Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Thursday, February 22. Facebook mentors London startups in its first in-house incubator. Facebook is on track to run three incubator courses in London throughout 2018. The three courses […]
HealthCare.com today announced it has acquired a leading direct-to-consumer provider startup, Pivot Health. The terms of the all-cash deal were not disclosed. It is unclear if the acquisition has anything to do with yesterday’s announcement from Trump Administration proposed rule […]
SaaS service management solution startup, 4me, today announced it has raised $1.65 million in seed funding from Storm Ventures. The new financing will be used to accelerate its growth, primarily in the U.S. and the U.K. The company has raised over […]
Spain Barcelona-based geotechnics and machine learning startup, SAALG Geomechanics, has received new investment from CEMEX Ventures. Founded in 2015 by geotechnical engineers Cristian de Santos and Ignasi Aliguer, SAALG Geomechanics (SAALG) has developed a software called Daarwin, which provides real-time analysis of […]
Massachusetts-based cybersecurity startup Dover Microsystems, today announced it has raised $6 million in seed funding to expand engineering and product development efforts, as well as support key hires across marketing and sales. The latest funding round was led The financing, […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Wednesday, February 21. Moovit raises another $0 million for its urban transit app, plans Mobileye collaboration. Israel-based public transit app developer Moovit App Global Ltd. raised $50 million […]
Forget connected home. Connected pet is here and BabelBark is leading the change. BabelBark is a modern solution that connects you to your dog and the people you trust to keep them happy and healthy throughout life. Its mobile app and software […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Tuesday, February 20. Banks buy stakes in blockchain startup SETL. Citi Financial services group has bought a stake in blockchain startup SETL. The deal comes less than three weeks […]
A spinoff of Celgene Cellular Therapeutics and a new biotech startup, Celularity, is taking cancer treatment to the next level. Founded in September 2017, by stem cell pioneer Robert Hariri, MD, PhD, Celularity wants to harvest human placenta for stem cells […]
St. Louis-based Biotech startup, Unleash Immuno Oncolytics, announced today it has raised $3 million investment from publicly-traded Japanese-based Oncolys BioPharma to advance cancer therapies. Founded in 2015, Unleash Immuno Oncolytics develops oncolytic virus immunotherapy products to treat cancer. The company offers UIO-512, an oncolytic […]
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Marijuana business accelerator and seed-stage investment fund, CanopyBoulder, today announced it is investing $180,000 in cannabis startups. The company announced the launching of its ninth cohort (Spring 2018 class) of ancillary cannabis companies. Six startups are enrolled in Canopy’s 16-week accelerator program. In […]
Cincinnati-based enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) platform startup, Losant, today announced has raised $5.2 million in Series A financing from new and existing investors. The new funding will enable Losant to scale to meet growing demand for its next generation IoT solutions. […]
Templafy, a Danish template management company for any office platform and any device, today announced announced it raised $17.2 million in its Series B funding round. The current funding is led by New York-based venture capital and private equity firm Insight Venture Partners with […]
Fintech startup Stash today announced it has raised $37.5 million in Series D funding to accelerate product expansion and serve millions of financially underserved Americans. The latest round was led by Union Square Ventures, and included existing investors Breyer Capital, Coatue Management, […]
SoftBank Group said on Wednesday that it will begin preparing for an initial public offering of its mobile unit, SoftBank Corp. In a press conference, SoftBank Group’s Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son said he hopes the unit will be listed within […]
Australia-based EdTech startup Smart Sparrow has landed $10 million strategic investment from ACT, the nonprofit behind the ACT college admissions test. While millions of individuals take the ACT test each year, that’s just one aspect of the organization’s work. From […]
Three young startup companies, Impressio, RecoverX and Curv.ai, received $50,000 grants in NFL’s Super Bowl startup competition designed to encourage new advancements in athlete safety and performance. In the lead up to Super Bowl LII, the National Football League teamed with […]
World’s largest startup accelerator, Plug and Play Japan, yesterday announced the launch of Mobility as a new genre for its startup accelerator program in addition to Fintech, IoT, Insurtech for the Batch 1 program. This new Mobility program is being launched […]
Y Combinator (YC), one of the the world’s top startup accelerators, announced yesterday the launch of a free program called Startup Investor School. It is scheduled to be a 4-day course that is held live in Y Combinator’s office in Mountain View, […]
