Startups

What's it like to be a startup founder? Not the hype, not the spin. What's it really like? That's the thesis behind the technewss podcast Found. Each episode features an interview with an early-stage founder to tell the story behind the startup. We can't think of a better place to

Fertility treatment is a huge industry, but traditionally it has been very geographically and demographically limited. U.S. fertility clinics are concentrated in the top 10 metropolitan areas across the country, and around 82% of recipients of care have historically been Caucasian, heterosexual mar

If you're one of the many people caught in all the recent tech layoffs, listen up. We have a free Expo+ pass to technewss Disrupt (September 19–21 in San Francisco) with your name on it. Laid off? Free admission to technewss Disrupt 2023 Downsizing, layoffs, reducing redundancy — however

Truth, as the saying goes, is often stranger than fiction. The very notion of resurrecting the long-extinct woolly mammoth was the stuff of fantasy not that long ago, but scientists are already working on ways to achieve something close to that, using DNA from soft-tissue in frozen mammoth remains

The pet industry grew rapidly over the past three years as people, stuck at home during the pandemic, decided to add a furry friend to their families. Analysts say this industry, where spending was $118 billion in 2019, isn't done with big growth and predict it will more than double by 2030 to

The Tory Burch Foundation announced Tuesday the launch of its Funding Finder tool, an interactive guide that breaks down capital options and resources for women-owned businesses. It offers information on loans and grants and is accompanied by a quiz that provides specialized answers for founders re

One fusion startup is betting that a 70-year-old idea can help it leapfrog the competition, so much so that it's planning to skip the experimental phase and hook its prototype reactor up to the grid. The decades-old concept, known as a stellarator, is deceptively simple: design a fusion reactor

Most founders are so laser-focused on convincing investors to invest that they don't fully consider the due diligence process that comes after. But as the funding landscape becomes tougher, it pays to know what kind of investor you're dealing with and how to handle due diligence right from

Fez Delivery, a Lagos-based last-mile logistics startup with hubs across Nigeria, has raised $1 million led by pan-African investor Ventures Platform with participation from Voltron Capital, Acasia Ventures and other angel investors.  Founder and CEO Seun Alley, in a statement, said the compa

Early-stage investments inherently have a higher risk of failing, but these risks also come with potentially higher rewards: getting in at the ground floor of a startup’s journey gives VCs more negotiation clout. This is particularly true at the very early pre-seed stage, where companies migh

Among the casualties of the mass tech layoffs are people who helped get their co-workers hired in the first place. Paraform, a startup that wants to change how the recruiting industry works by taking a marketplace approach, is giving professional recruiters a new way to find work by going freelance

Generative AI is disrupting industries — with understandable controversy. Earlier this month, Danny Postma, the founder of Headlime, an AI-powered marketing copy startup that was recently acquired by Jasper, announced Deep Agency, a platform he describes as an “AI photo studio and model

The concept of “shoppable videos” has been around for at least a decade, with some big companies, like Showroom, Firework, Vimeo, YouTube and Klarna getting in on the action. There have also been startups embracing this space that have received some attention from investors in the past, like Ci

Apple has quietly acquired a Mountain View-based startup, WaveOne, that was developing AI algorithms for compressing video. Apple wouldn’t confirm the sale when asked for comment. But WaveOne’s website was shut down around January, and several former employees, including one of WaveOne&