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Black & Veatch launches cleantech accelerator for startups focused on renewable and distributed energy, mobility, and machine learning and AI

Nickie Louise Posted On April 15, 2019

Black & Veatch, the largest engineering and construction firm in the Kansas City metropolitan, unveiled last week IgniteX Cleantech Accelerator, powered by LaunchKC. The program will seek partnership with startups focused on renewable and distributed energy, mobility, agricultural technology, machine […]

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Flexa raises $14.1 million to accelerate retail blockchain adoption

Nickie Louise Posted On April 12, 2019

Flexa, a blockchain startup that streamlines payments between buyers and sellers, has raised $14.1 million to develop a payments network for retailers. The funding, which precedes the public launch on May 13, 2019, was led by by Pantera Capital, 1kx, Nima Capital, Access […]

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Top startup news for today, Thursday, April 11, 2019

Nickie Louise Posted On April 11, 2019

Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Thursday, April 11. Samsung is unveiling the world’s first foldable smartphone; available for presale Monday to select users. Ten years after the first Galaxy, Samsung is finally introducing the […]

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Biotech startup Fauna Bio raises $4.1 million seed funding to develop cures for diseases and help humans recover from heart attacks and strokes

Nickie Louise Posted On April 11, 2019

Fauna Bio, a biotech startup leveraging the science of hibernation to improve healthcare for humans, has raised a total of $4.1 million in seed funding to expand its discovery platform to help find new therapeutic targets for human diseases, such as […]

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Florida startup Domestic Beekeepers is bringing 100 percent raw honey from the hives to your kitchen table

Nickie Louise Posted On April 11, 2019

Every day, we read about how cutting-edge technologies that are disrupting old industries and improving our ways of lives. In some cases, however, new and advanced technologies like AI and robotics may not necessarily be needed to make little and […]

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Google Cloud Platform gets native Supermetrics-BigQuery integration, empowering multichannel marketers

Nickie Louise Posted On April 11, 2019

On the heels of the many big developments coming out of the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco, marketing metrics platform Supermetrics has announced the release of Supermetrics for BigQuery on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) marketplace. The new […]

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This Australian agri robotics startup is using autonomous robots to pull weeds and herd livestock

Nickie Louise Posted On April 10, 2019

Agerris is an Australian field robotics and AI startup that is aiming to equip farmers and growers with cutting-edge air and ground field robotic systems, intelligent tools and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, to support their on-farm activities, improve farm productivity, and to […]

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Top startup news for today, Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Nickie Louise Posted On April 10, 2019

Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Wednesday, April 10. Video-conferencing software startup Zoom is making its Wall Street debut next week at $8.25 billion valuation. Zoom, a video conferencing startup that helps businesses […]

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Blockchain startup Provenance.io raises $20 million in security token offering to fuel expansion and R&D

Nickie Louise Posted On April 10, 2019

The $300+ trillion in global financial markets incur hundreds of billions of dollars in audit, custody, trustee, reconciliation and administrative costs each year. Many of these markets suffer from significant friction, lack of transparency and limited liquidity. To solve these […]

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About 1 in 5 Small Businesses Affected by Cyber Fraud in 2018, Study Finds

Nickie Louise Posted On April 10, 2019

Did you know that more than 55,000 cyber breaches and incidents occurred in 2018? Technology advances are making it harder than ever to defend against online security attacks. Merchant Machine have conducted an analysis to compare which industries are the […]

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Limitless raises $6.55 million Series A to take AI powered crowd-sourcing platform global

Nickie Louise Posted On April 10, 2019

Limitless Technology, the London-based startup that helps businesses turns their customers into trusted brand ambassadors, announced it has raised $6.55 million (£5 million) in Series A funding to continue disrupting the customer service industry by further developing its SmartCrowd technology and expansion […]

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Labelbox nabs $10 million in Series A led by Google to accelerate industrial AI

Nickie Louise Posted On April 9, 2019

Building great machine learning applications requires a huge amount of high quality labeled training data. Eighty percent of the time spent on developing machine learning is related to data management, which slows innovation and results in long design-build-test cycles. Machine […]

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Top startup news for today, Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Nickie Louise Posted On April 9, 2019

Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Tuesday, April 9. Walmart is rolling out robots to monitor inventory, scrub floors and keep labor costs down. The word’s largest retail giant Walmart is expanding its […]

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Avail Raises Additional $2.5 Million to Help Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Landlords and Tenants Simplify the Rental Process

Nickie Louise Posted On April 9, 2019

• Avail helps landlords make property management easier by bringing everything they need together in one place. • The size of the market: There are 8 million independent landlords renting out 24 million units across the U.S. • The growth […]

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Travel activities and services booking platform Klook raises $425 million Series D led by Softbank

Nickie Louise Posted On April 9, 2019

Klook, a world-leading travel activities and services booking platform, has raised $225 million in its Series D+ investment to accelerate global expansion and expand service offerings. The round, which increases the company’s total Series D funding round to US$425M, was […]

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DoshEX partners with Pundi X to bring PoS crypto card machines to South Africa

Nickie Louise Posted On April 8, 2019

DoshEX, the South African cryptocurrency exchange and a global blockchain-based payment pioneer, announced it’s partnering with Pundi X to provide point-of-sale (PoS) cryptocurrency and bring cryptocurrency to street retailers and local consumers in South Africa. In a first for South Africa’s […]

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Gizmodo Media Group acquired by private equity firm Great Hill Partners

Nickie Louise Posted On April 8, 2019

Private equity firm Great Hill Partners has acquired Gizmodo Media Group, the owner of the popular gadget website Gizmodo.com, from Univision. The total amount of the deal was not disclosed. However, according to a report from WSJ, citing person familiar with […]

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Top startup news for today, Monday, April 8, 2019

Nickie Louise Posted On April 8, 2019

Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Monday, April 8. Facebook is looking to build ambitious underwater cable ring around Africa. Facebook had a rough week with bad news about data breaches and many […]

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Simudyne closes $6 million funding to help organisations make best decisions using computational simulation and AI

Nickie Louise Posted On April 8, 2019

Simudyne, a London-based simulation technology startup, has closed a $6 million Series A round to accelerate its engagement with the financial services sector and continue to invest in world-class talent. Backers for the new funding round includes Graphene Ventures, an early investor […]

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Fleetsmith secures $30 million Series B to grow its cloud-based Apple device management platform and expand globally

Nickie Louise Posted On April 8, 2019

Fleetsmith, a cloud-based Apple device management platform that helps to automate device setup, intelligence, patching, and security for your company’s Macs, iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs, announced today it has raised $30 million in Series B funding to further develop its device […]

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