Fairygodboss, the largest career community for women, has raised $3 million in funding. The funding was led by GSV Acceleration. This financing round closed on April 30 and brings the total capital raised by Fairygodboss to $4 million. “We’re thrilled […]
IoT startup Axiom Exergy has raised $7.6 million in Series A funding to continue to bring flexible energy storage solutions to grocery stores and cold storage facilities. The current round was co-led by GXP Investments and Shell Ventures with participation from […]
Openwater is a San Francisco, California-based healthcare startup with focus on developing a new generation of imaging technologies, with high resolution and low costs, enabling medical diagnoses and treatments, and a new era of fluid and affordable brain-to-computer communications. Its […]
Marcus Boehm, the former CTO of Receptos, wasn’t supposed to start another company. He was going to take a backseat after he sold it for whopping $7.2 billion to Celgene back in 2015. “I’ve been involved in three companies since founding stages, […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Wednesday, May 9. Glassdoor announced it has agreed to be acquired by Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. for $1.2 billion in an all-cash transaction. Glassdoor is a leading […]
Glassdoor announced today that it has agreed to be acquired by Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. for $1.2 billion in an all-cash transaction. Glassdoor is a leading job and recruiting company well known for providing greater workplace transparency. It’s a platform where […]
Intel Capital, Intel Corporation’s global investment organization, announced today at the Intel Capital Global Summit new investments totaling $72 million in 12 technology startups. With this new funding, Intel Capital’s year-to-date investments have reached more than $115 million. The companies […]
Paytronage is new startup that was founded 9 months ago (Aug 10, 2017) by two recent Wharton graduates, Connor Swofford and Zach Pelka. Their startup aims to alleviate the financial burden that students face across this country. It provides a […]
Google I/O 2018 is here. Today, Google kicked off the annual I/O developer conference. The three-day drew more than 7,000 developers. Below are the major highlights and news from Google I/O 2018. The conference started at 10 AM Pacific Time (1 […]
Over the past two months, stories and news of China dominating artificial intelligence (AI) world had dominated the headlines. In summer of 2017, China unveiled a plan to become the world’s leader in artificial intelligence, challenging the United States of […]
With high rate of obesity in the country, there is a great demand for healthy food, especially among busy professionals. Ample Foods, a San Francisco, CA-based nutrition startup, that enables people to have a complete, satisfying and healthy meal in under […]
Unitus Ventures (formerly Unitus Seed Fund), India’s leading impact venture fund investing in startups innovating for the masses, announced it has raised $15 million from Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Bill Gates, Hemendra Kothari, Ajay Parekh, Pradeep Singh, Pramod Saxena, Padma […]
BorderX Lab, a cross-border e-commerce startup founded by three former Google engineers, raises $20 million in Series B funding. The financing is led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Hillhouse Capital Group, CBC (China Broadband Capital), Welight Capital and iFly Venture Capital. BorderX […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Tuesday, May 8. Alibaba buys Rocket Internet’s Daraz to expand its e-commerce empire into South Asia. E-commerce giant, Alibaba Group, has bought the entire share capital of […]
Nine year after the first decentralized digital currency was created, cryptocurrency is now making its debut in Hollywood, the movie capital of the world. MovieCoin is a new startup that is aiming to use cryptocurrency to disrupt the move industry by […]
After listening in on the pulse of the universe for more than 22 years, NASA’s decommissioned Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on April 30, the agency reported on Monday. The satellite has been orbiting for more than […]
With customers having more choices than ever, customer experience plays a larger role in branding and customer retention. The new age digital consumer demands more, and expects something special each time she interacts with a brand. Most companies spend a lot […]
Bitcoin is under fire from Microsoft founder and billionaire, Bill Gates. In an interview with CNBC, gates said Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are “kind of a pure ‘greater fool theory’ type of investment,” he said Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I […]
Financial stress is a leading cause of lost productivity in the workplace according to a recent employee financial wellness survey conducted by PWC. One San Francisco, California-based startup is aiming to help employers improve the financial wellness of their employees. The […]
UBTECH Robotics announced Friday that it has completed $820 million Series C investment, the single largest funding round ever for an artificial intelligence company. The latest funding now put the value of the company at $5 Billion, making UBTECH the world’s […]
