Every year, LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, showcases the top startups list in the United States, identifying the top 50 hottest U.S. startups to work for in 2019 as determined by billions of actions of LinkedIn’s 645+ million members. […]
Back in June, we wrote about HighRadius when the fintech startup and provider of credit-to-cash automation platform partnered with Noventis to debut secure straight-through processing for virtual card payments. Today, HighRadius announced a partnership with Thomson Reuters subsidiary, Confirmation.com, to improve the bank […]
Today, Facebook announces the official launch of “Facebook Dating,” a new dating feature for users billions of users on its platform. For now, the feature is only available to users in the United States. In a blog post, the company […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Thursday, September 5, 2019. “Facebook Dating” officially launched in the US. Today, social giant Facebook officially launched a dating feature for billions of users on its popular […]
Aural Analytics, a health tech startup that focused on building the world’s most advanced speech analytics platform, has raised a seed round totaling totaling $4.3 million. The round was led by led by Morningside Ventures and Tamarisc Ventures with participation from […]
Hotel Engine Raises $16 Million in Series A Funding After 4 Years of Bootstrapped Growth The Denver-based travel tech company’s first round of external investment of $16 million in Series A funding after four years of bootstrapped growth. The round, which was […]
SoftBank is known for investing in technology startups. As every investor knows, you win some and you lose some. For now, SoftBank’s investment in Uber doesn’t seem to be paying off. As Uber stock hits an all-time low, SoftBank, which invested […]
Over the two years, we’ve written several stories about Facebook’s mission to make broadband Internet available to rural communities in third world countries. Back in February, Facebook partnered with Telefonica and other companies, to extend rural connectivity and bring internet access […]
Rumors continue to swirl around Alibaba acquisition of NetEase‘s cross-border retail platform unit, Kaola. After many weeks of media speculations, Alibaba may finally be buying Kaola this week for $2 billion, according to an exclusive report from 36kr.com, which first broke […]
Astrocast, an Internet of Things (IoT) startup and a provider of IoT Nanosatellite Network that offers a bidirectional and highly secure connection to any #IoT device on Earth, has closed $9.2 (€8.3 Million) Series A round of funding to accelerate production of […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, September 4, 2019. YouTube agrees to pay $170 million to settle claims it violated child privacy laws. Back in April, we reported that Google’s YouTube was accused […]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today announced it has authorized over $121 million in funding over the next decade to expand broadband to 36,579 unserved rural homes and businesses in 16 states, representing the fourth wave of support from last […]
Fyllo, a Chicago-based marketing startup and the world’s first MarTech platform for the cannabis industry, today launches with $16 million initial funding to expand its technology platforms and add personnel to meet operational needs. The round was led by a list of premier institutional […]
CrowdBureau Corporation, a fintech startup and index provider, has closed $1.1 million Series A equity funding to expand its series of benchmarks and launch a pilot program for its patent-pending regulatory technology product. The round, which values the company at $9.7 million, was led […]
Retail giant Amazon is developing clean room data technology that could improve measurement and data for ad campaigns to help its advertisers better understand the impact of their spend on consumer behavior. The technology will help shine more light on previously […]
Culture Amp, an Australian-based employee analytics platform that specializes in staff surveying and analytics, today announced it has raised $82 million in a Series E funding to accelerate global expansion and the development of innovative products and offerings that enable companies to […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Tuesday, September 3, 2019. Chinese deepfake app Zao goes viral, but faces backlash over privacy concerns. Zao, a new Chinese app that lets users swap and superimpose […]
Zoomd, Israeli marketing technology exited startup stage and went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange Ventures, raising $7 million (C$9.3 million) at a share price of C$1.00 per share. Founded in 2012 by by Amit Bohensky, Chairman, Ofer Eitan, CEO, Omri […]
Bitcoin Bay, a Toronto-based blockchain startup, today announces a partnership with BitAngels, a digital currency investor network to expand the blockchain investment ecosystem. Bitcoin Bay will become BitAngels Toronto’s City Leader to host monthly or bi-monthly events focused on market […]
We’ve written several articles about Plug and Play, the largest global innovation platform and a Silicon Valley-based global innovation platform that connects startups to corporations, and invest in over 100 companies every year. Plug and Play is currently run two accelerator programs […]