BEIJING, June 18, 2018 — Over the past two weeks, a major selloff of Skycoin has been taking place, triggering market prices levels for skycoin to also drop drastically. Multiple events led to this significant fall in the market price; […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Tuesday, June 19. New credit card startup Brex secures $50 million from PayPal founders and other investors. Brex, a San Francisco company that offers a corporate credit […]
Elucidata Corporation, a data science startup focused on developing tools and software solutions for drug discovery, has raised $1.7 million in seed funding to transform drug discovery and accelerate growth. The latest financing round was led by Hyperplane Venture Capital along […]
DigiFi, an enterprise SaaS company building the next generation of decision automation technology, has launched its AI-powered decision automation platform. The technology enables business users to easily create automated processes that gather data, execute rules, send communications and leverage machine […]
Google has reached a partnership with Chinese online shopping giant JD.com. As part of the agreement, Google will invest $550 million in Chinese e-commerce retailer JD.com Inc., in exchange for more than 27 million newly issued JD.com Class A ordinary shares. The […]
Viva Republica, Korea’s foremost fintech startup and maker of financial services app Toss, has raised $40 million round of funding to gain significant momentum in accelerating its growth and enhancing product development. The latest round is led by GIC and Sequoia China, […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Monday, June 18. Microsoft acquired a classroom video startup FlipGrid to take on Google and Apple. Microsoft has acquired Flipgrid, a Minneapolis-based educational software startup, in its […]
Tessian (formerly CheckRecipient), the UK-based machine intelligence startup, has raised $13 million (£9 million) in a Series A round to make enterprise email safe with machine learning. The latest round was led by Balderton Capital and existing investors, Accel. Amadeus […]
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The team behind the first cryptocurrency debit card today announced the launch of B21, the first personal wealth manager exclusively for crypto assets. B21 is an easy to use mobile app to invest in cryptoassets like Bitcoin and Ethereum. B21’s mobile-focused investment […]
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the blood-testing startup, and the company’s former president, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in California on charges of wire fraud, the Justice Department said on Friday. Founded in 2003 […]
rideOS, a technology platform designed to accelerate the safe, global roll-out of self-driving vehicles, has raised $9 million in Series A funding. Sequoia Capital led the round with participation from Graph Ventures and SV Angel, and Sequoia Partner Mike Vernal […]
IBM has acquired Oniqua Holdings Pty Ltd. (Qniqua), the leading provider of IoT solutions and MRO inventory optimization, to strengthens it IoT capabilities to help businesses proactively maintain vital assets. The financial terms and conditions were not released. This acquisition expands IBM’s […]
Kustomer.com, the modern CRM platform for customer experience, service, and support, has raised $26 million in a Series B financing round to expand its platform and focus on intelligence, integrations, and enterprise capabilities as it continues to take on larger […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Friday, June 15. Cryptocurrency Ether soars 9% after SEC official says it’s not a security. Ether, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency, jumped about 9 percent Thursday after […]
Influential, the social intelligence startup has raised a $12 million Series B financing round to take the its AI SaaS platform to market. The current round was led by existing investors, Capital Zed and Europlay Capitol Advisors, with participation from WME. The […]
Google announced yesterday in a blog post that it will open an artificial intelligence (AI) research center in Accra, Ghana. The AI center is scheduled to open later this year. It will be Google’s first AI center on the African […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Thursday, June 14. SpinLaunch just raised $40 million to build a space catapult. Flying cars, vacation in space, cures for death and now we have a Silicon Valley […]
OpenSpace, a stealth machine vision company solving interesting problems for large-scale construction, today launches to the public an AI framework that gives builders and construction workers a photographic memory. Using OpenSpace, field workers can travel through time to look at […]
Quovo, a data platform providing connectivity to consumer financial accounts, has closed its Series B funding round extension, bringing the firm’s total funding to $20 million. The investments were led by Portag3 Ventures, a leading Canadian-based venture capital firm exclusively […]