One of the biggest challenges facing most businesses today is identifying who their potential buyers are. Before now, companies wasted billions on untargeted TV advertising with very little to show for it. Others spent millions on search ads making companies […]
In just one month, the United States experienced two cyberattacks on the Colonial Pipeline, America’s largest fuel pipeline, and JBS, the world’s largest meat processor. The ransomware attack forced the two companies to shut down their operations for a few […]
The last 14 months have been incredibly difficult for businesses of all shapes and sizes. Thanks to vaccines, life is beginning to get back to some semblance of normalcy again. But as businesses finally begin to resume their operations, they need […]
Last week, we told you about Sennder, after the Berlin-based Digital freight startup raised $80 million in funding at over a billion-dollar valuation. Sennder offers shippers access to our connected fleet of thousands of trucks and manages over 12,500 trucks across Europe […]
The idea behind cryptocurrency is that it is decentralized, secure, and anonymous. That makes it very appealing to cybercriminals who use them for money laundering, ransomware, other illegal uses. But government around the world are stepping up their crackdowns on […]
Good evening! Below is a list of the top tech startup news for today, June 9, 2021. Bain Capital Private Equity and Crosspoint Capital Partners acquired ExtraHop for $900 million. ExtraHop, a Seattle, Washington-based startup and a provider of cloud-based network detection […]
The nature of the workforce is changing, moving from a workforce dominated by full-time workers to one where freelancers are becoming more prominent; projections show that the freelance workforce is expected to grow to over 50% of the total U.S […]
A little over a year ago, Embroker shared with us an informative article titled, “Startup Guide to Raising Venture Capital: Series A, B, and C Funding Explained.” It is a great read for those who may not be familiar with […]
It’s about three years since we last wrote about Blockdaemon, a New York City-based tech startup that facilitates and manages the deployment of nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks. At the time, Blockdaemon partnered with Citizens Reserve to help the startup quickly deploy nodes […]
For decades, lawyers had immunity from disruptive change; at least from anything outside their competitors. There was no great force rocking the boat. Every market player was happy to reap the rewards of inefficient processes that clients could do little […]
Overhaul, an Austin, Texas-based logistics tech startup, has raised $35 million Series B funding led by Macquarie Capital, with participation from Edison Partners and Avanta Ventures (a venture arm of CSAA Insurance Group). Overhaul will use the fresh capital infusion to […]
Today, with the rising cost of healthcare and drugs, patients continue to demand more transparent, affordable, and convenient pharmacy experiences and often turn to discount card solutions to meet their needs instead of their payer or PBM. Enter Truepill, a digital health […]
Every few decades an unexpected development in semiconductor availability will arrive to have a wide-reaching negative effect on the technology market. The last time this occurred was in 2011, where the Japanese earthquake created a limited supply for parts in […]
It’s been more than a year since we last wrote about Flipkart, a Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce tech startup. In 2018, Walmart Inc. invested $16 billion for a majority stake in the company. Just at the beginning of the covid-19 crisis in February 2020, Walmart […]
Four months ago, TikTok was caught harvesting and selling personal data of minor children without parents’ permission. The ByteDance-owned company later agreed to pay $92 million to settle the class-action lawsuits. The settlement, which lawyers in the case have called among […]
Croptimistic Technology, a Saskatchewan, Canada-based AgTech startup announced today it has closed $3.5M in Series A investment from Forage Capital Partners (Forage) to complement an additional $1.7M in funding from the founders and institutional debt. Croptimistic is the company behind SWAT (Soil, water, […]
Getir, an Istanbul, Turkey-based tech startup that provides on-demand delivery services, has raised $550 million in a Series D investment round, pushing the company’s valuation to a whopping $7.5 billion. Getir was last privately valued at $2.6 billion in a May funding round. The […]
Back in February, we wrote about Bill Gates after the Microsoft co-founder and Amazon Jeff Bezos invested in nuclear fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). CFS is an MIT spinoff research company that focuses on bringing fusion energy technology to the market. Unlike […]
With non-fungible token (NFT) mania sweeping across the Internet, new startups are answering the challenge to meet the growing demands for specialty NFT marketplaces. Even GameStop, the video game chain with brick-and-mortar game stores, wants a piece of the action. As we reported last […]
As employers scramble to fill open jobs, many companies are turning to EdTech startups to train new people and bring them to the workforce. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the training boom is Guild Education, a Denver, Colorado-based EdTech startup […]
