As the saga between Joe Rogan and Spotify continues, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said on Monday that he’s committed to keeping the world’s most popular podcaster on the platform. However, a new announcement from the neutral video platform Rumble is about to change […]
Just a year after raising funding from a secondary market, Flexport announced on Monday it has raised $935 million in the late-stage funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz and MSD Partners with a strategic investment from Shopify. The Series E round, […]
Metaverse has taken the world by storm since Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta in October 2021. Since then, venture capital firms and global investors looking for opportunities to invest in the next big winners have poured billions of dollars […]
A year after its $14 billion IPO, dating app startup Bumble finally makes its first acquisition. Bumble announced on Monday it has acquired France’s Fruitz, a freemium dating app popular among Gen Z and used across Europe. The financial terms of the deal were not […]
Over the last ten years, artificial intelligence has disrupted many industries including banking, healthcare, medicine, and law. The disruption has also brought about exponential growth, fueled by increased productivity and efficiency. However, one sector still remains outdated and ripe for […]
Happy Sunday! Here’s the past week in a review just in case you missed some of the top technology and startup news. Here are the most popular stories on TechStartups for the week of January 30, 2022. Sign up to receive […]
Yesterday, the fundraising website GoFundMe removed a fundraiser for Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” protest against the country’s COVID-19 policies. In a statement released Friday that it will withhold any donations made to support the Canadian anti-vaccine truckers and their allies. Although GoFundMe […]
Boston-based Regent first made a splash in early 2021 when the tech startup announced the world’s first electric seaglider, a 100 percent all-electric vehicle that’s partly an aircraft and a hydrofoil boat. The vehicle uses wing-in-ground-effect technology to travel at an […]
UK marketing technology company SegmentStream has attracted seed funding worth $2.7 million, which the company announced in January 2022. Identified as lead investors for this seed capital round were Fort Ross Ventures, a seven-year venture capital fund based in Israel […]
The non-fungible token (NFT) boom that started early last year continues without any sign of slowing down. NFTs have become one of the undisputed success stories of the last year. From relatively meager sales under $100 million in 2020, NFT […]
Early this week, we wrote about FTX after the crypto exchange startup raised $400M in new funding. The deal gives the startup an eye-popping valuation of $32 billion, up from $25 billion in October 2021 when we covered the company. At […]
UK-based distributed ledger company, Millicent announced the latest funding raise from one of the government’s most prestigious and competitive research and development grants. The blockchain company was awarded the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Innovate UK SMART Award with an […]
StudyTube, a leading Dutch online learning and development platform, said today it has a leading Dutch online learning and development platform Springest. The total amount of the deal was not disclosed. StudyTube said the acquisition will position the company to become a market leader […]
Cryptocurrency platform Wormhole made headlines yesterday after hackers breached its network stealing more than $320 million from its site in the second-largest DeFi hack ever. As we reported yesterday night, hackers exploited the Wormhole network, one of the biggest bridges between […]
With many issues facing our world today, businesses and big corporations are no longer just focusing on short-term profit but also on their impacts on society and the world at large. Over the past few years, some of these companies […]
Tech stocks were hammered yesterday after companies like Facebook reported disappointing earnings and stagnated user growth. Block, the fintech service formerly known as Square, also slid 10% on Wednesday. And buy now pay later service Affirm was down 9%. The carnage didn’t stop […]
Tech companies spring up all over the world and many companies eventually look to expand their operations to other countries. Sobirovs Law Firm is showing the world that Canada should be the destination for your tech company’s business expansion! Canada for […]
Productboard, a San Francisco-based product management software maker, has raised $125 million in a late-stage funding round led by Dragoneer Investment Group and Tiger Global. Productboard plans to use the fresh capital to hire staff and expand products for its enterprise […]
Lunchbox, a New York-based FoodTech startup that’s disrupting the restaurant industry, today announced it has raised $50 million Series B Funding to help mom-and-pop restaurants break their reliance on third-party apps. The round was led by Coatue, with participation from existing investors […]
Google’s Alphabet is now a $2 trillion company. Today, Google parent company Alphabet Inc. inched closer to joining Apple and Microsoft in the elite $2 trillion market valuation club after the search giant’s shares surged 10% on Wednesday after a blowout […]