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StarTree raises $24 million in funding to usher in a new era of user-facing analytics
Nickie Louise Posted On May 5, 2021


StarTree, a Silicon Valley-based tech startup, today announced it has raised $24 million in Series A funding led by Bain Capital Ventures and GGV Capital, with investment from existing investor CRV. The startup will use the new capital to build and […]


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Israeli-founded data storage startup VAST Data triples valuation to $3.7 billion after raising $83M in funding led by Tiger Global
Nickie Louise Posted On May 4, 2021


VAST Data, a New York-based storage infrastructure startup announced Tuesday that it has raised $83 million in Series D funding led by investment giant Tiger Global Management. The round, which triples the company’s valuation in one year to $3.7 billion, making it a […]


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Security tech startup Vanta secures $50M in Series A funding led by Sequoia to automate security monitoring
Nickie Louise Posted On May 4, 2021


As the SaaS market expanded to more than $150 billion in 2020, the risks and costs associated with security breaches have similarly expanded. In 2020, in the United States alone, more than 150 million people were affected by data breaches. […]


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London-based gaming startup GameBake launches to shakeup global games distribution and help publishers take IPs to new markets
Nickie Louise Posted On May 4, 2021


GameBake is a London, England-based tech startup and an end-to-end distribution platform for mobile games which helps publish games in new markets and beyond the big two stores. The startup is already working with platform partners such as Huawei’s AppGallery […]


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Ireland-based biotech startup Cumulus Neuroscience raises $8.3M in funding to accelerate the development of life-changing CNS therapies for patients
Nickie Louise Posted On May 4, 2021


Cumulus Neuroscience (formerly known as BrainWaveBank) is a Belfast, Ireland-based biotech startup developing faster and more effective tools to help solve the biggest healthcare challenges in neurodegeneration and psychiatry. Cumulus has created a next-generation integrated physiological and digital biomarker platform. In clinical trials, Cumulus […]


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MIT spinoff startup Emvolon raises $1.5M seed funding to convert wasted natural gas into usable energy
Nickie Louise Posted On May 3, 2021


Flaring is the wasteful practice of burning natural gas, produced from oil wells that can not be economically taken to market. An estimated 150 billion cubic meters per year are flared into the air, equivalent to 275 million metric tons […]


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Chicago-based tech startup Catch Co. catches $38 million Series B funding round to modernize the fishing industry
Nickie Louise Posted On May 3, 2021


More than 50 million Americans fish every year. In 2017, 16.5% of the U.S. population, ages 6 and up, went fishing at least once. In 2017, 49.1 million people went fishing at least once, according to data from Outdoor Industry. Catch […]


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Verizon sells Yahoo (including TechCrunch) and other media assets to private equity firm Apollo for $5 billion
Nickie Louise Posted On May 3, 2021


TechCrunch is changing hands again. In an announcement this morning, Verizon said it’s selling its Media group to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion. The sale allows Verizon to offload properties from the former internet empires of […]


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Australia-based tech startup SafetyCulture joins the unicorn club at a $1.7 billion valuation after raising $76.5M in funding to help companies achieve safer workplaces
Nickie Louise Posted On May 3, 2021


SafetyCulture, a Queensland, Australia-based tech startup that empowers workers to make safety and quality a priority and improve workplace standards, today announced it has $76.5 million (A$99 million) a $1.7 billion (A$2.2 billion) valuation, making the 7-year old startup a member of the highly […]


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Vaccitech, the biotech startup behind AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine developed using an altered form of chimpanzee cold virus, tumbles 20% in Nasdaq IPO debut
Nickie Louise Posted On May 1, 2021


Vaccitech is an Oxford, U.K.-based biotech startup developing vaccines and immunotherapies for infectious diseases and cancer, such as hepatitis B, HPV, and prostate cancer. Vaccitech owns the technology used to develop the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. A spinout of Oxford University, Vaccitech […]


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Bill Gates turned his $55 million vaccine investment in Pfizer’s partner, BioNTech, into over $550 million in just under two years
Nickie Louise Posted On April 30, 2021


Who said saving lives is not a lucrative business? Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has been making the headline news since the coronavirus pandemic early last year. The New York-based Pfizer was founded in 1849 by Christina Warren. Today, the 172-year old company is […]


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Indonesia’s ride-hailing tech startup Gojek to make every car and motorcycle on its platform an electric vehicle (EV) by 2030
Nickie Louise Posted On April 30, 2021


“Innovate or die” is a popular phrase first coined by the renowned Peter Drucker, who was hailed as the father of modern management. But as Harvard Business Review rightly pointed out, the origin of the phrase is a matter of […]


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Artificial intelligence startup Actuate raises $8M funding for gun-detection AI security tech to keep society safer from gun threats
Nickie Louise Posted On April 29, 2021


We wrote about Actuate back in 2019 after the artificial intelligence startup rebranded from Aegis AI to its current name. Today, gun violence is spiking at schools, grocery stores, workplaces, and industrial facilities, and security systems meant to support security […]


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New York-based tech startup Firstbase bags $13M Series A funding to let companies track and manage physical equipment assets
Nickie Louise Posted On April 29, 2021


Firstbase, a New York-based tech startup and a Saas provider of remote infrastructure for global teams, today announced $13 million in Series A funding to fuel its rapid growth plans through hiring, product development, and increased customer deployment. The round was led […]


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Crypto startup Paxos joins the unicorn club at a $2.4 billion valuation after raising $300M in funding to grow its blockchain infrastructure platform
Nickie Louise Posted On April 29, 2021


As bitcoin surges past $60,000, cryptocurrency startups see renewed interest from investors who want to take advantage of the current momentum for fear of missing out (FOMO). Regardless of your view on Bitcoin, no one can deny the potential of the […]


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Justin Zhu, founder and CEO of $2 billion tech startup Iterable, fired for “microdosing” on LSD at work
Nickie Louise Posted On April 28, 2021


Iterable is a $2 billion tech startup founded eight years ago by Justin Zhu and Andrew Boni to enable brands to create, execute and optimize cross-channel campaigns with unparalleled data flexibility. Iterable is used by leading brands including Zillow, SeatGeek, and Box […]


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New York-based tech startup Ergatta scores $30M for its connected home fitness brand and gamified rowing workouts
Nickie Louise Posted On April 28, 2021


At-home fitness continues to surge in popularity, with strong VC investment flowing in the space. Deep-pocket investors are also paying attention to the fitness space. In recent months, investors are betting on home fitness’s continued success well beyond the pandemic. […]


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Amsterdam-based MessageBird “flies” with $1 billion in funding; also acquires commercial email platform startup SparkPost in a $600 million deal
Nickie Louise Posted On April 28, 2021


Late last year, MessageBird, an Amsterdam-based tech startup and a provider of a cloud communications platform that connects enterprises to their global customers, raised $200 million in Series funding to meet the growing demands for its Omnichannel Platform-as-a-Service (OPaaS). The […]


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Alchemy, a Coinbase-backed tech startup raises $80 million in Series B funding to power the NFT boom
Nickie Louise Posted On April 28, 2021


Back in January, we wrote about Alchemy after the Coinbase-backed tech startup partnered with Crypto.com to power its developer platform, further expanding the Crypto.com Chain support ecosystem. For those of you who don’t know Alchemy, it’s the world’s most powerful blockchain developer […]


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Space tech startup OneWeb raises $550 million in new funding to bring Internet connectivity to everyone, everywhere
Nickie Louise Posted On April 28, 2021


It’s been over two years since we last wrote about OneWeb, a global communications startup company with a mission to bring connectivity to everyone, everywhere, through a global satellite constellation. Back then, OneWeb secured $1.25 billion from Japanese giant SoftBank to mass-produce high-speed internet […]


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