Atomized lands $500K pre-seed to help developers deploy infrastructure faster
Atomized, an early-stage startup that wants to create a modern tool to help developers deploy infrastructure faster, announced the first step of its funding journey today, a $500,000 pre-seed round from Zing Capital, Y Combinator and several unnamed angels.
Company co-founder and CEO Nik Kotov says
Pomelo raises $9M to build a payments infrastructure for LatAm fintechs
"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">Pomelo, a startup building a fintech-as-a-service platform for Latin America, has raised $9 million in a seed round of funding.
The Buenos Aires-based startup's new infrastructure aims to allow fintechs and embedded finance players to launch virtual accounts and iss
If you don’t want robotic dogs patrolling the streets, consider CCOPS legislation
Boston Dynamics' robot “dogs,” or similar versions thereof, are already being employed by police departments in Hawaii, Massachusetts and New York. Partly through the veil of experimentation, few answers are being given by these police forces about the benefits and costs of using these powe
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The countdown clock keeps on ticking, and you have just three days to secure your $99 pass to technewss Disrupt 2021. You read that right — $99 is all that you'll pay, $99 is all (everybody sing)!
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Bird to go public via SPAC, at an implied value of $2.3B
Bird, the shared electric scooter startup that operates in more than 200 cities across three continents, said Wednesday it is going public by merging with special purpose acquisition company Switchback II with an implied valuation of $2.3 billion. The announcement confirms earlier reports, includin
Stampli raises $50 million in Series C to help companies intelligently manage invoices
This morning Stampli, a software platform that optimizes corporate invoice management, announced a $50 million Series C financing round, led by Insight Partners with participation from Signalfire and Nextworld Capital.
The company launched in 2015 with the goal of simplifying the process of invoice
UK publishes draft Online Safety Bill
The U.K. government has published its long-trailed (child) “safety-focused” plan to regulate online content and speech.
The Online Safety Bill has been in the works for years — during which time a prior plan to require age verification for accessing online porn in the U.K., also w
Collective, a back-office platform for the self-employed, raises $20M from Ashton Kutcher’s VC
With so much focus on the “creator economy”, and countries hit by the effects of the pandemic, the self-employed market is “booming”, for good or for ill. So it's not too much of a surprise that Collective, a subscription-based back-office platform for the self-employed
Amazon updates Echo Show line with a pan and zoom camera and a kids model
Amazon this morning announced a handful of updates across its Echo Show line of smart screens. The top-level most interesting bit here is the addition of a pan and zoom camera to the mid-tier Echo Show. The feature is similar to ones found on Facebook's various Portal devices and Google's h
Salesforce is bringing drag and drop interactive components to its low-code toolkit
Low-code and no-code tools abound these days, as the industry attempts to give nontechnical end users the ability to create applications without code (or very little anyway). Salesforce has been a big proponent of this approach to help reduce the complexity of working on its platform, and today the
Sanlo raises $3.5M to help apps and games gain access to financial insights and capital
Having a great idea for an app or game is one thing, but scaling it to become a successful business is quite another. A new fintech startup called Sanlo aims to help. The company, which is today announcing an oversubscribed $3.5 million seed round, offers small to medium-sized game and app companie
Amplitude acquires Iteratively
Amplitude, the well-funded product intelligence startup that helps businesses use their data to predict which features will drive the best business outcomes for them, today announced that it has acquired Iteratively, a startup that helps businesses build trustworthy data pipelines.
Since data is at
Treasury Prime raises $20M to scale its banking-as-a-service biz
This morning Treasury Prime, a banking-as-a-service startup that delivers its product via APIs, announced that it has closed a $20 million Series B. The capital comes around a year since the startup announced its Series A, and around 1.5 years since it raised its preceding round.
For Treasury Prime
Orbite offers a five-star ‘space camp’ for would-be space travelers
As private companies like Axiom Space, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and SpaceX prepare to ferry private customers to the stars, a whole new market is opening up to train affluent would-be travelers for their future missions. Case in point: space training company Orbite, whose goal is to combine aer