Below are the top news stories on TechStartups.com over the past 7 days. If you want this weekly update in your inbox every week, make sure to subscribe to the TechStartups Newsletter using the form at the right corner of this […]
Happy Sunday, folks! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Sunday, January 28 Swedish health tech startup raises $1,1 million round to treats depression with a wearable. Flow Neuroscience, a Swedish health tech startup, has secured $1.1 million […]
Blockchain and cryptocurrency are making headlines and everyone is talking about them. According to the data from CoinMarketCap, there are now about 1,494 cryptocurrencies with market capitalization of $565 billion as of January 27, 2018. Bitcoin dominates with 34.4 percent […]
Happy weekend, folks! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Saturday, January 27. Blockchain startup Voatz is redefining how we vote. Mobile election voting platform startup Voatz is aiming to use of blockchain to solve online voting […]
One of Japan’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, Coincheck, said it lost about $530 million in crypto coins to hackers. The coins were stolen via several unauthorized transactions from a hot wallet at 3:00 am local time on Friday, Jan. 26. At around […]
Roman is a new startup that wants to help diagnose anyone suffering from erectile dysfunction (ED) without setting foot in the a doctor’s office. The startup provides a discreet platform online for guys to get erectile dysfunction care without feeling embarrassed. […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Friday, January 26. Data warehouse startup Snowflake just raised $263 million at a $1.5 billion valuation. San Mateo, California-based startup Snowflake announced a it has just raised a […]
Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup, Cylus, announced that it has raised $4.7 million in seed funding to continue to meet the cybersecurity challenges facing the rail industry. Investors include Zohar Zisapel, a private investor and Founder of RAD, as well as […]
According to a report published in TheConversation, the independent news source from the academic and research community, ongoing advancement in camera will soon allow us to see through fog, inside the human body and even behind walls, and could be used by […]
Meet Parsa Rezvani, the Founder & CEO of TutorFly. Tutorfly is an app and a peer-to-peer tutoring platform for connecting high school student tutors with students. Their mission is to provide an educational alternative to the traditional classroom setting through peer […]
Cryptocurrency fans, rejoice! Online brokerage startup Robinhood is launching commission-free cryptocurrency trading. Beginning in February, Users of Robinhood, the commission-free investing app, will soon be able to invest in cryptocurrencies alongside more traditional investment offerings. The initial crypto trading will only include bitcoin and […]
Ford Motors today announced the acquisition of two transportation technology startups Autonomic, TransLoc to accelerate growth. The Ford Mobility team is accelerating and expanding its activities in 2018 to deliver a broad suite of mobility products and services to personal vehicle owners, […]
Amazon’s Amazon Web Service announced it has acquired Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Sqrrl, a cybersecurity start-up that spun out of the National Security Agency. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a message posted on its website to customers, investors, partners, […]
San Jose California-based startup, Light Field Lab, has just raised $7 million seed round from top-tier venture firms Sherpa Capital and Khosla Ventures to develop real holograms without a headset. Founded in 2017 by ex Lytro engineers: Jon Karafin, Brendan Bevensee, and […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Thursday, January 25. Audit giant DNV GL partners with blockchain startup to track assets. Risk management giant DNV GL is partnering with blockchain startup VeChain to launch a […]
CapLinked, backed by Founders Fund and Alphabit Fund, announces TransitNet a blockchain protocol to secure enterprise transactions on the blockchain. TransitNet is an open and unified blockchain framework for protecting digital assets and permanently recording data access during enterprise transactions. Digital […]
San Francisco-based startup Opendoor has secured $100 million in funding from homebuilder Lennar to expand to twelve U.S. markets. Other real estate companies and Fifth Wall, a Los Angeles venture capital firm backed by Lennar, led a $35 million equity investment and […]
Taiwanese electric scooter startup, Gogoro, is a young startup targeting the smog-choked streets of Southeast Asia in its quest to expand its business overseas. Backed by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Gogoro develops and sells electric scooters and battery […]
Fleet, an Oregon-based startup started by a 22-year old founder has just raised $10 million to help small and midsized businesses ship or import products around the globe. The funding is led by the German airline Lufthansa. Fleet has has […]
The Silicon Valley-based Katerra announced today it has raised $865 million Series D funding round led by the SoftBank Vision Fund. The funding will be used to fund Katerra’s continued manufacturing expansion and for further investment in its R&D efforts. […]