Protify, a fintech startup backed by top European investors including Kindred Capital, Entrepreneur First and the founder of Indeed.com, announced today it has raised $9.22 million (£7 million) Series A for its fintech app for ‘modern’ or gig economy workers. The […]
The U.S. healthcare system is broken, bloated and super expensive. The politicians in Washington, D.C. are doing nothing to help the American people. According to data from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. health care spending increased 3.9 percent […]
Last month when we wrote about GENIUS NY when the New York accelerator announced the semi-finalists and 5 finalist startups to compete for $3M investments. Today, Empire State Development (ESD) today announced the five finalists selected to take part in the fourth […]
Omega Funds, a global life sciences-based investment firm that creates and invests in life sciences companies that target our world’s most urgent medical needs, has closed $438 million in capital commitments for its Omega Fund VI. With Fund VI, the firm will […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, December 11, 2019. Disney+ passes 22 million downloads on mobile devices, says app tracking firm Apptopia. Disney, the world’s most popular amusement parks, flexes its muscle with […]
Perfect Day, a food-tech startup is reinventing the way milk is produced industrially. They believe that factory farms, artificial insemination, and automated milking machines are not the way to go. They’re bad for cows, and they’re bad for the planet. […]
Notal Vision, a Tel-Aviv, Israel-based healthtech startup focused on advancing eye care with precision medicine by extending disease management from the clinic to the home, has raised $25 million in funding to support the commercial growth of the company’s current service, ForeseeHome […]
A staggering one in four people in the UK will struggle with mental health in any given year, which can only put increasing pressure on the demand for psychological therapy. The wait time is only expected to get worse as one […]
Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Tuesday, December 10, 2019. Fertility startup Celmatix sues former business partner 23andMe for $100 million in damages. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, Celmatix is suing 23andMe, its former […]
GOSU.AI, the AI-driven videogame coach, has just announced its most recent funding round of $2.8 million for the world’s first voice assistant that helps players get better at playing League of Legends. The news comes a week after GOSU.AI announced a new AI-based […]
Passport, a fintech startup transforming the way cities manage their operations by reducing operational complexity and delivering intelligent data, has closed a $65 million Series D funding to grow its mobility software platform and expanding the mobility ecosystem to enable digital […]
Perceptive Advisors, an investment management firm focused in life sciences, has closed $210 for its inaugural venture capital fund, the Perceptive Xontogeny Venture Fund, LP (the “PXV Fund”), solely focused on investment in early-stage life science companies. The PXV Fund will be […]
About two years ago, we wrote about Wag Labs when the dog-walking app mistakenly exposed home addresses and lockbox codes of its users. The startup has gone through many ups and downs since then. Now, Japanese giant SoftBank, is selling […]
Zeus Living (Zeus), the San Francisco-based home decor startup that provides furnished homes for modern professionals, has raised $55 million in Series B funding to grow its portfolio of furnished homes for stays of 30 days or longer, and deepen its technology platform […]
Sterling Partners’ Education Opportunity Fund (EOF) announced today it is rebranding as Avathon Capital to better communicate its vision and investment approach. In conjunction with rebranding, the company also announced it has doubled its assets under management to $404 million […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Monday, December 9, 2019. Amazon is blaming President Trump for losing $10 billion JEDI cloud contract to Microsoft. Let the blame game begins. Amazon Web Services (AWS), […]
Centana Growth Partners, a growth equity firm focused on the future of financial services, has closed $375 million for its second fund, Centana Growth Partners II, L.P. (“Fund II”) to expand its investments in innovative, high-growth companies across the financial services ecosystem. […]
The prevalence of obesity was 39.8% and affected about 93.3 million of US adults in 2015~2016, according to data from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Gelesis is a Boston-based biotech startup developing therapeutics to safely treat obese, overweight, […]
Proteus Digital Health, a healthtech startup that develops digital medicines that collect and aggregate various behavioral, physiological and therapeutic metrics, now needs a lifeline after failing to close an expected $100 million financing round, according to a report from CNBC. […]
The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, announced this week it signed a partnership agreement with NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, to help startup founders connect to selected NASA software and technologies while providing a robust global network of startup resources. The accelerator […]
