Startups

It's hard to believe, but 2019 was the last time the mobility community's greatest visionaries, founders, builders and investors gathered in-person to connect and go deep at TC Sessions: Mobility. So, you'd better believe we're stoked and going big this year for TC Sessions: Mobilit

The corporate venture capital (CVC) market is booming. Yesterday, The Exchange dug into the data behind the CVC market’s very busy 2021. With corporate venture fund creation rebounding to near record levels and the value of deals that CVCs participated in soaring, we wanted to look more deepl

Tortoise, a startup that began in 2019 with a mission to rebalance scooters for shared operators like Spin and shifted last year to robotic last-mile sidewalk delivery, is pivoting yet again in a new direction: mobile smart stores. Over the next few months, Tortoise will launch up to 30 smart store

As more companies establish an e-commerce presence, the stakes have never been higher for brands to cut through the clutter to land new customers. Disco, formerly known as Co-op Commerce, doesn't think the cost of acquiring costs should be so reliant on Big Tech platforms. Instead, Conner Sher

Keyway, a startup that buys property from small and medium-sized business owners and then leases it back to them, has secured $70 million in debt financing on the heels of a $15 million equity raise. Founded in September 2020, the New York-based company – which was previously named Unlock – sai

The “gig economy” gave rise to a set of startups focused on meeting the needs of freelance and self-employed workers, from labor marketplaces Upwork and Fiverr to client management tools like Honeybook. London-based SteadyPay focuses on solving one major pain point for these workers 

Blocknom, a crypto-earning platform in Y Combinator's current batch, has aspirations to become the “Coinbase Earn for Southeast Asia.” Today the company announced it has raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding from Y Combinator, Number Capital and Magic Fund. Blocknom's co-founders, Fransis

The use of open source software (OSS) has exploded, and many companies are using it as the cornerstone of their infrastructure. When buying commercial vendor-supported software, you can expect the vendor to be in charge of the products’ upgrades, maintenance, integration and support. By going

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Last year, genealogy service MyHeritage went viral after introducing a new “deepfake” feature that allowed users to animate the faces of loved ones in still photos. TikTok users posted videos reacting to the technology, called “Deep Nostalgia,” as they brought back relatives

When we compiled our bingo board of potential mergers and acquisitions for 2022*, we can't say we anticipated that Fortnite-maker and Apple antagonist Epic Games would purchase Bandcamp, a music marketplace where any musician can sell their music and keep 82% of the profits. After the acquisiti

Mark Pavlyukovskyy, Ajay Gupta and Glen Anderson formed New Zealand’s first operator-run fund, NZVC, over the last year and made its first close of $10 million on what Pavlyukovskyy said will end up being around $15 million when all is said and done. Pavlyukovskyy, who was born in Ukraine and

Decipad, a no-code startup that’s aiming to disrupt spreadsheets with accessible tools that empower people to play around with numbers, has nabbed $5 mlion in seed funding. Put simply, it’s buding an interactive notebook to help non-technical people do data modelling. “We are budi

New York-based MyPlace, a social network designed to help friends share their private homes, has raised $5.8 million in seed funding led by Freestyle Ventures. The platform was originally launched in 2019 by entrepreneurs Zach Bell and Rameet Chawla as a way for them to share their private homes wi