Logixboard, a freight services tech startup and a digital partner for freight forwarders, has raised $4.2 million seed round to expand its platform and fuel product innovation. The round was led by Social Leverage, with participation from F-Prime Capital, Founders’ Co-op, Techstars […]
Sandbox VR, a virtual reality startup that offers a premium, fully-immersive virtual reality experience, has raised an additional $11 million in strategic funding from Silicon Valley and Hollywood heavyweights led by David Sacks of Craft Ventures and the Andreessen Horowitz Cultural Leadership Fund (a16z).Additional […]
Zipline, a drone-delivery startup today announced it’s testing medical supply drones with US military. Zipline, which already delivers emergency medical supplies in Rwanda and Ghana, is testing drone flights with the U.S. Department of Defense. Between July an September, Zipline partnered with the […]
PeerNova, a Silicon Valley fintech startup building a real-time frictionless financial markets through trust and transparency, has raised $31M in growth funding to increase market penetration, and extend the functionality and use cases of our Cuneiform Platform. The round was led by an […]
Roku is buying demand-side platform started by MIT alumnus Dataxu for $150 million in cash and stock. The Boston-based Dataxu’s platform that lets marketers plan and buy video ad campaigns.The deal is expected to close by the end of the year. Roku […]
Social giant Facebook is currently under multistate investigations for potential violations of antitrust law. Today, the New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday that 47 attorneys general from states and U.S. territories plan to take part in a […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Tuesday, October 22, 2019. Drone startup Zipline testing medical supply drones with US military. Drone tech startup company Zipline, which already delivers emergency medical supplies in Rwanda and […]
We’ve been following WeWork saga for about three weeks now. Just as we reported yesterday, WeWork’s board of directors finally accepted a takeover bid from investor SoftBank, handing control of the real estate unicorn startup to the Japanese giant, according to […]
MarginEdge, a tech startup that develops food and beverage tracking and analytics, has secured $5 million in Series A funding to continue developing its restaurant platform and accelerate efforts to expand geographically and through new partnerships. The round was led by Osage […]
This week, the Silicon Valley startup unicorn club welcomes its new member. Instabase, the platform company for business applications, just raised $105 million in Series B funding at $1.05 billion valuation, making it a unicorn. The round was led by Index Ventures, with […]
Bayzat, the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based tech startup that provides insurance and HR software solutions, has raised $16 million in Series B funding to provide companies with a free platform to manage HR, payroll and benefits. The funding round was led […]
Voice recognition technologies have been around for almost seventy years. The earliest voice recognition technologies called Audrey system, was built by Bell Labs in 1952. It was considered to be the first speech recognition device, which recognized only ten digits […]
As CB Insights wrote in one of its newsletters, startup valuation means very little. Not so long ago, unicorn startup WeWork was once valued at $47 billion. The startup then went from the massive valuation to failed IPO. Just when we […]
Athena Home Loans, an Australian fintech startup that offers refinancing for home loans, has closed $70 million Series C round to fund its expansion into home loans. The round was led by existing investors Square Peg Capital, AirTree Ventures and Hostplus. AustralianSuper also came […]
Bitcoin.com, the firm backed by cryptocurrency investor Roger Ver, today announced that it has acquired Japanese blockchain development startup O3 Labs. The two firms did not disclose the price of the acquisition. As part of the acquisition agreement, O3 Labs […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Monday, October 21, 2019. Gojek announces co-CEOs after founder Makarim leaves to join Indonesia’s new cabinet. Indonesian tech startup Gojek announced a change in leadership on Monday after […]
Dips in an economy are a simple and unfortunate reality of life. Whether through war, changes in demand, or political incompetence, this has and will always be an inseparable part of the capitalist system. This issue is not insurmountable, however, […]
LyGenesis, a biotechnology startup company focused on organ regeneration, has closed $4 million to enable the company transition its lead program in liver regeneration into clinical development, beginning with a Phase 2a clinical trial for patients with end stage liver disease […]
MemComputing, an artificial intelligence startup that has developed disruptive software solutions to make computers run thousands of times faster, today announced that its MemCPU XPC Software-as-a-Service platform now includes GPU acceleration, which now additional 100 times performance increase. The San Diego, California-based MemComputing’s […]
Tech startup, Education Index, is revolutionizing the university student recruitment process and saving fees for both institutions and students by launching Libereka, the world’s first blockchain enabled end-to-end international student recruitment platform. On the platform, students receive a blockchain education […]
