If you’re a content creator, Patreon is one company you probably can’t imagine living without. I’m addicted to learning about other countries on YouTube. And there’s one thing most YouTubers have in common–they all use Patreon to sell memberships to […]
Nifty Games is a new sports startup aiming to reshape the mobile gaming strategies of national sports leagues. The company was founded three years ago by game veterans Jon Middleton and Pete Wanat to make head-to-head sports games. The two co-founders […]
As you may recall, we covered Databricks after Amazon, Alphabet, Salesforce, and others invested $1 billion in the cloud-native tech startup to scale and support the company’s rapid adoption of the lakehouse, which is quickly becoming the data architecture of choice […]
Prosus, Europe’s answer to SoftBank and its Vision Fund, is making its biggest-ever bet in the Indian tech space with a $4.7 billion acquisition for payments fintech startup BillDesk, making it one of the biggest players in the country’s fast-growing […]
In October 2020, Whoop closed a $100 million in Series E funding with backing from SoftBank, IVP, Eli Manning. The round valued the company at $1.2 billion making the Boston-based health tech startup and the maker of a wearable device a member […]
Fontinalis Partners is a Detroit-based venture capital firm focused on next-generation mobility founded by Ford Motors chairman Bill Ford. But Fontinalis is not currently affiliated with Ford Motor Company. Founded over a decade ago, Fontinalis supports entrepreneurs who are boldly reshaping mobility. […]
With its popularity and success in short video clips, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is making its first foray into virtual reality (VR) with the acquisition of a San Francisco-based tech startup Pico Interactive as it looks to expand into gaming. The […]
Gambling addiction is a problem that affects millions of people worldwide and can lead to significant social, mental, and financial problems for many. With the growth of online cryptocurrency trading, people with a tendency towards online gambling have taken to […]
Peter J. Burns III has started or helps start almost 200 small businesses over the last four decades. But none of them may have the lasting impact of Millennial Queenmaker (MQ). With its launch earlier this summer, the startup, which […]
We live in the digital age and data is rapidly becoming the lifeblood of the global economy. Data now represents a new type of economic asset used by leading companies to gain a competitive advantage over their rivals. This has brought […]
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are all the rage these days. They’ve gone from cryptocurrency side projects to digital art collectors queuing up for hours online for a chance to buy some. NFTs are not just collectors, public figures like Elon Musk, […]
Afghanistan has been in the news since last week after the Afghan government fell to the Taliban on August 15. The collapse of the Afghan government has led to the fleeing of thousands of Afghan refugees to neighboring countries like Pakistan […]
A pitch deck is how you make connections with the people who can take your startup where you want it to go. It’s only the first step but there won’t be any more unless you impress investors enough. Doing it […]
For years, autonomous vehicle industry veterans say only an aerospace and defense skunkworks team can successfully deliver automotive radar with the range, resolution, and real-time edge processing smarts necessary to enable Level 4-5 autonomy. Now, this new tech startup is […]
Xiaomi said Wednesday that it had acquired autonomous driving tech startup Deepmotion for about $77.37 million as it aims to expand into the crowded electric vehicle market. Xiaomi said the acquisition will “enhance the technological competitiveness” of its nascent electric vehicle business and move […]
Abtrace, a London, UK-based healthtech startup, announced today it has raised £2.1 million in seed funding to transform how chronic and long-term health conditions are detected, monitored, and treated. This round was led by the Lisbon-based VC fund Faber, with participation […]
SPAC has grown in popularity in the last two years. There are at least 400 SPAC IPOs of the 500 IPOs, a 75 percent increase, according to data from the SPAC analytics firm, SPACAnalytics.com. Softbank-backed car-sharing startup Getaround becomes one of […]
As you may recall, we reported in the middle of last year when Google-backed drone startup Wing delivered library books so kids in Virginia can keep reading during the summer. At the time, Wing partnered with Kelly Passek, a middle school […]
It’s perhaps fair to say that AI and machine learning still occupy the realm of science-fiction within our minds, yet there’s a strong chance that something using artificial intelligence already exists in most of our homes. Voice assistants like Siri […]
Earlier this year, we made a prediction that non-fungible token (NFT) is one of those tech fads that will soon fade away with time. As it turns out, we were wrong–NFT is here to stay. Since our last piece, NFT […]
