Triplet Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup harnessing human genetics to develop treatments for repeat expansion disorders at their source, officially launched today with $59 million in financing including a $49 million Series A financing led by MPM Capital and Pfizer Ventures […]
J.D. Power, a global leader in data analytics and consumer intelligence, today announced a merger with Autodata Solutions, a provider of data and software solutions for the automotive ecosystem. The merger marks the completion of J.D. Power’s acquisition by Thoma […]
Japanese car maker Toyota announced Tuesday that its Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development, Inc. (TRI-AD), a software center for autonomous driving tech, will begin full-scale operations in all areas of the new office that opened in July of this year. TRI-AD […]
Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development, Inc. (TRI-AD) is planning to first deploy advanced self-driving capabilities in mobility service vehicles, before adding the same features into personal-use cars, Toyota announced Tuesday. Level 4 autonomy offers a vehicle that is fully autonomous, but only in […]
Capella Space, an information services startup that provides on-demand sub 0.5m very high resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Earth observation imagery, today announced it will launch seven synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites and start commercial operations in 2020. SAR has been used […]
Imagine you kept $12,575 in your bank account. Then a couple of months later, the money in your account is now worth only $6,885.49. That’s exactly the story of the world’s most popular and unstable cryptocurreny. The fluctuations, coupled with […]
What if Silicon Valley reimagined the mortgage process from the ground up, the right way? That was the question the founders of LendingHome asked themselves in late 2013. The founders realized the current mortgage system was broken and decided to […]
We featured Gympass back in October when the Brazil-born fitness startup Gympass launched NYC Tech Hub with Kiril Tsemekhman following its recent $300M funding from Softbank. Today, the world’s largest corporate fitness platform, announced it has acquired Flaner, a digital […]
Chipmaker Intel announced Monday it has acquired Habana Labs, an Israel-based developer of programmable deep learning accelerators for the data center, for approximately $2 billion. The acquisition will help the tech giant expand its AI portfolio to bolster its data-center business. The […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Monday, December 16, 2019. Intel buys Israeli AI startup Habana Labs for $2 billion. Intel Corp has bought Israel-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm Habana Labs for about $2 […]
Just last month, we wrote about the Baltimore, Maryland-based Jellyfish when the company received a massive investment boost from French group Fimalac. Today, Jellyfish announced it has acquired creative agency startup, Social Life. This is Jellyfish’s fourth acquisition in 2019 […]
We last wrote about General Fusion in March of this year when Amazon founder Jeff Bezos Amazon founder and Microsoft made a $127 million investment in fusion energy startup General Fusion. Today, the British Columbia, Canada-based renewable energy tech startup developing utility-scale fusion power […]
Every year, over $100 billion is spent on industrial maintenance. Traditionally, these inspections were done by humans resulting in death and injury. Enter Gecko Robotics, a tech startup that makes these dangerous jobs safer. Gecko Robotics develops and operates robots to automate […]
Enterprise artificial-intelligence platform company DataRobot has reached a deal to acquire Paxata, an analytics and AI startup that provides the first adaptive data preparation platform built for the analyst to turn raw data into ready data for analytics. The financial terms […]
CallMiner, a Waltham, Mass.-based tech startup and a developer of speech-analytics software powered by artificial intelligence, has closed a $75 million in new venture funding to accelerate go-to-market plans and use case expansion for its analytics platform, Eureka. The round, which was […]
PlayerMaker, a Tel Aviv, Isreal based sports tech startup, has raised $10 million Series B round to build on current traction throughout EMEA into a global expansion of the PlayerMaker technology, with focus on the American and Asian markets. The round […]
VividQ, a London-based deep-tech start-up specializing in 3D holography, has raised an additional $3.1 million (£2.4 million) in the 2nd closing of its seed-funding to accelerate the pace at which they can imbed their holography software into consumer hardware electronics, and bring […]
The world’s first ‘fly and drive’ car has arrived in the United States. PAL-V (Personal Air and Land Vehicle) was unveiled in Miami on Tuesday night during the pre-grand opening of the art exhibit “Paramount: The Art of Innovation and Design” […]
Technology has made our personal lives easier than ever. But at the same time, it’s complicating things in the office for knowledge workers. On any given day, the average employee spends nearly 65 per cent of their time on busy […]
NASA researchers made the first-ever map of wind circulation in the upper atmosphere of Mars. With data from NASA’s Mars-orbiting MAVEN mission, this new map helps scientists to better understand the workings of the Martian climate. Mars Atmosphere and Volatile […]