EdSights gets a $5 million Series A for student retention services
When sister duo Claudia and Carolina Recchi were first building EdSights, they used a big guiding question.
“In a perfect world [where] we somehow had a magic wand that allowed us to collect the data on whatever we want on our fingers, what would we want to know to prevent [college] students from
New Age Meats bites into $25M for cultured meat product line development
Berkeley-based cultured meat company New Age Meats announced Monday it raised $25 million in Series A funding that will enable the company to begin production of its first product offering, a variety of pork sausages, next year.
Hanwha Solutions of South Korea led the funding round and was joined b
Astera Labs, a fabless chip startup, nabs $50M at a $950M valuation to remove bottlenecks in high-bandwidth cloud applications
As more enterprises migrate to cloud-based architectures, they are also taking on more applications (because they can) and, as a result of that, more complex workloads and storage needs. Machine learning and other artificial intelligence applications add even more complexity. Now a startup that has
Flat6Labs closes $10M seed fund for Tunisian startups
Regional seed and early-stage venture capital firm Flat6Labs has finished raising $10 million for its seed fund targeted at Tunisian startups, according to a statement released by the company.
The seed fund, called Anava Seed Fund (ASF), at first sought a close of $3 million but instead closed 3.3x
SenseOn nabs $20M for faster, more accurate cybersecurity detection and response via its ‘triangulation’ approach
As cybersecurity becomes a bigger and more complex problem for organizations, a startup aiming to increase its accuracy in fighting breaches — by bringing in an ever-wider funnel of data and vantage points to identify issues — is expanding its business.
SenseOn, which employs cloud-base
Frontify raises $50M for a collaborative cloud platform for organizations to manage and use their design and brand assets
The meteoric rise of collaborative design startup Canva — now valued at $40 blion — and conversely, the viral interest we’ve been seeing in the market for NFTs where you can “buy” a share of a limited-edition digital asset, are two examples of how the tech world today
E-motorcycle maker Cake closes $60M round to scale production and retail sales
Swedish electric motorcycle manufacturer Cake has announced the close of a $60 million Series B that the company will use to help set up manufacturing facilities in Europe, North America and Asia, as well as scale up its retail capabilities.
“We are in the process of implementing initiatives to s
Signal, the encrypted messaging app, is currently down for many users (Update: it’s back)
Update 2: Signal is now back up for “99% of users,” according to its Twitter account.
Update: In a tweet, Signal said the disruption is due to a hosting outage.
Hold tight, folks! Signal is currently down, due to a hosting outage affecting parts of our service. We're working on bri
Thailand’s fintech startup Ascend Money lands $150M at a $1.5B valuation
Ascend Money, the Thailand-based fintech startup behind TrueMoney, an e-wallet service, announced today it has raised a $150 million Series C round at a valuation of $1.5 billion.
The Series C round was led by Charoen Pokphand Group, which is a major shareholder of Ascend Money, with participation
Oraan raises $3M to increase financial inclusion among Pakistani women
After working as an investment banker in Canada for a decade, Halima Iqbal moved back to Pakistan in 2017 and quickly realized how difficult it is for women to access financial services. “I had a really hard time opening up a basic bank account. It took me about three and a half months,” Iqbal
London’s Dice raises $122M at a $400M valuation for its intelligent event discovery and booking platform
COVID-19 really put the kibosh on live events in the last 18 months, but in the world of tech, it also meant that live event startups that found a way to survive and grow throughout the period got a lot of attention. In the latest development, Dice — a London company that has built a platform
Singapore-based logistics startup Ninja Van secures $578M Series E
"speakable-summary" style="font-weight: 400;">Ninja Van, a Singapore-based logistics startup, has closed a $578 million Series E round to support its operations infrastructure and technology systems growth.
Investors include China's Alibaba Group as well as existing investors DPDgroup's Geo
Aiming to create a gender-equitable startup landscape?
When it comes to gender equality in the business world, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg hit the nail on the head: “Knowing that things could be worse should not stop us from trying to make them better.”
While access to opportunities, funding and support has improved for women in the startup space
As remote work becomes normal, Ukio raises $9M for premium long-term rentals
Startups have spent the last decade trying to offer every variation of Airbnb that they can imagine. But Ukio thinks it has found a way through the ever-growing tangle of housing rental competitors — and regulators — right as remote work becomes the norm.
It offers rentals of one month or longe