Ro buys Kit, a 17-month-old startup that offers at-home health testing
Ro, a direct-to-consumer virtual care company, has scooped up Kit, an at-home diagnostics company with an array of customizable products, from finger prick blood tests to weight measurement tools. The price was undisclosed.
Ro co-founder Zachariah Reitano said that he first approached Kit as a pote
Relativity Space will open a 1 million-square-foot factory to scale Terran R production
Fresh off the heels of a $650 million Series E funding round, 3D-printed rocket startup Relativity Space is now preparing to increase production capacity by a factor of ten, with the opening of a 1 million-square-foot factory headquarters in Long Beach, California.
Relativity's current factory,
FloLive, an IoT startup building cloud-based private 5G networks, raises $15.5M led by Intel
As enterprises and carriers gear up for operating and scaling IoT services and monitoring the activity of their devices, machines and more globally, a startup that is building technology to make this easier and cheaper to implement is announcing some funding.
FloLive, which has built a cloud-based
UK tells messaging apps not to use E2E encryption for kids’ accounts
For a glimpse of the security and privacy dystopia the UK government has in store for its highly regulated ‘British Internet’, look no further than guidance put out by the Department of Digital, Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) yesterday — aimed at social media platforms and privat
Device42 introduces multi-cloud migration analysis and recommendation tool
In 2020 lots of workloads shifted to the cloud due to the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean that figuring out how to migrate those workloads got any easier. Device42, a startup that helps companies understand their infrastructure, has a new product that is designed to analyze your infrastructur
Former Zillow execs raise $70M seed round for Tomo, which wants to simplify the mortgage process
There are so many startups pledging to reinvent the mortgage process that it's hard to keep up. But for anyone who has had to go through the process of applying for one, it's clear that there's plenty of room for improvement.
The latest startup to raise venture money with the goal of ma
MKT1: Developer marketing is what startup marketing should look like
MKT1 is a strategic marketing firm founded by experienced startup executives that is everything but a marketing agency. It advises startups on marketing approaches, recruiting and mentoring workshops, with some angel syndicate investing as well. It also provides a job board, a newsletter and works
Kikoff raises $30M for its hybrid consumer-credit and financial-literacy service
Kikoff, a personal finance platform aimed at helping consumers build credit, announced today that it has raised $30 million in a Series B round.
The capital is in addition to the $12.5 million the startup raised across previously unannounced seed and Series A rounds, which were both led by Lightspe
FightCamp punches its way to a $90M round
FightCamp, an interactive at-home training system for boxing/kickboxing, is announcing this morning that it has raised a $90M round from a long list of investors, including quite the roster of famous fighters.
FightCamp pairs smart sensors (“punch trackers” worn under your boxing gloves
Watch Virgin Orbit’s first rocket launch live stream
Virgin Orbit is set to launch a payload that includes satellites it’s delivering for tis first commercial customers. The launch is set to happen sometime within a launch window that opens at 6 AM PT (9 AM ET) and continues through 8 AM PT (11 AM ET), taking off from the Mojave Air and Space
Dream Games raises $155M at a $1B valuation as its Royal Match puzzle game hits a royal flush
Istanbul in Turkey continues to prove itself as very fertile ground for casual gaming startups, which appear to be growing from small seedlings into sizable trees. In the latest development, Dream Games — a developer of mobile puzzle games — has raised $155 million in funding, a Series
Noname Security closes $60M Series B to eliminate API flaws
Enterprise API security startup Noname Security has raised a $60 million Series B funding round, just six months after closing $25 million at Series A.
The round was led by Insight Partners with Next47, Forgepoint and The Syndicate Group (TSG) also participating, and brings Noname's total fun
Shogun, a front-end e-commerce page builder, nabs $67.5M as retailers look for alternatives to marketplaces
E-commerce marketplaces continue to play a major role in how consumers buy goods online and how retailers show off and sell goods to those consumers, accounting globally for 47% of all e-commerce sales. But today, one of the startups that has built technology to help retailers build and run more di
Apple and Snap partner JigSpace, the ‘Canva for 3D,’ raises a $4.7M Series A
When former Art Director Zac Duff started teaching a game development course online in 2015, he faced the same challenges that teachers around the globe have become all too familiar with after a pandemic-induced lockdown. So, he used his experience in 3D design to build a virtual reality classroom