With high rate of obesity in the country, there is a great demand for healthy food, especially among busy professionals. Ample Foods, a San Francisco, CA-based nutrition startup, that enables people to have a complete, satisfying and healthy meal in under […]
Unitus Ventures (formerly Unitus Seed Fund), India’s leading impact venture fund investing in startups innovating for the masses, announced it has raised $15 million from Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Bill Gates, Hemendra Kothari, Ajay Parekh, Pradeep Singh, Pramod Saxena, Padma […]
BorderX Lab, a cross-border e-commerce startup founded by three former Google engineers, raises $20 million in Series B funding. The financing is led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Hillhouse Capital Group, CBC (China Broadband Capital), Welight Capital and iFly Venture Capital. BorderX […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Tuesday, May 8. Alibaba buys Rocket Internet’s Daraz to expand its e-commerce empire into South Asia. E-commerce giant, Alibaba Group, has bought the entire share capital of […]
With customers having more choices than ever, customer experience plays a larger role in branding and customer retention. The new age digital consumer demands more, and expects something special each time she interacts with a brand. Most companies spend a lot […]
Financial stress is a leading cause of lost productivity in the workplace according to a recent employee financial wellness survey conducted by PWC. One San Francisco, California-based startup is aiming to help employers improve the financial wellness of their employees. The […]
UBTECH Robotics announced Friday that it has completed $820 million Series C investment, the single largest funding round ever for an artificial intelligence company. The latest funding now put the value of the company at $5 Billion, making UBTECH the world’s […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Monday, May 7. Learning Machine, the blockchain startup co-developed a system for putting digital diplomas on the blockchain with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has raised $3 […]
Isreal-based startup Future Meat Technologies announced it has secured a $2.2 million seed investment round co-led by Tyson Ventures, the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods. Tyson Foods is a Fortune 100 company, and one of the world’s largest food producers. In […]
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Some of the biggest headaches business travelers face are: keeping track of receipts, submitting expense reports on time and facing questions about the legitimacy of certain charges. Now, technology is making expense reporting easier. One of the leaders in this […]
IronNet Cybersecurity, a startup founded by former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) chief, Gen. (Ret.) Keith Alexander, has raised $78 million in additional funding. The company said in a press release. The investment was led by new investor C5 Capital with participation from […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Friday, May 4 ServiceNow buys AI startup Parlo for for its NLP technology. ServiceNow announced Thursday that it will acquire Parlo, a Silicon Valley-based startup that trains algorithms […]
CloudPay is the world’s only cloud-based platform for integrated global payroll and payments processing, collaboration and delivery. Through its unified SaaS platform, the company enables its customers to improve business performance through greater fiscal control, see people costs through enhanced visibility, […]
SoundHound announced today it has raised $100 million in new funding to drive adoption and distribution of its Houndify voice AI platform across verticals including automotive, Internet of Things, consumer products, and enterprise apps and services. The funding will accelerate global expansion, […]
The US economy is booming and investment in startup is at all time high. In 2017 alone, global funding to VC-backed startups jumped 50% to $164.4 billion. This does not necessarily reflect investment backed by from governments and non-profit organizations. Now […]
Teenage entrepreneurs from 5 continents pitched their companies in front of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) this past weekend. Eight of those teams won $50,000 of investments each at a $1,000,000 valuation, and will […]
Zola, the wedding-planning startup, is about to join the unicorn startup club. Today, Zola announced it has raised $100 million in Series D financing to help reinvent wedding planning and registry for millennials. The funding round was led by existing investor Comcast […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Thursday, May 2. Wedding-planning startup Zola tied the knot with $100 Million funding. Wedding startup, Zola, just tied the knot on a big financing round to try […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform provider Faraday announced today it has secured more than $2 million in new funding, and added top talent to its team of leading data scientists and business software experts. The latest round of funding, from new […]
