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Happy Robotics Week, to those who celebrate. I know a lot of us are unable to be with our loved ones this year, which means no robotics tree, robotics baskets full of robot eggs and green robot beer. Still, the National Robotics Week organization is putting on a bunch of virtual events across 50 st
Samsung’s AirTags rival, the Galaxy SmartTag+, arrives to help you find lost items via AR
Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag+, the company’s competitor to Apple’s forthcoming lost-item finder known as AirTags, has now arrived. Samsung had first announced its Tile competitor known as the Galaxy SmartTag, a Bluetooth-powered locator, during its press event in January. At the time
Andium is watching oil fields for emissions and just got money from the biggest oil companies to do it
"speakable-summary" style="font-weight: 400;">Andium, a company focused on remote field monitoring of assets including oil and gas wells has just raised some not-insignificant cash in an investment round led by OGCI Climate Investments, a firm formed by the largest oil companies in the world.
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Quiq acquires Snaps to create a combined customer messaging platform
At first glance, Quiq and Snaps might sound like similar startups — they both help businesses talk to their customers via text messaging and other messaging apps. But Snaps CEO Christian Brucculeri said “there’s almost no overlap in what we do” and that the companies are “
Industry experts bullish on $500M KKR investment in Box, but stock market remains skeptical
When Box announced it was getting a $500 million investment from private equity firm KKR this morning, it was hard not to see it as a positive move for the company. It has been operating under the shadow of Starboard Value, and this influx of cash could give it a way forward independent of the acti
Understanding how fundraising terms can affect early-stage startups
You've got a great idea and a strong founding team. So now what? When VCs come knocking, it's important to make sure you're well positioned to make deals. Fenwick & West partner (and business lawyer) Dawn Belt joined us at technewss Early Stage to break down some of the terms that
Formation raises $4M led by Andreessen Horowitz to train truly ‘exceptional’ software engineers
Sophie Zhou Novati worked as a senior engineer at Facebook and then Nextdoor, where she struggled to hire great engineers for her team.
Frustrated, she decided to try training engineers to meet her team's hiring standards by mentoring at a local coding bootcamp. After two and a half years of me
Education nonprofit Edraak ignored a student data leak for two months
Edraak, an online education nonprofit, exposed the private information of thousands of students after uploading student data to an unprotected cloud storage server, apparently by mistake.
The nonprofit, founded by Jordan’s Queen Rania and headquartered in the kingdom’s capital, was set
Mercato raises $26M Series A to help smaller grocers compete online
The pandemic upended the way people shop for their everyday needs, including groceries. Online grocery sales in the U.S. are expected to reach 21.5% of the total grocery sales by 2025, after leaping from 3.4% pre-pandemic to 10.2% as of 2020. One business riding this wave is Mercato, an online groc
Private chef parties at home startup Yhangry raises $1.5M seed from VC angels and Ollie Locke
There's an “Uber for everything” these days, and now there are “Ubers for personal chefs”. Just take a look at PopTop or 100 Pleats for instance. Now in London, there is Yhangry (which brands itself as the appropriately shouty YHANGRY). This is a “private chef parties at home” w
Yext co-founder unveils Dynascore, which dynamically synchronizes music and video
Howard Lerman, the co-founder and CEO of Yext, has a new startup called Wonder Inventions, which is officially launching its first product today — Dynascore.
Let’s focus on Dynascore first. Lerman said he and his team created the product to solve the problem of the ever-growing demand for v
How to get into a startup accelerator
Should you try to get your company into an accelerator? How far along should your idea and your team be before applying? When it is time to apply, how do you make your application stand out from hundreds or thousands of others? How fancy do you need to get with the application video?
For answers, w
Both& introduces a line of D2C transmasculine clothing
Historically, the transmasculine community has been neglected by the fashion world. But Both& is a new brand looking to offer clothing tailored specifically for transmasculine bodies.
The company was founded by Finnegan Shepard, a trans man who started Both& after going through top surgery
Comet announces $13M Series A for ML model building tool
There’s been a lot of investment in machine learning startups recently as companies try to push the notion into a wider variety of endeavors. Comet, a company that helps customers iterate on models in an experimentation process designed to eventually reach production, announced a $13 million