Data is the lifeblood of the digital economy. Organization lives and dies by the quality of its data. This is even more important in the financial sector where data is key for making real-time investment decisions. Alternative data is a type of […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Monday, July 29, 2019. TikTok’s parent company is making its own smartphone. ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok is partnering with Smartisan Technology to develop its own smartphone. […]
Sierra Energy, a waste-to-energy gasification startup company, has closed a $33 million Series A round to further develop and commercialize its revolutionary FastOx® gasification technology, which converts virtually any waste into clean, renewable energy and fuels without burning. The investment round […]
Trinity Cyber, a cybersecurity startup that provides proactive, adaptive and invisible military-grade cybersecurity services, announced Monday it has closed $23 million in funding from top institutional investors led by Intel Capital. In conjunction with the funding, Trinity Cyber also announced that […]
Thriva, a blood testing startup that has developed home blood test kits for people to measure things such as their hormone and mineral level, has secured $7.35 million (£6 million) Series A funding round. The funding will be used to support Thriva as […]
Back in March, we wrote about Grab when the Southeast Asian ride-hailing startup raised $1.46 billion investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund. Today, Grab announced it will invest $2 billion into Indonesia over the next five years, using funds Japan’s SoftBank Group to […]
Back in May, we wrote about the Newchip when the startup accelerator launched its first equity-free accelerator program to connect startups with investors. Now, the Texas-based investment marketplace aggregator announced the graduation of 42 startups from its Q2 Accelerator cohort after successfully completingg the […]
Synspective, a Japanese space startup providing solutions for customers’ challenges with utilizing and integrating data from “SAR” satellite constellations and big data, has raised $100 million in funding to strengthen the its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR ) satellite development, manufacturing systems, […]
Techstars, in partnership with three Turinese foundations, announced the launch of its Smart Mobility Accelerator, the first Techstars accelerator in Italy. Based in Turin, Italy, the Techstars Smart Mobility Accelerator is focused on transformative smart mobility technologies with a concentration on smart […]
SoftBank Group is at it again. This time, the Japanese tech giant is unveiling second technology megafund even bigger than its nearly $100 billion Vision Fund 2 to invest in technology startups developing artificial intelligence technologies around the world, SoftBank announced Friday. […]
OSF Ventures, a division of OSF HealthCare, today launched a second venture capital fund of $75 million to continue its strategy of supporting new technology, devices and services that offer improved and more cost efficient health care. The announcement came […]
Minute.ly, the Tel-Aviv and New York-based AI-driven video enhancement startup, has closed $8 million financing round to develop its AI-powered solutions and accelerate global expansion in order to meet growing customer demands for best-in-class video technology. The round was led by Ansonia Holdings, […]
Brainly, an education technology startup and the world’s largest peer-to-peer learning community for students, parents and teachers, today announced it has raised a new funding round of $30 million to enhance its platform user experience and invest further in the quality […]
Every day on this site, we write about startup raising millions of dollars in funding from venture capitalists. But what you don’t hear very often are startups doing it the old-fashioned way–bootstrapping with little money and accelerating in an organic […]
Hippo, an insurtech that’s transforming the home insurance market with a simpler process and smarter coverage, has raised $100 million Series D funding round to fuel the expansion of Hippo’s geographic footprint to more than 80 percent of the U.S. homeowner […]
Even though decades of robust research demonstrates both intrinsic motivation to read and print book ownership strongly shape kids’ reading achievement than using any instructional technique, however, few existing educational software products address them. Mia Learning is an educational technology startup […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. Gusto raises $200 million in Series D funding. Gusto, a San Francisco-based people platform for small businesses to take care of their teams, has […]
Millions of working families in America lack access to safe and affordable loans and are vulnerable to predatory lenders. Aura is a San Francisco, California-based financial technology startup on a mission to reverse this trend by providing affordable, credit-building loans to America’s […]
HeartHero, the maker of a free mobile app that empowers everyday citizens to save lives by learning CPR and getting notified if someone nearby is in need, announced today it has close raised an undisclosed amount for its Series A funding […]
EdTech startup MAXIMUM Education, has raised $6.8 million (RUB 390M) Series B round to enhance growth and launch new products. The round was led by Skolkovo Digital, an investment fund created for direct investments in fast-growing tech companies in Russia, with participation […]
