Bipedal robot developer Agility announces $20M raise
Agility, the Oregon State University spin-off behind Digit and Cassie, announced this morning that it has raised $20 million in funding. The latest round, led by DCVC and Playground Global, brings the startup's total funding up to $29 million. Other recent investors include TDK Ventures, MFV Pa
Pew: Most prolific Twitter users tend to be Democrats, but majority of users still rarely tweet
A new study from Pew Research Center, released today, digs into the different ways that U.S. Democrats and Republicans use Twitter. Based on data collected between November 11, 2019 and September 14, 2020, the study finds that members of both parties tweet fairly infrequently, but a majority of Twi
Alpaca raises $10M Series A for its API-powered equities trading service
This morning Alpaca, a startup that helps other companies add commission-free equities trading to their own products, announced a $10 million Series A. The new capital event was led by Portag3, and included prior investors Social Leverage, Spark Capital, Fathom Capital and Abstract Ventures.
The co
AirBuddy's AirPod integration for the Mac gets updated with more iOS-style features
The AirBuddy app is celebrating another successful Apple week by opening up pre-orders on v2.0. The original, which arrived in early 2019, brought a pop-up to the Mac when a pair of AirPods were brought near — bringing simple ecosystem integration to the desktop before Apple did.
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Koyeb raises $1.6 million for its serverless data-processing engine
French startup Koyeb has raised a $1.6 million (€1.4 million) pre-seed round. The company focuses on data-processing workflows across multiple cloud providers. It hides many complexities using a serverless model.
Jean-David Chamboredon and Juliette Mopin from ISAI are leading the round with Plug
Extend banks $40M to bring a new approach to the old game of extended warranties
Extended warranties — those offers to add an extra year or two to an existing product warranty to give you a little more peace of mind in case something goes wrong with something you’ve purchased — have long been a part of the sales process when you’re buying big-ticket item
Snapchat launches its TikTok rival, Sounds on Snapchat
Snapchat this summer announced it would soon release a new music-powered feature that would allow users to set their Snaps to music. Today, the company made good on that promise with the launch of “Sounds on Snapchat” on iOS, a feature that lets users enhance their Snaps with music from
River, the latest venture from Wander founder Jeremy Fisher, launches with $10.4 million in funding
River, the latest venture from Wander founder Jeremy Fisher, has today announced the close of a $10.4 million funding round from Founders Fund, .406, BoxGroup, Raised in Space, Josh Kushner and Scooter Braun.
River is meant to rethink the way we consume content across the internet. The app pulls st
Application security platform NeuraLegion raises $4.7 million seed led by DNX Ventures
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Application security platform NeuraLegion announced today it has raised a $4.7 million seed round led by DNX Ventures, an enterprise-focused investmen
Spain’s Savana Medica raises $15 million to bring to the US its AI toolkit turning clinical notes into care insights
Savana, a machine learning-based service that turns clinical notes into structured patient information for physicians and pharmacists, has raised $15 million to take its technology from Spain to the U.S., the company said.
The investment was led by Cathay Innovation, with participation from the Sp
France and the Netherlands signal support for EU body to clip the wings of big tech
The French and Dutch governments have signalled support for EU rules that can proactively intervene against so-called gatekeepers, aka “structuring platforms” or “large digital platforms with significant network effects acting as gatekeepers” — or, more colloquially, &
Popmenu earns raves from investors for its marketing and delivery software for restaurants
Brendan Sweeney didn’t know anything about the restaurant business before he and his co-founders launched the Atlanta-based startup Popmenu.
What Sweeney did know was that it was nuts that while every other business was using incredible graphics, curated text, carefully crafted images and fan
Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit review
Nintendo's new RC Mario Kart looks terrific
Stripe acquires Nigeria’s Paystack for $200M+ to expand into the African continent
When Stripe announced earlier this year that it had picked up another $600 million in funding, it said one big reason for the funding was to expand its API-based payments services into more geographies. Today the company is coming good on that plan in the form of some M&A.
Stripe is acquiring P