As more and more people shop online due to the coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19 has created a strong market demand for e-commerce. Rokt is a New York-based tech startup and a provider of eCommerce marketing technology that gives customers a more personalized […]
Yuanfudao, China’s leading online education platform announced it has secured $2.2 billion Series G1 and G2 funding to further boost its educational technology innovation, accelerate new curriculum product development and expand its online education service system. The G1 financing round was […]
While everyone is busy talking about Tesla and Waymo, this lesser-known tech startup that offers testing software for the autonomous vehicle industry is getting the attention and backing of the top Silicon Valley investors. Applied Intuition is a 3-yeard old San […]
For decades, the automotive industry has largely been operating on a legacy retail model. The sales and the distribution model have largely been the same since the 1980s with little change taking place despite the technology revolution in other industries. The […]
A recent JAMA article estimated that 25% of healthcare spending is waste due to administrative complexity, failure of care coordination, and low-value care. According to JAMA, the estimated total annual costs of waste were $760 billion to $935 billion, and savings […]
It’s been a while since we covered Syte, a visual AI startup that powers image search for eCommerce. A lot has changed since we last wrote about Syte back in 2018. Back then, the Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup partnered with the […]
Over the past two decades, the American food scene has undergone considerable change. According to a recent report from the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation and the American Heart Association, 95 percent of shoppers in the United States say […]
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, NIH data showed that “nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a mental illness (46.6 million in 2017).” Mental illnesses include many different conditions that vary in degree of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to […]
The last time we wrote about SPROCKIT was back in April 2019 after the global marketplace that connects the world’s top market-proven emerging companies in media, entertainment, and technology, raised over $1 billion in funding and also unveiled the final selection of […]
4iQ is a Silicon Valley Cyber Intelligence startup that provides adversary intelligence to help organizations measure, monitor, and manage digital risk. 4iQ protects digital identities and investigating threats, adversaries, and fraud. The company’s proprietary 4iQ IDLake, 4iQ curates, and archives more than 45 billion identity […]
Gradfuel is a London, England-based recruitment startup that provides a personalized job assistant, that matches you with the perfect graduate jobs. Founded in 2019 by an entrepreneur and recent graduate, Elliot Mitchell, the career service takes a genuine approach to understand […]
Synthetaic, a Delafield, Wisconsin-based artificial intelligence startup that produces AI training data, today announced that it has raised $4.5M funding. The fund, which includes $1M in pre-seed funding and a $3.5M seed round, was led by Lupa Systems, with participation from Betaworks […]
v2food, the Australian plant-based meat startup that makes tasty plant-based meat that’s good for the environment, announced today it has closed $55 million (AU$77 million) in Series B funding to take Australian plant-based meat to the world. This is the largest funding round […]
Volvo Trucks North America today announced it has been awarded $21.7 million in grants to deploy 70 VNR Electric trucks in Southern California for regional freight distribution and drayage. The award will enable the nation’s largest commercial deployment of Class 8 […]
Many software companies promise to automate manual processes, but struggle to do so reliably, efficiently, and at scale. Enter Hyperscience, a New York-based tech startup that provides enterprise automation to over 2000 global and government organizations around the world. Hyperscience’s technology automates […]
LLR Partners, a Philadelphia, PA-based lower middle-market private equity firm that invests in healthcare and technology startup companies, today announced the final closing of its $1.8 billion for its sixth fund, LLR Equity Partners VI, L.P. Founded in 1999 and with more than […]
For years, organizations built their business applications using a concept known as monolithic architecture. The idea is to build an application as a single unit. However, monolithic architecture comes with a lot of challenges including application maintenance nightmare. For example, to […]
Balto, a Saint Louis, MO-based tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to analyze phone calls in real-time at contact centers while the call is still happening, today announced it has secured $10 million Series A funding to extend the reach of its […]
Stripe is a San Francisco-based fintech startup that provides payments infrastructure for businesses. Its software and APIs are used by millions of companies of all sizes to accept payments, send payouts, and manage their businesses online. Back in May 2020, […]
Arrival is a London, England-based tech startup that develops generation two electric vehicles. The company develops software, materials, components, and scalable skateboard platforms and its micro-factories allow them to make vehicles and adapt to any mobility ecosystem. Now, the startup […]
