Cake launches the Makka, a $3,500 electric moped for city riding
Swedish electric motorcycle manufacturer Cake has released its newest vehicle, the Makka, a super lightweight e-moped that’s built for urban convenience. The bike starts at $3,500 and is now available for preorder in the U.S. and Europe.
The Makka is a step outside the norm for Cake, which i
Web building platform Duda snaps up e-commerce cart tool Snipcart
Duda announced Wednesday that it acquired Canada-based Snipcart, a startup that enables businesses to add a shopping cart to their websites.
The acquisition is Palo Alto-based Duda's first deal, and follows the website development platform's $50 million Series D round in June that brings it
Apple secures first states to support digital driver’s licenses, but privacy questions linger
Apple’s plan to digitize your wallet is slowly taking shape. What started with boarding passes and venue tickets later became credit cards, subway tickets and student IDs. Next on Apple’s list to digitize are driver’s licenses and state IDs, which it plans to support in its iOS 15
TikTok adds educational resources for parents as part of its Family Pairing feature
TikTok is expanding its in-app parental controls feature, Family Pairing, with educational resources designed to help parents better support their teenage users, the company announced this morning. The pairing feature, which launched to global users last year, allows parents of teens aged 13 and ol
LastPad is a reusable menstrual pad that does away with disposable towels
Direct to consumer online sales have helped a number of female-focused startups get products to market in recent years — often pitching better designed and generally more thoughtful feminine hygiene products than mainstream staples.
The lack of innovation in the mainstream market for feminine
Danish startup Responsibly raises $2M to benchmark supply chains on climate, diversity
If the world is to reach net zero, and avoid climate disaster, it needs to make every product sustainable, and that means every purchase. But to do that you need a lot more transparency, so that means more data on suppliers to improve sourcing and benchmarking companies. While companies are often d
PayEm comes out of stealth with $27M and its answer to the expense report
Itamar Jobani was a software developer working for a medical company and “hated that time of the month” when he had to use the company's chosen reimbursement tool.
“It was full of friction and as part of the company's wellness team, I felt an urge to take care of the employee experien
‘Autonomous accounting’ platform Vic.ai raises $50M round led by ICONIQ Growth
Vic.ai, a startup that has built an AI-based platform it claims can “automate” enterprise accounting, has raised a $50 million Series B round led by ICONIQ Growth, with participation from existing investors GGV Capital, Cowboy Ventures and Costanoa Ventures, bringing total capital raise
Vector design tool Vectornator raises $20M round led by EQT Ventures
It's an age-old tech industry story: company comes up with a tool to solve its own problem, then realizes the tool is actually worth more than the existing company. Something similar happened to Linearity. Its 17-year-old founder, Vladimir Danila, came up with the Vectornator tool to make vecto
CoachHub raises $80M in Series ‘B2’ round, as coaching goes digital in the pandemic
The world of professional coaching has grown over the years as coaches realised they could easily counsel people remotely and clients realized digital coaching was far more efficient. But, equally, a problem arose in how to sift the wheat from the chaff. At the same time corporates realised that th
Trustshare runs escrow infrastructure as a service to facilitate online sales
Meet Trustshare, a London-based startup that is working on escrow infrastructure for online classified, B2B marketplaces, trade directories and more. It's a white-label platform that can be integrated with online marketplaces in just a few lines of code.
If you've ever tried to sell somethi
Oviva grabs $80M for app-delivered healthy eating programs
U.K. startup Oviva, which sells a digital support offering, including for Type 2 diabetes treatment, dispensing personalized diet and lifestyle advice via apps to allow more people to be able to access support, has closed $80 million in Series C funding — bringing its total raised to date to
VanMoof raises $128 million to become the world's leading e-bike brand
Amsterdam-based startup VanMoof has raised a $128 million Series C funding round. The company designs and sells electric bikes that are quite popular in some markets. It now wants to become the world's leading e-bike brand by iterating at a faster pace.
Asia-based private equity firm Hillhouse
Sanas aims to convert one accent to another in real time for smoother customer service calls
In the customer service industry, your accent dictates many aspects of your job. It shouldn’t be the case that there’s a “better” or “worse” accent, but in today’s global economy (though who knows about tomorrow’s) it’s valuable to sound America