General Motors’ majority-owned Cruise self-driving division, is receiving a new capital infusion of $1.15 billion from institutional investors. The new investment, which brings the driverless car operation’s post-money valuation to $19 billion, was led by funds advised by T. Rowe […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Tuesday, May 7. Cellwize receives equity investment from Sonae IM. Cellwize, a Singapore-based provider of cutting-edge SON (Self Organizing Network) and network automation and orchestration solutions for telecom and mobile […]
Carta, a Mountain View, California-based provider of an ownership management platform for companies to manage their equity, has raised $300 million in Series E funding at a $1.7 billion post-money valuation to increase private market liquidity and continue building products for companies, […]
Hubtype, a conversational messaging startup that combines human agents and automation to deliver better human experience, has closed $1.12 million (€1 million euros) round of seed funding to fuel the development of its powerful framework. The round was led by K Fund, […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Monday, May 6. Grocery startup BigBasket bags $150 million to become India’s latest unicorn. India based online grocery shopping and online supermarket has raised $150 million funding from a group […]
Ciara, the Munich, Germany based virtual assistant startup, today announced its public launch a seven-figure investment. Backers include lead investor UVC Partners, Interhyp founders Marcus Wolsdorf and Rober Haselsteiner, as well as the successful entrepreneurs Christian Mangstl (Scout 24) and Felix Haas (Bits & […]
With May 5 kicking off National Small Business Week and half of Americans working for small businesses, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2019’s Best Large Cities to Start a Business as well as accompanying videos. Americans […]
SendBird, a chat and messaging API service for building in-app messaging, has raised an additional $50 million, bringing its total Series B funding round to $102 million. The company extended the round in order to meet the rapidly growing global demand […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Friday, May 3. RosieReality secures $2.2 million in Seed Funding to expand its global footprint. RosieReality, a Zurich, Switzerland-based startup that leverages AR to let kids learn programming […]
Cloud computing has revolutionized the information technology (IT) world with “IT as a Service” or ITaaS concept. ITaaS is an operational model where IT service provider delivers an information technology service to a business with little or no upfront investment in IT […]
Aiven, a cloud computing startup that provides a managed cloud database and messaging services, has completed an €8 million Series A funding round to enhance its leading cloud data platform with more integrated solutions and to accelerate international growth. The round was led […]
The demand for idea management is set to reach £1.17 billion by 2022. Wazoku is a London-based SaaS startup that operates a platform for idea collection, evaluation and sharing. Today the collaborative idea management startup announced it has raised $3.26 […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Wednesday, May 1. Motus Ventures launches $30 million Smart World Innovation Fund. Motus Ventures, a seed stage venture capital fund and business accelerator investing in early stage businesses, […]
With so many venture capital firms and accelerators out there, one would think raising new funding for startups should be easy. But that’s not the case. Most founders are still require by VCs and accelerators to give up a certain […]
Boom! SoftBank has done it again. This time, the Japanese conglomerate is investing $1 billion in Colombian delivery app Rappi, marking its first foray into Latin America. Rappi is an on-demand delivery startup active in Latin America countries of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, […]
Trovata.io, a provider of native cloud SaaS platform that automate cash management on open banking, announced it has completed a $5.5 million seed funding round on its oversubscribed second closing to ramp up sales and accelerate product development. The round, which […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for the last day of April 2019. Why is SoftBank’s $100 billion Vision Fund investing on unprofitable tech companies? Unlike other venture capital firms, SoftBank has become known worldwide […]
Advancing Women in Product (AWIP), an organization co-founded by two Google and Amazon PMs to empower tech leaders through equality of opportunity in career advancement for both men and women, today announced the launch of the Female Founders Program. The […]
Investments in China’s AgriFood startups continue without any sings of slowing down. AgFunder, the online AgriFoodTech Venture Capital Platform, has just released the 2018 China AgriFood Startup Investing Report in collaboration with Chinese food tech VC Bits x Bites. The 36-page report covers […]
908devices, a technology startup that manufactures battery-operated, hand-held chemical detection tools used in mass spectrometry, has raised $17.5 million in a growth equity funding round. This Series E funding, which brings the company’s total to $70M, makes 908 Devices the most […]
