Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for today, Wednesday, February 12, 2020. Facebook’s WhatsApp now has 2 billion users worldwide, half a billion shy of Facebook’s monthly active users. Facebook’s WhatsApp officially hits 2 billion user milestone today. CEO […]
Battery Ventures, a 37-year old global, technology-focused investment firm, announced today it has closed two new funds worth a combined $2 billion to continue backing innovative technology companies worldwide in a variety of sectors. Battery closed Battery Ventures XIII, a […]
We live in a digital world where microseconds matter. That’s why the world’s largest organizations are turning to this obscure startup to power their time-sensitive applications at scale. Hazelcast is a San Mateo, CA-based startup and a provider of an open-source in-memory computing platform used for […]
For years, IT experts promised technology would solve the world’s information management problems, but 85% of business information is still “dark data,” potentially useful insights lost in a rising tide of disconnected documents, emails, Slack conversations, voice-to-text messages, and myriad […]
Andrew Yang, a respected tech leader and founder of Venture for America founder, has dropped out of the presidential race. The announcement ends his ambition, this time around, for the president of the United States. For some of you following […]
As SpaceX prepares to launch first astronauts, the space company announced today it has hired William “Bill” Gerstenmaier, the former NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations. He will be reporting to VP Hans Koenigsmann. SpaceX is only a couple of […]
Back in January, we wrote about GoDaddy when the world’s most popular domain registrar acquired South Africa-based social content startup Over to expand beyond domain names and websites. Now the biggest news in the industry in years. Today, GoDaddy announced it […]
Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for today, Tuesday, February 11, 2020. Google’s HR head to step down amid tension among employees. Google human resources chief Eileen Naughton is stepping down from her role amid growing tensions between […]
DocSynk, a Dallas-based healthcare AI startup, announced today it has raised a bridge funding to further grow its Artificial Intelligence Healthcare engine platform. The total amount of investment was not disclosed. The funding came from Chicago-based PE firm Colosseum Group. DocSynk […]
SpeeDx, a Sydney, Australia-based startup and the developer of innovative clinical diagnostics to support improved patient outcomes, has raised $15 million in additional series B equity investment from U.S.-based Northpond Ventures. This investment comes with a company value uptick of […]
Gento (formerly Nursing Without Walls), a Los Angeles-based that provides on-demand staffing and care delivery management to home health agencies and skilled nursing facilities through their platform and mobile app, today announced it has raised $5 million in Series A funding […]
Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for today, Monday, February 10, 2020. iPhone manufacturing in China is in jeopardy amid coronavirus outbreak. Coronavirus continues to spread around the globe. In addition to taking over 900 casualities, the virus […]
EmployStream, a provider of onboarding automation to the staffing industry, announced the close of its $7 million Series B funding round led by Plymouth Growth Partners, with support from several key investors including JumpStart, Rev1 Ventures, Ohio Innovation Fund and […]
Snowflake, the San Mateo, Calif.-based data warehousing cloud service provider Snowflake Computing, today announced $479 million in additional growth funding co-led by new investors, Dragoneer Investment Group and Salesforce Ventures. Existing Snowflake investors, including Altimeter Capital, ICONIQ Capital, Madrona Venture […]
A/O PropTech, Europe’s largest property technology venture capital firm, announced its official launch with €250 million capital to invest in startups disrupting real estate. PropTech backs and supports companies from late-stage seed to IPO. We’re comfortable with the rough imperfection of a new […]
BigProfiles, an Italian startup and a provider of SaaS B2B platform that enables companies to profile their customers and predict their behaviors with its proprietary Artificial Intelligence solutions, has closed $1.6 million (€1.5 million) investment to strengthen its leadership in the […]
With changing economy and a new rebelliousness amongst the workforce, we are witnessing a re-surging startup revolution. Depending on the source of data, over 627,000 new businesses open each year in the United States, according to estimates from SBA. Over the […]
Are you thinking of of starting a new business or startup only to find out that the domain name you wanted was no longer available for registration? You are not alone. Since the Internet gold rush started 37 years ago, […]
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded in Apple founded in 1976. Jobs was the ideas guy and handled the business side of things; Wozniak was the engineering guru. Jobs was later ousted from Apple after a failed boardroom coup. At just just […]
SaaSWorks, a Boston-based tech startup that provides a revenue operations and customer success solution for scaling subscription businesses, today announced it has received a $5 million investment led by Conversion Venture Capital along with prominent SaaS CEOs, CFOs and executives. “It’s […]
