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 […]
The footwear industry often overlooks Mother Nature’s innovative materials in favor of cheaper, synthetic alternatives. This startup thinks it’s time to change that. Allbirds, a New Zealand-based startup has raised $120,000 in just 4 days on Kickstarter to produce shoes made […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Monday, January 22. Two student-owned startups are semifinalists in Student Startup Madness. Two student-owned Northwestern startups are semifinalists in Student Startup Madness, a nationwide college startup competition focusing […]
The future of grocery shopping is here. Amazon is introducing its first cashierless grocery store called Amazon Go. It is a grocery store without checkout lines. The sensor-infused store and convenience store will open to the public Monday in Seattle. Amazon makes […]
Many people in the United States or outside China probably may never have heard of Tencent. Tencent is a leading provider of Internet value added services in China. For the first time on November 20, 2017, Tencent surpassed Facebook as […]
Happy Sunday! Below are the top news stories on TechStartups.com over the past 7 days. If you want this weekly update in your inbox every week, make sure to subscribe to the TechStartups Newsletter using the form at the right […]
We’ve all read about how one can generate light from solar, batteries and even potato. What about if there is a way to generate light with just a tea candle? Luminiser is a lantern to generate powerful LED light from […]
OnePlus today confirmed thieves stole tens of thousands of people’s credit card numbers from its online store. The Chinese smartphone company admitted after a week of investigation that about 40,000 of its customers had their payment card details were taken while […]
Pioneer Square Labs (PSL), a Seattle-based startup, has secured a $15 million in Series B funding to scale its successful startup studio. The current investment round is led by Foundry Group with $10 million investment, and PSL’s 12 existing VC investors […]
Hanson Robotics, the first startup company to develops the world’s most humanlike robots, is working toward building trust between humans and robots. The Company and its founder, Dr. David Hanson, has built a worldwide reputation for creating robots that look and act […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Friday, January 19. Shell Oil made its first investment in blockchain with London startup Applied Blockchain. Shell has made its first investment in blockchain. The oil giant is […]
Chinese Robotics and AI startup Rokid has secured US$100 million in Series B funding to invest in research and development, hire new talent and expand overseas. Rokid made the announcement through its Wechat official account without disclosing the terms of the investment. The […]
Tap Project is a one-month old startup that wants to turn the current world of online gaming on its head. The company plans to introduce a innovative cryptocurrency, Tap Coin, that will make digital currency available on multiple gaming platforms. Tap […]
Novobrief, the English language publication that covers the Spanish startup ecosystem, has been acquired by Espacio for an undisclosed amount. Espacio is a Spanish accelerator with growing news publications portfolio. Founded in 2014 by Jaime Novoa, Novobrief offers an in-depth […]
Intelligent mobile banking startup Varo Money has just raised a$45 million Series B funding round to further the explosive growth its banking app. The latest funding round is led by existing investor Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm focused on growth […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Thursday, January 18. Ripple startup co-founder loses $44 billion on paper during cryptocurrency crash. Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen lost about $44 billion on paper after Ripple’s XRP coin […]
A security researcher, Abraham Masri, has discovered a new bug within Apple software that causes iPhones and Macs to crash if they receive a message containing a specific website link. Masri revealed in a Twitter post that the flaw, which he […]
France-based startup Klassroom is a new startup that is revolutionizing the education technology world with their app. Klassroom is a web and mobile application reinventing the way parents and teachers communicate about the children and their activities by making it […]
Have you ever thought of building your own custom AI system? Google might be able to help you. For the first time, Google revelead one of the internal artificial intelligence tools that it used to build other artificially intelligent systems. The new service dubbed, […]
Usermind, a Seattle-based startup Usermind, is growing and expanding. Thanks in part to big demand for its marketing technology. Today the company announced it has raised $23.5 million again from prominent Silicon Valley investor to expand overseas. To date, Usermind has now raised […]
