Google started the Hash Code competition six years ago. The competition was created back then by a few engineers in the Google France office. These engineers were coding competition enthusiasts and wondered if it would be possible to create a […]
Obvious Ventures, a new venture fund founded by Twitter co-founder and early Beyond Meat investor, just raised $271,828,182 for its third fund (OV3), bringing its total size to about $585 million. The firm made the announcement on Medium today. So, […]
Back in November, we wrote about Honey, a browser extension startup PayPal bought for $4 billion. Now, according to a tweet from Ryan Hutchins, a New Jersey bureau chief for POLITICO, Honey browser extension will be “one extensive piece of Malware” […]
iSTOX, the first regulated platform in a major global financial center to offer issuance, settlement, custody, and secondary trading of digitized securities, has secured a $5 million investment for its next-generation capital markets platform. The funding came from Hanwha Asset Management, South Korea’s leading […]
Embodied Labs, a California-based tech startup, has raised $3.2M in seed funding to revolutionize training for the aging care workforce using its VR immersive learning platform. The round was led by top age-tech investor, Ziegler Link·Age Fund, co-led by the leading immersive tech investor, […]
Codagenix, is a clinical stage biotechnology startup with vaccine products against influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, dengue virus, has closed $20 million Series B investment round. The round was led by Adjuvant Capital, with participation by Euclidean Capital and Topspin Partners. […]
Lendesk, a Canadian mortgage tech startup and a provider of a loan origination platform for mortgage brokers, today announced the appointment of Sean Wilson to the role of Chief Operating Officer at Lendesk, effective January 13, 2020. Wilson brings with […]
Welcome to the workforce of the future where humans and machines co-exist to create value. Below is an inside look of AlibabaGroup’s at Cainiao’s Intelligent Warehouse, where robots do 70% of the work, with 300% more efficiency. Back in 2017, Alibaba Group took […]
The TRAVIS Air Force Base now has a tool that captures digital info, which renders 3D images of aircraft parts into specialized computer software. This tool, and two manufacturing units, gives the Air Force the capability to print aircraft parts […]
Today, customer experience transformation is one of the most critical topics in the boardroom at health insurance companies, with its success relying heavily on the seamless integration of customer data from multiple payer systems and the rapid implementation of the […]
Tesla made history on Monday, when the electric carmaker’s stock price topped $500 a share for the first time. In early trading, Tesla shares reached as high as $504.88 as investors continued to throw more weight behind the company and its […]
Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for today, Monday, January 13, 2020. Goldman Sachs, the 150-year-old investment bank and Wall Street giant, is staking its future on a mobile app. Last week, Goldman Sachs released a long-awaited app […]
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, founder and chief executive of online fashion retailer Zozo, who has been chosen as the first private passenger by SpaceX, is searching for a girlfriend to join him on a voyage around the moon. The voyage, […]
We’ve written many stories about WeWork more than any other startups on this site. Some of you are probably tired of hearing about the fledgling startup. But there is more to learn from failures of others than their successes. As […]
Ovation, a tech startup that provides data and operations solutions to researchers, scientists and labs throughout the life sciences industry, today unveils a revolutionary new validation tool for clinical laboratories called Automated Systems Validation (ASV). ASV allows laboratories to automate their […]
Aptos today announced that funds affiliated with the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs have reached a definitive agreement to acquire the company from funds advised by Apax Partners (the “Apax Funds”). Aptos, Inc., a recognized market leader in retail […]
In this day and age, it is inconceivable that many retailers are still bogged down in manual process instead of focusing on serving their customers. Retailers today all too often rely on disparate, outdated manual processes that simply don’t work, built […]
AbSci, a biopharma startup and developer of cutting-edge protein production technologies, has closed $10.4M Series D financing for expansion of AbSci facilities and team in order to meet commercial demand for AbSci’s technology. The round was led by KBI Biopharma […]
Deploying microservices networking is hard. Enter Containous, a tech startup that brings the future of cloud-native networking by offering tools to ease the deployment of cloud applications, microservices and modern IT environments. By taking the pain out of network management, we empower […]
Back in February 2018, we wrote about SolSource solar cooker after solar tech startup One Earth Designs raised $500,000 from Mark Cuban on the popular ABC Shark Tank show. Everything seemed to be going well until late last year when […]
