6D.ai, a seed-stage startup spun out from Oxford University’s world-renowned Active Vision Lab, is laying the foundation to build a 3D map of the world using real-time spatial recognition across XR head mounted displays (HMDs and smartphones. Using the 3D mesh generated by […]
Global AI Internet Freedom Fund (GAIIFF), LP today announced the launch of their new $20 million investment to fuel next generation of applied artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. GAIIFF will invest in and nurture cutting edge technologies aimed at solving real-world […]
Kin Insurance, an insurtech startup that is fixing home insurance through intuitive tech, affordable pricing, has raised $47 million to launch the Kin Interinsurance Network, a Florida home insurance carrier, and expand its capacity to serve homeowners in catastrophe-prone regions. Kin was […]
Particl Open Marketplace Grows to 500 Active Users per Day and Counting in Less than Two Weeks. New York, August 27, 2019 – Particl has successfully developed a fully decentralized, private marketplace on the blockchain thanks to expert advisors such as […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Tuesday, August 27, 2019. Geotech startup What3Words helps you find any place on the planet without an address. What3Words is a British tech startup that let you […]
Lightbend (formerly Typesafe), a tech startup dedicated to helping developers build Reactive applications on the JVM, today announced the launch of CloudState, the first Open Source Serverless framework designed to enable stateful workloads on the Knative / Kubernetes stack. Created […]
EBR Systems, a health tech startup and the developer of the world’s only wireless cardiac pacing system for heart failure, has closed $30M in new funding to complete enrollment of its pivotal SOLVE CRT clinical trial and to prepare for […]
We wrote about PeerWell in late 2018 when the health tech startup launches augmented reality trip and fall hazard detector for smartphones. PeerWell helps patients prevent, prepare for and recover from surgery. The startup also helps patients throughout their musculoskeletal journey Today, PeerWell […]
TechSoup, a nonprofit organization connecting nonprofit, charity and public libraries with technological products and services, has received a $2.5 million grant from VMware Foundation to support initiatives to significantly expand its offerings and nearly double the number of nonprofit organizations it serves. […]
ZeroDown, a real estate startup and a provider of an affordable homeownership solution in the Bay Area, has closed more than $100 million of debt capital from Credit Suisse to fuel the next stage of the company’s growth. ZeroDown gives […]
CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity company that provides cloud-based endpoint protection, has launched a $20m early stage investment fund. Started in partnership with Accel, Falcon Fund will focus on seed and Series A investments in security startups that are building applications on […]
Sleeper, a San Francisco-based fantasy football startup aiming to beat ESPN and Yahoo by catering to women and casual fans. Sleeper announced it raised $5.3 million in venture capital, bringing its total funding to $7.3 million. Sleeper claims to have grown […]
Stylitics, an ecommerce startup and provider of cloud-based SaaS platform for retailers, has closed a $15 million Series B round of funding to grow its sales and marketing function while fueling the development of new types of shoppable, content-driven e-commerce […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Monday, August 26, 2019. Alibaba-backed AI startup Megvii files for Hong Kong IPO. Megvii, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup backed by Alibaba has filed for an initial public offering […]
Ario Technologies (Ario), the augmented reality platform that increases team performance by making it easy to create and share spatial information in real time, has closed a $2 million venture round to expand their market traction, it is also continuing to iterate […]
Atonarp, a molecular diagnostics tech startup and the maker of the world’s first and smallest quantitative mass spectrometer, has raised $33 million in an oversubscribed Series C funding round to accelerate the development progress of disruptive healthcare diagnostics platform. The round was led […]
We last wrote about Pony.ai in late 2018 when the artificial intelligence and robotics startup unveiled its latest autonomous vehicle fleet, PonyAlpha. Pony develops artificial intelligence solutions in the field of robotics. Today, Pony.ai announces its teaming up with Toyota on an autonomous driving […]
Last year, we compiled a list of the world’s unicorn startups, startups with a valuation of $1 billion or more. A lot has changed since then. We removed some startups after they went public. Noticeably absent from the list is […]
As of January 2019, there are more than 300 unicorns (a unicorn startup or unicorn company is a private company with a valuation over $1 billion) around the world. Variants include a decacorn, valued at over $10 billion, and a hectocorn, […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Friday, August 23, 2019. Porsche invests in Israeli semiconductor startup TriEye. TriEye, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based semiconductor startup, has received a minority investment from Porsche. The amount of the investment […]