Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Monday, July 29, 2019. TikTok’s parent company is making its own smartphone. ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok is partnering with Smartisan Technology to develop its own smartphone. […]
Sierra Energy, a waste-to-energy gasification startup company, has closed a $33 million Series A round to further develop and commercialize its revolutionary FastOx® gasification technology, which converts virtually any waste into clean, renewable energy and fuels without burning. The investment round […]
Trinity Cyber, a cybersecurity startup that provides proactive, adaptive and invisible military-grade cybersecurity services, announced Monday it has closed $23 million in funding from top institutional investors led by Intel Capital. In conjunction with the funding, Trinity Cyber also announced that […]
Thriva, a blood testing startup that has developed home blood test kits for people to measure things such as their hormone and mineral level, has secured $7.35 million (£6 million) Series A funding round. The funding will be used to support Thriva as […]
Back in March, we wrote about Grab when the Southeast Asian ride-hailing startup raised $1.46 billion investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund. Today, Grab announced it will invest $2 billion into Indonesia over the next five years, using funds Japan’s SoftBank Group to […]
Every time you visit a website, play online games, make a VOIP calls or send an email, data is being sent and received through an intricate undersea cable system that stretches around the globe. The internet is a global network […]
Back in May, we wrote about the Newchip when the startup accelerator launched its first equity-free accelerator program to connect startups with investors. Now, the Texas-based investment marketplace aggregator announced the graduation of 42 startups from its Q2 Accelerator cohort after successfully completingg the […]
Imagine a situation where you are getting ready to make an important presentation for your company. A day earlier, you worked all night to make sure you have your presentation materials and all the documents ready. The next morning, you […]
Synspective, a Japanese space startup providing solutions for customers’ challenges with utilizing and integrating data from “SAR” satellite constellations and big data, has raised $100 million in funding to strengthen the its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR ) satellite development, manufacturing systems, […]
Techstars, in partnership with three Turinese foundations, announced the launch of its Smart Mobility Accelerator, the first Techstars accelerator in Italy. Based in Turin, Italy, the Techstars Smart Mobility Accelerator is focused on transformative smart mobility technologies with a concentration on smart […]
SoftBank Group is at it again. This time, the Japanese tech giant is unveiling second technology megafund even bigger than its nearly $100 billion Vision Fund 2 to invest in technology startups developing artificial intelligence technologies around the world, SoftBank announced Friday. […]
Alphabet continues its online dominance with a monster second quarter earning. The parent company of Google revenue beats expectations as the company reported a revenue $38.94 billion dollar in second quarter. The revenue is boosted by its booming cloud business and ad-revenue. […]
OSF Ventures, a division of OSF HealthCare, today launched a second venture capital fund of $75 million to continue its strategy of supporting new technology, devices and services that offer improved and more cost efficient health care. The announcement came […]
Minute.ly, the Tel-Aviv and New York-based AI-driven video enhancement startup, has closed $8 million financing round to develop its AI-powered solutions and accelerate global expansion in order to meet growing customer demands for best-in-class video technology. The round was led by Ansonia Holdings, […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Thursday, July 25, 2019. Wisely Secures USD$1.15M Seed Funding. Wisely, a Toronto, Canada-based tech startup for nonprofits, secured $1.5M CAD in seed funding to advance AI technology and expand […]
Brainly, an education technology startup and the world’s largest peer-to-peer learning community for students, parents and teachers, today announced it has raised a new funding round of $30 million to enhance its platform user experience and invest further in the quality […]
Every day on this site, we write about startup raising millions of dollars in funding from venture capitalists. But what you don’t hear very often are startups doing it the old-fashioned way–bootstrapping with little money and accelerating in an organic […]
Hippo, an insurtech that’s transforming the home insurance market with a simpler process and smarter coverage, has raised $100 million Series D funding round to fuel the expansion of Hippo’s geographic footprint to more than 80 percent of the U.S. homeowner […]
William Green, a 46-year-old New Jersey man was indicted today by a federal grand jury for allegedly running an unlicensed money transmission service. The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the indictment in a press release today. According to the […]
Even though decades of robust research demonstrates both intrinsic motivation to read and print book ownership strongly shape kids’ reading achievement than using any instructional technique, however, few existing educational software products address them. Mia Learning is an educational technology startup […]