Last week, we wrote about Microsoft after the tech giant announced a collaboration agreement with Volkswagen to use Microsoft Corp’s cloud to develop autonomous vehicle driving systems. Today, Microsoft has joined forces with another German company. This morning, German auto supplier […]
One of the many reasons startups failed is because they build products that no one wants. Learning about what customer is foundational to the success of every startup. One of the tech companies that understand its customers so well is […]
Last week, the Australian parliament said it’s passing a new media bill that will require online platforms like Google and Facebook to pay news outlets for displaying and linking to their content. In a preemptive strike yesterday, Facebook announced a ban […]
2020 saw a massive shift in how customers are serviced and supported. Companies needed to re-think their entire customer-facing operations and realize how to continue providing superior experiences to their customers while adopting new communication platforms and tools. We sat […]
The state of Texas is facing a humanitarian crisis as over 3.4 million Texans are left without power due to arctic weather that continues to hammer the state. The frigid freezing weather has caused wind turbines to freeze reducing their power generation […]
It’s been a while since we checked in with Recogni, an artificial intelligence startup that is building low-power AI processing for autonomous vehicles. In July 2019, Recogni exited stealth mode with $25 million in Series A funding to deliver ab inferencing system that […]
We covered Public.com late last year after the commission-free stock brokerage startup raised $65 million in Series C funding to help individuals invest and buy stocks in publicly-traded companies with no commission fee. As retail trading booms, the Online brokerage Public.com […]
Just when you think the coronavirus pandemic is behind us, a new Ebola virus outbreak just broke out in Africa with at least 5 people confirmed dead, the first cases since 2016. So, is the world prepared for another pandemic and should […]
Amazon has acquired Selz, a Sydney, Australian-based startup that helps small businesses sell products online. The total amount of the transaction was not disclosed. Amazon quietly acquired the e-commerce platform on January 15 but did not publicize the acquisition. A Shopify […]
In the summer of 2020, SpaceX raised $1.9 billion in funding at a little over $40 billion in valuation, according to a regulatory filing which showed that 75 investors made equity investments in Elon Musk’s launch company. The announcement came just three months after […]
The coronavirus outbreak that started in Wuhan, China in December 2019 has not only killed millions of people around the world but has also wreaked havoc on millions of businesses. Nearly a year since the virus broke out in China, the […]
Part of our mission at Tech Startups is to promote the “underdog” and promising startups that are not covered by major tech news outlets. Today, we would like to share a story of a young tech startup from the remote city […]
With polar vortex traveling across the Southern and Eastern parts of the United States, at least 15 states are now experiencing rolling blackouts or outages because of extreme weather. Most of the outages are seen in Texas, with over 4 […]
We’ve written many stories about GameStop, a struggling video game chain brick-and-mortar game store across the U.S, which went from losing $470 million to become a $7.05 billion company by market cap. It all started late last year when a […]
It’s been well over a year since we last covered Terra Drone, a Tokyo, Japan-based drone startup and one of the world’s largest providers of industrial drone solutions. Today, Terra Drone announced it has closed $14.4 million (JPY 1.5 billion) in Series A […]
Ozette, a Seattle, Washington-based life sciences data startup that develops an artificial intelligence-enabled immune monitoring platform, today announced it has raised $6 million in Series A funding to accelerate breakthroughs in treating disease. The round was led by Madrona Venture Group, […]
While major technology companies are making significant advancements, it is startup companies that are having the most dramatic impact across many different industries. This has been seen in New Zealand, especially among gaming studios who are becoming the industry standard […]
Last month, Chrysler teamed up with aerospace startup Archer to build an electric air taxi. The San Francisco, California-based Archer is a developer of all-electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and the first company to create the world’s first all-electric airline. […]
Businesses are increasingly using multiple cloud services. In these distributed environments there is no way to centrally manage identity and security policies across each cloud platform which all use unique identity systems. Enter Strata, a Boulder, Colorado-based tech startup founded […]
Before now, you would need to have at least $10 million in investible assets to draw the attention of wealth managers at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. That all changed in 2016 when Goldman Sachs launched Marcus, a mobile banking app […]
