With just nine months into 2021, Microsoft has acquired a total of nine companies, equating to one acquisition per month. Among them are Nuance Communications which Microsoft acquired In April. Others include Kinvolk, RiskIQ, CloudKnox, Peer5, and others. Now, Microsoft continues its […]
The InsureTech market is red hot with no sign of slowing down. In the past three years alone, venture investors have poured over $20 billion into the space, making it one of the highest growing sectors. One of the leading […]
Over the years, we’ve written many articles about bitcoin and how the world’s most popular cryptocurrency has become the most speculative digital asset with little to no utility in the real world partly due to its volatility, privacy, and other […]
In July, we asked in one of our articles why female founders were ignored by venture capital firms. Similar to how startups founded by people of color are often ignored, female-founded are also ignored by VCs. A 2018 report released by PitchBook […]
In March, Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, made history after a single piece of his non-fungible token (NFT) art print was sold at Christie’s Auction for a record-setting $69.3 million, making it the most expensive digital art ever sold. Then […]
Corti.ai, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based healthtech SaaS startup that uses machine learning to help emergency departments to detect critical illnesses like cardiac arrest in real-time, announced today that it has raised $27 million (about €22.82M) in Series A funding to revolutionize the healthcare industry. The […]
Advance.ai, a Singapore-based AI tech startup has raised $200 million in funding to scale up its operations and accelerate future expansion, according to an exclusive report from Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the matter. The new funding makes the startup one […]
Over the past four years, we’ve been keeping track of the global top 500 unicorn startups with a valuation of $1 billion or more. Predictably, the United States accounts for more than half the valuation of all the global unicorns combined […]
New technologies like robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) have transformed every industry. However, the impacts of these technologies are more drastic in banking and financial markets where AI has forever changed the ways trading and investing are done. For example, […]
Just last month, Jack Dorsey’s payments company Square acquired Australian buy now pay later (BNPL) fintech company Afterpay for $29 billion. The acquisition brings together two of the fastest-growing global fintech companies to advance the shared mission of economic empowerment and financial […]
AddictingGames.com, a gaming platform founded by entrepreneur Bill Karamouzis (Bill Kara) has been acquired for $35 million dollars by Toronto-based Enthusiast Gaming Holdings. As part of the acquisition agreement, Addicting Games and its 28 employees will be joining the 200 or […]
As you may recall, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stepped down as CEO back in July to spend more time on philanthropy and passion projects like his space company Blue Origin. Former AWS executive Andy Jassy later takes over as the CEO […]
Web 1.0 is a term often used to describe the early days of the Internet. Then came Web 2.0, a set of next-generation Internet technologies that describes the current state of the web, which has more user-generated content and usability for end-users […]
In 2011, hackers stole 25,000 bitcoin (US$400,000 at the time) from the Japanese bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. A year later in 2012, former Airbnb engineer Brian Armstrong saw an opportunity and decided to build a crypto exchange platform that offers better security and protection […]
Life is short. From the moment we enter this world to the time we leave it, we’re writing our story. One day, one milestone, one memory at a time. Even with our technological advancement, most people still don’t live up […]
There’s a popular saying that goes something like this: “If You Can’t Innovate, Litigate.” On July 5, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos officially stepped down as CEO exactly 27 years after he founded the company that changed e-commerce and online shopping […]
In 2019, CNBC wrote a piece about unprofitable companies worth more than $50 billion. At the top of the list of what CNBC described as an “ugly but exclusive club” is Uber, a company that has never made a profit […]
Globally, there are at least 748 Online Gaming Marketplaces companies and continue to rise. With many gaming marketplaces to choose from, the challenge for many players is finding the best gaming marketplace to trade in-game currency, items, boosts, and accounts. These […]
You’ve finally discovered your passion and put your heart and soul into your business, but there’s just one issue- the dollars aren’t rolling in as expected. You now realize that it’s time to figure out how to attract investors and […]
Every day, tech startups from around the world pitch their new ideas to VCs and other potential investors with the hope of raising millions in funding in exchange for a certain percentage of equity in their companies. Some of these ideas range […]
