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Shared micromobility company Tier Mobility said on Wednesday it has acquired Fantasmo, a U.S.-based computer vision-powered e-scooter parking startup whose tech Tier had been trialing in multiple cities in Europe. Tier will bring on all of Fantasmo’s 15 staff members and continue to invest in

The second day of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day is now behind us, and the technewss team is recovering from watching hundreds of pitches in quick succession. Every accelerator demo day is a marathon, but the U.S. group has worked with more startups over time, making its pitch sessions

San Francisco- and Tokyo-headquartered gumi Cryptos Capital (gCC), a venture capital firm that focuses on blockchain startups, said it has launched a new $110 million early-stage fund. The venture capital firm's second fund aims to back approximately 50 blockchain companies in the early stage f

Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company's Instagram stories … Y Combinator's Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. And since they're open source, some of these companies will let you join in on

??Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their dreams,”

Hundreds of companies presented at Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day event, and I looked at pretty much all their logos. There’s a lot of solid ones, a few clunkers and a handful of really nice ones. Here’s a list of the latter for your pleasure and edification. I haven’t

It’s not a coincidence that technewss has covered more African startups in the last year than any period in our history. Many of those companies are Nigerian, and when we look at venture capital data, we can see why. The country had an incredible 2021 as the most active venture capital scene

Quantum Machines, the well-funded Israeli startup that specializes in building control systems for quantum computers, today announced that it has acquired QDevil, a well-known Danish company that specializes in building control hardware for quantum systems. The two companies did not disclose the fi

The race is certainly on in the electrification of boating … even if everyone is jockeying for position before the market materializes. Flux Marine is joining the likes of Pure and Zin in trying to convert some of our waterways’ gas-guzzling outboards to cleaner, quieter battery powered one

Six months after launching its end-to-end encrypted document editor, Skiff has bagged another $10.5 million in fresh funding to build out private and collaborative workspaces for its burgeoning customer base. We wrote about Skiff last year ahead of its launch: Skiff is a web app that has much of th

You rent out your apartment on Airbnb and the guests are throwing an all-night rager. You only find out three days later when the neighbors are furiously and passive-aggressively putting up signs around the apartment building about “someone” throwing loud parties on the third floor. Min

It’s been almost exactly four years since Docker founder Solomon Hykes left the company that kickstarted the container revolution. Docker has gone through its share of ups and downs since then, including selling its enterprise business to Mirantis in 2019, but Hykes, who was long the public f

You've been head down and hard at work for what feels like a lifetime, you have an MVP to show for all that sweat equity and you're ready to jump-start your company's trajectory. Building a startup can be a slow, lonely endeavor, but getting into a business accelerator can change that i

Most people have a negative association with debt collection. A startup called January is out to change that with a fresh $10 million fundraise.  Founder Jake Cahan says most debt collectors are lumped into a category of “predatory agencies exploiting vulnerable borrowers.” An