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Top tech startup news for today Wednesday, January 18, 2023: Amazon, EarthOptics, Import.io, and Microsoft
Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023


Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Amazon is set to begin a fresh round of layoffs affecting more than 18,000 people Retail giant Amazon on Wednesday will begin a new […]


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Cumul.io raises €10M in Series A funding for its low-code business analytics platform
Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023


Cumul.io, a Belgium-based- data that lets users build interactive dashboards using its embedded analytics tools, has raised €10M in a Series A round of funding to provide a low-code platform for data analysis with integration into other SaaS platforms or applications. The round […]


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This engineer hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million
Daniel Levi Posted On January 18, 2023


Back in 2011, Stefan Thomas produced an animated video explaining how digital currency works. He was later awarded 7,002 bitcoins for his efforts by a bitcoin enthusiast. Later that year, Thomas forgot the password to his IronKey, the USB hard drive that contains the digital […]


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Coinbase to halt operations in Japan due to ‘volatile market conditions’
Daniel Levi Posted On January 18, 2023


Even with the rising price of Bitcoin, the crypto market is going through turbulent times and no company is immune from the ongoing crypto winter. The plunging value of digital assets amid rising interest rates has led to the collapse and […]


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Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees globally
Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023


“We’re living through times of significant change, and as I meet with customers and partners, a few things are clear.” Yesterday, we wrote about Microsoft after reports the tech giant was planning to cut thousands of additional jobs as layoffs […]


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This startup just made a critical breakthrough in post-quantum encryption over public internet
Daniel Levi Posted On January 18, 2023


Quantum computing and cryptography are two terms we’ve all probably heard of. But what about quantum cryptography or quantum encryption? Quantum cryptography is a new method of data encryption that uses the naturally occurring properties of quantum mechanics to secure and […]


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EarthOptics raises $27.6M Series B funding to advance data-driven agriculture through actionable soil insights
Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023


As we all know, carbon dioxide (CO2) is the leading cause of climate change. Today, the world’s carbon-neutrality goals are front and center right for institutions and governments—and agriculture has the opportunity to play a leading role. CO2 is also the […]


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ThriveCart raises $35M in funding to help businesses build eCommerce carts and funnels
Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023


One of the challenges faced by eCommerce entrepreneurs is shopping cart abandonment. Research from Baymard Institute shows that about 70% of online shopping carts are abandoned. That means, for every 10 customers who add an item to their shopping cart, seven of […]


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FTX says $415 million of crypto was hacked from its accounts
Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023


Last week, bankrupt crypto exchange FTX announced it recovered over $5 billion in cash and crypto assets. The lawyer representing the company disclosed the $5 billion includes cash and digital assets. What wasn’t disclosed at the time was there are still […]


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Most Active Venture Capital Firms: HashKey Capital Listed As Key Active Investor in The Block’s Digital Asset Funding Landscape Report
Daniel Levi Posted On January 18, 2023


HashKey Capital, a global-focused crypto fund, has been named one of the most active venture capital firms in the crypto space in The Block’s Digital Asset Funding Landscape report. The report, which provides the most comprehensive, fact-based and in-depth analysis […]


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Top tech startup news for Tuesday, January 17, 2023: GTX, Microsoft, Mill, N26, Polygon, and Three Arrows
Daniel Levi Posted On January 17, 2023


Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Tuesday, January 17, 2023. Microsoft to fire 11,000 employees, roughly 5% of its total workforce Just three months after confirming it was laying off about 1,000 of its […]


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African gaming startup Carry1st raises $27M in funding to become next frontier in mobile gaming in Africa
Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023


While gaming has almost reached its saturation point here in the US and Asia, the mass adoption of mobile games is just getting started in Africa. With millions of Africans now having access to smartphones, the game penetration level in Africa […]


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Nest co-founder launches Mill, a sustainable kitchen bin that turns food scraps into chicken feed to combat food waste
Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023


At a time when most homeowners didn’t think of automating their home thermostats to save on high energy costs, Matt Rogers left his high-paying job at Apple to start smart home thermostat startup Nest Labs in 2010 to enable users to control their […]


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Polygon partners with Xternity to migrate multiplayer Web3 game Synergy from Solana to Polygon
Daniel Levi Posted On January 17, 2023


Fresh off its partnership with Ankr to enhance the web3 building experience for supernet developers, Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Polygon announced today it has joined forces with Web3 gaming development platform Xternity to migrate and onboard a multiplayer Web3 game — Synergy Land […]


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Web3 funding plummets by 74 percent
Daniel Levi Posted On January 17, 2023


The decentralized web or Web3 has grown at a rapid pace in the last two years. From its glory days of static pages or Web 1.0, the Internet quickly evolved to Web 2.0 which brought platforms and user-generated content such […]


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Founders of bankrupt Three Arrows Capital launch GTX, a new platform for crypto debt claims; seeking to raise $25M seed round
Daniel Levi Posted On January 17, 2023


The founders of the bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) are making a second go at crypto after the troubled startup was ordered into liquidation in June by a court in the British Virgin Islands. According to an exclusive by […]


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Microsoft to expand access to hugely popular OpenAI’s ChatGPT
Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023


Unless you’ve been living under a rock over the past few months, you’ve probably heard ChatGPT, the best dialogue-based artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public by OpenAI. Since its launch on November 30, 2022, ChatGPT has impressed many experts […]


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Europe’s digital bank startup N26 to expand crypto trading
Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023


Late last year, Europe’s digital bank startup N26 made its foray into cryptocurrency last year with the launch of a new crypto trading service called N26 Crypto. Unlike its rival PayPal, the N26′s crypto service does not include support for custodial […]


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Top tech startup news for Monday, January 16, 2023: Locad, MoviePass, ShareChat, Sprinque, and Twitter
Nickie Louise Posted On January 16, 2023


Good evening and happy Martin Luther King Holiday to everyone! It’s another light news day and as such, I’m going to make this very brief. With that, below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Monday, January 16, […]


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MoviePass returns from the dead with seed funding to accelerate its beta relaunch
Daniel Levi Posted On January 16, 2023


In September 2019, we covered MoviePass when the subscription-based movie ticketing platform shut down and went bankrupt in 2020 after burning through nearly  $68.7 million of investors’ funds. The startup blamed the shutdown on the failure to “recapitalize the company.” Fast forward […]


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