Amazon’s Amazon Web Service announced it has acquired Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Sqrrl, a cybersecurity start-up that spun out of the National Security Agency. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a message posted on its website to customers, investors, partners, […]
San Jose California-based startup, Light Field Lab, has just raised $7 million seed round from top-tier venture firms Sherpa Capital and Khosla Ventures to develop real holograms without a headset. Founded in 2017 by ex Lytro engineers: Jon Karafin, Brendan Bevensee, and […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Thursday, January 25. Audit giant DNV GL partners with blockchain startup to track assets. Risk management giant DNV GL is partnering with blockchain startup VeChain to launch a […]
CapLinked, backed by Founders Fund and Alphabit Fund, announces TransitNet a blockchain protocol to secure enterprise transactions on the blockchain. TransitNet is an open and unified blockchain framework for protecting digital assets and permanently recording data access during enterprise transactions. Digital […]
San Francisco-based startup Opendoor has secured $100 million in funding from homebuilder Lennar to expand to twelve U.S. markets. Other real estate companies and Fifth Wall, a Los Angeles venture capital firm backed by Lennar, led a $35 million equity investment and […]
Taiwanese electric scooter startup, Gogoro, is a young startup targeting the smog-choked streets of Southeast Asia in its quest to expand its business overseas. Backed by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, Gogoro develops and sells electric scooters and battery […]
Fleet, an Oregon-based startup started by a 22-year old founder has just raised $10 million to help small and midsized businesses ship or import products around the globe. The funding is led by the German airline Lufthansa. Fleet has has […]
The Silicon Valley-based Katerra announced today it has raised $865 million Series D funding round led by the SoftBank Vision Fund. The funding will be used to fund Katerra’s continued manufacturing expansion and for further investment in its R&D efforts. […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Wednesday, January 24. Apple’s HomePod will finally hit store shelves. Apple plans the first online sales of its long-awaited Homepod this Friday. Stores will have it on Febuary […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) biotech startup, XtalPi, announced today it has closed a Series B funding round of $15 million led by Sequoia China, with participation from Google and existing investor Tencent. XtalPi will use the funding to develop new computational models […]
Confirm.io, a government ID authentication startup that digitally authenticates government identification, said on its website that it agreed to be acquired by Facebook for an undisclosed amount. The entire Confirm.io’s team will move to Facebook after the acquisition. The Confirm.io posted the […]
Techcyte, a deep learning image analysis solutions startup, has partnered with Motic, a leading provider of whole slide scanners, to provide advanced solutions for scanning, image analysis, workflow and reporting. As part of the partnership, Techcyte will sell the MoticEasyScan Pro […]
As part of its push to accelerate its digital strategy and support innovation, German software giant and Europe’s biggest software company SAP said it will invest two billion in French tech startups over the next five years, the company announced on […]
TMunity announced it has raised $100 million in Series A financing from Be The Match BioTherapies, a subsidiary of the National Marrow Donor Program, a patient advocacy group, Sean Parker’s Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, drug giant Gilead Sciences and […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Tuesday, January 23. Overfunded startup Clinkle is shutting down. Califfornia-based data virtualization startup, Clinkle, is in the process of shutting down after raising a whopping $100 million in […]
Today, Facebook’s virtual reality (VR) division announced it has invented a new unit of time called Flick. Flick is used to measure the speed of digital audio and video. A flick (frame-tick) is a very small unit of time. On […]
A Tesla Model S car reportedly on “Autopilot” smashed into the back of a fire truck parked at a freeway accident scene Monday morning, authorities said. Mercury News first reported the story Culver City firefighters whose truck was hit around 8:30 […]
Estonia-based startup and Blockchain protocol for telehealth service provider, DocCoin, today announced Pre-Initial Coin Offering (ICO) for Blockchain based telehealth. DocCoin is a internationally available service that integrates the entire online medicine industry and provides advantages to the businesses, as well as the […]
Baltimore, Maryland-based startup Protenus has raised $11 million in a Series B funding round led by F-Prime Capital and Kaiser Permanente Ventures, the company said in a press release. The company will use the investment to make its comprehensive health data auditing and privacy […]
We covered AbiliTek back on January 9 of this year. AbiliTrek is a new startup founded by Western Washington University grad Daman Wandke, aims to provide comprehensive information about hotel accessibility and amenities for those with disabilities. Since the last time […]
