Venture capital (VC) activity in the United States reached its highest level in 2017. According to a report from PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, VC firms invested a total of $84.2 billion last year in 2017, up 16 percent from 2016 and […]
The bike-sharing competition is heating up. As we wrote earlier today, Mobike, a bike sharing company considered to be one of China’s most valuable startups, acquired for $3.4 billion by tech giant Meituan-Dianping. Now a Brazilian startup is about to shake […]
The volatility and uncertainties surrounding Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies do not prevent forward-thinking startups from investing in cryptocurrency. BitKan is one of China’s leading provider of cryptocurrency services. The startup provides the latest pricing information for bitcoins and the mining difficulty charts […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Wednesday, April 4. MIT is severing ties with Nectome, a startup promoting fatal brain uploading. MIT announced it’s severing ties with Nectome, a startup promoting fatal brain uploading. Nectome has […]
Interactive streaming engine developer Genvid Technologies startup announced raised total of $6 million in Series A round of financing. The new funding will be used to fuel the international expansion of the company’s existing pipeline of developers, expanding from esports […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Monday, April 2. Tesla admitted Autopilot was active during fatal crash in Mountain View. Tesla admitted Autopilot was engaged during last week’s fatal Tesla Model X crash […]
Happy weekend! Here is a roundup of the top startup news of the week. If you want this weekly update in your inbox every week, please subscribe to the TechStartups Newsletter using the form at the right corner of this […]
The future of jobs is changing. Automation is already reshaping every company’s workforce — including yours. It used to be that robots could only replace blue-collar jobs. Get ready! Robots are coming for your job sooner than you think. No one […]
The global Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market is expected to reach about$934 billion by 2025, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. The growing demand and adoption of cloud computing, coupled with the growth in the […]
Last year, I read an article written by Ori Inbar. The article discussed the concept of “AR Cloud.” One startup is now building the infrastructure to make AR cloud a reality. The startup is called 6D.ai. The San Francisco, California-based 6D.ai is a […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Friday, March 30. SF Motors, an electric vehicle startup wants to beat Tesla. SF Motors is a Silicon Valley electric vehicle battery modularization startup headed by industry trailblazer, CEO […]
We wrote about Plug and Play Tech Center (Plug and Play) earlier this month. Yesterday, we also talked about Atidot, one of Plug and Play’s startups in its second cohort program. Founded in 2006, Plug and Play is a global […]
Online extremism is on the rise. Violent extremist groups both local and international are now turning to the Internet to recruit their followers. Governments around the world are doing their best to stop it. In December 2017, Britain was contemplating on […]
IT poses a major risk during merger and acquisition (M&A) because legacy systems, platforms and processes serve as bottlenecks for achieving business objectives. The traditional and the linear approach IT used to work around the bottlenecks during M&A, is to perform […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Thursday, March 28. Israeli transcribing startup Verbit raises $11 million in seed funding. An Israeli startup that said on Thursday it had raised its first $11 million […]
The Chinese streaming startup, also known as The Netflix of China, iQiyi Inc., is planning its U.S. initial public offering at $18 per share in a deal that is expected to generate more than $2 billion. The company will list […]
Earlier this year we wrote about Plug and Play (PnP)’s launching of its second cohort program. At the time, PnP selected 25 startups to join its insurtech batch. Second on the list is a startup that is making insurance smarter using […]
Oscar Health, health insurance startup founded by Josh Kushner has raised $165 million from Alphabet and others. The funding will be used to deepen investment in technology platform and accelerate expansion, according to the company’s release. With this new funding, Oscar […]
Relativity Space (Relativity) is an orbital launch company that deploys and resupplies satellite constellations with industry-defining lead time and cost. The startup is disrupting 60 years of aerospace tradition by creating an entirely new process to build and fly rockets. Its […]
Auris Health, Inc. (“Auris Health”), formerly known as Auris Surgical Robotics, is developer of robotic microsurgical devices designed for ophthalmic procedures. The company is engaged in the development of surgical robotics and visualization technology for surgical applications that require very fine […]
