The global pandemic has accelerated the shift to remote work as many U.S. businesses give teams the freedom and space to choose where they work from, ensuring safety while also improving quality of life and operational costs. Without the need […]
Many young people face significant barriers, especially when it comes to secondary education, which is crucial for employment, well-being, and citizenship. Ongoing support and investment in education, such as funding of learning supplies and establishing measures for inclusion or removing […]
Progress, an enterprise software provider, today announced plans to acquire Seattle-based software automation platform Chef for $220 million in cash. Progress said the acquisition will help the company to extend its product offerings in DevOps and DevSecOps with market-leading infrastructure automation. The […]
The last time we wrote about Xometry was back in July when the Maryland-based On-demand manufacturing marketplace startup launched a 2D technical drawings marketplace. Xometry is changing the way you order custom parts with custom manufacturing on-demand services for 3D printing, CNC […]
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have been especially badly affected by the events of 2020, making the new release by business management app vcita particularly timely. Announced last week, Packages is a service that enables SMBs to better highlight, bundle, […]
Early this month, we wrote about Google after the tech giant launched its first accelerator for women-led tech startups with a focus on women founders in the United States and Canada. The program is part of Google’s effort to help female founders build […]
Superhero Capital, a Helsinki, Finland-based venture capital firm today announced the first close of its $39.1 million (€30M) second fund at €30M to invest in early-stage startups in Finland and the Baltics. The fund, which targets startups that create competitive advantages by […]
We wrote about AnyVision back in January 2019 after the AI-based visual intelligence software startup announced new funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Qualcomm Ventures to accelerate growth. AnyVision is an AI design and development company that specializes in face, object, and human […]
Always-on smart sensing products such as IoT and IIoT devices, smart speakers, voice-activated TV remotes, and hearables, consume a large amount of power and eventually drain batteries. These devices are continuously consuming power while waiting for triggers such as voice to […]
mLogica, a Santa Ana, California-based tech startup and a provider of information technology solutions to organizations, today announced it has raised strategic investment as part of Series A funding to meet the growing demand for enterprise cloud modernization and big data analytic solutions. The […]
PicnicHealth, a San Francisco-based healthtech startup that makes medical records easy to access by using data to power the next frontier of medical research, has raised $35 million in equity financing to accelerate medical research based on real-World data. The round includes […]
Back in April 2019, we wrote an article titled, “Why Aren’t Women-Led Startups Getting More Funding?” The article was about a woman-owned startup based in San Francisco and how the founder linked her inability to raise enough funding to her gender. […]
The global powered exoskeleton market is expected to exceed $11.5 billion by 2030 with full-body, powered industrial exoskeletons comprising almost 50% of that amount, according to research firm ABI Research. Sarcos Robotics is a Salt Lake City, Utah-based robotics startup that develops […]
Pyramid Biosciences, a Boston-based biotech startup developing new precision therapies focused on the modulation of cell surface receptors, today announced it has raised $28 million in funding to accelerate the growth of Pyramid Biosciences’ programs focused on novel tropomyosin receptor […]
We covered Expense Robot back in March after their seed-round-announcement when the Swiss fintech startup raised $1.79 million to automate expense and business credit card processing using AI. A lot has changed since then. In an email to TechStartup early this […]
ACTO is a Toronto-based drug and medical device company that uses AI-powered mobile experiences and agency partnerships. ACTO helps to improve treatment access by disrupting how drugs and devices are commercialized globally. Today, ACTO announced it has closed $11.5 million Series […]
We wrote about Y Combinator (YC) back in June after the startup incubator relaunched its Startup School as a Continuous Program. Y Combinator is a startup incubator that provides funding for early-stage startups. Since its inception in 2005, over 2,000 companies have […]
We covered Palantir Technologies back in February after the Peter Thiel-backed big data analytics startup secured a four-year contract worth as much as $823 million to provide software to the Department of Defense. Just a week earlier, Palantir won a whopping $800 million Pentagon battlefield […]
AccrueMe is a New York-based fintech startup revolutionizing the lending industry. AccrueMe offers growth capital with no interest payments and no loss of ownership. Unlike any other type of financing available today, AccrueMe doubles an Amazon seller’s capital with no […]
Launching a new startup is not an easy task. According to reports, 90 percent of all startups will fail. However, starting your startup in a business-friendly environment can increase your chance of success. There are a lot of factors that determine what […]
