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Sounding Board raises cash as startups wake up to executive coaching In an unprecedented work environment defined by distributed teams and virtual-only communication, two co-founders think their 2018 bet reigns truer than ever: mentors need mentorship, too. Christine Tao and Lori Mazan, the brains behind Sounding Board, want to train any leader within an organization to be a better leader. The San Francisco startup connects anyone from first-time managers to C-suite executives with coaches through a marketplace. Revenue has doubled or tripled every year since 2016, which the company says hove...

Sounding Board’s solution allows enterprises to seamlessly manage, scale, and measure coaching on one unified platform. Proprietary AI-Powered tools remove the administrative burden around coach matching, scheduling, and program management to allow coaching to scale broadly. Its clear competitive advantage is a scalable, adaptive approach to leadership development that is personalized to the learning style and cadence of each individual. During 2020, the overnight shift to remote work caused by COVID-19 accelerated enterprise demand for ™ and managed coach network.  The digital coachin...

Posted on 7420 Flashpoint, the globally trusted leader in actionable threat intelligence, is celebrating record momentum following the close of calendar year 2020. By empowering organizations globally with easily-actioned threat intelligence to accelerate security operations and mitigate risk during a year of turmoil amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, Flashpoint overachieved on all of its 2020 revenue, retention, and growth targets. Flashpoint added over 120 new customers to its community by the end of 2020, meaning it now serves a...

This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. We asked investors at top venture capital firms to name the startups that will boom in 2021. Each VC was asked to name two startups: one that they invested in; and one where they have no financial ties or any other interest, but believe will do well. The result is an exciting list of startups to watch in the coming year in a wide variety of fields like consumer products, cybersecurity, ecommerce, fintech, and telehealth. Whether you are looking for a startup...

Tonic is betting that synthetic data is the new big data to solve scalability and security Big data is a sham. For years now, we have been told that every company should save every last morsel of digital exhaust in some sort of database, lest management lose some competitive intelligence against … a competitor, or something. There is just one problem with big data though: It’s honking huge. Processing petabytes of data to generate business insights is expensive and time-consuming. Worse, all that data hanging around paints a big, bright red target on the back of the company for every hack...