Veego Software, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup that is putting an end to malfunctions in the connected homes, today announced the Veego Self-Care solution based on artificial intelligence (AI) and other advanced technologies, enabling real-time self-support in the connected home. The solution […]
Data-driven decision-making will profoundly change business, but most enterprises are still mired in data that’s too big and complex to understand and act on. The ability to successfully leverage data for analytics has long powered such industry bellwethers as Google, Facebook […]
Sysdig, a container security startup that enables companies to securely run cloud-native workloads in production, said today it has secured a massive $70 million in Series E round of funding that brings its total capital raised to $206 million. The round […]
Incline Equity Partners, a private equity firm investing in specialized light manufacturing, value-added distribution and business services companies, has closed with $1.2 billion of capital in funding for its latest private equity fund, Incline Equity Partners Fund V. The fund was oversubscribed above […]
MassMutual Ventures Holding, a return-focused corporate venture capital firm investing in seed to growth stage companies, today announced the launch of its second fund of $100 million for Southeast Asia, bringing its total capital under management to USD $350 million […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) is here, and it’s rapidly expanding. The idea to connect every imaginable object to the internet has been the dream of many companies. But, it comes with many challenges including connecting objects in locations with […]
You may not have heard of Personio, but it’s a major human resources, recruiting and payroll platform making waves across Europe, digitising the HR departments of almost 2,000 SME customers in more than 40 countries. Personio is a cloud-based HR management and […]
Millions of farmers around the world depend on about 270 million dairy cows to produce milk. However, dairy cows produce the manure, ammonia, methane, and nitrous oxide that are negatively impacting the climate, according to data from World Wide Life […]
Soft Robotics, a robotic automation startup for the factory of the future, has raised $23M Series B financing to accelerate growth and drive international expansion in core packaging and manufacturing markets. The round was co-led by Calibrate Ventures and Material Impact and includes […]
Despite marked progress on reducing poverty over the past decades, nearly half of the world’s population lives on less than $5.50 a day. Catalyst Fund is a new venture fund on a mission to address the issue head-on. The fund was created […]
AlturaSolutions, a Chicago, IL-base B2B public relations and communications firm, is launching a new marketing service beginning in 2020 called “The Brand Accelerator Program.” The new program combines a range of services designed to enhance brand exposure quickly, helping many […]
In Africa, only 3 million jobs are created every year when at least 20 to 30 million jobs will be needed to absorb its fast growing labor force in the coming years. In this context, unlocking entrepreneurship is a critical lever to […]
Canalyst, a Vancouver, Canada-based fintech startup with focused on modernizing equity research for fundamental investors, has closed a $20 million Series B financing to accelerate market expansion. The round was led by a strategic investor with participation from ScaleUP Ventures and existing investors […]
Not a day goes by without headlines on data breaches. The cost of data breach continues to skyrocket. According to a recent IBM study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, data breaches cost American companies on average more than $8 million per […]
Happy weekend, folks. It’s been really cold here with freezing rain. Anyway, it’s not clear why we missed the story of EQRx, a biotech startup that launched this week with $200 million in series A funding to develop patent-protected drugs that will […]
In the tech world, not a day goes by with headlines about unicorns, privately held startups valued at more than $1 billion. Now, there is a new club in town — the trillion-dollar tech club. Sorry, not any company can […]
Since the launch of Bitcoin on January 3, 2009, cryptocurrencies have gained a lot of popularity. Along with crytocurrencies are also the emergence of cryptocurrency trading platforms. As of January 2020, there are over 4,900 cryptocurrencies that operate in over 20,000 markets, […]
As part of its effort to narrow the gender and ethnic gap in the startup world, Citi announced today the launch of the $150 million Citi Impact Fund that will make equity investments in “double bottom line” private sector companies that have […]
We wrote about TradeShift back in November 2018 when trade platform launched Tradeshift Pay and partnered with HSBC and major banks to solve the $9 trillion global commerce problem. This week, TradeShift announced it has $240 million in equity and debt […]
Depending on the data you are looking at, the US commercial real estate (CRE) market is estimated to be around $2.1 trillion or 36 percent of the total value of commercial real estate. It consists of at least 9.5 billion square feet […]
