Note-taking app Mem raises $5.6 million from Andreessen Horowitz
The competition for note-taking is as fierce as it has ever been with plenty of highly-valued productivity startups fighting for an audience it can potentially serve endless productivity offshoots. In the past year, Notion raised at a $2 billion valuation, Coda raised at $636 million, and Roam rais
Wisk Aero sues Archer Aviation for alleged patent infringement, trade secret theft
Wisk Aero, the air mobility company born out of a joint venture between Kitty Hawk and Boeing, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Archer Aviation alleging patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation.
Wisk claims in the lawsuit that Archer perpetrated a “brazen theft” of confidential info
GM to build an electric Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck with more than 400 miles of range
GM is adding an electric Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck to its lineup, as the automaker pushes to deliver more than 1 million electric vehicles globally by 2025.
GM President Mark Reuss said Tuesday that the Chevrolet Silverado electric full-size pickup will be based on the automaker’s Ult
Esri brings its flagship ArcGIS platform to Kubernetes
Esri, the geographic information system (GIS), mapping and spatial analytics company, is hosting its (virtual) developer summit today. Unsurprisingly, it is making a couple of major announcements at the event that range from a new design system and improved JavaScript APIs to support for running Ar
Facebook confirms ‘test’ of Venmo-like QR codes for person-to-person payments in US
Facebook confirms it’s testing a new QR code feature and payment links for use with Facebook Pay to make it easier for people in the U.S. to send or request money from one another. The QR code feature, similar to Venmo’s QR codes and others, will allow a user to scan a friend’s co
Robotic exoskeleton maker Sarcos announces SPAC plans
While it's true the VC world has gone SPAC-happy, the reverse merger method hasn't been a huge driver in robotics thus far, with some notable exceptions like Berkshire-Grey. This morning, however, Utah-based Sarcos Robotics announced plans to board the SPAC train, courtesy of Rotor Acquisit
Answers being sought from Facebook over latest data breach
Facebook’s lead data protection regulator in the European Union is seeking answers from the tech giant over a major data breach reported over the weekend.
The breach was reported by Business Insider on Saturday, which said personal data (including email addresses and mobile phone numbers) of
Real raises $10M from Lightspeed, Megan Rapinoe and others to rethink therapy
The last year has put a spotlight on mental health, and startup Real is looking to shake up the space with a product that makes group therapy available on-demand.
Founded by CEO Ariela Safira, Real is inspired by a longstanding methodology in the world of mental health: Group therapy. AA, for insta
TikTok adds auto captions to make videos accessible to hard of hearing and deaf
TikTok this morning announced the launch of a new feature designed to make its app accessible to people who are hard of hearing or deaf. The company is today debuting auto captions — a feature that, when enabled, will automatically transcribe the speech from a video so viewers can read what
Stanford and Duke join certification program to boost diversity education with investors and the C-suite
A partnership between the University of North Carolina’s Kenan Flagler Entrepreneurship Center, the Opportunity Hub and 100 Black Angels and Allies Fund, set up to improve representation and support of diverse founders in the tech industry, is getting more heavy-hitting partners from Duke and
Sonos delivers a near-perfect portable speaker with the new Sonos Roam
Sonos has a new speaker that starts shipping later this month, and it’s a significant departure from the company’s usual offerings in a number of ways. The all-new Sonos Roam is a compact, portable speaker with a built-in battery and Bluetooth connectivity — but still very much a Sono
Aporia raises $5M for its AI observability platform
Machine learning (ML) models are only as good as the data you feed them. That’s true during training, but also once a model is put in production. In the real world, the data itself can change as new events occur and even small changes to how databases and APIs report and store data could have
Okta launches a new free developer plan
At its Oktane21 conference, Okta, the popular authentication and identity platform, today announced a new — and free — developer edition that features fewer limitations and support for significantly more monthly active users than its current free plan.
The new ‘Okta Starter Develo
OneStream raises $200M, now valued at $6B after its enterprise-focused financial software sees a surge of use
Digital transformation is the name of the game these days, and companies that are enabling businesses to take a leap into the future, by helping them tackle their most complex operations, are reaping the rewards. In the latest development, OneStream, a startup that provides a toolkit of services to