Zonos banks $69M to develop APIs for democratizing cross-border commerce
Cross-border commerce company Zonos raised $69 million in a Series A, led by Silversmith Capital Partners, to continue building its APIs that auto classify goods and calculate an accurate total landed cost on international transactions.
St. George, Utah-based Zonos is classifying the round as a min
Walmart to launch autonomous delivery service with Ford and Argo AI
Walmart has tapped Argo AI and Ford to launch an autonomous vehicle delivery service in Austin, Miami and Washington, D.C., the companies said Wednesday.
The service will allow customers to place online orders for groceries and other items using Walmart’s ordering platform. Argo’s cloud
Patient monitoring startup Doccla secures $3.3M seed funding for ‘virtual wards’ platform
Doccla, a health tech startup with a platform that can monitor patients on hospital wards and in the home, has secured a $3.3 million seed funding round, led by Giant Ventures and Speedinvest. The company allows hospitals to predict when beds will be freed up by monitoring patients remotely via wea
Ireland probes TikTok’s handling of kids’ data and transfers to China
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has yet another Big Tech GDPR probe to add to its pile: The regulator said yesterday it has opened two investigations into video sharing platform TikTok.
The first covers how TikTok handles children’s data, and whether it complies with Europe&
Onin is trying to fix event planning by combining calendar and chat
What would happened if your go-to calendar and messaging apps were in fact one and the same thing? That’s the thinking behind Onin — a U.K. startup that wants to simplify event planning by, well, making a more organized app for organizing stuff.
If that sounds a little niche, it pays to
Nigerian agritech startup Releaf secures $4.2M to scale its food processing technology
The distance between their farms and the nearest processor is key for smallholder farmers who need to process their crops. And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and huge economies of scale in high-demand cities, farmers
Folk helps you share contacts with your team
Folk is a new productivity tool started by European startup studio eFounders. And the startup just raised a $3.3 million seed funding round led by Accel with a big group of business angels.
When you think about managing contacts and relationships in a professional environment, you might think that
Swedish caller-identification service Truecaller seeks to raise over $100 million in IPO
Truecaller, which operates an eponymous caller-identification service, said on Wednesday it is looking to raise $116 million in an initial public offering on Nasdaq Stockholm.
The 12-year-old Stockholm-headquartered firm, which counts India as its biggest market by users, is aiming for a valuation
Chaldal, Bangladesh’s largest grocery delivery platform, raises $10M Series C
Founded in 2013, Bangladesh's Chaldal was one of the first grocery delivery startups in the world to use the “dark” store model, picking up orders from its own warehouses instead of retail stores. Now the company says it is the country's second-largest grocery player and the largest
India’s Groww in talks to raise funds at a $3 billion valuation
Groww, an Indian startup that is helping millennials invest in mutual funds and stocks, is in advanced stages of talks to raise a new financing round at a $3 billion valuation, according to six people familiar with the matter.
The Bangalore-based startup is negotiating to close a $250 million round
Index leads $12.2M seed in Sourceful, a data play to make supply chains greener
Supply chains can be a complex logistical challenge. But they pose an even greater environmental challenge. And it’s that latter problem — global supply-chain sustainability — where U.K. startup Sourceful is fully focused, although it argues its approach can boost efficiency as we
Glassdoor acquires Fishbowl, a semi-anonymous social network and job board, to square up to LinkedIn
While LinkedIn doubles down on creators to bring a more human, less manicured element to its networking platform for professionals, a company that has built a reputation for publishing primarily the more messy and human impressions of work life has made an acquisition that might help it compete bet
Rivian vehicles are now ready for sale in all 50 states, following key certifications
Rivian vehicles have received certifications from three agencies, the final hurdle that allows the electric automaker to sell and deliver its R1T pickup truck and R1S SUV in all 50 U.S. states.
Rivian confirmed to technewss in an email that the vehicles are fully certified by the National Highway
Casper cuts its CMO, CTO and COO amid further layoffs
Casper has laid off dozens of employees, including three C-Level executives: its chief marketing officer, chief technology officer and chief operating officer, sources say. The mattress company declined to comment.
The round of layoffs, communicated to employees on Friday, largel