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Flexa, a female-founded tech startup, raises $2.9M to demystify flexible work and bring transparency to the global hiring market
Nickie Louise Posted On May 25, 2022


In the summer of 2021, a record 4.3 million Americans voluntarily quit their jobs in what some are calling the beginning of the “Great Resignation.” It was one of the highest “quit rates” ever recorded since the government started keeping track two decades ago. Experts […]


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Billionaire Tom Steyer co-leads a $38 million investment in climate tech startup Regrow Ag
Daniel Levi Posted On May 24, 2022


The impact of climate change is all around us. Some of the major impacts include increased heat, drought, insect outbreaks, and increased wildfires. According to the EPA, carbon dioxide (CO2) accounted for about 79% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions […]


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Singularity raises $4.5M seed round to decarbonize the grid and make sense of CO2 emissions data
Nickie Louise Posted On May 24, 2022


Singularity Energy, a SaaS platform founded by a team of experts from Harvard, MIT, and Johns Hopkins, has closed a $4.5 million seed to bring greater data transparency and intelligence to grid decarbonization. Deep decarbonization refers to the types of changes in energy […]


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Health tech startup Circles raises $16 million in funding to stop the mental health pandemic
Nickie Louise Posted On May 24, 2022


May is a mental health awareness month, a month to educate the public, remove the stigma, and support people with mental illness and their families. We’ve been writing about mental health startups in recent years to raise awareness of the mental health […]


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Israeli-US cybersecurity tech startup Semperis raises over $200M in funding led by private equity firm KKR
Daniel Levi Posted On May 24, 2022


Even as more signs of a slowdown in funding tech startups, that didn’t stop investors from pouring billions of dollars into promising startups. Some of the areas benefiting from large rounds of funding are cybersecurity and healthcare. One of these […]


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Torch raises $40 million in Series C funding to help teams make better decisions
Daniel Levi Posted On May 23, 2022


Over the past two years, there’s been a mass exodus of workers from the workforce. For example, in the second half of 2021 alone, the Great Resignation has led to over 20 million people quitting their jobs. The number was one of […]


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Broadcom to buy cloud service provider VMware for $60 billion
Nickie Louise Posted On May 23, 2022


Chipmaker giant Broadcom is in talks to acquire cloud service provider VMware Inc in a deal that could transform the company into a diversified tech firm, according to a report from Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter. The terms of […]


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Y Combinator warning to tech startups: “Plan for the worst. Good times may be coming to an end”
Nickie Louise Posted On May 20, 2022


Y Combinator (YC) is one of Silicon Valley’s most renowned startup accelerators that provides funding for early-stage startups. Since its inception in 2005, over 2,000 tech startup companies have been launched through its accelerator program. Notable among them include Stripe, Airbnb, […]


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Ankiti Bose, founder and CEO of Singapore-based fashion tech startup Zilingo, fired for “serious financial irregularities”
Nickie Louise Posted On May 20, 2022


Singapore-based B2B e-commerce startup Zilingo has ousted its CEO and co-founder Ankiti Bose for what the company described as “serious financial irregularities.” In a statement on Friday, Zilingo said it fired Chief Executive Ankiti Bose after an independent investigation into complaints about […]


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Former Disney CEO Bob Iger invests in $15 billion grocery delivery tech startup Gopuff
Daniel Levi Posted On May 19, 2022


Former Disney CEO Bob Iger is now a part-owner of Gopuff, a grocery delivery tech startup founded by two former Drexel University students Rafael Ilishayev and Yakir Gola. While the total amount of the investment was not disclosed, Gopuff said Wednesday […]


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Data Intelligence tech startup Near to go public via a $1 billion SPAC deal
Daniel Levi Posted On May 19, 2022


After a blockbuster in 2021, public mergers and acquisitions via special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) fell off the cliff in the first quarter of 2022. However, SPAC activities are beginning to take off again. Today, Pasadena, California-based privacy-led data intelligence startup Near announced […]


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SneakMart partners with StockX for its first Metakicks drop to bring sneaker NFTs to the Metaverse
Daniel Levi Posted On May 18, 2022


Non-fungible token (NFT) was previously written off as a fad. Now, the demand for NFTs has soared as tech heavyweights like Visa and other big tech companies threw their hats into the ring. 2021 was the year of the NFT as […]


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UK self-driving tech startup Wayve to use Microsoft ‘supercomputer muscle’ to process data generated by autonomous vehicles
Nickie Louise Posted On May 18, 2022


Autonomous vehicles generate as much as 40 terabytes of data an hour from cameras, radar, and other sensors, according to a report from Morgan Stanley. That’s equivalent to the amount of data an iPhone use over 3,000 years. Now one tech […]


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Google says its Russian bank account has been seized; its Russian subsidiary files for bankruptcy
Nickie Louise Posted On May 18, 2022


The United States and its western allies have reportedly frozen more than $284 billion in Russian assets as part of the sanctions imposed on Russia amid the ongoing war with Ukraine. But so far, Russia has not responded in kind. Until now. Today, Google […]


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Mastercard launches biometric payment app that lets you pay with your face or hand in stores
Nickie Louise Posted On May 18, 2022


After many years of facial recognition payment being used in China, the technology is slowly making its way to the United States. Last year, payments giant Mastercard launched what it called Mastercard Biometric Card, a credit card that combines chip technology with […]


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Advanced materials tech startup Arieca raises $6.5M Series A to scale-up manufacturing of its Liquid Metal-based thermal interface material
Nickie Louise Posted On May 17, 2022


The semiconductor industry is currently facing acute heat and power issues. Miniaturization has led to increasing in the number of transistors on a single chip. However, as transistors become smaller, problems with heat dissipation and power consumption. That’s why one tech […]


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Elon Musk says Twitter deal will not move forward; suggests 20% of Twitter users are fake/spam accounts
Daniel Levi Posted On May 17, 2022


As you may recall last week, Elon Musk said that Twitter’s deal is “temporarily on hold”  pending details supporting the calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users.” This morning, Musk said his $44 billion deal to […]


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Estonia-based tech startup Werk raises $1.3M Pre-Seed for the first hiring and relocation platform for skilled migrant construction workers
Nickie Louise Posted On May 17, 2022


One of the unintended consequences of climate change is migration. As a threat multiplier, climate change can exacerbate economic insecurity and food shortage, which in turn may lead to migration causing people to look for greener pastures in the safer […]


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Uber launches robot food delivery in two California cities
Nickie Louise Posted On May 17, 2022


The world is changing right before our eyes. For decades, food delivery has been done by human workers. But that’s slowly changing. It’s no longer a matter of if but when human food delivery will be replaced by robots. Late […]


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Legal tech startup Formally raises $2.3M pre-Seed funding to help immigrants and asylum seekers hire and work with a network of vetted attorneys
Nickie Louise Posted On May 16, 2022


The role of law enforcement is to protect and serve the public, regardless of race, ethnicity, country of origin, or religion. However, we know that’s not the case, especially for minorities and immigrants living in the country. In addition, understanding legal […]


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