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Late last year, we told you about Virgin Galactic after the company unveiled spacesuits for the first Virgin Galactic’s space tourists. Now, space tourists will soon have one more option to enjoy space view from 100,000 feet in a ride aloft in […]
Cedar, a New York City-based healthtech startup and a provider of patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems and medical groups, today announced it has closed more than $102M in Series C funding, led by venture capital firm Andreessen […]
Coronavirus pandemic is a boon to tech companies offering video conferencing software tools. These companies have seen a meteoric rise in the last five months. For instance, Zoom, a tech company that offers conferencing app, is now worth more than the […]
The last time we wrote about URBAN-X was back in 2019 when the MINI-backed urbantech startup accelerator launched its sixth startup cohort. A lot has changed since then. Today, URBAN-X announced the launch of its latest class, Cohort 08. This newest class […]
Ares Management Corporation, a leading global alternative investment manager operating integrated businesses across credit, private equity and real estate, today announced the final closing of its Ares Special Opportunities Fund, L.P. (together with its parallel vehicles, “ASOF” or the “Fund”). The […]
Startup veteran and Citymapper President Omid Ashtari is leaving to join London market research startup StreetBees, according to a report from CNBC, citing people familiar with the matter. The London-based Citymapper was founded in 2011 by Azmat Yusuf. Ashtari reportedly left […]
Last Friday, Google quietly unveiled an app that lets you curate content from the web, similar to Pinterest. The idea for Keen came out of Google internal incubator project called Area 120. Unlike Pinterest, Keen will use machine learning to […]
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is back again on Twitter. Just about three weeks ago, Musk said he was off tweeting for a while. “Off Twitter for a while,” Musk said in a tweet on June 1. Now, it […]
Coronovirus has impacted millions of lives and businesses worldwide. Over the past few months, we’ve written many pieces about how technology startups are navigating the coronvirus pandemic to stay afloat. Some of these startups had to significantly reduce their staffing […]
On May 30, Space X and NASA made history after Elon Musk’s space company carried NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley into space from American soil after nearly a decade. SpaceX became the first private space company to take […]
Last month, we told you about Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he said “Politicians and unelected bureaucrats who stole our liberty should be tarred, feathered & thrown out of town!” The ongoing Woke Cancel culture, mainstream media fearmongering about coronavirus, […]
Last week we wrote about DoorDash after it was reported that the SoftBank-backed food delivery startup was planning to secure new funding before its upcoming IPO. Now, according to an exclusive report from Axios, DoorDash has raised $400 million in new […]
Alexander E. Kearns, a 20-year-old stock trader who said he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on the free-trading app, took his own life. According to his family, Alex Kerns, a student at the University of Nebraska, died by suicide […]
In an elaborate use of open-source intelligence, The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday tracked down a protester who set cop cars alight by tracing the custom T-shirt she wore at a Philadelphia. Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal was tracked down by […]
The last we covered UC Berkeley SkyDeck was back in March when the startup accelerator announced it biggest cohort from 11 countries, startups will collaborate remotely. Today, UC Berkeley SkyDeck announces that in the past six months, including the COVID-19 shelter-at-home period, seven of […]
Alternet, a Dallas, Texas-based energy company on mission to innovate solutions to the global energy storage capacity shortage, today announced drafting a letter of intent (LOI) with its funding partner delineating terms for an initial $25 million first tranche investment […]
Back in February 2018, we wrote about Y Combinator (YC) after the company launched its free online Startup Investor School to train new startup investors. YC is a seed money startup accelerator launched in March 2005. Over 2,000 companies have been launched through […]
There is no doubt that coronavirus is the worst pandemic of our time. The virus, which started late last year in Wuhan, China, could cost the global economy $82 trillion, according to one estimate. Latest forecast published by the Centre for Risk […]
First China exported coronavirus to countries around the world, and now the country is exporting fake masks to the United States. Today, U.S. Federal prosecutors charged a Chinese manufacturer of selling defective and substandard masks that could put wearers at risk amid […]
