🌎 San Francisco, Denver ∙ 👩💼 400 employees (33%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
Sonder, which offers short-term apartment rentals, laid off or furloughed 400 employees (see link below for the list👇). Bookings are down 20% at the company’s 5,000 apartments, since people are no longer traveling due to the coronavirus. Sonder has raised $360 million and was most recently valued at over $1 billion.
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🌎 San Francisco ∙ 👩💼 50 employees (75%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
Wonderschool, which helps people start their own home-based preschools or daycares, laid off 50 employees (75% of staff). Their childcare programs have been impacted by shelter-in-place orders, since families are now keeping their kids at home.
A list of affected employees, particularly in Engineering and Partnerships, is circulating on a crowdsourced spreadsheet for Coronavirus-related layoffs (see link below 👇).
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🌎 San Francisco ∙ 👩💼 15 employees (17%) ∙ 🖥 Customer Success, Technical Writing
Triplebyte, the recruiting platform that connects engineering candidates with tech companies, laid off 15 employees (see link below for the list👇). Its talent manager and technical writing teams were eliminated. An ex-employee’s LinkedIn post says the layoffs are due to a “product shift,” so the move doesn’t appear to be coronavirus-related. Five months ago, founder and former YC partner Harj Taggar stepped down as CEO.
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🌎 Boston ∙ 👩💼 34 employees (29%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
Lola, a corporate travel management tool, laid off 34 employees (see link below for the list👇). This is one of the first startup layoffs directly related to the coronavirus. Lola has raised $82 million to date from Accel, General Catalyst, and CRV and now has 82 employees remaining.
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🌎 New York City ∙ 👩💼 75 employees (71%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
Managed By Q, a platform that facilitates office management services like cleaning, is laying off the vast majority of its staff as part of its sale from parent company WeWork to former competitor Eden. The layoff impacts 75+ people (see link below for the list👇).
🌎 San Francisco ∙ 👩💼 100 employees (100%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
Atrium, the hybrid law firm + tech startup, is shutting down and laying off all 100 employees (see link below for the list👇). Atrium says it failed to make legal services more cost-efficient with technology, a core part of the startup’s original thesis. Started by Twitch.tv co-founder Justin Kan, the startup had raised over $75 million from Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst.
🌎 San Francisco, Minneapolis ∙ 👩💼 70 employees (88%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
Brandless, a direct-to-consumer startup that makes affordable household products, is shutting down and laying off 88% of its staff (see link below for the list👇). 10 employees remain to finish the wind-down process. The company said its business model was unsustainable — a problem that has also plagued other DTC startups because competition for social media advertising has driven up customer acquisition costs. Brandless had raised $292 million, most notably from SoftBank.
🌎 Mostly Nashville, Chicago, SF ∙ 👩💼 At least 78 employees∙ 🖥 Mostly sales and business roles
KeepTruckin, which helps trucking companies manage their fleets, is shutting down One Point Logistics, a freight brokerage it acquired last year. The majority of OPL’s staff will be laid off, while the remaining 30 employees will be reassigned within KeepTruckin. The company says that owning its own freight brokerage business was too operationally intensive and will instead be investing in its marketplace of third-party brokers.
🌎 San Francisco ∙ 👩💼 Unknown # affected ∙ 🖥 All departments
Starsky Robotics, a self-driving truck startup, is reportedly shutting down after its Series B fell apart due to concerns about its asset-heavy, low-margin business model. The majority of staff have been laid off, likely numbering a couple dozen. The company had raised $20 million, most recently from Shasta Ventures two years ago.
🌎 Boston ∙ 👩💼 550 employees (3%) ∙ 🖥 All departments
Wayfair, the publicly-traded online furniture retailer, is laying off 550 employees (3% of its workforce), primarily in Boston. Reports say that after years of prioritizing growth over profits, layoffs were needed to get costs more in line.