Web Summit-backed Hopin sells core business to RingCentral as struggles continue
The struggling business has sold its events and sessions business units to the cloud company
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The struggling business has sold its events and sessions business units to the cloud company
Hopin Hopin, a London-based events startup, has made its first acquisition, New York's Topi. Topi provides networking software to make it easier for conference attendees to meet each other, and was founded by ex-Googler David Aubespin and technologist Eric Sellin. Hopin, despite being a little over a year old, has already had three big funding rounds in 2020 and hit a $2.1 billion valuation. "Hybrid events are going to be the future, we want to build the best events not just virtual ones. We could have built Topi from scratch but to move as fast as we want to...