Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.), one of the world’s largest brand-name apparel companies and a global leader in jeanswear, today announced it is granting more than $380,000 to the second class of LS&Co. Collaboratory fellows who are working to create a […]
Astronomer, an enterprise cloud startup that helps organizations adopt Apache Airflow, has raised $5.7 million in seed funding to deliver enterprise grade Apache Airflow. The funding came from an array of world class venture firms, including Sierra Ventures who led the round, […]
Spire Global, a space to cloud data analytics startup, has raised $40m in new funding from strategic partners to further increase the production of Spire’s analytics and space technology and substantially scale its product, sales, and marketing efforts around the globe. Backers include ITOCHU, […]
PayMongo, a Manila-based fintech startup that makes it easy for businesses in the Philippines to accept online payments from multiple channels with ease, has raised $2.7 million in seed round to grow the team, accelerate product development, acquire businesses more aggressively, […]
According to the U.S. Census, over 30% of African American households are underbanked, even though they make up $1.2 trillion in the U.S. consumer spending power. GRIND Banking is a new fintech startup on a mission to change the trend. Led […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, September 25, 2019. Alibaba unveiled Hanguang 800, its first chip to power artificial intelligence (AI) processes. Alibaba is following Huawei’s footsteps with the announcement of its first A.I. […]
Mobile app downloads is on decline. According to a U.S. survey on mobile app use (ComScore, 2017), 64% of smartphone users download zero to one app per month (with 51% downloading on average zero and 13% only one). With mobile app […]
London, 25th September 2019: Political advertising on social media platforms like Facebook have a negative effect on people’s health and wellbeing, according to the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH). In a speech promoting its recently relaunched Scroll Free September […]
Tacalyx, a biotech oncology startup company focused on the discovery and development of Tumor Associated Carbohydrate Antigen (TACA) antibodies to treat cancer, has raised $7.7 million (€7 million) in seed funding to advance its discovery platform, progress obtained leads towards candidate […]
Late last year, we wrote about BlaBlaCar after the French carpooling unicorn startup raised $113 million (€101 million) Series D extension and acquired Ouibus. Now, BlaBlaCar is doing it again. In its ‘biggest’ acquisition to date, BlaBlaCar is buying Eastern European […]
Flipside Crypto, blockchain startup that utilizes blockchain transaction data, developer activity and trading signals to characterize cryptocurrencies, has raised $7.1 million in a Series Seed Prime financing to expand the team and augment Flipside Crypto’s data science and analytics capabilities designed […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Tuesday, September 24, 2019. Facebook releases two new apps aimed at teens. Facebook is not giving up on wooing teens back to its social platform. In an […]
Flowcast, an AI-based fintech startup that provides an AI platform to automate and power smarter credit decisions, has closed $3 million Series A to fund the acceleration of Flowcast’s go-to-market strategy, global market expansion, and the continuing product development and improvement. […]
Cycode, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based enterprise security startup Cycode, has raised $4.6 million in seed fund to deliver industry’s first source code control, detection and response security solution. The round was led by YL Ventures with participation from security industry leaders including […]
Historically, advanced investment research tools cost $10k – $25k per year, making them out of reach for most market participants. Consequently, many investors make investment decisions with limited access to rudimentary financial data and functionality offered by mass market financial […]
Facebook on Monday announced the acquisition of CTRL-labs, a New York-based startup that specializes in allowing humans to control computers using their brains approximately $1 billion, according to news first reported by CNBC citing a source familiar with the matter. Facebook […]
GitHub, a tech startup Microsoft bought in June 2018 for $7.5 billion, has acquired Semmle, a startup that provides code analysis tool to help developers and security researchers spot code exploits and discover potential vulnerabilities in their code. Founded in 2006 […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Monday, September 23, 2019. Microsoft launches e-commerce tools to compete with Amazon in the cloud business. Microsoft Monday announced the roll out of two e-commerce tools to take […]
UAVenture Capital, a Tucson, Arizone-based venture capital fund dedicated to the commercialization of discovery products, technology and services emerging from the University of Arizona, today announced it has invested undisclosed amount in two technology startups CarboShield and MediCarbone. The investments […]
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