Silicon Valley based 500 Startups, the most active early-stage Venture Capital firm in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, has announced twelve pre-Series A regional companies participating in the second edition of the MENA Dojo Series A Program […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Monday, May 7. Learning Machine, the blockchain startup co-developed a system for putting digital diplomas on the blockchain with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has raised $3 […]
NASA’s Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft is on its way to Mars, the agency announced yesterday. The Lockheed Martin-built InSight Mars lander was successfully launched today at 4:05 a.m. PT from Vandenberg Air Force Base, […]
Back in March, we reported about tech giants’ decision to ban cryptocurrency ads on their platforms. It first started with Facebook in January. Google followed suit and then Twitter put the knife on it for good. Now that popular online advertising […]
Isreal-based startup Future Meat Technologies announced it has secured a $2.2 million seed investment round co-led by Tyson Ventures, the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods. Tyson Foods is a Fortune 100 company, and one of the world’s largest food producers. In […]
Happy weekend! Here is the roundup of the top startup news of the week. If you want this weekly update in your inbox every week, please subscribe to the TechStartups Newsletter using the form at the right corner of this […]
Would you like to remove painful memories and delete them from your mind for good? Or, what if you could edit the sensations you feel and paste on your brain pictures that you never saw, cut out unwanted pain or insert […]
This is a guest post written by Jeff Yasuda, founder and CEO of Feed.fm (Feed Media Inc.). Feed.fm helps game developers, content publishers, and e-commerce retailers increase customer engagement, retention, and conversions by incorporating popular music into their environments– at the lowest […]
NASA reported today that the spacecraft element of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has completed its first two major launch environmental tests at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach, California. JWST will soon undergo further tests to ensure […]
In just Less than two months after a Uber self-driving car struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona, police in Chandler Arizona are investigating another autonomous car crash, this time involving a vehicle operated by a Waymo, a subsidiary of Google. […]
Some of the biggest headaches business travelers face are: keeping track of receipts, submitting expense reports on time and facing questions about the legitimacy of certain charges. Now, technology is making expense reporting easier. One of the leaders in this […]
As most of you probably know, we’ve covered blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) more than any other technology topics. AI is one of top 10 breakthrough technologies, if not the top. Some could argue it’s blockchain. The point is, the […]
IronNet Cybersecurity, a startup founded by former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) chief, Gen. (Ret.) Keith Alexander, has raised $78 million in additional funding. The company said in a press release. The investment was led by new investor C5 Capital with participation from […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Friday, May 4 ServiceNow buys AI startup Parlo for for its NLP technology. ServiceNow announced Thursday that it will acquire Parlo, a Silicon Valley-based startup that trains algorithms […]
CloudPay is the world’s only cloud-based platform for integrated global payroll and payments processing, collaboration and delivery. Through its unified SaaS platform, the company enables its customers to improve business performance through greater fiscal control, see people costs through enhanced visibility, […]
SoundHound announced today it has raised $100 million in new funding to drive adoption and distribution of its Houndify voice AI platform across verticals including automotive, Internet of Things, consumer products, and enterprise apps and services. The funding will accelerate global expansion, […]
The US economy is booming and investment in startup is at all time high. In 2017 alone, global funding to VC-backed startups jumped 50% to $164.4 billion. This does not necessarily reflect investment backed by from governments and non-profit organizations. Now […]
Teenage entrepreneurs from 5 continents pitched their companies in front of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) this past weekend. Eight of those teams won $50,000 of investments each at a $1,000,000 valuation, and will […]
The mobile game market is on fire. According to the latest report from video editing company, Wondershare Filmora, mobile gaming is forecast to represent over 50% of total games market. That is a big rise from the 45% that is projected for 2018. […]
Zola, the wedding-planning startup, is about to join the unicorn startup club. Today, Zola announced it has raised $100 million in Series D financing to help reinvent wedding planning and registry for millennials. The funding round was led by existing investor Comcast […]
