Pinterest and Maveron, experienced a personal travesty, the former colleagues realized there needed to be a way to help people who didn’t fit squarely into one bucket.
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Consumer confidence in Taiwan weakens
12/28/2020 05:55 PM
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Taipei, Dec. 28 (CNA) Consumer confidence in Taiwan weakened in December, with the number of people planning to purchase durable goods over the next six months falling steepest, though the outlook still remained optimistic, a survey released Monday by National Central University (NCU) showed.
The consumer confidence index (CCI) for December fell 2 points from a month earlier to 70.9, according to the monthly survey.
The index consists of six indicators reflecting public confidence over the next six months. The sub-indexes for family finances and the equity market rose, while confidence in consumer prices, local economic climate, employment and possible purchases of durable goods all fell.