Startups

It wasn’t long ago when it seemed like the tide was beginning to turn on ransomware. But 2023 has shown us that's not the case: We're only halfway through the year, yet hackers are already claiming more victims than ever before, reaffirming the importance of cybersecurity for every bu

We don't have to forage for food so much anymore; however, people not only enjoy unearthing wild mushrooms and other foods, but consumers are also equally excited to eat them. Enter Foraged, a marketplace for purchasing wild and specialty foods from independent foragers and farmers. Mushrooms a

Abhijit Gupta and Ram Sahasranam have plenty of experience in the health tech space, having sold their first startup, health app maker Praxify, to Athenahealth. Now the duo are focused on value-based care. Fold Health is their operating system for cutting down on the amount of admin work performed

In 2012, after moving to the Bay Area, Ashton Braun set out to build a platform that could solve some of the inefficiencies in food and agricultural supply chains. He experienced these inefficiencies firsthand while working as a commodities trader in Singapore, where he saw businesses struggle to o

San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup Coalition is acquiring Jumbo, a mobile app that lets you control your privacy on the web. I have covered Jumbo several times over the past few years, so it's time to close the loop on this one. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, but Jumbo says that i

PasarPolis, one of Indonesia's first full-stack insurtechs, has brought on Peter Van Zyl as its president. Van Zyl is former director and CEO of Allianz Indonesia, one of the country's biggest insurers. Through a strategic partnership with Tap Insure, PasarPolis is able to underwrite and di

Startup accelerators are interesting places, but the model of packaging a good idea and firing it at VCs from a demo day cannon is getting diminishing returns. The Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA) and its own accelerator seem to see this and luckily have grown a community large enough to justify sh

VC firm Sapphire Ventures says that it plans to invest more than $1 billion in AI-related enterprise startups, demonstrating the strong appetite among investors for cutting-edge AI tech. Reuters reports that the $1 billion in capital will come from Sapphire’s existing funds, which have $10 bi

The era of tech layoffs is not yet past, but it is losing some of its intensity and changing into a unique trend. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on technewss+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday. It isn’t surprising to se

This morning, Vellum.ai said it had closed a $5 million seed round. The company declined to share who its lead investor was for the round apart from noting that it was a multistage firm, but it did tell technewss that Rebel Fund, Eastlink Capital, Pioneer Fund, Y Combinator and several angels took

As email becomes an increasingly clogged communication mechanism, businesses looking for more direct ways to communicate with their customers in a B2B context have been turning to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord and other channels. But tracking those conversations and making sure they get directed

Collective, a platform and advisory team that provides bookkeeping, payroll and tax advice to freelancers, today announced it raised $50 million in a funding round led by Gradient Ventures, Innovius Capital, The General Partnership, General Catalyst, QED, Expa and Better Tomorrow Ventures. The tran

Legal discovery is one of the most time-consuming parts of litigation and typically involves team of specialists combing through towers of documents. Fileread, a startup that uses large language learning models (LLMs) to create tools for faster and more efficient discovery, announced today it has r

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