INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
particular frothy area of investment
A smattering of top VC firms and angels, including General Catalyst, First Round Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Biz Stone and Ellen Pao, are
throwing their confidence behind a new productivity startup called Range.The tool is focused around helping small teams collaborate, grow
closer and track their work together
The company has used their network to build out an early network of customers, including teams at Twitter, Carta and Mozilla, as well as a
network of VCs that are bankrolling their efforts.The SF-based team tells me they have locked down $6 million in seed funding led by General
Catalyst as they look to expand their customer base
Medium with [Ev Williams and Biz Stone], and we were experimenting with a bunch of different organizational practices, really trying to
answer the question of why do companies get worse as they get bigger and could we deploy different management practices at Medium in order
the organizational processes or values, and then towards the end of my tenure at Medium, I reconnected with Braden and Jen and we just
by members of the specific Range team
for communications to be organized in a digestible manner
Every update in Slack drives a conversation that pushes salient info further up the history into obscurity, something that can especially
harm remote teams.Beyond check-ins, Range is also helping teams keep track of their objectives and meetings as well as team directories
The product has integration support with Google Docs, Google Calendar, Slack, Asana, Jira, GitHub, Trello, Quip, Figma and others to ensure
Pricing obviously gets a bit more customized when it comes to larger customers.Range will likely draw some comparisons with Notion from an
organization standpoint, though it also feels much more smoother as a result of being less open-ended
told A Technology News Room
