The US economy is booming and investment in startup is at all time high. In 2017 alone, global funding to VC-backed startups jumped 50% to $164.4 billion. This does not necessarily reflect investment backed by from governments and non-profit organizations. Now […]
Teenage entrepreneurs from 5 continents pitched their companies in front of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) this past weekend. Eight of those teams won $50,000 of investments each at a $1,000,000 valuation, and will […]
The mobile game market is on fire. According to the latest report from video editing company, Wondershare Filmora, mobile gaming is forecast to represent over 50% of total games market. That is a big rise from the 45% that is projected for 2018. […]
Zola, the wedding-planning startup, is about to join the unicorn startup club. Today, Zola announced it has raised $100 million in Series D financing to help reinvent wedding planning and registry for millennials. The funding round was led by existing investor Comcast […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Thursday, May 2. Wedding-planning startup Zola tied the knot with $100 Million funding. Wedding startup, Zola, just tied the knot on a big financing round to try […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform provider Faraday announced today it has secured more than $2 million in new funding, and added top talent to its team of leading data scientists and business software experts. The latest round of funding, from new […]
The world will soon run out of fossil fuels. The question a lot of people are asking is, how long will fossil fuels really last? It is argued that oil will run out in 53 years, natural gas in 54, and coal […]
When it comes to getting fit, most people track their body weight because they believe that it determines their appearance. The truth is, weight alone is not an accurate representation of your body composition because it takes into account your […]
Researchers and scientists are working tirelessly to find cures for cancer. Epigenetic therapy is a relatively new concept for cancer treatment. According to NIH, it has been found that the epigenetic silence of tumor suppressor genes induced by overexpression of histone […]
Lately, there has been a series of advancements in graphene technology. Graphene has a lot of applications ranging from UV-tracking, infection detection, cryo-cooler compressor for 5G to the world’s most efficient solar cell. Graphene is a semi-metal, a one-atom-thick layer of carbon atoms arranged in […]
Amy Chang was former head of analytics at Google from July 2005 to November 2012. She was just two levels removed from Larry Page and the C-suite. She later left the search giant to found her own AI-based digital personal assistant startup […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Wednesday, May 2. Tesla sued for $2 billion by hydrogen truck startup over alleged patent infringement. Nikola Motor Company has filed a lawsuit in Arizona alleging that Tesla’s […]
You can now find love on Facebook. Facebook is getting into a matchmaking business. Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announced Tuesday that the social giant is launching a new dating app. This makes it the first time the world’s largest social media network […]
The data science and machine learning software landscape is changing. With the fall of the old guard like SAS and IBM, new and young startups like H2O.ai, Knime and RapidMiner taking the top spots, according to Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant […]
The Arizona-based Cloud Based BI Platform startup, ClicData, announced today that has closed $2 million VC backed financing pre-Series A Round. The funding will be used to accelerate the company’s growth. ClicData is rapidly accelerating its conquest of the Business Intelligence market. […]
Microsoft has decided to change the name of its venture capital (VC) fund from Microsoft Ventures to M12 to highlight its ongoing commitment to the innovators and entrepreneurs its support. The change came two years after its official launch. So what does […]
Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence have accelerated discovery and achievement in Computer Vision. This results in systems that can automatically caption images to apps which can then create natural language replies in response to shared photos. Much of […]
Net-30 term is a phrase that a lot of people may not be familiar with. “Net 30” means a customer can purchase products or services up to a maximum dollar amount and have 30 days to pay the bill in […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Tuesday, May 1. Marketing analytics startups Radius and Leadspace are merging to beat out CRM giant Salesforce. Two competing startups in the marketing and sales intelligence space […]
Back in March, we reported about how Aleksandr Kogan, a University of Cambridge professor, accessed the data of more than 50 million Facebook users after creating a survey filled out by 270,000 people. The harvested data was later used by Cambridge Analytica […]