Startups

Every year, hundreds of (very) early-stage startups choose to participate in one of the startup programs of Station F, an iconic startup campus based in Paris. And Station F has shared a list of the 40 most promising startups as part of the Future 40 selection. Some of them participate in Station F

The startup founder journey can be lonely. Getting a startup off the ground requires countless hours of hard work, planning, and action. This is even more so the case for female founders. Becoming a founder has a steep learning curve, and you have to master many things to be successful. As a female

“Sober curious” and “mindful drinking” have become popular terms in recent years, with 47% of the U.S. adult population wanting to cut back on alcohol. Sunnyside, the app promoting healthy drinking habits, secured $11.5 million in Series A funding led by Motley Fool Venture

Vulcan Cyber, a company developing software to help enterprises detect vulnerabilities in their software stack, today announced that it raised $55 million in equity financing led by Maor Investments and Ten Eleven Ventures with participation from Dawn Capital and Wipro Ventures. The investment come

Jesse Chor grew up going with his grandfather and uncles to Montreal’s Chinatown to participate in their tanda collective. That's an informal peer-to-peer savings and lending network within a community of family, neighbors and friends. The concept, largely rooted in Mexican culture, has b

Remote, the HR tech company that allows companies to hire, manage and pay remote workers, is launching a remote job marketplace called Remote Talent. CEO and co-founder Job van der Voort said it seemed pretty obvious for someone named Job running a company called Remote to launch a remote job board

Good morning! We've got a full plate for you today, so let's get to it. Fast-delivery startup Getir announced last week that it was buying FreshDirect, an online grocery delivery company. FreshDirect was last valued at $300 million in 2020 — down significantly from the $517 million valuat

Airbnb has acquired a secretive new AI startup, GamePlanner.AI, the company announced this morning. CNBC reports that the purchase price was around $200 million, a figure that technewss was unable to confirm at publication time. GamePlanner was co-founded by Adam Cheyer and Siamak Hodjat. Cheyer f

AI image generator Stable Diffusion already has a lot of fans, and now those experimenting with the new AI technology to develop their own models have a place to share their work with other enthusiasts. A startup called Civitai — a play on the word Civitas, meaning community — has creat

One of the more interesting projects in tech today is the work being done to create conservative-leaning alternatives to major pieces of internet technology. Much of this effort has centered around social networking, with projects like Parler and Gab and Gettr becoming well-known to folks who pay a

Atlas, a 3D generative AI platform, is launching with $6 million in seed funding after two years in stealth. The funding consists of two rounds: a $4.5 million round led by 6th Man Ventures (6MV) and a $1.5 million round led by Collab+Currency. The platform partners with game developers and brands

Manufacturing platform Keychain announced an $18 million seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners this morning. Keychain seeks to use artificial intelligence to help brands find manufacturing partners. It was founded by Jordan Weitz, alongside Umang Dua and Oisin Hanrahan, who previously co-fo

Giskard is a French startup working on an open source testing framework for large language models. It can alert developers of risks of biases, security holes and a model's ability to generate harmful or toxic content. While there's a lot of hype around AI models, ML testing systems will als

E-commerce in Southeast Asia grew rapidly during the pandemic, and that momentum is continuing. A McKinsey report found that between now and 2026, the market is expected to triple at a compound growth rate of 22%, hitting $230 billion in gross merchandise volume. Not surprisingly, global brands are