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Virtual Internships matches students with top companies around the world

TechCrunch

Remote work struck down barriers for many employees, and now Virtual Internships is doing the same for university students around the world by partnering with over 12,000 companies from 100 countries. They have access to weekly check-ins, group discussions, webinars and coaching calls in the middle and at the end of their internships.

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Hong Kong’s offline and virtual events platform EventX closes $18M Series B

TechCrunch

But the virtual event space continues to attract investors, at least in Asia. Previous investors include Gaocheng Capital, an investment firm founded by a former Hillhouse partner, and HTC, the Taiwanese electronics giant that has pushed into virtual reality in recent years. EventX declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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The Engagement You’ll Find at Our Virtual Events

CIO

A record number of participants turned out for a discussion group with one of our speakers, Tom Kouloupolous , futurist and chairman and founder of Delphi Group, during our April virtual summit, CIO’s Future of Cloud and Data. Indeed, interaction is what makes a virtual summit a conference vs. a webinar.

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Hubilo raises $4.5 million, led by Lightspeed, to focus on virtual events

TechCrunch

Earlier this year, the founders of event analytics platform Hubilo pivoted to become a virtual events platform to survive the impact of COVID-19. Event discovery network IRL raises $16M Series B after refocusing on virtual events. Spotify is developing a ‘virtual events’ feature.

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Livestorm raises $30M for its browser-based meeting and webinar platform

TechCrunch

Co-founder and CEO Gilles Bertaux told me that the company started out with a focus on webinars before launching a video meeting product as well (which we used for our interview). “The way we think about it is, webinars and meetings are not use cases,” Bertaux said.

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Create The Perfect Virtual Recruiting Strategy For Universities With These Tips

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

This led to a forced transition to virtual campus recruiting—which turned out to be a good thing so far! Virtual campus recruiting doesn’t demand a huge budget, eliminates geographical constraints which widen your talent pool, and provides an improved candidate experience to today’s digital-savvy generation—it is a win-win all around.

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5 Can’t-Miss Virtual Events for the DevOps Community

OverOps

Network and collaborate with your fellow software development and delivery peers at one of these virtual events. We hope to (virtually) see you there! Hosted by the company behind leading technical communities such as DevOps.com, Container Journal and Security Boulevard, TechStrongCon is a virtual event celebrating the tech community.