Every business needs customers. Business growth also requires customer growth. With millions of businesses competing for the same segment of customers, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for brands to attract new customers and retain existing ones. Enter LoudCrowd, an Austin, Texas-based […]
EEO Education, a Beijing-based EdTech startup and the owner of teaching platform ClassIn, today announced it has $256 million $265 million in Series C funding led by Hillhouse Ventures, followed by Tencent, SIG, Ince Capital, and Gaocheng Capital. The announcement comes […]
Since COVID-19 started in January, there has been a sudden rise in the numbers of blank-check companies. These companies are enjoying their highest popularity in more than a decade, raising more than $10 billion in new listings last year and more […]
Back in February, we wrote about the Atlanta-Based OneTrust after the privacy management startup raised $210M Series B funding. Back then, the funding more than doubled its previous valuation to $2.7 billion. With organizations under increasing pressure due to global privacy regulations […]
We first wrote about Dialpad back in May 2018 when the AI-powered cloud communications platform acquired fellow voice startup TalkIQ for nearly $50 million. Just last month, we wrote about the company again after it became a new member of the […]
The last time we covered Trigo was back in 2019 when the Tel Aviv, Israel-based food tech startup raised $22 million in Series A funding to enable more grocery retailers to battle Amazon Go. At the time, Trigo was installed in stores […]
No day goes by without another headline on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Also known as cloud-based software or apps, SaaS is a software delivery model that allows software applications (apps) to be accessed from any device with an internet connection. Instead of […]
If there had to be one word that defined 2020, it would be ‘uncertainty.’ Entrepreneurs and startups heading into the new year are doing so with a renewed focus on long-term stability and success. And as many early-stage companies begin […]
As bitcoin surges past $23,000 for the first time, cryptocurrency startups see renewed interest from investors who want to take advantage of the current momentum for fear of missing out (FOMO). Today, cryptocurrency startup Paxos announced that it has raised about […]
S-Alpha Therapeutics, a Seoul, South Korea-based digital therapeutics startup, has raised $2.7 million (3 billion KRW) in seed funding for early-stage development clinical trials in the US to use its digital therapeutic application for the treatment of eye disease. This […]
Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the popular buzzwords coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999 during his work at Procter&Gamble. Ashton is known as the father of IoT, Proctor & Gamble alumni, and the founding Executive Director of MIT’s Auto-ID […]
We’ve covered Bolt for at least three years now. Just last month, the Estonian ride-hailing startup announced over €100 million investment in the European e-scooter market. The 7-year old startup said it would invest over 100 million euros ($118 million) in 2021 to […]
Unless you work in the shipping industry, you don’t know how terrible shipment tracking is. Today, conventional shipment tracking is incredibly complicated, unreliable, and expensive. Imagine what that would do to a $20 trillion shipping industry. Tive is a Boston, MA-based […]
Canada is a country where the Big Five banks own 90 percent of the market share. Now, a new fintech startup is trying to shake things up. Neo Financial is a Calgary, Canada-based fintech startup created to bring much-needed innovation and […]
We wrote about Toast back in February after the restaurant management platform startup raised $400 million in Series F funding at a $4.9 billion valuation. The Boston-based Toast is an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform for businesses in the food service and […]
Public.com is a New York-based fintech startup and a commission-free stock brokerage firm that enables companies and individuals to buy public stock with any amount of money. Public.com aims to accelerate all people’s prosperity. Unlike other brokerage firms out there, […]
Since the introduction of personal computers in the early 80s, productivity software has changed the way we work and made tasks easier for office workers. Productivity software is often used for producing information (such as documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, […]
The level of investments and equity funding in blockchain startups continues to grow despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In 2019 alone, blockchain startup companies around the world raised over $3.08 billion in funding. Gartner also estimates that the business value added by […]
Technology has permeated every aspect of our daily lives. The impact is even more felt among major companies that now have to rely on technology to automate their process and internal operations. Unlike ten or twenty years ago, however, these […]
2020 has been a very difficult year for everyone, especially for tech startup companies. With many companies going out of business and despite the tragedy, somehow some tech startups have succeeded against the odds. Today, we would like to share […]
