A year after its $14 billion IPO, dating app startup Bumble finally makes its first acquisition. Bumble announced on Monday it has acquired France’s Fruitz, a freemium dating app popular among Gen Z and used across Europe. The financial terms of the deal were not […]
Over the last ten years, artificial intelligence has disrupted many industries including banking, healthcare, medicine, and law. The disruption has also brought about exponential growth, fueled by increased productivity and efficiency. However, one sector still remains outdated and ripe for […]
Happy Sunday! Here’s the past week in a review just in case you missed some of the top technology and startup news. Here are the most popular stories on TechStartups for the week of January 30, 2022. Sign up to receive […]
Boston-based Regent first made a splash in early 2021 when the tech startup announced the world’s first electric seaglider, a 100 percent all-electric vehicle that’s partly an aircraft and a hydrofoil boat. The vehicle uses wing-in-ground-effect technology to travel at an […]
UK marketing technology company SegmentStream has attracted seed funding worth $2.7 million, which the company announced in January 2022. Identified as lead investors for this seed capital round were Fort Ross Ventures, a seven-year venture capital fund based in Israel […]
The non-fungible token (NFT) boom that started early last year continues without any sign of slowing down. NFTs have become one of the undisputed success stories of the last year. From relatively meager sales under $100 million in 2020, NFT […]
Early this week, we wrote about FTX after the crypto exchange startup raised $400M in new funding. The deal gives the startup an eye-popping valuation of $32 billion, up from $25 billion in October 2021 when we covered the company. At […]
What you need to know • A new report says Apple’s privacy changes have erased some $278 billion from the market value of four social media companies. • Apple updated its iOS in 2021 so that users have to opt-in […]
StudyTube, a leading Dutch online learning and development platform, said today it has a leading Dutch online learning and development platform Springest. The total amount of the deal was not disclosed. StudyTube said the acquisition will position the company to become a market leader […]
Cryptocurrency platform Wormhole made headlines yesterday after hackers breached its network stealing more than $320 million from its site in the second-largest DeFi hack ever. As we reported yesterday night, hackers exploited the Wormhole network, one of the biggest bridges between […]
Tech stocks were hammered yesterday after companies like Facebook reported disappointing earnings and stagnated user growth. Block, the fintech service formerly known as Square, also slid 10% on Wednesday. And buy now pay later service Affirm was down 9%. The carnage didn’t stop […]
Big tech companies like Tesla, Uber, Cruise, and Waymo are revolutionizing the future of transportation with their self-driving vehicles that will one day take us anywhere with just a click on our smartphones. While all attention is focused on these […]
It’s the year 2022. There’s at least one social network for everyone and for every niche interest. There is Facebook, a place to hang around with friends and family. Instagram is another social platform to brag about how rich and well-off you […]
The electric scooter market space is saturated with hundreds of startups competing for their shares of the market. The two biggest players Bird and Lime have raised about $1 billion in funding as they expand their presence in the US […]
MNTN, a Culver City, California-based AdTech startup that provides advertising software for direct marketers and agencies, has raised $119 million in a Series D funding round co-led by asset manager BlackRock and Fidelity management and research. The round was closed in […]
Gamers of the NFT-based game Tezotopia, created by Gif Games, will connect with brands while keeping full control of their identities in the metaverse. Everyone is talking about metaverse since Facebook announced its name change to Meta back in October. […]
Just last week, we wrote about FTX U.S., the American affiliate of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, after the company raised $400 million in its first external funding round from high-profile investors including Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp and Singapore’s Temasek Holdings. The Series A […]
In the US alone, the corporate events industry is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 17.3%, and hit $510 billion by 2030. Event marketers are the unsung heroes of any successful company. From generating leads to building […]
The impact of blockchain technology on wealth creation is often underestimated. Democratized access to financial products and services is one side of the equation. The other benefit is access to far more lucrative APYs than bank accounts and other traditional […]
Key Points · Technologies developed and delivering commercial and environmental benefits in the Middle East to be deployed in the US · Potential to be used in water-scarce and abundant sunlight parts of the US · Low energy, waterless climate […]
