Startups

There are many companies out there looking at how to reduce your cloud bills by eliminating waste, or finding more cost-effective ways of doing the same job. Xonai, an early-stage startup, is taking a different approach to cloud cost reduction. It's looking at ways to make your data software ru

Many people can't start their day without a hot cup o’ Joe, or since it's June now, perhaps a tall cold brew. Coffee drinkers also have refined tastes and like a brand they can relate to. Enter Chamberlain Coffee, a company started in 2019 by YouTuber Emma Chamberlain, who has over 12

As companies look to update their databases, especially in a cloud-native context, with so many different databases out there, it's a huge challenge for developers when migrating from one environment to another. Ariga, an early-stage startup, wants to help by letting users define database schem

Vault, an online banking platform serving small-to-medium sized business (SMBs) in Canada, is launching to the public today after raising $3.7 million in seed funding. Founded in late 2021 by Saud Aziz and Ahmed Shafik (who previously worked at sunday, Revolut and Koho), Toronto, Ontario-based Vaul

Life insurance isn't something that young, healthy people typically consider buying. It also isn't always that accessible to those with lower income or easy to buy: It can mean a medical exam and lots of questions to determine the type of coverage and amount needed. That's a big part of

In 2019, I wrote a post on how companies should price their AI-enabled software. I focused on SaaS companies that were developing their own AI and highlighted pricing considerations as they work to improve their models. Since then, there's been a meteoric rise of third-party foundational model

Capillary Technologies, an Indian SaaS startup that offers solutions for loyalty management and customer engagement, has raised $45 million in a funding round, as it plans to expand into global markets and widen its reach through mergers and acquisitions. The funding arrives at a crucial time amids

Photonic computing startup Lightmatter is taking its big shot at the rapidly growing AI computation market with a hardware-software combo it claims will help the industry level up — and save a lot of electricity to boot. Lightmatter’s chips basically use optical flow to solve computational

Security information and event management (SIEM) is one of the most well-established categories of security software, having first been introduced about 20 years ago. Nevertheless, very little has been written about SIEM vendor evaluation and management. To fill that gap, here are six top-line tips

Fusion power is often said to harness the power of the sun, so why are we just trying to make electricity with it? That's essentially what the co-founders at Realta Fusion were thinking when they formed the company to transform an experimental reactor design into a power source that wouldn'

Fintech giant Stripe has acquired Okay, a startup that developed a low-code analytics software to help engineering leaders better understand how their teams are performing, the companies told technewss exclusively. Founded in 2019, Okay participated in Y Combinator's Winter 2020 cohort before

The IPCC has said the world needs to remove 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere by 2050 in order to avoid a climate cataclysm. And, yes, there are multiple methods for carbon removal today, such as planting more trees (afforestation), sucking CO2 out of the sky (direct air captu

Blink CEO Gil Barak says there have been three distinct periods when it comes to security operations automation. The first required experts to code workflows, taking weeks or months to produce a single one. More recently, low-code approaches let users drag and drop components into a workflow, creat

From Foursquare to Zenly, there hasn’t exactly been a shortage of location-centric social networks outside the usual Big Tech ecosystems, but for one reason or another things have never really worked out. Snap acquired Zenly and eventually shut it down despite its enduring popularity, and Fou