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Volteras aims to be the connective tissue between electric vehicles and everything they might touch — from chargers and home batteries to energy retailers and mapping apps. While flying under the radar for three years, the London-based startup tells technewss that it has raised about $2.9 milli

The world is still coming to terms with Hamas' deadly attacks on Israelis last weekend — and everything else that has unfolded so far in the aftermath, including the barrage of retaliation strikes on Gaza. Undoubtedly, the ramifications for the technology ecosystem pale in comparison to t

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. A few months ago, Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit, tweeted that if he could go back in time and do one thing differently when he was building Reddit, he would have spent significantly less time attending events.

Good morning! I'm Karyne Levy, managing editor of technewss+, and I'm very excited to be here. We've got quite a lineup for you today, beginning with some key moments from the Sam Bankman-Fried trial. Our reporter Jacquelyn Melinek has been at the courthouse every day; you can check ou

When British prime minister Rishi Sunak appeared in front of the hastily assembled press on September 20, the letter-crammed slogan on his lectern caused the country to squint: “Long-term decisions for a brighter future,” it read. We now know, of course, there was little in the speech t

"1697162860.112239" tabindex="-1" role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-qa="virtual-list-item" data-item-key="1697162860.112239"> Stash, an investing app, is taking advantage of a tool that's been around for some time – a convertible note. The company told technewss exclusively that

Tradeshift, a late-stage fintech startup that has raised over $1 billion in venture and debt, has dismissed its co-founder Christian Lanng, citing “serious allegations of sexual assault and harassment” and “gross misconduct on multiple grounds,” according to a company statement posted on Tu

Devialet isn't like any other tech company — its products are at the intersection of audio engineering and luxury. That's why its new wireless earbuds with active noise cancellation don't look like other earbuds. This isn't a mass market product. When I covered the product launch

Wait, is this even physically possible?” Fundraising is hard for every startup, but only deep tech startups face questions like this from VCs. Innovation often does not come without issues, and there are problems regardless of how good your concept is, or how superior your technology is.

Two of the biggest drivers of growth on social and e-commerce platforms have been food and influencers, so it should come as no surprise that startups are now getting in on the act in trying to combine how these two work together. In the latest turn, a startup out of Berlin called Lanch — whi

Investing apps help anyone access the stock market to make trades. Alpaca, a San Mateo-based startup, offers stock and crypto brokerage trading services via API that enables investing fintech companies and others to embed this functionality into their apps. Today, the startup announced it has secur

Climate tech is in a place where it needs all the help it can get. Fortunately, there's a lot of untapped expertise in the oil and gas sector. Case in point: Silviu Livescu spent decades in the oil and gas industry working for Baker Hughes and ExxonMobil. He’s won several awards from the

Large language models (LLMs) are the driving force behind the burgeoning generative AI movement, capable of interpreting and creating human-language texts from simple prompts — this could be anything from summarizing a document to writing a poem to answering a question using data from myriad

Negotiating the price of goods is a way of life at some in-person markets, but you don't often get to do it when online shopping. That's what ergo is out to change. The startup is developing pricing software to give online retailers an easy way to clear out inventory and increase profits wi