Isn’t competition great? How else can two rivals come together and beat the competition, if not by joining forces? That’s exactly what BMW and Daimler did. Now, the luxury-car makers are setting aside their rivalry and merge together to fend off […]
Earlier this year we wrote about Plug and Play (PnP)’s launching of its second cohort program. At the time, PnP selected 25 startups to join its insurtech batch. Second on the list is a startup that is making insurance smarter using […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Wednesday, March 28. Trucking startup Convoy partners with Goodyear, surpasses 225 employees and 100K trucks. Convoy.com is reinventing the trucking industry with an on-demand service for regional […]
A company in Puerto Rico, is preparing to launch an electric motorized surfboard which can rise up above water and ‘fly’ over the water at the speed of 25 mph. Founded by a surfer turned mechanical engineer, the surfboard, (called ‘eFoil’) […]
Oscar Health, health insurance startup founded by Josh Kushner has raised $165 million from Alphabet and others. The funding will be used to deepen investment in technology platform and accelerate expansion, according to the company’s release. With this new funding, Oscar […]
Google has acquired the GIF platform startup Tenor (and its 300 million users) to strengthen its image search engine. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We’ve continued to evolve Google Images to meet both of these needs, and today […]
As Facebook users and the public expressed outraged about Facebook’s mishandling of users’ data and scrapping of text and call data from their phones, a new social sharing app that billed as an a new alternative to Facebook, is soaring in […]
Relativity Space (Relativity) is an orbital launch company that deploys and resupplies satellite constellations with industry-defining lead time and cost. The startup is disrupting 60 years of aerospace tradition by creating an entirely new process to build and fly rockets. Its […]
Auris Health, Inc. (“Auris Health”), formerly known as Auris Surgical Robotics, is developer of robotic microsurgical devices designed for ophthalmic procedures. The company is engaged in the development of surgical robotics and visualization technology for surgical applications that require very fine […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Tuesday, March 27. $852 million-startup Smartsheet has filed to go public three days after Dropbox’s successful IPO. Smartsheet, a $852.1 million collaboration software company, has filed to go public. […]
Raising funding for small businesses and startup can be a challenge. One startup is trying to change that. FintruX Network is a global P2P lending blockchain-based ecosystem, powered by Ethereum. FintruX Network aims to connect borrowers, lenders, and rated service agencies. FintruX […]
Effective tomorrow, Twitter will start banning cryptocurrency ads. A Twitter spokesperson said in a statement on Monday that the new policy will block all the initial coin offerings (ICOs) ads that use crowdfunding in order to generate new coins, in addition […]
Shares of Facebook continues to fall on Monday. Its shares fall by as much as 6 percent after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it is investigating the company’s data practices. Facebook stock later came back up and is now down […]
We wrote about Myriota early this morning about Boeing’s venture-capital investing in Australia-based Internet of Things (IoT) Myriota. This is in addition to $US15 million ($19.4 million) to launch satellites the size of shoe boxes to orbit 500 kilometers above Earth, […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Monday, March 26. Blockchain-based surveillance startup Faceter detects crime in real-time. Faceter claims it can use its decentralized surveillance technology “gives brains to cameras” by enabling them to […]
Imagine you are in coffee shop with a unsecured public Wi-Fi. How do you protect yourself without compromising your privacy? Meet Keezel. Keezel is the world’s first portable, one-button-only internet encryption device. Keezel uses VPN technology to secure and your […]
Back in February, we wrote about how Butterfly Network, an AI-based healthtech startup is revolutionizing how we think about ultrasound and turning the traditional medical imaging industry on its head with the development of a low-cost, better quality, portable ultrasound scanner […]
The NEM.io Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in Singapore with members across the globe. The Foundation is dedicated to the ongoing development of NEM blockchain technology and the promotion of a vibrant ecosystem of NEM users and developers in […]
Happy weekend! Here is a weekend roundup of top startup news of the week. Please subscribe to the TechStartups Newsletter using the form at the right corner of this page, if you want this weekly update in your inbox every […]
When Google CEO Sundar Pichai visited Lagos, Nigeria (the largest economy in Africa) for the first time in 2017, he announced the company’s plans to train 10 million Africans in digital skills over the next 5 years. He also announced Google’s […]
