Startups

Hydrogen suffers from the classic chicken-and-egg problem: There's not enough demand to coax suppliers into the game, and there's not enough supply to facilitate sufficient demand. One startup thinks it has a solution for both sides. Chicago-based Celadyne has developed a na

I've long argued that VCs getting excited about climate change is scary and that the goal of a startup is to stop existing. But I haven't been particularly successful at outlining what startup founders can actually do to build a more sustainable company in a world hurtling toward a climate

It's no fun as a customer to have an interaction with a bot when it's clearly a bot with which you're engaging. Rasa is a startup that claims to have developed the infrastructure to give developers at large enterprises the ability to build “robust” generative conversational AI assis

If you think growing leaves is easy, think again. Lettuce isn't the world's most challenging crop, but as any farmer knows, there are plenty of problems that pop up between planting and harvest. The gamut runs from pests to pathogens and rain — both too little and too much.

Immersion, a company specializing in haptic feedback tech, has settled a lawsuit with Meta over the latter’s use of touch-feedback in its Quest VR headsets. In a press release, Immersion said that it had signed a license with Meta to make Immersion's patents available to Meta and its affi

One of the big problems companies face as they try to use data to solve business problems has been the lag between the time the data comes in and when it's actually useful for applications. In other words moving it from the database like Postgres into a data warehouse like Snowflake. It's a

Spatial computing, climate tech and applications of AI technology join the newly announced list of startup incubator Y Combinator’s newest request for startups, announced on Wednesday. In a blog post penned by YC Managing Director Dalton Caldwell, the organization put out a call for the types

Bold, a financial technology company building an electronic payments infrastructure in Colombia, raised $50 million in Series C funding in a round led by existing investor General Atlantic. International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, joined existing investors InQLab and Ama

Mushrooms are having a moment. Whether it's in the form of a functional beverage, using the mushroom root to make alternative protein, creating leather-like materials or just the mushroom itself, the fungi is gaining an audience. Spacegoods is the latest startup to join this craze. The London-b

Roam, an EV startup based in Kenya, has raised $24 million in a Series A round, including up to $10 million debt commitment from the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), to scale the production of electric motorcycles and buses. Equator, an Africa-focused climate tech VC fund,

Foundry Group, an 18-year-old venture firm with nearly $3.5 billion in assets under management, has quietly decided to shut down and not raise any more funds. The move was unexpected considering that the firm announced a $500 million fund last year. Boulder, Colorado-based Foundry first announced t

There are quite a few apps that let you log the movies, TV shows and books that you have watched and read. Some of them are indie apps that take advantage of various online databases. Some of them, like Letterboxd, Goodreads and Trakt, are full-fledge services with large communities of users. Memor

A Y Combinator-backed startup called Cambio is bringing AI to the banking world in a surprising way: It’s putting AI bots on the phone with companies and consumers. The startup began by offering an AI-powered service that negotiated debt collections on behalf of consumers, which helped around

What's more rewarding for an angel investor than paper returns in a startup? An acquisition that turns those paper returns into a cash payout while still maintaining shares in the company. “The return after dilution was eight times my investment,” said Selma Ribica in an interview with Tech