The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), the government agency responsible for regional transportation planning and financing in the San Francisco Bay Area, today announced its inviting startups, innovators and entrepreneurs are invited to apply to become a “Startup in Residence” (STIR) […]
Today’s sensors alone cannot meet the safety and smooth-riding requirements of automakers. Enter Metawave, a smart radar startup conducting groundbreaking work in radar sensing with its state-of-the-art analog radar, which provides longer range, higher resolution, and greater angular accuracy and […]
Geenee, a mobile software startup that helps portable devices see the world around them through lightweight and robust image and video recognition, has closed $7 million seed round to accelerate the company’s go-to-market strategy and the introduction of additional product offerings. The […]
Z Advanced Computing (ZAC), a Potomac, Maryland-based artificial intelligence startup, announced yesterday that it’s developing its Smart Home product line through a paid-pilot for smart appliances for BSH Home Appliances, the largest manufacturer of home appliances in Europe and one […]
Uber just announced earnings for its third quarter of 2019. The ride-sharing company’s earnings of $3.81 billion beat analyst estimates of $3.69 billion. But the devil is in the detail. During the same period, Uber reported a net loss of $1.16 billion for […]
Cybersecurity provider Proofpoint announced it’s acquiring Boston-based startup ObserveIT for $225 million in cash. ObserveIT’s lightweight endpoint solution helps organizations, particularly large enterprises, identify and eliminate insider threats. ObserverIT developes tools to detect and manage insider threats. Acquisition of ObserveIT is the […]
Global research firm Gartner expects that “by 2022 more than 50% of enterprise-generated data will be created and processed outside the data center or cloud.” This transition will drive increasingly distributed deployments of applications and data, along with a highly […]
Motive Partners, a New York City-based next-generation investment firm focused on technology enabled companies that power the financial services industry, has closed $473 million for its inaugural fund called Motive Capital Fund I (MCFI). The capital commitments for the fund […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Monday, November 4, 2019. Facebook changes its corporate logo to separate the corporation from the Facebook app. Social giant Facebook has changed its corporate logo in a […]
In consensus protocol literature, there are two critical security properties: safety and liveness. A protocol is safe if it will not make inconsistent decisions. A protocol is live if it is guaranteed to eventually make a decision. Making proof-of-stake (PoS) […]
Game developers face many risks – from game design and production speed to launch scale. SpatialOS is designed to reduce those risks. To meet the needs of an increasingly large and discerning audience, the future of games lies in rapid, […]
Today, SalesLoft, a sales engagement platform, is acquiring Costello, an AI-enabled sales co-pilot. The acquisition, SalesLoft’s second ever and coming shortly after it raised a $70M Series D in April, is part of the company’s strategy to provide solutions that […]
Bigfinite, a SaaS startup that provides simple solutions to complex needs in biotech and pharma, has closed $15 million in financing to support the market expansion of Bigfinite’s SaaS platform. The round was led by Atlantic Bridge, Honeywell Ventures and Institut Català […]
Tech giant Apple today announced a $2.5 billion plan to help address the housing availability and affordability crisis in California. As costs skyrocket for renters and potential homebuyers — and as the availability of affordable housing fails to keep pace […]
Back in May, we wrote about Amadeus Code when the artificial intelligence-powered song-writing assistant startup raised $1.8 million to develop AI music generation platform. The startup has grown in popularity since then. Today, Amadeus Code announced the beta launch of Evoke Music – a […]
Ultimate.ai, the Helsinki/Berlin-based startup that provides multilingual customer service automation to businesses, has raised $6.5M in new funding, to grow its platform that gives customer service agents the AI tools they need to provide faster, smarter responses. The round is led by […]
WeTravel, a fintech startup and a payment and booking platform for travel companies and trip organizers, is launching WeTravel Card, the first prepaid credit card available for all travel operators in the US. Using the card, they can tap into […]
Google announced today that it is acquiring Fitbit, the maker of wireless, wearable-focused sensors that track a person’s daily activities, for $2.1 billion. The news comes just days after Reuters first broke the news about the acquisition, that Google was […]
There is a new mode of transportation out there and it’s rapidly changing how people navigate the urban space. It’s probably not what most people think it is though. It’s not electric cars, electric trucks or self-driving vehicles. Nor is it […]
TreeCoin, the startup behind the blockchain-based ethical reforestation and timber cultivation program, has launched a unique Hybrid Token Offering (HTO) to raise funds for the purchase of over 12,000 hectares of fallow land in Paraguay to plant 10 million Eucalyptus […]