Canoo targets last-mile delivery with its second electric vehicle
Canoo, the Los Angeles-based electric vehicle startup that will make its debut later this month on the Nasdaq as a publicly traded company, revealed Thursday an all-electric multi-purpose delivery vehicle.
The electric delivery vehicle, which includes a high roof height, storage lockers and a sof
From startups to Starbucks: The embedded API opportunity
Stripe recently made headlines with its entrance into the banking world with Stripe Treasury. The news follows Google's banking and payments announcement along with IPO bound companies such as Airbnb, DoorDash and Affirm all mentioning “financial services” in S-1 filings — a clear sig
Gawq wants to burst your ‘echo chamber’ with its smarter news app
A new startup called Gawq wants to tackle the problem of fake news and the “echo chamber” problem created by social media, where our view of the world is shaped by manipulative algorithms and personalized feeds. Through Gawq’s newly launched mobile news app, it aims to present new
H1’s LinkedIn for the healthcare industry raises $58 million
The idea sounds almost too simple. Create a version of LinkedIn that’s specifically for the healthcare industry, where professionals can find out not just who has what credentials, but also learn about the research those professionals are conducting and the specialties they have.
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Cloudflare launches Cloudflare Pages, a platform to deploy and host JAMstack sites
Cloudflare is launching a new product today called Cloudflare Pages. It competes directly with Netlify or Vercel, two cloud hosting companies that let you build and deploy sites using JAMstack frameworks. Popular JAMstack frameworks include Gatsby, Jekyll, Hugo, Vue.js, Next.js, etc.
If that announ
Three different space launch companies — three very different approaches to solving for cost and efficiency
Launch startup Astra had a monumental week, achieving their first spaceflight with a rocket test on Tuesday. Astra CEO Chris Kemp joined Relativity Space CEO Tim Ellis and VOX Space president Mandy Vaughn at our TC Sessions: Space event on Wednesday, and with Relativity’s huge $500 million r
Ramp raises $30M as the battle to own corporate spend heats up
Corporate spend management startup Ramp has raised $30 million more in a new round, it announced today. technewss covered Ramp’s launch earlier this year, when it also detailed that it had raised around $23 million up to that point.
The startup raised its latest round in August of 2020, with
Watch SpaceX launch a US spy satellite live and bring its booster back for a landing on terra firma
Update 11:15 AM EST: SpaceX has scrubbed the mission for today, and will look to try again tomorrow during a three-hour launch window that opens at 9 AM EST. There was an unusually high pressure reading in the upper-stage liquid oxygen tank that the company will work to resolve.
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Magdrive secures seed funding for new propulsion system which could take us to the stars
A startup with a new type of spacecraft propulsion system could make the interplanetary travel seen in “Star Trek” a reality. Magdrive has just closed a £1.4 million seed round led by Founders Fund, an early investor in SpaceX, backed by Luminous Ventures, 7percent Ventures and Entrepr
Brainly raises $80M as its platform for crowdsourced homework help balloons to 350M users
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a major upswing in virtual learning — where some schools have gone (and stayed) remote, and others have incorporated significantly stronger online components in order to help communities maintain more social distancing. That has in turn led to a surge in the u
Austin’s edtech startup Aceable adds another $50 million for accelerated expansion
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PhotoRoom launches background-removal app on Android
French startup PhotoRoom is launching its app on Android today. The company has been working on a utility photography app that lets you remove the background from a photo, swaps it for another background and tweaks your photo.
And it's been working well on iOS already, as the company attended Y
Better Dairy picks up £1.6M seed funding to produce animal-free dairy
Better Dairy, a U.K. startup developing animal-free dairy that was founded out of Entrepreneur First (EF), has picked up £1.6 million in seed funding. The London-based company is currently in the R&D stages of developing products that are “molecularly identical” to traditional dair
GoCardless raises another $95M as it bets on open banking alongside its recurring payments network
GoCardless, the London fintech that aims to become the one-stop shop globally for businesses that want to let customers pay via recurring bank payments, has raised $95 million in Series F funding.
According to The Telegraph newspaper, this gives the company much coveted unicorn status. However, I u