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 […]
Oak9 is a Chicago-based tech startup that provides a cybersecurity SaaS platform for developers. Backed by a seed round of $5.9 million in funding, Oak9 today announced the launch of its Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security platform to help businesses accelerate […]
Mobile gaming continues to explode worldwide and represents one of the fastest-growing forms of digital entertainment, accounting for 52% of the global games market, which reached $177.8 billion in value in 2020 and is expected to surpass $200 billion in […]
E-commerce giant Etsy announced Wednesday that it is buying Gen-Z-focused fashion reseller Depop for $1.63 billion as part of its effort to attract younger shoppers. Depop is a U.K.-based second-hand fashion marketplace app that caters to a younger audience. Founded in 2011 […]
No day goes by without headlines about cyber-attacks and data breaches. Just last month, cyber hackers successfully hacked into Colonial Pipeline Co, the operator of America’s largest fuel pipeline system that takes fuel from the refineries of the Gulf Coast to the […]
Remittances into low and middle-income countries were worth $508 billion in 2020, according to an estimate from the World Bank. Early this month, Wise (formerly TransferWise) teamed up with Google Pay to allow users in the U.S. to send money to […]
Arabic is one of the widely spoken languages around the world. Today, it is estimated that there are more than 420 million Arabic speakers globally with 30 different dialects. Egypt has the highest population of Arabic speakers with the highest […]
Constellation Network announced a partnership with Givebox to help facilitate fiat to crypto payment processing as well as give money to charity. The partnership, which is in collaboration with the Stardust Collective, will enable Givebox to serve as an onramp for card payment […]
The timely detection of diseases is one of the biggest challenges in guiding consumers and patients to appropriate care, with under-diagnosis, misdiagnosis, and long patient journeys to diagnosis and care, unfortunately, being commonplace. In addition, global healthcare systems are overburdened, […]
For over three years now, we’ve featured thousands of startups around the world. For some reason, SpotOn slipped under our radar. SpotOn is a San Francisco-based payments and software startup redefining the merchant services industry. The startup was founded to bring together […]
