With so many venture capital firms and accelerators out there, one would think raising new funding for startups should be easy. But that’s not the case. Most founders are still require by VCs and accelerators to give up a certain […]
Kailo Labs, an Utah-based nanotech startup, has launched the world’s first nanotechnology-based bio-antenna for easy pain relief on the crowdfunding website, Indiegogo. With 9 days to go, KailoLabs exceeded its funding goal after raising over $200,000. Over 2,000 backers have now pre-purchased a Kailo, which begins […]
Boom! SoftBank has done it again. This time, the Japanese conglomerate is investing $1 billion in Colombian delivery app Rappi, marking its first foray into Latin America. Rappi is an on-demand delivery startup active in Latin America countries of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, […]
Trovata.io, a provider of native cloud SaaS platform that automate cash management on open banking, announced it has completed a $5.5 million seed funding round on its oversubscribed second closing to ramp up sales and accelerate product development. The round, which […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for the last day of April 2019. Why is SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund investing on unprofitable tech companies? Unlike other venture capital firms, SoftBank has become known worldwide […]
Advancing Women in Product (AWIP), an organization co-founded by two Google and Amazon PMs to empower tech leaders through equality of opportunity in career advancement for both men and women, today announced the launch of the Female Founders Program. The […]
Investments in China’s AgriFood startups continue without any sings of slowing down. AgFunder, the online AgriFoodTech Venture Capital Platform, has just released the 2018 China AgriFood Startup Investing Report in collaboration with Chinese food tech VC Bits x Bites. The 36-page report covers […]
A 20-year-old forgotten cryptographic puzzle by MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has been solved by Bernard Fabrot, a self-taught programmer from Belgium. The time capsule containing items contributed by the likes of Bill Gates and Tim Berners-Lee and […]
Partnership Explores Disruptive Technologies, Trends and Research Impacting the Commercial Real Estate Industry SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2019 – Cushman & Wakefield is pleased to announce a new partnership with Stanford University’s Disruptive Technology and Digital Cities Program, a collaboration aimed […]
908devices, a technology startup that manufactures battery-operated, hand-held chemical detection tools used in mass spectrometry, has raised $17.5 million in a growth equity funding round. This Series E funding, which brings the company’s total to $70M, makes 908 Devices the most […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Monday, April 29. Chinese app TikTok now the third-most downloaded app in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2019. Back in February of the year, we wrote about […]
Investment bank and financial services giant, Morgan Stanley, today announced the third cohort of the Multicultural Innovation Lab, which invests in multicultural and female tech entrepreneurs who have traditionally faced institutional and cultural barriers to funding. The program, now in its […]
The physical therapy rehabilitation industry is a $36 billion market and it is expected to grow at the rate of 3.4% annually. The industry is ripe for disruption the same Uber disrupted the taxi cab industry. Technology startups are beginning to […]
PreAct Technologies (PreAct), a tech startup founded with the mission of saving lives, reducing injuries, and saving costs resulting from automotive collisions, has closed over $1 million in angel round to invest in key staff, technology and prototyping as they […]
Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Friday, April 26. Blue Origin tweeted a cryptic photo of explorer Shackleton’s ship with May 9, 2019 date. Jeff Bezos’ space venture Blue Origin tweeted a cryptic photo of […]
Coursera, the top leading online learning platform that provides online courses from the world’s best universities and companies, has closed a $103 million investment in a Series E equity round to further expand internationally and to accelerate the development of a […]
Phoenix, a Nuclear technology startup company that designs and manufactures the highest-yielding neutron generators, has secured $4 million in funding from the US Army to demonstrate innovative neutron-based methods of nondestructive testing utilizing its high flux neutron generators. Founded in 2005 by Gregory […]
Technology is permeating every area of our daily lives, especially in the area of entertainment. Every living space a piece of coffee table, some music with decent audio speakers. Instead of having these separate items, why don’t you just combined […]
Clear Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that helps startup teams win in frontier technology and services, has launched a new $180 million venture fund called Clear Ventures II, L.P. (“Clear II”) that focuses on frontier tech, industry 4.0, […]
Back in January, we wrote about venture capital veteran and one of the most-followed technology forecasters Mary Meeker, after she left Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to launch her new growth venture capital firm called Bond Capital. Back then, she was […]