🌎 SF Bay Area ∙ 👩 45 employees (30%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
VSCO, a photography mobile app, laid off 45 employees (30%) yesterday. The CEO says the cuts were needed to “shift towards running a self-sustaining business.” VSCO is providing a minimum of 7 weeks of severance pay and 2 months of health coverage, as well as assisting with job placement resources. To that end, see below link 👇for a list of laid-off employees, mostly in the SF Bay Area.
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The Layoffs.fyi Tracker has now confirmed 230 startups w/ layoffs and 22,000 employees laid off since the coronavirus was declared a pandemic.
Below are a few of the recent layoffs. Check our tracker for a comprehensive report. If you’ve seen a layoff spreadsheet for any of these companies, please let us know so we can help the affected people!
- Groupon, a marketplace for discounts from local businesses, said it expects to lay off or furlough 44% of its team (2,800 employees). Previous reports suggested that only the sales and sales operations teams were affected, but the company’s announcement confirms a significantly deeper cut. Groupon has seen a “material deterioration” in its business due to the closure of local businesses it works with.
- 🌎 Chicago ∙ 👩 2,800 employees (44%) ∙ 🔗Source
- Meow Wolf, an art collective that creates interactive experiences, laid off 201 employees. Its art installations and live events have been cancelled due to shelter-in-place.
- 🌎 Santa Fe ∙ 👩 201 employees ∙ 🔗Source
- Monzo, an online bank, closed its Las Vegas office and laid off all 165 customer support employees there. The decision was in the works prior to the coronavirus pandemic.
- 🌎 Las Vegas ∙ 👩 165 employees ∙ 🔗Source
- OneTrust, which makes software that helps companies comply with privacy regulations, laid off 10-15% of its 1,500 employees. The company raised funding at a $2.7 billion valuation just two months ago.
- 🌎 Atlanta ∙ 👩 150 employees (10%) ∙ 🔗Source
- Omie, a Brazilian startup that sells business management software to small businesses, laid off 136 employees (15%).
- 🌎 Sao Paulo ∙ 👩 136 employees (15%) ∙ 🔗Source
- Zoox, a maker of self-driving taxis, is laying off 100 employees (10%). The news comes just one week after it laid off all 120 of its contract workers, including its backup drivers. Shelter-at-home orders have affected Zoox’s ability to continue testing its self-driving vehicles.
- 🌎 San Francisco∙ 👩 100 employees (10%) ∙ 🔗Source
- Domo, which creates business intelligence software to help executives manage their business, cut roughly 10% of its staff (about 90 people). The layoff was needed to ensure the company wouldn’t run out of money.
- 🌎 Salt Lake City ∙ 👩 90 employees (10%) ∙ 🔗Source
- Clinc, which uses AI to create virtual assistants, laid off 32% of its staff (40 employees). In February, the company’s CEO resigned after employee complaints of inappropriate behavior.
- 🌎 Ann Arbor ∙ 👩 40 employees (32%)∙ 🔗Source
- Mejuri, a startup that sells fine jewelry, laid off 15% of its team. Its retail stores have been closed since late March due to the ban on non-essential businesses.
- 🌎 Toronto ∙ 👩 36 employees (15%) ∙ 🔗Source
🌎 San Francisco, NYC, Chicago ∙ 👩 1,000 employees (17%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
Last week Yelp, the local business reviews website, became one of the highest-profile tech companies to announce a layoff. The company laid off 1,000 employees (17%) and furloughed another 1,100. Yelp has seen customer interest in restaurants, its most popular category, decline 64% since March 10. See below link 👇for an opt-in spreadsheet of employees laid off.
UPDATE: Added a second opt-in spreadsheet of employees laid off, containing primarily engineers.
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🌎 NYC, SF, LA, Seattle ∙ 👩 375 employees (15%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
We previously mentioned that Compass, the real estate brokerage, laid off 375 staffers in late March. We now have access to a partial list of employees laid off (see below link👇). Compass has seen showings drop by 60% as people stay home during the pandemic. Many other real estate startups, including Redfin and Blueground, have also laid off workers in the past month.
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🌎 San Francisco, Toronto ∙ 👩 109 employees (40%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
UPDATE: A Lever employee says that 86 people were laid off, not 109 as Business Insider had estimated.
Lever, which makes applicant tracking software for recruiting, laid off 40% of its employees last week. The layoffs affected 109 86 people in their San Francisco and Toronto offices (see below link for an opt-in list👇). Recruiting has been one of the tech sectors hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, as companies have been slowing down hiring (and as we know, also laying people off). Recruiting startups ZipRecruiter, AngelList, and Triplebyte have also conducted layoffs recently.
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🌎 San Francisco, Nashville ∙ 👩 500 employees (45%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
Eventbrite, the ticketing and events website, laid off 45% of its employees last week. Around 500 employees were affected across their San Francisco and Nashville offices (see below link for an opt-in list of laid-off employees👇). Eventbrite is highly dependent on live events, which have halted as a result of shelter-in-place. Its share price had fallen over 70% since mid-March.
UPDATE: Added a second opt-in list of employees laid off
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🌎 Toronto ∙ 👩 17 employees (10%) ∙ 🖥 Design, product, engineering
Connected.io, a software product development firm based in Toronto, laid off 17 employees (10%) last week. If you’re hiring for design, product, or engineering roles in Toronto, see below link for an opt-in list of laid-off employees👇. Toronto tech firms Ritual and Ecobee have also recently conducted layoffs.
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🌎 Toronto ∙ 👩 47 employees (10%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
Ecobee, which makes smart thermostats, laid off 47 employees (10%) in late March. The company recently cancelled a new product line it had been developing. While many startups have put together crowdsourced spreadsheets of laid-off employees, Ecobee went a step further and created a dedicated website. If you’re recruiting in Toronto, you can browse this site to find ex-Ecobee talent.
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🌎 San Francisco ∙ 👩 Unknown # employees ∙ 🖥 All departments
Scoop, which facilitates carpooling for commuters, announced a layoff on Wednesday (see below link for list of affected employees👇). With offices closed across the country, Scoop is currently operating at a “fraction” of its normal volume. The company joins other transportation startups like Zipcar, Turo, Getaround, and HopSkipDrive to reduce staff.
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🌎 Boston, Chicago, Omaha ∙ 👩 1,300 employees (50%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
Toast, which makes software for restaurants, cut 50% of its staff on Tuesday. The layoffs impacted 1,300 employees — if you’re recruiting in Boston, Chicago, or Omaha, see below link for the list👇. Toast’s success is “tightly coupled” with the restaurant industry, which has seen sales decline by 80% in most cities.
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