Unacademy, a Bangalore, India-based startup that provides educational content such as video lectures and examinations, has raised a new round of funding to democratize education and make it more affordable and accessible. The round, which now values Unacademy Group at $2 […]
In September, the Indian government banned 100 Chinese apps, including PUBG, Baidu, and Tencent’s hit games, as border tensions accelerate. The ban came after India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology banned 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, WeChat, and UC Browser. Citing national […]
In 2019, Facebook was under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors for data-sharing deals with other major technology companies, according to the New York Times. The investigation added to the laundry list of inquiries since the Cambridge Analytica revelations in 2018. Now, […]
The future of work is changing. In September, we published a guest post about how technology is changing the way we work. Now, with the coronavirus pandemic, the old way of work is likely not going to be coming back. […]
According to a 2019 survey conducted by FDIC, 5.4 percent of U.S. households (approximately 7.1 million households) were unbanked. Another data tells a different story. In a piece published in Forbes, 88 million Americans are either unbanked or underbanked. To address […]
Almost a billion people suffer from mental health problems worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. ATAI Life Sciences is a biotechnology startup founded in 2018 in response to the clear and growing unmet needs of mental health patients worldwide. ATAI […]
Morse Micro is an Australian semiconductor company and creator of the Wi-Fi HaLow chip; an ultra-low-power, long-range and secure Wi-Fi chip specifically designed for IoT environments. Its team includes original inventors of Wi-Fi and designers of the world’s first Wi-Fi […]
We first covered Relativity Space back in 2018 after the Los Angeles-based orbital launch startup raised $35 million in funding. A lot has changed since then. Relativity Space (Relativity) is disrupting 60 years of aerospace tradition by creating an entirely new process […]
Jaan Tallinn is an Estonian computer programmer famous for co-founding Skype, a popular telecommunication platform that offers free video chat and voice calls to internet-connected devices. Skype was co-founded in 2002 by Jaan Tallinn, Janus Friis, Niklas Zennström. Microsoft later bought Skype […]
We live in a digital world where people of all ages are actively sharing life events with their friends, families, and colleagues through social networks. Some of these events lead to buying a home, saving for college, and even planning for […]
Middle mile is an important part of the logistics supply chain that enables businesses to move goods from the port to the warehouse or distribution center. Unlike the “last-mile” logistics that places products at consumer doorsteps, “middle-mile” logistics get goods from a […]
Earlier this week, Orbia, a global company in the chemical and petrochemical industry, announced the launch of Orbia Ventures, a corporate venture capital (CVC) fund enabling Orbia to collaborate with startups that aspire to advance life around the world. Through this fund, […]
AI21 Labs is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based tech startup that is bringing AI into the 21st century by developing AI systems with an unprecedented capacity to understand and generate natural language. Today, AI21 Labs announced it has raised $34.5M in […]
Lanistar is a U.K-based fintech startup that provides a customer-centric alternative to traditional banking. Lanistar claims to offer the “world’s most secure card” that uses “polymorphic technology to enable card users to add up to eight bank cards onto the Lanistar card. […]
MarginEdge, a Fairfax, Virginia-based tech startup and a provider of restaurant management platform, announced today that it has secured $4 million in new funding to assist restaurants with financial and operations management using its smart technology. The round was led by […]
Cogito, a Boston, MA-based tech startup that enhances the emotional intelligence of phone professionals by applying behavioral science through artificial intelligence, today announced it has raised $25 million in funding to accelerate the development of new capabilities that enhance the performance of the […]
Bitcoin is on fire. The world’s most popular cryptocurrency defies gravity and surges past $18,000 for the first time since December 2017. Bitcoin broke the $18,000 level and rose about 8.6% higher Wednesday morning at $18,172, breaching a level it hasn’t […]
We covered WiBotic back in July when the Seattle-based tech startup partners with Ubiquity Robotics to offer wireless charging for Magni Robot. The partnership makes it possible for Magni users to program the robot to navigate to a charging station where […]
Amicus.io, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based fintech company that enables non-profit organizations to turn their supporters into advocates and fundraisers, today announced that it has raised $8.7M in series B funding from mission-driven investors in philanthropic and banking sectors hailing from the US […]
Today’s connectivity and compute constructs are based on legacy networks that are largely closed and monolithic. As new sets of devices (robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, etc.) enter the network, coupling reliable connectivity and AI compute at the edge becomes essential. […]
