Investments in healthcare and Life Sciences startups continue to soar. Now, the sector is boosted by today’s announcement from Sofinnova Partners, a leading European venture capital firm based in Paris, London and Milan and specialized in Life Sciences. Today, Sofinnova announced […]
Back in July of last year, Microsoft’s M12 announced its first global competition for women entrepreneurs. The competition was carried out in collaboration with the EQT Ventures fund and SVB Financial Group. The mission of Female Founders Competition is to […]
Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, October 16, 2019. SoftBank in talks with JP Morgan on WeWork bailout as cash is expected to dry up by mid-November. A little over two weeks ago, WeWork […]
Strapi, a Paris, France-based open-source CMS, raises $4M in seed funding to deliver on its vision of making content accessible to any platform while offering the only fully open-source, JavaScript-based, community-powered and 100% customizable Headless CMS which is entirely free […]
Pensando Systems, a cloud startup founded by a group of four ex-Cisco Systems Inc engineers, emerged from stealth with $278 million investment to fund new hardware and software products to help the data centers of customers like investment banks function […]
Just about 20 years ago, buying clothing online was unheard of. Now, with the arrival of mobile apps, buying custom clothing online is now a commonplace. Now online sites like iTailor provides tailors’ measurements and create custom suits, shirts, shoes […]
Rho Business Banking, the digital banking platform from fintech startup founded by former Point72 and Deutsche Bank alum Everett Cook and British-Canadian 3X entrepreneur Alex Wheldon, today announced the formal launch of its digital banking product built to accelerate high-growth startups. […]
Companies and business owners will tell you that retaining your customers is as important as attracting new ones. User retention is more than just keeping your mobile app users. It’s about building loyal relationships that drive revenue growth. CleverTap is a tech […]
Block Matrix, the UK blockchain tech startup behind the app that lets you easily send Bitcoin to anyone with a social media account, has raised $2 million (£1.6 million) investment for the development of new Bitcoin app that could one day […]
By 2025, the world is expected to create and replicate 163ZB of data, of which a significant amount is unstructured language data, according to estimates from research firm IDC. Enter Relative Insight, a language processing tech startup that helps B2B and […]
Labrador Systems, a robotics startup pioneering a new generation of personal robots to improve the quality of life for millions of people, has closed a $2M Pre-Seed round led by SOSV’s hardware accelerator HAX, in partnership with Centrica Hive, with participation from Amazon’s Alexa […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Tuesday, October 15, 2019. Amazon is eating into Google’s dominance in search ads. Google continues its reign as the online search behemoth. The search giant still by far […]
Abuse of prescription opioids has contributed in the deaths of over 400,000 Americans in the last decade. To help fund trials of non-opioid pain therapy, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has awarded a $15 million grant to Davis, California-based biotech […]
Clean energy innovations are poised to disrupt markets and achieve extraordinary growth in the coming decade. Clean Energy Ventures (CEV) is an investor in early stage clean energy innovations. The firm invests in companies commercializing disruptive clean energy technologies and business model […]
The construction equipment rental industry, a $55 billion industry in the US, is comprised of thousands of businesses – 80% of which are independent owners. Enter Gearflow, a construction equipment and parts marketplace for dealers, OEMs, contractors, and parts sellers […]
Cashforce, a Belgium-based fintech startup that is focused on the improvement and automatization of Cash and Treasury processes in medium to large enterprises, has closed $5.5 million (€5 million) in Series A funding to accelerate global growth and presence in new […]
Ride-hailing giant Uber is buying a majority ownership stake in Latin America grocery delivery startup Cornershop. The startup currently operates in Chile, Mexico, Peru and Toronto. The financial term of the deal was not disclosed. The deal, expected to close […]
Facebook Libra was first announced on June 18th as a game-changing cryptocurrency that will upend the US dollars. Now, in a blow to Facebook, five more corporate backers, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, eBay and Mercado Pago joined PayPal in announcing they […]
Avant Global, an active Venture Capital investor for the last decade, primarily focused in Seed to Series A financing rounds, announced a partnership with White Field Capital Partners (“WFCP”) to launch a $200 Million private equity growth fund. White Field AG Growth […]
“Study the Great Nation” or “Xuexi Qiangguo,” a Chinese app pushing Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s ideology, has flaws that could potentially allow Beijing to control hundreds of millions of users’ smartphone, according to analysis of the the app by a German […]
