TikTok partners with Shopify on social commerce
TikTok is further investing in social commerce with today’s announcement of a new global partnership with e-commerce platform Shopify. The deal aims to make it easier for Shopify’s over 1 million merchants to reach TikTok’s younger audience and drive sales. The partnership will ev
SimilarWeb raises $120M for its AI-based market intelligence platform for sites and apps
Israeli startup SimilarWeb has made a name for itself with an AI-based platform that lets sites and apps track and understand traffic not just on their own sites, but those of its competitors. Now, it’s taking the next step in its growth. The startup has raised $120 million, funding it will u
Impact America Fund closes $55M to invest in startups targeting the world's overlooked
The entire asset class of venture capital is built atop systemic racism. The numbers don't lie: only 2% of partner-level VCs are Black, and 81% of venture capital firms don't have a Black partner on board. The lack of diversity in check-writers doesn't stay in board rooms: homogeneity t
Lightspeed Venture Partners backs Theta Lake’s video conferencing security tech with $12.7 million
Theta Lake, a provider of compliance and security tools for conferencing software like Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral, Zoom and others, said it has raised $12.7 million in a new round of funding.
Lightspeed Venture Partners led the round with commitments from Cisco Investments, angel inv
AMD grabs Xilinx for $35 billion as chip industry consolidation continues
The chip industry consolidation dance continued this morning as AMD has entered into an agreement to buy Xilinx for $35 billion, giving the company access to a broad set of specialized workloads.
AMD sees this deal as combining two companies that complement each other’s strengths without cann
Uber’s ‘robo-firing’ of drivers targeted in latest European lawsuit
Uber is facing another legal challenge in Europe related to algorithmic decision making.
The App Drivers & Couriers Union (ADCU) filed a case, yesterday, with a court in the Netherlands seeking to challenge the ride hailing company’s practice of ‘robo-firing’ — aka the u
Deci raises $9.1M to optimize AI models with AI
Deci, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is buding a new platform that uses AI to optimize AI models and get them ready for production, today announced that it has raised a $9.1 mlion seed round led by Emerge and Square Peg.
The general idea here is to make it easier and faster for businesses to take AI
Leading Edge Equipment has a technology to improve solar manufacturing and $7.6 million to go to market
Only a few weeks after the successful public offering of Array Technologies proved that there’s a market for technologies aimed at improving efficiencies across the solar manufacturing and installation chain, Leading Edge Equipment has raised capital for its novel silicon wafer manufacturing
Bogota’s Tül raises $4 million to improve the supply chain for construction in Latin America
With a new $4 million round, the Bogota-based supply chain logistics technology developer Tül is prepping to expand across the Latin American region.
Founded by Enrique Villamarin Lafaurie and Juan Carlos Narváez, Tül’s technology connects construction manufacturers to the small businesses
NeoLight’s jaundice treatment catches another $7 million to bring neonatal light therapy to the home
NeoLight, a startup company that’s working to bring hospital-grade neonatal care technologies to the home, has raised $7 million more in financing.
Dignity Health and Honor Health Systems came in to support the company along with previous investors like the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben
India’s FreshToHome raises $121 million to grow its meat and vegetable e-commerce platform
FreshToHome, an Indian e-commerce startup that sells fresh vegetables, fish, chicken and other kinds of meat, has raised $121 million in a new financing round as the Bangalore-headquartered firm reports accelerated growth spurred by the coronavirus pandemic.
The startup, which offers its service in
Face to Face, Tinder’s opt-in video chat feature, is now rolling out globally
Tinder, currently the world’s biggest biggest dating app for people to find matches and connect with them, is expanding another feature today to extend the time people spend in the app, and the communications they can have within it.
Face to Face, an opt-in-only feature that Tinder launched e
White Castle rolls out more robots from Miso Robotics to cook in its kitchens
More robots are coming to White Castle.
Expanding a partnership with Miso Robotics, roughly 10 new White Castle locations will be rolling out the Pasadena, California-based company’s robotic fry cook.
The move accelerates the adoption of Miso Robotics’ newly designed Fli
Video creation and editing platform InVideo raises $15 million
InVideo, a Mumbai-based startup that has built a video creation and editing platform, has raised $15 million as it looks to court more users and customers worldwide.
The startup offers a freemium web-based editing tool that allows users to create videos that are fit to be published on popular socia