Facebook’s Portal adds support for Netflix, Zoom and other features
Facebook announced this morning it’s bringing a number of new features and services to its family of Portal devices, including support for Netflix and Zoom. The company will also introduce easier ways to launch Netflix and other video streaming apps via one-touch buttons on its new remote, in
Scribe Therapeutics launches a platform for engineering CRISPR-based therapeutics
A new company called Scribe Therapeutics founded by two former members of CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna’s UC Berkeley genetics lab (alongside Doudna herself) launched on Tuesday, debuting a platform designed specifically to help develop and engineer new therapeutics based on CRISPR for addre
Envoy launches Protect to help workers return to the office safely
No matter the industry, the coronavirus pandemic has absolutely rocked the way that we work. Work from home is the new norm. But many are anxious to get back into the office, and startups are looking to help with that transition in the safest way possible.
One such startup is Envoy, a company that
Remotion raises $13M to create a workplace video platform for short, spontaneous conversations
One of the broader trends of the pandemic has been the unbundling of Zoom, with startups pulling out a feature or two and designing entire products centered around a specific vision of remote work. One of the more tempting product ideas has been the development of the omnipresent always-on video wo
Ambani sells over $750 million Reliance Retail stake to Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, which invested $750 million in Indian telecom giant Jio Platforms in June this year, has returned to invest just as much capital in Mukesh Ambani’s other venture.
Reliance Retail, India’s largest retail chain, said on Tuesday that it is selling a 1.2% sta
Scratchpad announces $3.6M seed to put workspace on top of Salesforce
One thing that annoys sales people is entering data into a CRM like Salesforce because it’s time spent not selling. Part of the problem is Salesforce is a database and as such is not necessarily designed for speed. Scratchpad wants to simplify that process by creating a workspace on top of th
Chargebee raises $55 million to help businesses move to subscriptions
Chargebee, which helps businesses set up and manage their billing, subscription, revenue operations and compliance, said on Tuesday it has raised $55 million in a new financing round as it looks to accelerate its expansion in global markets.
The new financing round, a Series F, for the San Francisc
Tokyo-based virtual reality game developer Thirdverse gets $8.5 million Series A
Thirdverse, the virtual reality game developer behind “Swords of Gargantua,” has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by JAFCO, with participation from Presence Capital, Sisu Ventures and Incubate Fund, and will be used for hiring, co-founder Masaru Ohnogi told Tec
SpaceX successfully launches another Starlink mission, with over 700 satellites launched to date
SpaceX has launched yet another flight of 60 of its Starlink broadband internet satellites. The launch took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:29 AM EDT (4:29 AM PDT) this morning, after having been delayed three times earlier due to scrubs — twice because of weather, and once beca
Tipalti receives $150M at a $2B+ valuation after its accounts payable platform sees a surge in use
Digital transformation has been one of the big enterprise themes of 2020: Organizations are doubling down on cloud services both to link up suddenly remote teams and centralize apps, documents and data in a more efficient way. Today, one of the startups that has filled out that story with a cloud-b
Spotify's new Soundtrap capture app offers collaborative voice notes for songwriters
Acquired in 2017, Soundtrap more or less serves a similar role as Anchor under the larger Spotify banner — albeit largely focused on music creation, instead of podcasting. The company's software of the same name is a cloud-based service designed to let musicians remotely collaborate on a song
Spacebit books a second trip to the moon via NASA’s commercial lunar payload program
U.K.-based robotic rover startup Spacebit has booked a second payload delivery to the moon, aboard the Nova-C lander that Intuitive Machines is planning to send in 2021 as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. Spacebit already has a berth aboard the Astrobotic Pereg
Security flaw left ‘smart’ chastity sex toy users at risk of permanent lock-in
Just because almost every gadget or appliance can be connected to the internet, doesn't mean they should be. Outages can render these “smart” devices useless, and many use weak security that can make them easily hackable.
And as security researchers recently found out, the consequen
Dialpad raises $100M Series E at a $1.2B valuation
Dialpad, the business-centric voice, video and contact-center service, today announced that it has raised a $100 mlion Series E funding round led by OMERS Growth Equity. Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, ICONIQ Capital and Work-Bench also participated. The company says its valuation is over $1.