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Watch how a 12-story SpaceX Starship rocket turns off its engines & does a controlled fall
Nickie Louise December 23, 2020

Elastos Community Launches Hyper Messenger, An Encrypted, Blockchain DID-based Competitor to WhatsApp and Signal
Nickie Louise December 23, 2020

Austin-based LoudCrowd scores $2.2 million to help brands attract and retain customers
Nickie Louise December 23, 2020


Robocar LiDAR startup Ouster is going public through a SPAC at $1.9 billion valuation
Nickie Louise December 22, 2020

China’s EdTech startup ClassIn raises $265 million in Series C funding to expand its online classroom platform
Nickie Louise December 22, 2020

Domain names and trademark: How the owner of SmartWallet trademark lost a UDRP case for SmartWallet.com and what startup founders can learn from it
Nickie Louise December 22, 2020


SoftBank jumps on the SPAC bandwagon with the launch of a blank-check company
Nickie Louise December 22, 2020

IBM acquires Finnish cloud startup Nordcloud to take on Amazon, Google, and Microsoft in hybrid computing
Nickie Louise December 22, 2020

Peloton acquires fitness equipment maker Precor for $420 million
Nickie Louise December 21, 2020


New York-based Buffalo Automation unveils Greycraft, the world’s first fully autonomous, AI-driven water taxi concept
Nickie Louise December 21, 2020

Atlanta-Based OneTrust raises $300 million Series C funding for its privacy management platform; doubles its valuation to $5.1 billion
Nickie Louise December 21, 2020

Softbank adds $10M to Dialpad’s Series-E funding to grow its AI-powered cloud communications platform
Nickie Louise December 21, 2020


Israeli tech startup Trigo raises $60M to scale its frictionless checkout grocery platform as competition with Amazon Go heats up
Nickie Louise December 21, 2020

PostHog raises $12 million in funding to bring the only open-source product analytics tool to software teams
Nickie Louise December 18, 2020

Patient Capital — The Investment Strategy for 2021
Alice Neuhauser December 17, 2020


Cryptocurrency startup Paxos raises $142M in funding to grow the first regulated blockchain infrastructure platform
Nickie Louise December 17, 2020

SEC charges stock trading app Robinhood for deceiving customers about how it makes money; agreed to pay $65 million penalty
Nickie Louise December 17, 2020

South Korea’s digital therapeutics startup S-Alpha raises $2.7M in seed funding for clinical trials in the U.S.
Nickie Louise December 17, 2020


StockX raises $275 million in Series E funding for the “Stock Market of Things” marketplace
Nickie Louise December 16, 2020

Uber rival Bolt raises €150 million to improve safety of its platform with facial recognition for its driver and prevent accidents using AI
Nickie Louise December 16, 2020