Startups

D-ID, the Israeli startup behind Deep Nostalgia, announced today that it’s launching the beta version of its new web app that allows users to talk face-to-face with photorealistic AI. The web app, called chat.D-ID, combines D-ID’s text-to-video streaming technology with OpenAI’s C

Upway, the French startup that refurbishes and resells electric bikes across a range of brands, launched in the U.S. Tuesday. The company will focus its efforts on the Northeast region of the country, but its bikes will be available for shipping across the continental U.S. Upway has already made a

Soci (pronounced “soh-shee”), a marketing automation platform with customers including Ace Hardware, Jersey Mike’s, Pet Supplies Plus and Ford, today announced that it raised $120 million in a financing round led by JMI Equity with participation from Vertical Venture Partners, Blo

Despite the challenging fundraising environment of 2022, we saw more big corporations launching their corporate venture arms in Brazil last year than during the boom years of 2020 and 2021. While the short-term impact of where we are in the market cycle has caused many founders to go into “su

Assured Allies, an insurtech company focused on retirement savings, announced today the closing of $42.5 million in Series B funding. It's a pretty significant Series B size given the challenging fundraising environment for insurtech companies noted by several of my colleagues in recent stories

Cash management — tracking who needs to pay an invoice and whether it’s been done — can make or break a business. Now, a startup building SaaS software to help finance departments manage this more intelligently is announcing some funding to expand after seeing strong demand. Growf

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Catch co-founder Kristen Anderson tweeted Monday that the health and retirement benefits company she and co-founder Andrew Ambrosino started six years ago is shuttering. Anderson and Ambrosino created Catch “with a crazy idea that our benefits shouldn't be tied to traditional employment and a

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don't sit on your founders’ boards. Khosla, who spoke onstage at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles this week, spoke about the culture of capital. “I'm not a bi

Cannabis startups have to navigate some rough waters: They can't access federal funds or work with traditional banks, and they have to find customers across a fragmented market while adhering to local laws. But at least on the advertising front, a new Twitter update might signal smooth sailing

technewss Disrupt, the premier early-stage startup conference, takes place on September 19–21 in San Francisco. Sure, that's six months from now. But if you want the best price, you gotta take action before prices go up in five days. That's right, it's now o’clock. The biggest

Remote work lends people a certain amount of freedom in how they go about doing their jobs, so it’s not surprising that an asynchronous style of working would be one of the side effects of not working from a centralized location. But it’s not always good for employees. In this arrangeme

Alerzo, a Nigerian B2B e-commerce platform that digitizes commerce and payments processes between FMCG suppliers and informal retailers, has laid off 15% of its full-time workforce, the company confirmed to technewss. This is the company's second round of layoffs in seven months. As a first-pa

To be successful, a business needs to have a plan for revenue in the short term and profitability in the long. Early-stage founders might be tempted to come up with half a dozen ways the company could make money. Don't fall into temptation: Five unproven solutions don't make one actual solu