Startups

Since the market corrected in 2022, late-stage funding rounds have been few and far between. It’s been hard to predict what is still attractive to investors in the later stages of the venture market or what any of the existing “unicorns” are worth today. The secondary market there

Investors are betting that consumer trading of equity and crypto is rebounding and are consequently pushing the value of some former startups higher. For a great number of private fintech startups that operate businesses similar to companies like Coinbase and Robinhood, this is great news. Consumer

Kenyan insurtech Lami Technologies in February last year announced its acquisition of Bluewave, another startup within the insurance space, to expand its product offerings and enable it to scale into new markets in Africa — but it has now emerged that the deal fell through months later. TechC

Texas has been historically known for its oil booms. Today the state is perhaps better known as a magnet for tech companies and tech talent, especially in its capital city of Austin. But with some startups pulling up stakes, and critical industry participants curtailing their activity in Austin, th

Retro is a super interesting social app that helps you share photos and catch up with long-distance friends, family members and everyone who matters in your life. And today, the company is shipping a major update with a handful of new features. Retro is now also available on Android and in more pla

Long before most of us were thinking about large language models, DataCebo co-founders Kalyan Veeramachaneni and Neha Patki were creating an open source library called Synthetic Data Vault, or SDV for short. The company's roots go back to 2016 when both were working in the MIT Data to AI Lab. T

With the news that Microsoft's Copilot is getting OpenAI's latest models and a new code interpreter, it's clear the battle over the future of AI is increasingly being fought at the developer and engineering level. If you can get developers hooked on “your” AI Copilot, then you will

Most of the world’s top-valued private companies are software companies. That’s not surprising — innovations in AI, social media, and e-commerce thrill users and attract huge investments. But while technological innovation gets most of the glory, operational innovation is the next gia

The United States has long had an affordable housing crisis, but it's been exacerbated as of late by a surge in mortgage interest rates and low inventory. The problem is especially acute for lower-income families. One Portland, Maine-based startup is out to help address the prob

While working at Coursera and later Google over the past decade, there were many times when Jiquan Ngiam would see an engineering function that could be automated to support non-developers. However, there were never enough resources to do that. Ngiam got together with five friends earlier this year

Pimento is a new French startup that is using generative AI in an interesting way, as the company focuses on the first step of creative processes — ideation, brainstorming and moodboarding. And the company recently raised a $3.2 million (€3 million) funding round from an interesting list of inv

African corporate cards and spend management platform Bujeti has raised $2 million in seed funding. The startup, involved with how African businesses, including SMBs, startups and enterprises, manage and handle finances, received this capital from lead investor Y Combinator and other backers, inclu

You might not be familiar with the name Tomorro, but it is actually not a new startup. Tomorro is a French contract management platform that originally started as Leeway. And today, the company is announcing its new brand and an $11.9 million funding round (€11 million). The reason why Leeway is

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