Tomorrow.io, a SaaS Weather intelligence platform that provides real-time weather forecasts, is going public through a merger with a blank-check firm Pine Technology Acquisition Corp in a deal worth nearly $1.2 billion, the two companies said on Tuesday. The deal is expected […]
Facebook continues to face an exodus of top engineers after former employee and whistleblower Haugen said Mark Zuckerberg should step down as CEO rather than rebranding to Meta. The latest example is four former Facebook engineers who left the social giant to […]
Arabic is one of the widely spoken languages around the world. Today, it is estimated that there are more than 420 million Arabic speakers globally with 30 different dialects. Egypt has the highest population of Arabic speakers with the highest population of […]
The highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) of Chinese AI facial recognition startup SenseTime is finally happening. After several false starts, SenseTime Group is looking to raise up to $767 million in its Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO), according to […]
In the past 20 years, the average cost of college in the United States has tripled to $35,720 per student per year, with an annual growth rate of 6.8%. Even with all the scholarships available, the rising cost has put thousands […]
Glorify, a Christian faith-based app for worship and meditation, has raised $40 million in funding from investors including SoftBank Latin America Fund, Silicon Valley heavyweight Andreessen Horowitz, and reality TV star Kris Jenner, Corey Gamble, Michael Ovitz, Michael Bublé, Jason Derulo, […]
Maven 11 Capital, a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm., has closed $120 million for its second fund, Venture Fund II as the booming cryptocurrency market heats up and investors’ appetite to include crypto assets in their venture portfolio. Maven 11 […]
Wealth disparities are on the rise in the United States. Today, the top 20% of Americans owned 86% of the country’s wealth and the bottom 80% of the population owned 14%. Closing the racial wealth gap requires more than just taxing […]
Reibus, a provider of B2B e-commerce platform for the industrial metals market, has raised $75M in Series B funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. This investment brings Reibus’ total funding to over $100 million and a valuation of $750 million. […]
Colony is a new community-driven platform you’ve probably never heard of. Imagine you’re a developer and you’re trying to raise funds to launch your project on blockchain platforms like Ethereum or Ethereum rival, Avalanche. What you may not realize is […]
The global pandemic has changed the way patients see doctors. A recent report from McKinsey & Co. estimated that physicians saw between 50 and 175 times more patients via telehealth than they did prior to the pandemic. Many doctors also turned to telemedicine […]
The metaverse craze continues without any sign of slowing down. Since Facebook changed its name to Meta in October, at least 3,700 companies have jumped on the metaverse bandwagon with Invidia, Tencent, Bytedance, and Alibaba leading the way. There are also […]
BlackRock is the world’s largest money manager and the company that is often called the “fourth branch of the US government.” In recent years, the company has become one of the leading companies in the fight against climate change. The […]
NetEase announced early Tuesday morning that it plans to spin off its music streaming business Cloud Village in a $500 million initial public offering (IPO) in the Hong Kong stock exchange. The announcement came as the Chinese tech giant attempted to revive the IPO, […]
With the saturated real estate market, this new startup is aiming to revolutionize the $156.2 billion real estate sales and brokerage industry and innovate its way to the top. Place is a new prop-tech startup and provider of business services platform […]
LabMinds is a life science startup founded over a decade with the simple idea of helping scientists around the world automate their most ubiquitous processes in laboratories. LabMinds founders later pitched the idea a few months later and went on to win […]
Every day, an unprecedented amount of data is generated every second by continuous interactions on our digital devices, online platforms, organizations’ IT systems, and cloud data centers. However, making sense out of this data has remained a challenge for most […]
With daily headlines of data breaches and new waves of security challenges, investors are pouring billions of dollars into promising cybersecurity startups. One of the leading startups in the cybersecurity space is Lacework, a provider of the data-driven security platform for the […]
Employees’ wellness is one of the major challenges for most organizations. More than 90 percent of business leaders say that promoting wellness can affect employee productivity and performance, according to survey results from the nonprofit Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO). […]
CloudWalk, a fintech startup that is democratizing the payments industry in Brazil, has raised $150 million in funding led by Coatue, an investment firm focused on companies in the technology, media, and telecommunications space. The latest round brings the company valuation to $2.15 billion, making […]
