Startups

The investment arm of the U.K. retail bank M&G has led a funding of $340 million into Udaan, a business-to-business e-commerce startup, in one of the largest financing rounds secured by an Indian startup in 2023. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which helps merchants in smaller Indian citie

Berlin-based climate startup ecoworks is using digital technologies, AI and industrial robots to tackle a huge and critical problem: Energy inefficient budings. Around three-quarters of budings in Europe are deemed energy inefficient, per the startup, whe around half of the 315 mlion residential un

Sophie Alcorn, attorney, author and founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley, California, is an award-winning Certified Specialist Attorney in Immigration and Nationality Law by the State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. Sophie is passionate about transcending borders, expanding opport

What happens when you feed a few thousand pitch decks to an AI, analyze them all, and figure out what the most common problems are for founders trying to raise early-stage funding? Well, I decided to find out. A while back, I built a tool that would automatically analyze a pitch deck and give you f

Verve Motion, a startup building a robotic “exosuit” designed to help workers complete physically demanding tasks in factories and other like environments, today announced that it raised $20 million in a Series B round led by Safar Partners with participation from Cybernetix Ventures, C

Aye Finance, an Indian startup that offers its digital lending platform to small firms, has raised $37.18 million in a fresh funding round led by British International Investment, as it looks to continue to help micro enterprises grow their businesses and employees expand their incomes. The all-equ

Using the right tool for the job can make life a lot easier, and fundraising is already hard enough without having to push that boulder uphill. Customer relationship management (CRM) software isn't just for managing customer relationships anymore. More and more startups are leveraging CRM syste

Pixelynx, an Animoca Brands-owned metaverse company co-founded by DJ and producer Deadmau5, announced today its newest suite of tools for its flagship product Korus, an AI-powered music creation platform where you can remix content using AI and licensed stem files made by artists and music labels,

Geothermal startup Quaise Energy is raising a new funding round, technewss+ has exclusively learned. The company filed new paperwork yesterday with the SEC, stating that it had raised $13 million of an expected $25 million. The new round will be priced, Quaise's co-founder and

The application of generative AI in the workplace is a long game, and we're in the very early stages. Most businesses looking for ways to leverage AI are in uncharted territory — either experimenting with pilot programs or still exploring ways to meaningfully incorporate the technology into t

Identification requirements, high fees and a language gap have long been barriers to preventing some Latino immigrants from opening a banking account in the United States. Comun wants to change that. The New York-based neobank is the latest to provide banking services customized to the needs of imm

Jitjatjo, a gig marketplace through which businesses can book workers with as little as an hour's notice, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Morningside Technology Ventures. The new cash, which brings Jitjatjo’s total raised to around $65 million

Tribe Capital is in talks to lead a $75 million to $100 million funding round into the logistics aggregator Shiprocket, according to a person familiar with the matter. This is a notable financing deliberation at a time when most Indian startups are struggling to raise capital. The funding talks are

Many companies already use generative AI tools, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which can help improve workers’ performance by as much as 40% compared with workers who don’t use it. However, only businesses with large engineering teams can build their own AI workforces. An Australia-based