Financial giant Visa announced yesterday that it has acquired fintech startup Plaid for $5.3 billion. Founded by Duke University alum, Plaid makes it easy for people to securely connect their financial accounts to the apps they use to manage their financial lives. Plaid […]
With just 30% of the population holding a bank account & even less people being included in credit bureaus according to World Bank data, there is a massive gap between Vietnamese in need of financing & banks and lenders currently able […]
Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for today, Tuesday, January 14, 2020. Israeli agritech startup CropX buys CropMetrics. CropX, an Israelu global soil sensing and agricultural analytics startup, has acquired CropMetrics, a Lincoln, Nebraska-based provider of cloud-based, precision-irrigation […]
Gillware Digital Forensics, a Madison, Wisconsin-based cyber incident response and proactive cybersecurity consulting startup, today announced its rebranding as Tetra Defense. The startup also said it closed $3 million series A investment round to aggressively expand its team, sales and marketing efforts, […]
This should leave everyone speechless. According to a new report from Atmosphere Monitoring Service, Australia’s fires have pumped out 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, more than the total combined annual emissions of the 116 lowest-emitting countries, and nine times […]
Effective Software, a Dublin-based startup and provider of web-based safety software solutions and training and assessment platforms, announced today it has rebranded under the company name Engage EHS to reflect the value it is driving for its customers in addressing changing […]
Today is the last day of support for millions of users with computers running Windows 7. Microsoft announced its killing support for the OS it launched more than a decade ago. This means that Microsoft will no longer issue any […]
Google started the Hash Code competition six years ago. The competition was created back then by a few engineers in the Google France office. These engineers were coding competition enthusiasts and wondered if it would be possible to create a […]
Obvious Ventures, a new venture fund founded by Twitter co-founder and early Beyond Meat investor, just raised $271,828,182 for its third fund (OV3), bringing its total size to about $585 million. The firm made the announcement on Medium today. So, […]
Back in November, we wrote about Honey, a browser extension startup PayPal bought for $4 billion. Now, according to a tweet from Ryan Hutchins, a New Jersey bureau chief for POLITICO, Honey browser extension will be “one extensive piece of Malware” […]
iSTOX, the first regulated platform in a major global financial center to offer issuance, settlement, custody, and secondary trading of digitized securities, has secured a $5 million investment for its next-generation capital markets platform. The funding came from Hanwha Asset Management, South Korea’s leading […]
Embodied Labs, a California-based tech startup, has raised $3.2M in seed funding to revolutionize training for the aging care workforce using its VR immersive learning platform. The round was led by top age-tech investor, Ziegler Link·Age Fund, co-led by the leading immersive tech investor, […]
Codagenix, is a clinical stage biotechnology startup with vaccine products against influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, dengue virus, has closed $20 million Series B investment round. The round was led by Adjuvant Capital, with participation by Euclidean Capital and Topspin Partners. […]
Lendesk, a Canadian mortgage tech startup and a provider of a loan origination platform for mortgage brokers, today announced the appointment of Sean Wilson to the role of Chief Operating Officer at Lendesk, effective January 13, 2020. Wilson brings with […]
Welcome to the workforce of the future where humans and machines co-exist to create value. Below is an inside look of AlibabaGroup’s at Cainiao’s Intelligent Warehouse, where robots do 70% of the work, with 300% more efficiency. Back in 2017, Alibaba Group took […]
The TRAVIS Air Force Base now has a tool that captures digital info, which renders 3D images of aircraft parts into specialized computer software. This tool, and two manufacturing units, gives the Air Force the capability to print aircraft parts […]
Today, customer experience transformation is one of the most critical topics in the boardroom at health insurance companies, with its success relying heavily on the seamless integration of customer data from multiple payer systems and the rapid implementation of the […]
Tesla made history on Monday, when the electric carmaker’s stock price topped $500 a share for the first time. In early trading, Tesla shares reached as high as $504.88 as investors continued to throw more weight behind the company and its […]
Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for today, Monday, January 13, 2020. Goldman Sachs, the 150-year-old investment bank and Wall Street giant, is staking its future on a mobile app. Last week, Goldman Sachs released a long-awaited app […]
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, founder and chief executive of online fashion retailer Zozo, who has been chosen as the first private passenger by SpaceX, is searching for a girlfriend to join him on a voyage around the moon. The voyage, […]