Novakid’s ESL app for children raises $4.25M Series A led by PortfoLion and LearnStart investors
With the pandemic playing havoc with children's education, edtech startups have been on a roll. A new fundraising seems to come almost every week at this point.
Today it's Novakid's turn. This edtech startup is yet another “learning English as a second language for children”
Fundr, launching its first portfolio, uses an algorithm to remove bias from investing
For all the ways that the Silicon Valley scene excels, diversity and inclusion is not one of them. But a new startup called Fundr is looking to do the heavy lifting to help investors diversify their portfolio.
Fundr is an investment marketplace founded by Lauren Washington, Boris Moyston, and Jean-
Thousands of US lab results and medical records spilled online after a security lapse
NTreatment, a technology company that manages electronic health and patient records for doctors and psychiatrists, left thousands of sensitive health records exposed to the internet because one of its cloud servers wasn’t protected with a password.
The cloud storage server was hosted on Micro
Qualcomm announces the new Snapdragon 888 chip
Qualcomm kicked off an all-virtual version of its annual summit this morning by announcing the launch of the the Snapdragon 888 platform. The chipmaker is clearly saving some key information for later in the virtual event, because it has yet to reveal a ton about its next SoC.
We do, however, have
Facebook-backed Libra Association rebrands as Diem
The Libra Association, a consortium created by Facebook to support its Libra cryptocurrency efforts, announced this morning that it has a new name — the Diem Association — and made some key hires ahead of its launch.
This is just the latest course correction since the Libra project was announce
Uber officially completes Postmates acquisition
Uber today announced the official completion of its Postmates acquisition deal, which it announced originally back in July. The all-stock deal, valued at around $2.65 billion at the time of its disclosure, sees Postmates join Uber, while continuing to operate as a separate service with its own bran
Loop Team wants to give remote workers an in-office feel
As we’ve moved to work from home during the pandemic, it’s been challenging for remote workers to feel connected. Loop Team, a new entrant into the enterprise communications space, thinks the way we are communicating needs improvement. That’s why the startup is releasing Loop Team
SoftBank takes a $690M stake in cloud-based Swedish customer engagement company Sinch
On the heels of Facebook taking a big step into customer service with the acquisition of Kustomer for $1 billion, another big move is afoot in the world of customer relationship management and engagement. Sinch, a Swedish company that provides cloud-based “omnichannel” voice, video and
Despite everything, Oyo still has $1 billion in cash
India's Oyo has been one of the worst impacted startups with the coronavirus, but it has enough cash to steer through the pandemic and then look at funding further scale, a top executive says.
In a town hall with employees last week, Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal said the budget lodging firm “co
GoSite snags $40M to help SMBs bring their businesses online
There are 12 million small and medium businesses in the U.S., yet they have continued to be one of the most underserved segments of the B2B universe: That volume underscores a lot of fragmentation, and alongside other issues like budget constraints, there are a number of barriers to building for th
Nordigen introduces free European open banking API
Latvian fintech startup Nordigen is switching to a freemium model thanks to a free open banking API. Open banking was supposed to democratize access to banking information, but the company believes banking aggregation APIs from Tink or Plaid are too expensive. Instead, Nordigen thinks it can provid
Vivenu, a ticketing API for events, closes a $15M Series A round led by Balderton Capital
Vivenu, a ticketing platform that offers an API for venues and promoters to customize to their needs, has closed a $15 million (€12.6 million) Series A funding round led by Balderton Capital. Previous investor Redalpine also participated.
Historically speaking, most ticketing platform startups to
Databand raises $14.5M led by Accel for its data pipeline observability tools
DevOps continues to get a lot of attention as a wave of companies develop more sophisticated tools to help developers manage increasingly complex architectures and workloads. In the latest development, Databand — an AI-based observability platform for data pipelines, specifically to detect wh
WhatsApp is upping its wallpapers and stickers game
WhatsApp is finally upping its wallpapers and stickers game, delivering some much-awaited aesthetics updates to the popular app that more than 2 billion people use.
The instant messaging service said on Tuesday that it will now allow users to set custom wallpapers for different chats in a bid to ma