Capchase nabs $60M in credit to help founders avoid dilution
No one likes dilution, and that's why every founder is looking for alternatives to traditional equity investing by venture capitalists. Financial entrepreneurs have launched a number of products, from SaaS securitization to debt-based financing, to help founders avoid that dilution, particularl
Lenovo introduces a wireless charging mat for its e-ink sporting laptop
Lenovo keeps rolling out unique takes on familiar categories this year at CES. Last week it was the screen-swiveling all-in-one and some AR glasses, and today (the first official day of the show), the company's got an interesting update to last year's dual-display ThinkBook Plus.
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Grafana Labs adds a free tier to its managed observability platform
Grafana Labs, the company behind the increasingly popular open-source monitoring and observability platform, today announced both an updated version of its cloud service and the launch of a free tier for it.
The free plan for Grafana Cloud has some limitations, but it includes access to virtually a
Slim.ai announces $6.6M seed to build container DevOps platform
We are more than seven years into the notion of modern containerization, and it still requires a complex set of tools and a high level of knowledge on how containers work. The DockerSlim open-source project developed several years ago from a desire to remove some of that complexity for developers.
Study finds around one-third of Americans regularly get their news from Facebook
Around a third of Americans regularly get their news from Facebook, according to the latest study from Pew Research Center, whose surveys aim to better understand the current media landscape in the U.S. In the updated report, Pew Research found that around half of U.S. adults, or 53%, said they
The Cadillac personal drone is the Cadillac of personal drones
GM revealed Tuesday a Cadillac-branded electric vertical takeoff and landing drone concept that is designed — if it’s ever built — to let owners cruise the skies in isolated luxury.
The single-seat eVTOL, which was showcased alongside an autonomous vehicle during GM’s keynote presen
Rollables are the new foldables
Smartphone sales are bad — and have been for a couple of years now. Certainly this ongoing pandemic hasn't helped. All the talk about how 5G and new form factors were going to cause a kind of bounce-back all fell by the wayside, as people put a pause on unnecessary luxuries.
Samsung is th
Facebook revamps ‘Access Your Information’ tool to better break down, explain data usage
Facebook today is rolling out an update to its Access Your Information tool with the goal of making the tool easier to both use and navigate, as well as better explain how and why that data is used. The new version of the tool has been visually redesigned, and now further breaks down the viewable i
Byju’s is reportedly buying Indian brick-and-mortar institute Aakash for $1 billion
We may finally have an answer to why Byju's, the world's most valuable edtech startup, raised hundreds of millions of dollars last year.
Bloomberg reports that the Bangalore-based startup has agreed to buy Aakash Educational Services, which owns and operates more than 200 physical tutoring
Roboflow raises $2.1M for its end-to-end computer vision platform
Roboflow, a startup that aims to simplify the process of building computer vision models, today announced that it has raised a $2.1 million seed round co-led by Lachy Groom and Craft Ventures. Additional investors include Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen, Lob CEO Leore Avidar, Firebase co-foun
Equal access to capital and entrepreneurship is the final civil rights movement
Context is always important. In the grand scheme of things, I have privilege: I was born a male, in the most powerful country in the world, during the most prosperous time in history, to parents who both went to college, all in a middle-class neighborhood.
I could have been born during my dad's
Walmart partners with smart box maker HomeValet for grocery delivery pilot
Walmart announced today it will soon begin to pilot a new solution that could eventually allow the retailer to deliver groceries to customers’ homes 24 hours per day. The company is partnering with HomeValet, the maker of a temperature-controlled smart box that’s placed outside the home
GM targets delivery companies with new EV business unit BrightDrop
GM has launched a new business unit to offer commercial customers — starting with FedEx — an ecosystem of electric and connected products, the latest effort in the company’s ambitious $27 billion bid to become a leading electric automaker.
The new business, called BrightDrop, which offici
Lantern is a startup looking to ignite a conversation about how to die well
America is a land of paperwork, and nowhere is that more obvious than at the end of someone's life. Advanced care directives have to be carefully disseminated to healthcare providers and strictly followed. Property has to be divided and transferred while meeting relevant estate laws. And of cou