Prosus is an Amsterdam-based technology investor and internet conglomerate. Prosus’s parent company, Naspers Ltd., is Africa’s largest listed company and a global consumer internet group, and one of the largest technology investors in the world. In 2001, Naspers made an early, successful […]
Peter Thiel is a renowned billionaire tech investor and a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund. He was the first outside investor in Facebook. He currently sits on Facebook’s board after making an early investment. Often colloquially referred […]
Paymob, a Cairo, Egypt-based fintech startup and Egypt’s market-leading digital payments provider, announced today it has closed an $18.5 million in Series A funding round, the largest Series A fundraise by an Egyptian company. The round was led by Global […]
A little over two years, we wrote about Redis Labs after the Mountain View, California-based tech startup raised a $60 million Series E round for its NoSQL in-memory database. The startup is behind Redis, a database benchmarked as the world’s fastest. Redis Labs’ […]
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is holding an Entrepreneur-in-Residence program investor talk today at 2:30 PM Eastern Time via Zoom. What: Join President and CEO of NYSERDA Doreen M. Harris and Clean Energy Ventures (CEV) […]
Homes, offices, restaurants, grocery stores, and gyms, have one thing in common: germs. They travel from one thing to another in a heartbeat, just by opening doors, hanging onto the bus railing, working out at the gym, paying for coffee, […]
Just last month, three people in Hawaii who were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 got infected with the coronavirus. According to a report from the Hawaii news station, KITV Island News, three people in Hawaii who were fully vaccinated have now tested positive […]
insightsoftware, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based tech startup and a global provider of financial reporting and analytics for the Office of the CFO, announced today that it has acquired Mclean, Virginia-based Logi Analytics, the leading provider of embedded analytics solutions for software providers. The […]
Early this year, we told you about SoFi after the fintech giant and the online loan startup company announced plans to go public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, backed by venture capital investor Chamath […]
illumy, a San Ramon, California-based tech startup and hyper-communication platform that unifies email, messaging, and calling together into the stream of a single communication, announced today the closing of a $2.2 million angel funding round. illumy will use the new capital […]
In January 2020, we wrote about Plaid after payment giant Visa agreed to buy Plaid for $5.3 billion. As we later learned, the Department of Justice (DOJ) later sued to block the deal alleging that it would create a monopoly and […]
GiGstreem, a New York-based startup and premier in-building gigabit internet service provider, announced that it has secured a $50-million investment from Crestline Investors to deploy its Ubiquitous WiFi platform to multifamily properties and also help meet remote work-fueled demand for […]
The U.S. government seems to be softening its stance on the vaccine passports for American citizens. During a White House briefing Tuesday, press secretary Jen Psaki said that there is “No Federal Mandate” requiring American citizens to get vaccine passports. Psaki […]
Just last week, we wrote about the war brewing in the Luhansk & Donetsk region of Ukraine. It all started on March 24 when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a declaration of war against Russia in a document you won’t find […]
“The Emperor’s New Clothes” is a literary folktale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen in 1837 about a vain emperor who gets exposed before his subjects. For those of you who have read the book, the emperor was finally […]
Just a little over two weeks after raising a whopping $600 million at a $95 billion valuation, Stripe makes its first expansion into the Middle East and North Africa with Dubai launch. The latest launch in UAE is part of the […]
ThreatQuotient, a Reston, Virginia-based cybersecurity startup and a threat intelligence platform that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources, today announced $22.5 million in new financing to accelerate the execution of new innovations currently in development. The investment syndicate includes New Enterprise […]
Forbes Magazine just published its annual list of the world’s billionaires. This year’s list includes a record-breaking 2,755 billionaires, with Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos topping it for the fourth consecutive year at $177 billion. Tesla CEO Elon Musk often called people’s […]
SoftBank announced today that it’s investing $2.8 billion to get a 40% stake in Norwegian warehouse automation startup AutoStore, according to news first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Monday and later confirmed by AutoStore in an update on its website. […]
There are two things that are certain in life: death and taxes. It was Benjamin Franklin’s last great quote in 1789 when he said, “Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing […]