Now providing healthcare access to nearly 1.5 million kids, Hazel Health raises $33.5 million
Hazel Health was founded five years ago to provide telemedicine services to children in public schools. Launched by a former Apple software engineer and serial entrepreneur, Nick Woods, and named after one of Woods’ children, Hazel Health has grown to work with school districts responsible fo
Founded by an Impossible Foods and Google data scientist, Climax Foods raises $7.5 million to tackle the cheesiest market
"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">Oliver Zahn began his professional career studying the stars. The founder of Climax Foods, a startup that’s using data science to replace animal proteins with plant-based substitutes, spent years at the University of California at Berkeley with his eyes fixed firm
LA-based The Skills is launching a MasterClass for athletes featuring Michael Phelps, Maria Sharapova and more
A new Los Angeles startup is betting that enough consumers are interested in paying between $69 and $149 per year to receive lessons in life and sports from celebrity athletes like Maria Sharapova and Shaun White to make a billion-dollar business.
That’s the gamble that Maveron, Global Found
Sarcos raises $40 million to bring its Guardian XO exoskeleton to market
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven a significant catalyst for robotics investments, as companies look to invest in automation. Utah-based Sarcos Robotics bucks the trend a bit, however, as the purveyor of a technology designed to augment an existing human workforce, rather than replacing a significan
Dialpad acquires video conferencing service Highfive
VoIP provider Dialpad, the company behind the popular video conferencing service UberConference, today announced that it has acquired Highfive, a well-funded video conferencing startup that focuses on providing businesses with conference room solutions. The two companies did not disclose the purcha
Facebook touts beefed up hate speech detection ahead of Myanmar election
Facebook has offered a little detail on extra steps it’s taking to improve its ability to detect and remove hate speech and election disinformation ahead of Myanmar’s election. A general election is scheduled to take place in the country on November 8, 2020.
The announcement comes close
Owl Ventures’ new pair of funds gives edtech a $585 million boost
Edtech just keeps on booming.
Today, Owl Ventures, a San Francisco-based education technology fund whose portfolio includes Byju's, Labster, MasterClass and Quizlet, announced that it has closed a pair of investment vehicles totaling $585 million.
Owl Ventures IV is a $415 milli
12 Paris-based VCs look at the state of their city
Four years after the Great Recession, France’s newly elected socialist president François Hollande raised taxes and increased regulations on founder-led startups. The subsequent flight of entrepreneurs to places like London and Silicon Valley portrayed France as a tough place to launch a com
Salesforce beefing up field service offering with AI
Salesforce has been adding artificial intelligence to all parts of its platform for several years now. It calls the underlying artificial intelligence layer on the Salesforce platform Einstein. Today the company announced some enhancements to its field service offerings that take advantage of this
Crowd equity platform Seedrs opens up its existing secondary market to any business
Seedrs — the UK's first full-function private equity secondary market to launch back in 2017 — is launching its secondary market offering to all private businesses. The idea is that this will allow founders, employees and early investors to realize secondary liquidity without having to wait
InfoSum raises $15.1M for its privacy-first, federated approach to big data analytics
Data protection and data privacy have gone from niche concerns to mainstream issues in the last several years, thanks to new regulations and a cascade of costly breaches that have laid bare the problems that arise when information and data security are treated haphazardly.
Yet that swing has also t
Facebook threatens to block news sharing in Australia as it lobbies against revenue share law
Adtech giant and self-styled ‘free speech champion’, Facebook, has threatened to pull the plug on the public sharing of news content on Facebook and Instagram in Australia.
The aggressive threat is Facebook’s attempt to lobby against a government plan that will require it and Goog
Cosmose, a platform that analyzes foot traffic in physical stores, gets $15 million Series A
Cosmose tracks foot traffic in brick-and-mortar stores to help predict customer behavior, providing data that is increasingly important as companies try to weather COVID-19’s economic impact. Today the startup announced it has raised a $15 million Series A. The round was by Tiga Investments,
Apple alum’s jobs app for India’s workers secures $8 million
Javed, a middle-aged man, worked as a driver before losing that job earlier this year as coronavirus spread across India, prompting New Delhi to enforce a nationwide lockdown and temporarily curb several business activities.
There are millions of people like Javed in India today who have lost their