dLocal is a Montevideo, Uruguay-based fintech startup that offers a cross-border payment platform that connects global merchants in emerging markets. Today, dLocal announced it has secured $200 million in new growth equity investment to become a new member of the covetous unicorn club at $1.2 […]
CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing has transformed the biotechnology landscape due to its ability to specifically induce double-stranded DNA breaks that can disrupt genes or genetic control regions, leading to novel treatment approaches for a range of diseases. However, it has been […]
One thing that is constant in today’s tech world is change. Peloton is a New York-based health technology startup that is revolutionizing the fitness industry by merging high-design with modern technology to provide access to live and on-demand fitness group classes […]
Since coronavirus emerged from Wuhan, China in December of 2019, the deadly virus has claimed almost 1 million lives and decimated thousands, if not millions, of businesses around the world. Here in the US, however, there is no hard data […]
Back in March, we wrote a piece about how a small unknown tech startup is helping the Chinese government to deploy new AI facial recognition technology to surveil its citizens. It’s the first facial recognition technology that can identify people even […]
The science has never been more apparent: Between Hurricane Laura (and more to follow), the California wildfires, and of course, the global health crisis, the world is in major trouble, humans are the cause of it, and a failure to […]
The Patriot Act requires US financial institutions and other obliged entities to implement AML/KYC processes. As in other jurisdictions, this creates a significant compliance cost for financial institutions and results in a poor onboarding experience for their customers. Enter First AML, […]
In April of this year, Chinese virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan fled Hong Kong after running into collision with the Chinese government over the origins of coronavirus. On Tuesday night, Dr. Yan broke her silence saying that the Chinese government intentionally manufactured and released […]
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is calling into question the credibility of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in an interview with Bloomberg News. Gates, a billionaire philanthropist who has helped sponsor several vaccine projects around the world, attacked the FDA’s credibility, claiming […]
On Saturday, we wrote about Chinese virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan after she appeared on the British television show where she claimed coronavirus was created by Chinese scientists in a lab. Dr. Yan later fled the country and left her job […]
Have you ever wondered how deep is the deepest hole in the world? Known as the Kola Superdeep Borehole, the deepest manmade hole humans ever dug reaches approximately 7.5 miles below the Earth’s surface (or 12,262 meters), a depth that took about […]
We featured ZenSports back in February after the mobile sports betting startup closed over $770K in seed funding. A little over six months later, the San Francisco-based ZenSports announced it has raised an additional $1.46M Seed round of funding to expand into […]
We wrote about Nikola in early August after it was reported that electric maker and Tesla competitor made only $36,000 in revenue in the second quarter of this year. Nikola, a company that is currently valued at $13.28 billion, released its […]
With a multi-billion-dollar war chest, GoDaddy announced its new acquisition today. This time around, the world’s largest company announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SkyVerge, the tech startup behind the most popular WordPress plugin, WooCommerce. The financial […]
It’s been a while since we wrote about Observe.AI, a customer service voice analytics startup that is using AI-powered agent enablement for voice customer service by bringing coaching and conversational insights to the world’s top brands to improve the customer experience. Late last […]
As wildfires rage on in California, Oregon, Washington states, Americans are divided about the cause of the fire. Many on the left including the California state governor said the fire was a result of climate change. However, forest experts said […]
The last time we wrote about Klarna was back in February when the Swedish unicorn startup reported its first annual loss after many years of profitability. Klarna, which provides e-commerce payment solutions for merchants and shoppers, reported a loss of 1.1 […]
40 billion IoT devices are predicted to be in use by 2025, and until now, there has not been a scalable, endpoint cybersecurity solution that can be installed on individual devices. Instead, manufacturers have heavily relied on vulnerability patching or […]
In early August, we wrote about Dr. Scott Atlas after he joined the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Dr. Atlas, along with the handful of other European doctors, is one of the medical experts who thinks herd immunity is one […]
On Saturday, we wrote about Chinese virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan after she appeared last week on British television where she claimed SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, was created by Chinese scientists in a lab. Dr. Yan fled the country and […]