Startups

Meet Athenian, a new startup that analyzes your software delivery workflow and gives you insights. When companies adopt a tool like Athenian, they're trying to find ways to ship new features at a faster pace and fix bugs more quickly. The startup raised a $6 million seed round led by Point Nine

Accel has announced its seventh India fund, with $650 million to invest as the storied venture investor looks to double down on its bet on the world's second-largest internet market and also be more aggressive in the Southeast Asia region, two partners told technewss in an interview. The unvei

After launching its service in the U.K. late last year, Gopuff is officially expanding to Europe starting with France. In addition to the Paris area, the instant grocery delivery service is now live in Marseille, Lille and Toulouse. There are more European countries on the company's road map, s

General Motors sold its stake in Lordstown Motors, an electric vehicle startup that has struggled to get its first vehicle, the electric pickup truck Endurance, to production, reports the Detroit Free Press. GM’s 7.5 million shares of common stock, which was less than 5% of the company, had a

Yesterday, Mercury, which describes itself as a bank for startups, restricted several accounts linked to African tech startups, technewss has learned.  The number of companies involved with this restriction is unknown. But several sources told technewss that they range from a dozen to 30 —

To get a roundup of technewss's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Akin to how it takes nation-states a little time to get sanctions up and running, tech companies don

Would it surprise you to learn the government — federal and many states — is on your side when it comes to innovation? Yes, the very government that loves to collect taxes from you may be willing to give some of that money back through a particular credit that encourages innovation. The Researc

U.K.-based music platform Uppbeat has been developing a service that makes it easier for content creators to find quality free music to use in their videos published to platforms like YouTube, Twitch, TikTok and others. Now with more than 500,000 users on board, the startup is announcing the close

Is it community, or is it capitalism? It's a question atop my mind everytime I see a community-focused startup launch with a parade of party rounds, twitter threads and links to a free Discord you can join with other like-minded fintech lovers. I always wonder if startups b

Equipped with $21 million in new funding, Satellite Vu is almost set to send up its initial seven-satellite constellation in 2023 and begin its planned thermal monitoring of the planet. The company’s orbital view of heat and cold could lead to serious economic insights — and insights of oth

Ofek Lavian has spent years helping build and scale payments initiatives at tech giants such as Uber, Sonder and, more recently, Instacart. The highlight of his career, he says unequivocally, was during his time at Instacart when he launched the ability for Americans that are on food stamps, or tak

If you've heard of OPT Industries (and odds are you haven't), it's due to the MIT spinoff's roll in printing a novel nasal swab. It's the kind of thing that might not have gotten much play during a normal year, but made the rounds courtesy of that whole global pandemic thing. In

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company's total raised since its 2008 inception to $600

When GGV Capital reached out and said that it had built an index of API-first companies, I was curious. Venture-built indexes of startups and other firms have proved useful tools in recent years, led by Bessemer’s cloud index, which is now also a tradable ETF on Nasdaq. But what GGV had in mi