Startups

It’s M&A season in a tough tech jobs market. This morning, Beamer, a Boulder, Colorado-based company developing tools for businesses to reach users through their apps (e.g. via push notifications), announced that it’s acquiring Userflow, a user onboarding software startup, for $60 m

In another sign of the scramble to accelerate the uptake and transformative potential of artificial intelligence, Dutch recycling giant Bollegraaf Group is making a strategic investment in U.K. AI startup Greyparrot, which uses computer vision for waste analytics. The veteran manufacturer of MRFs

Imagine you work for a car rental agency or a package delivery company and you're in charge of a fleet of vehicles. If you're switching to EV vehicles, it becomes more complex to manage your vehicles due to long charging time and limited charging point availabilities. Guided Energy, a Frenc

Crowdfunding is to financing what Uber is to taxis or what Airbnb is to hotels: Using the wisdom and resources of the crowd to raise money. Usually, crowdfunding brings many smaller investors or donors together to fund a business, startup or personal initiative. The concept is based on the collecti

Adam Neumann, who co-founded flexible workspace provider WeWork in 2010 and notoriously stepped down nine years later, is attempting to buy the company out of bankruptcy, according to multiple reports. In a letter published by The New York Times today, lawyers for Neumann, his latest startup Flow G

SUMA Wealth now has $2.2 million in new capital to continue developing financial tools, content and live and digital activations for young U.S. Latinos to build wealth. Radicle Impact led the investment with participation from Vamos Ventures, OVO fund and American Heart Association Impact fund. The

Most internal bug fixing workflows are entirely disconnected from the activity that triggered the bug, consisting mostly of written reports from users. Jam's founders wanted to change that by automatically collecting a bunch of information related to the bug and delivering a complete package to

Digital transformation has disrupted many sectors, but construction isn’t one of them. At least not yet, and there are a number of startups trying to become the first to pull it off. But the sector, especially in developing regions like Latin America, has a plethora of problems that need addr

Stellar Sleep, a startup providing a first-digital tool for chronic insomnia management, raised $6 million in seed funding. In just the U.S. alone, poor sleeping habits not only impact the economy to hundreds of billions of dollars, but can also lead to health problems like heart disease and depres

Finally, a fintech startup helping businesses automate accounting and finance functions, secured another $10 million in venture capital. technewss previously reported on the company in 2022 when it raised $95 million in equity and debt to roll out small business lending and bookkeeping capabilitie

Nigerian online teaching platform Klas has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding led by Ingressive Capital, with participation from Techstars, HoaQ, and several angel investors. Founded in 2022 by Nathan Nwachuku and Lekan Adejumo, Klas enables users to create and sell e-books, courses, and live cl

Early-stage European venture capital (VC) firm Episode 1 has closed its third fund at £76 million ($95 million), as the London-based investor turns to in-house “data-driven deal sourcing tools” to find the next big thing. Founded in 2013, Episode 1 has a handful of exits to its name fr

The recent surprise announcement that Meta will soon be shutting down its Facebook Groups API is throwing some businesses and social media marketers into disarray. On January 23, Meta announced the release of its Facebook Graph API v19.0, which included the news that the company would be deprecatin

Weaveworks, a startup focusing on cloud native development tooling, announced today on LinkedIn that it would be shutting down, a sad day for any startup. “I am very sad to announce — officially — that Weaveworks will be closing its doors and shutting down commercial operations. Customers and