Good evening! Below is a list of the top tech startup news for today, June 9, 2021. Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint Capital Partners acquired ExtraHop for $900 million. ExtraHop, a Seattle, Washington-based startup and a provider of cloud-based network detection […]
The nature of the workforce is changing, moving from a workforce dominated by full-time workers to one where freelancers are becoming more prominent; projections show that the freelance workforce is expected to grow to over 50% of the total U.S […]
The non-fungible token (NFT) mania continues to sweep across the globe with no sign of slowing down. NFTs are digital art that represents a unique digital asset with ownership stored as tokens on the blockchain network. With fans now looking to use […]
Have you ever dreamt of not having to deal with the daily commute and just fly to work in a flying car? We’ve all seen flying cars in movies and read about them in books. For years, flying cars have […]
The gaming industry is growing at such a fast rate almost nobody can believe it. According to the data analytics and consulting firm Global Data, the gaming industry is estimated to reach over $300 billion by 2025, with over 2.5 billion […]
A little over a year ago, Embroker shared with us an informative article titled, “Startup Guide to Raising Venture Capital: Series A, B, and C Funding Explained.” It is a great read for those who may not be familiar with […]
The Latin American country of El Salvador becomes the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender after Congress approved President Nayib Bukele’s proposal to embrace the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, who […]
It’s about three years since we last wrote about Blockdaemon, a New York City-based tech startup that facilitates and manages the deployment of nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks. At the time, Blockdaemon partnered with Citizens Reserve to help the startup quickly deploy nodes […]
Boston-based conversational AI provider Orbita announced today the appointment of former Qualtrics executive Patty Riskind as its new CEO. Prior to joining Orbita, Riskind was the Head of Global Healthcare at Qualtrics and a dynamic healthcare tech leader with demonstrated success with both small […]
Premier early-stage global startup accelerator K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) is looking for innovative technology entrepreneurs and startups to participate in the sixth installment of its yearly competition located in Pangyo Techno Valley, the Silicon Valley of South Korea. Open to […]
For decades, lawyers had immunity from disruptive change; at least from anything outside their competitors. There was no great force rocking the boat. Every market player was happy to reap the rewards of inefficient processes that clients could do little […]
NUAIR recently put the Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions Inc. (AVSS) drone parachute recovery system through rigorous safety and failure scenarios over multiple days at the New York UAS Test Site in Rome, New York. The tests were successful on the […]
Just last week, a group of JPMorgan analysts and strategists led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou warned that Bitcoin’s latest correction may not be over. In the past 24 hours alone, bitcoin has fallen roughly 8% over the past 24 hours, according to […]
Overhaul, an Austin, Texas-based logistics tech startup, has raised $35 million Series B funding led by Macquarie Capital, with participation from Edison Partners and Avanta Ventures (a venture arm of CSAA Insurance Group). Overhaul will use the fresh capital infusion to […]
Government, news, and social media websites around the globe were unavailable on Tuesday after an apparent widespread outage at cloud service company Fastly. Dozens of high-traffic websites including the New York Times, CNN, Independent, and the site for the UK Government […]
The story of Apple and its ambition to develop its own electric cars is not going away. Early this year, Hyundai said it was in early talks with Apple to develop self-driving electric vehicles and batteries, according to a report […]
On April 20, the Doge Day, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce warned Dogecoin traders: “Don’t come complaining to the government if you lose money.” At the time, Dogecoin was trading at $0.0635. Since then, Dogecoin has gone up by more than […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is currently the second richest person in the world and bitcoin’s biggest influencer. As we noted last week, cryptocurrency lives and dies by Elon Musk’s tweets. While some crypto investors accused Musk of abandoning bitcoin after Tesla […]
The red-hot Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) market continues to grow with no sign of slowing down. are all the rage these days. In 2021 alone, there are 330 SPAC IPOs of the 463 IPOs, according to data from the […]
Last month, Colonial Pipeline surrendered to the Darkside hacker group after it paid nearly $5 million in ransom via an untraceable cryptocurrency, contrary to what the company first told the general public. Today, we have some good news. The U.S. law enforcement […]
