Canalyst, a Vancouver, Canada-based fintech startup with focused on modernizing equity research for fundamental investors, has closed a $20 million Series B financing to accelerate market expansion. The round was led by a strategic investor with participation from ScaleUP Ventures and existing investors […]
Not a day goes by without headlines on data breaches. The cost of data breach continues to skyrocket. According to a recent IBM study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, data breaches cost American companies on average more than $8 million per […]
Happy weekend, folks. It’s been really cold here with freezing rain. Anyway, it’s not clear why we missed the story of EQRx, a biotech startup that launched this week with $200 million in series A funding to develop patent-protected drugs that will […]
From time to time we scourge the internet to find some amazing but original inventions by ordinary people. Our search led us all the way to Frösön, the largest island in the lake Storsjön, located west of the city Östersund in […]
In the tech world, not a day goes by with headlines about unicorns, privately held startups valued at more than $1 billion. Now, there is a new club in town — the trillion-dollar tech club. Sorry, not any company can […]
For the first time, a 12-year-old Green bay, Wisconsin boy is now able to take a drink with his right hand. Thanks to a new 3D-printed bionic arm developed by a UK robotics startup Open Bionics. Inspired by Marvel’s Iron Man, Jonathan’s right hand […]
Since the launch of Bitcoin on January 3, 2009, cryptocurrencies have gained a lot of popularity. Along with crytocurrencies are also the emergence of cryptocurrency trading platforms. As of January 2020, there are over 4,900 cryptocurrencies that operate in over 20,000 markets, […]
Jack Dorsey is well aware of Twitter many problems. He just doesn’t have answers to all of them. So, he reached to Tesla CEO Elon Musk for suggestion on how to fix Twitter? Musk’s answer was simple:”Identify the bots,” according […]
As part of its effort to narrow the gender and ethnic gap in the startup world, Citi announced today the launch of the $150 million Citi Impact Fund that will make equity investments in “double bottom line” private sector companies that have […]
Skyview Capital, a global private investment firm, has acquired Bethesda, MD-based Fidelis Cybersecurity adding to its software technology portfolio. The acquisition will enable Skyview to tap into the booming global cybersecurity market, which is on track to surpass $133 billion in […]
We wrote about TradeShift back in November 2018 when trade platform launched Tradeshift Pay and partnered with HSBC and major banks to solve the $9 trillion global commerce problem. This week, TradeShift announced it has $240 million in equity and debt […]
KazUAV, a subsidiary of Japan-based Terra Drone Corporation, has been supporting the World Bank in its initiative to build sustainable school infrastructure in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan. As part of the General-Purpose Simulation Program (GPSS) under the Global Facility for […]
Depending on the data you are looking at, the US commercial real estate (CRE) market is estimated to be around $2.1 trillion or 36 percent of the total value of commercial real estate. It consists of at least 9.5 billion square feet […]
Air taxis are no longer the things you see in fiction movies. They are here to say. There are now at least ten air taxi startups out there. Just this month we wrote about Boeing’s flying taxi that launched its first successful […]
Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for today, Thursday, January 16, 2020. Tesla plans to open China design and research center. Tesla continues to make waves in China. Tesla’s first factory outside the United States is in the […]
As software continues to eat the world, people with no technical skills are left in the dust to fend for themselves. However, some companies are doing their fair share to help their employees and training them in new skills required to […]
Born in the cloud and made for the cloud, Epsagon, a cloud analytics startups that specializes in automated tracing for cloud microservices, today announced it has raised $16 million Series A funding led by new investor U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), with […]
CTI Industries Corporation, a leading manufacturer of custom film products, foil and latex novelty balloons, and flexible packaging products, today announced the first closing of a previously announced stock purchase agreement (the “Offering”) on January 13, 2020, for total gross […]
Some of America’s favorite snacks and beverages – from Lay’s and SunChips to bubly, Gatorade and Pepsi – will soon be made using electricity from renewable sources, such as wind and solar. Yesterday, beverage giant PepsiCo announced that it plans to […]
Yesterday, we reported about Apple acquisition of Xnor.ai, an edge AI startup spin-out from Paul Allen’s research lab, for $200 million. Today, the AI2 Incubator, created by the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), announced it has raised $10 million pre-seed fund for AI […]
