Closing the books at the quarter end, managing invoices and categorizing expenses involve a wide array of complex tasks that are both laborious and prone to human error. A three-year old artificial intelligence startup, Botkeeper, is on a mission to save […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Wednesday, November 21. Apple reportedly buys privacy-minded AI startup Silk Labs. In another sign of its growing push and ambition into artificial intelligence, Apple is expanding its […]
Understory, a Madison, Wisconsin-based weather infrastructure and analytics startup company with real-time tools to collect weather data that power business decisions, has raised $7.5 million in additional funding to expand it international presence in the agriculture market with ground-truth, actionable weather data. […]
Lightricks, the fast-growing Israeli photo editing startup behind photo editing apps like Enlight and Facetune, has just raised a massive $60 million in funding to build more products and to double down on the number of its employees by recruiting a total […]
Marketing planning is a task that doesn’t take up half of the time of a marketer. Marketing planning organization, on the other hand, often consumes way more time than foreseen. The differences between the two are easily overlooked, but they […]
Good morning! With increased in private equity activity and investments in startups over the past few years, starting today we are starting a new series called: Daily VC and Private Equity Deals. The series will provide a quick summary of […]
Enboarder, a Sydney, Australia-based HR technology startup that helps employers create engaging on-boarding experiences for their new employees, has raised $4 million in its latest funding round to accelerate growth in the U.S., as well as fuel the ongoing development of […]
Wonolo, the leading on-demand staffing platform startup that enables businesses to fill their immediate labor needs, has raised a $32 million Series C round to expand its team and accelerate growth to meet the nation’s high level of demand for a […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Monday, November 19. Bitcoin plummets to a 13-month low, drops below $5,000 and 75% below its highest point of $20,000. Bitcoin, the world’s largest and most […]
The Location-of-Things (LoT) market is massive and growing. Research and insight firm, Markets and Markets, predicts that it will reach $27 billion by 2022, driven by the shifting demands of customers in the on-demand economy. MapAnything is a data visualization and […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Friday, November 16. Blablacar raises $113 million (€101 million) Series D extension, to acquire Ouibus. French popular carpooling platform BlaBlaCar has secured a $113 million (€101 million) […]
Shyft, a Seattle-based startup that helps workers swap shifts, communicate with each other, and make more money by covering shifts, has raised $6.5 million in Series A funding to empower companies and their associates by offering scheduling flexibility and direct access to shift-swapping […]
VC Valuations Overview Startups have seen annual valuation gains across all stages, most notably in late-stage rounds, with median pre-money valuation of late-stage deals increasing 50.7% YoY. The median valuation step-ups for early-stage rounds increased from 1.7x in 2017 to […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Thursday, November 15. Simple Habit raises $10 million in funding for its meditation app. SimpleHabit, a 5-minute meditation app designed to help busy people stress less, achieve […]
Rocket Lab, a startup company that delivers a range of complete rocket systems and technologies for fast and low-cost payload deployment, has raised $140 million in Series E financing round to accelerate business of small rockets. The latest round brings total Rocket Lab […]
RoadBotics, an artificial intelligence startup that was spun out of the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute in 2016, has raised $3.9 million in seed funding to revolutionize the way engineering firms, local governments and municipalities manage and maintain roadways and […]
Cryptocurrency is alive and well! Investments and activities in crypto-based startups continue to accelerate. Much like the early days of the Internet, cryptocurrencies bring as much hope as they do risk, with more than a thousand cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Wednesday, November 14. Chinese tech giant Huawei to introduce augmented reality (AR) glasses in next one or two years. Huawei is entering the AR glasses market. […]
Pryon, an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) startup that emerges of stealth today, announced $4.5 million in seed funding to take the AI market to the next phase of Augmented Intelligence. The seed funding came from key investors […]
There is a growing market to help property and casualty insurance businesses adopt AI, but health insurance is being left behind. Health insurance is at the intersection of two complicated fields, facing both difficulties in working with health data and […]
