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QED Investors among Collective’s $8.7M funders Collective, an online back office platform designed for businesses-of-one, launched today and announced $8.65 million in funding to empower, support and connect the self-employed community comprising 36 per cent of the American workforce. Collective’s technology and team of trusted advisors give members the freedom to focus on what matters by taking care of everything from business incorporation to accounting, bookkeeping and tax services in one platform.  General Catalyst and QED Investors led the funding round with additional investment fr...

Last month, hours before news of Beeple’s $69 million NFT sale grabbed the front pages of newspapers across the country, a pair of 24 x 24 pixel portraits of aliens wearing little hats sold separately for around $7.5 million each. The sales, which occurred within 20 hours of each other, didn’t garner the same headlines that the Beeple auction received, but there was a bit of coverage in the tech press, mostly because one of the aliens was sold by Dylan Field, the CEO of design software startup Figma. In a Clubhouse conversation following the sale, Field said he hoped that a century from n...

Telcos and Banks end long running squabble In October 2019, MTN Nigeria sent a notification to its customers that it would begin charging them a fee every time they used Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) codes to make bank transactions. It followed a new decision from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) a month before that allowed telcos to charge customers directly for those transactions. Because USSD transactions are done via mobile networks, they cost money and someone has to pay. In the beginning, the plan was for banks to pay those charges which telcos say are aro...

Gumroad wants to make equity crowdfunding mainstream New SEC equity crowdfunding rules open the door to welcome non-accredited investors Gumroad, a startup that helps creators sell their work, is raising $6 million at a $100 million valuation. While $1 million of that total is reserved for AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant and Basecamp founder Jason Fried, the remaining $5 million is being raised with a twist: anyone willing to fork over at least $100 bucks can invest in the round. Founded by Sahil Lavingia, Gumroad is using a new SEC regulation, passed today, that increases the maximum amo...

Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Figma CEO and cofounder Dylan Field Figma This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Cofounder and CEO of $2.05 billion design software startup Figma says 2020 was an "inflection point." The coronavirus has put an emphasis on digital spaces over physical ones, Dylan Field said This year, Figma plans to expand in Europe and the ...