Starburst, a spinoff from Facebook’s open-source project Presto, has raised a $250 million Series D funding round led by venture capital firm Alkeon Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz and Coatue Management. Altimeter Capital, B Capital Group, Index Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures also […]
Assange DAO is a new group of more than 10,000 Assange supporters established to help secure freedom for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Last week, the group started its fundraising efforts to help with his legal fees and campaigns to increase public awareness of […]
OceanSound Partners is a New York-based growth-oriented private equity firm that invests in technology and technology-enabled services companies serving government and enterprise end markets. Today, the firm announced it has closed $780 for its inaugural fund, OceanSound Partners Fund, LP. […]
Hayvn, an Abu Dhabi-based crypto trading startup, is in talks with institutional investors to raise $30 million in a Series B round that will value the company at $400 million, Reuters reported Wednesday. Hayvn said it aims to receive investment from Gulf […]
Last week, we wrote about Tesla after Elon Musk’s tweet went viral in Times Square. The ad was paid for by some of Musk’s fans. It all started in May 2021 when President Joe Biden visited the Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan plant to […]
Intel today announced a new $1 billion fund to support early-stage startups and established companies building disruptive technologies for the foundry ecosystem. A collaboration between Intel Capital and Intel Foundry Services (IFS), the fund will prioritize investments in capabilities that […]
SIDUS takes us to infinity and beyond to a Metaverse playing field set far in the future, where humans are morphed with technology. The game play is eerily lifelike and the Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game leverages the blockchain, in order […]
Robinhood has forever changed the way we invest. Before its GameStop saga with retail investors on Reddit, Robinhood was the free-trading app to democratize investing by giving everyone an equal opportunity to participate in the financial markets. The startup also made it affordable […]
Move over, N26. There’s a new challenger bank in town. Vivid Money is a new financial super app App launched two years ago to make it easy for customers to open a new bank account within a few minutes using their […]
The freight forwarding industry has long played a critical role in the economy. Speedy innovations often skip over this industry, even though the delivery of goods is even more important to both consumers and retailers than it has ever been […]
Ethereum infrastructure tech startup has raised a massive $450 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital India, with participation from SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Galaxy Digital, Galaxy Interactive, Tiger Global, Republic Capital, and other prominent investors like Alan Howard (co-founder, Brevan Howard) and Kevin O’Leary Formerly called Matic Network, Polygon […]
As the saga between Joe Rogan and Spotify continues, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said on Monday that he’s committed to keeping the world’s most popular podcaster on the platform. However, a new announcement from the neutral video platform Rumble is about to change […]
Just a year after raising funding from a secondary market, Flexport announced on Monday it has raised $935 million in the late-stage funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz and MSD Partners with a strategic investment from Shopify. The Series E round, […]
Metaverse has taken the world by storm since Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta in October 2021. Since then, venture capital firms and global investors looking for opportunities to invest in the next big winners have poured billions of dollars […]
A year after its $14 billion IPO, dating app startup Bumble finally makes its first acquisition. Bumble announced on Monday it has acquired France’s Fruitz, a freemium dating app popular among Gen Z and used across Europe. The financial terms of the deal were not […]
Over the last ten years, artificial intelligence has disrupted many industries including banking, healthcare, medicine, and law. The disruption has also brought about exponential growth, fueled by increased productivity and efficiency. However, one sector still remains outdated and ripe for […]
Happy Sunday! Here’s the past week in a review just in case you missed some of the top technology and startup news. Here are the most popular stories on TechStartups for the week of January 30, 2022. Sign up to receive […]
Yesterday, the fundraising website GoFundMe removed a fundraiser for Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” protest against the country’s COVID-19 policies. In a statement released Friday that it will withhold any donations made to support the Canadian anti-vaccine truckers and their allies. Although GoFundMe […]
Boston-based Regent first made a splash in early 2021 when the tech startup announced the world’s first electric seaglider, a 100 percent all-electric vehicle that’s partly an aircraft and a hydrofoil boat. The vehicle uses wing-in-ground-effect technology to travel at an […]
UK marketing technology company SegmentStream has attracted seed funding worth $2.7 million, which the company announced in January 2022. Identified as lead investors for this seed capital round were Fort Ross Ventures, a seven-year venture capital fund based in Israel […]