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Blockchain Founders Fund leads seed investment in Virtualtech Frontier to build out its metaverse platform Mitoworld.io

Nickie Louise Posted On January 19, 2023

While chatters about the metaverse have cooled off in recent months due to the global recession and ongoing economic slowdown, investors are seizing the opportunities to invest in promising startups that they’re hoping would dominate the space once the recession […]

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Self-driving tech startup Outrider raises $73 million in funding to scale up its autonomous yard trucks

Nickie Louise Posted On January 19, 2023

While analysts are expecting the autonomous truck revolution to come sometime in the early 2030s, tech startups including San Diego-based TuSimple and China-based MoonX.AI have already completed more than 550 miles of fully driverless truck driving on public roads without a human […]

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Top tech startup news for today Wednesday, January 18, 2023: Amazon, EarthOptics, Import.io, and Microsoft

Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023

Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Amazon is set to begin a fresh round of layoffs affecting more than 18,000 people Retail giant Amazon on Wednesday will begin a new […]

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Cumul.io raises €10M in Series A funding for its low-code business analytics platform

Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023

Cumul.io, a Belgium-based- data that lets users build interactive dashboards using its embedded analytics tools, has raised €10M in a Series A round of funding to provide a low-code platform for data analysis with integration into other SaaS platforms or applications. The round […]

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Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees globally

Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023

“We’re living through times of significant change, and as I meet with customers and partners, a few things are clear.” Yesterday, we wrote about Microsoft after reports the tech giant was planning to cut thousands of additional jobs as layoffs […]

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EarthOptics raises $27.6M Series B funding to advance data-driven agriculture through actionable soil insights

Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023

As we all know, carbon dioxide (CO2) is the leading cause of climate change. Today, the world’s carbon-neutrality goals are front and center right for institutions and governments—and agriculture has the opportunity to play a leading role. CO2 is also the […]

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ThriveCart raises $35M in funding to help businesses build eCommerce carts and funnels

Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023

One of the challenges faced by eCommerce entrepreneurs is shopping cart abandonment. Research from Baymard Institute shows that about 70% of online shopping carts are abandoned. That means, for every 10 customers who add an item to their shopping cart, seven of […]

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FTX says $415 million of crypto was hacked from its accounts

Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023

Last week, bankrupt crypto exchange FTX announced it recovered over $5 billion in cash and crypto assets. The lawyer representing the company disclosed the $5 billion includes cash and digital assets. What wasn’t disclosed at the time was there are still […]

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African gaming startup Carry1st raises $27M in funding to become next frontier in mobile gaming in Africa

Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023

While gaming has almost reached its saturation point here in the US and Asia, the mass adoption of mobile games is just getting started in Africa. With millions of Africans now having access to smartphones, the game penetration level in Africa […]

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Nest co-founder launches Mill, a sustainable kitchen bin that turns food scraps into chicken feed to combat food waste

Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023

At a time when most homeowners didn’t think of automating their home thermostats to save on high energy costs, Matt Rogers left his high-paying job at Apple to start smart home thermostat startup Nest Labs in 2010 to enable users to control their […]

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Microsoft to expand access to hugely popular OpenAI’s ChatGPT

Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023

Unless you’ve been living under a rock over the past few months, you’ve probably heard ChatGPT, the best dialogue-based artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public by OpenAI. Since its launch on November 30, 2022, ChatGPT has impressed many experts […]

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Europe’s digital bank startup N26 to expand crypto trading

Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023

Late last year, Europe’s digital bank startup N26 made its foray into cryptocurrency last year with the launch of a new crypto trading service called N26 Crypto. Unlike its rival PayPal, the N26′s crypto service does not include support for custodial […]

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Top tech startup news for Monday, January 16, 2023: Locad, MoviePass, ShareChat, Sprinque, and Twitter

Nickie Louise Posted On January 16, 2023

Good evening and happy Martin Luther King Holiday to everyone! It’s another light news day and as such, I’m going to make this very brief. With that, below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Monday, January 16, […]

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ShareChat, a Google-backed short video-sharing startup, lays off 20% of its workforce

Nickie Louise Posted On January 16, 2023

ShareChat is the latest Indian tech startup to lay off staff amid the global economic downturn. ShareChat, which was backed by Google and Singapore-based Temasek, announced Monday it has let go of about 20% of its 2,000-person workforce, as tech […]

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Singapore-based Locad raises $11M Series A funding to boost consumer brands in Asia Pacific with logistics engine

Nickie Louise Posted On January 16, 2023

eCommerce businesses have thrived in recent years, thanks in part to the pandemic that forced millions of people to shop from home. However, while most entrepreneurs see eCommerce as a way to get their products in front of a huge […]

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Twitter offers free ads of up to $250,000 to advertisers in an attempt to woo back brands to its platform

Nickie Louise Posted On January 16, 2023

Twitter had lost at least half of its top 100 advertisers since Elon Musk took over the company in October 2022. According to a report from Media Matters for America, these 50 advertisers have spent almost $2 billion on Twitter ads […]

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Balloon surveillance startup World View to go public in a $350 million SPAC deal

Nickie Louise Posted On January 13, 2023

Interest in space tourism has grown in recent years, thanks to companies like Jeff Bezo’s Blue Origin and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, which now makes it possible for tourists to see the edge of space. However, space tourism is not limited to […]

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100 Fastest-growing fintech startups to reach $1 billion valuation the quickest

Nickie Louise Posted On January 13, 2023

We started off this year with our annual list of global unicorn startups, a list of emerging private companies that leverage new technologies or unknown market niches to achieve a value of over 1 billion dollars. In just a year, […]

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Meta sues AI startup Voyager Labs for allegedly creating fake accounts to scrape Facebook and Instagram users’ data

Nickie Louise Posted On January 13, 2023

Meta platforms filed a lawsuit against Voyager Labs on Thursday, alleging that the AI tech startup created fake Facebook accounts as part of a scheme to collect information from real Facebook and Instagram users. Meta alleged that Voyager Labs then used […]

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Crypto.com to lay off 20% of its employees as FTX contagion spreads further into the crypto market

Nickie Louise Posted On January 13, 2023

Crypto winter has come for Singapore-based Crypto.com. The crypto exchange announced on Friday it would be laying off about 20% of its workforce, as the crypto industry continues to deal with the fallout of FTX. The latest layoff would be the […]

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