Policygenius, an online insurance marketplace startup, has raised $100M funding to grow the Huckleberry insurance products through sectors such as auto repair, personal care and restaurants. The Series D financing was backed by KKR & Co. and venture capital operations backed […]
NASA has awarded a $142 million contract to Maxar Technologies of Westminster, Colorado, to robotically assemble a communications antenna and manufacture a spacecraft beam in orbit. The technology demonstration is slated to take place on NASA’s Restore-L spacecraft, designed to […]
Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for the last day of January 2020. Amazon re-joins the trillion-dollar club after blowout earnings report. Amazon previously reached a trillion-dollar market capitalization in 2018 but got kicked out of the trillion-dollar […]
It’s 2020 and the question at the top of everyone’s mind is, what technologies will dominate this year and beyond? In recent years, we saw transformation changes with technologies like blockchain, IoT, robotics, and artificial intelligence. This year is no-different. In […]
Mobile commerce has seen explosive growth in recent years. Thanks to smart devices that are making it easier for people to shop, the mobile commerce is now driving the majority of consumer traffic (81% h/t Shopify) and forecasted to draw more […]
Today, companies struggle to onboard, upskill and fire-up their employees for work. That’s the problem 1Huddle is solving. Using its mobile gaming platform, 1Huddle helps organizations onboard new hires. The startup also helps organizations to quickly and easily convert existing training manuals, videos, […]
StopLight, an Austin, Texas-based online platform that helps organizations manage their entire the pre-production API workflow, has closed $6 million Series A round of funding to augment engineering efforts, accelerating its product roadmap and covering more customer use cases. The round, which […]
Proof-of-concept Phase 1b trial evaluating safety and biomarkers of anti-cancer effect in patients with hormone receptor positive metastatic breast cancer Novel GlycoMimetics drug candidate targets tumor and bone marrow microenvironment GlycoMimetics today announced that Duke University investigators have dosed the […]
Everyone knows Silicon Valley. Unless you live in the state of Minnesota, Medical Alley is a name that not many people may be familiar with. Medical Alley is the global epicenter of health innovation and care. It is also home to […]
Silicon Valley-based drug delivery startup Alto Pharmacy (formerly known as ScriptDash) has closed a total of around $250 million in funding to move beyond its delivery roots and offer doctors and clinics a technology platform to fill prescriptions. The new round, […]
Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for today, Thursday, January 30, 2020. Facebook lost more than $50 billion in market value after reporting a 51% rise in expenses compared with its total in 2018. What’s a $50 […]
At a time when the U.S. is facing shortage of tech workers, Google announced Thursday a new course in Python programming language, a key skill that many employers are looking for. The news comes as Silicon Valley faces scrutiny over the implications […]
GameRefinery, a mobile game insight and analytics startup, today announced it has acquired another market insight platform, Reflection.io. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. As part of the acquisition agreement, Reflection.io’s capabilities will be into the GameRefinery portal over the […]
Neighbor.com, an Utah-based tech startup disrupting the self-storage marketplace, has closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors in this round include Nate Bosshard, former partner at Khosla Ventures and […]
SimScale, a Munich, Germany-based tech startup and the provider of the world’s first production-ready SaaS application for engineering simulation, today announced that it has closed $29.78 million (€27 million) in Series C funding to accelerate the expansion of its cloud-based computer-aided […]
Not a day goes by without news headlines about data breaches and hacking. It’s the dark side of the technology we so much enjoy. According to an internal confidential document from the United Nations, which was leaked to the New […]
Tomorrow is Brexit Day. The United Kingdom stops being a member of the EU at 11 p.m. London time on Friday. So, what really changes? The U.K. may be leaving the European Union on Friday, but its relationship with the […]
Byte, the long-awaited video app from the creator of Vine, officially launched two years after Vine’s co-founder Dom Hofmann made the announcement. Byte, a successor to the Vine, lets you shoot or upload and then share six-second looping videos. Byte is now available now on […]
Do you know you can make Google Docs read texts to you out loud using the text-to-speech (TTS) function? Yes, you can! All you need is a ChromeVox extension, which will read the text of any web page aloud to […]
Tesla is in fire! The electric car giant proves the naysayers wrong with a $7.38 billion in fourth quarter revenue and a surprising profit. During the same period, the company also reported deliveries of 112,000 vehicles globally, a quarterly best […]
