United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) in collaboration with autonomous drone startup Matternet, launched the first commercial drone delivery in the U.S., transporting medical samples via drone across hospital between North Carolina hospitals on Tuesday. The program, which took place at WakeMed’s flagship hospital […]
Innoviz Technologies, a provider of high-performance, solid-state lidar sensors and perception software, has raised $132 million in Series C funding to accelerate solid-state lidar production. The latest capital infusion brings total funding to $214 million. The round is marked by […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Tuesday, March 26. Uber is buying Middle East rival Careem for $3.1 billion. As everyone awaits Uber’s much-anticipated initial public offering that was reported to value […]
Perimeter 81, a next-generation network security provider, driven by the mission to transform secure network access for the modern and distributed workforce, has secured a $5 million funding to accelerate growth, primarily investing in expanding the sales, marketing and R&D teams […]
Researchers have found multiple applications for the CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspersed Short Palindromic Repeats) gene editing technology since it came into use by the scientific community. Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) Assistant Professor and University of California, Berkeley Visiting Scientist Kiana […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Monday, March 25. Apple to unveil its plans to revolutionize TV. As we mentioned on Friday, Apple is finally unveiling its plan to revolutionize TV after […]
Mursion, an imersive VR startup that develops virtual reality software for HR has raised $8 million Series A to tackle workplace bias through simulations. The round was led by impact investor New Markets Venture Partners, with participation from Schusterman Family Investment […]
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has acquired Israeli AR startup Infinity Augmented Reality after investing in the company since 2016. The exact financial details were not disclosed, but according to an estimate from Globes, Alibaba paid more than $10 million for the […]
A little over a year ago, we wrote an article titled:”What is Blockchain.” In the article, we highlighted a report from National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and how the hype surrounding the most disruptive technology of the decade. NIST is […]
Boston Materials, a Massachusetts based material science startup that manufactures breakthrough Carbon Supercomposite using a patented Z-axis reinforcement technology in a carbon fiber composite, has raised $1.75 million in seed funding led by the Clean Energy Venture Fund with participation […]
Nearly ninety five percent of bitcoin trading volume is faked by unregulated exchanges, according to new findings detailed in a 227-page report by Bitwise, a crypto asset management firm. The report casts new doubts about the popular digital currency and the volatile […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Friday, March 22. Skymind secures $11.5 million in Series A funding to bring AI to the enterprise. Skymind, an open-core data science startup, has secured $11.5 million […]
Monkeybrains, a San Francisco based ISP, has acquired another ISP San Francisco and Oakland-based startup Necto for an undisclosed amount. Necto was founded by Benjamin Huang and Adam Montgomery to enable individuals to start their own internet service providers. Necto was […]
Guesty, a real estate startup and a provider of property management software for short-term rentals, has raised $35 million in Series C funding to open new offices in key growth markets, enhance product capabilities, introduce AI and machine learning into […]
Bitmo, a mobile platform that allows consumers to gift easily and securely right from their mobile wallet, has raised over $3 million in new seed round capital to accelerate growth of Bitmo’s popular consumer platform, expand its retailer-focused enterprise products, and build out […]
Electric automaker, Tesla, has filed a lawsuit against four former employees and self-driving startup Zoox for allegedly stealing its trade secrets. In court a filing in a U.S. District Court in Northern California, Tesla said its former former employees Scott Turner, Sydney […]
Apparently, Facebook stored hundreds of millions of it users account passwords in plain text for years. These passwords are available and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012. According to latest finding Thursday […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Thursday, March 21. LogRocket raises $15 million in funding to triple its headcount. LogRocket, a Cambridge, MA-based startup provider of front-end application performance management platform, has raised $15m […]
Axway has acquired Streamdata.io, a software publisher specializing in event-driven API Management, to bolster both its API Management offer and the technological capabilities of its hybrid integration platform. The total amount of the deal was not disclosed. Axway is a French […]
AppDetex, the global digital risk protection startup company that combats the misuse of intellectual property, brand infringement, fraud, and piracy, today announced it has raised $10 million in Series B equity financing to expand national sales and marketing efforts and […]