Medtech Alimetry gases up with $18M for a wearable to help diagnose gastric disorders

Gut health isn’t the most glamorous of topics, but as many as 1 in 10 people regularly suffer from gastric symptoms like nausea, bloating, or cramping after eating. Figuring out exactly what’s causing stomach misery is not easy without invasive tests. But New Zealand-based startup Alime

Cafeteria raises $3M to connect brands with their most opinionated customers: teens

Brands often rely on scraping the web and monitoring social media to understand what customers are saying about them and get insights for product development. Cafeteria connects teens with brands they are interested in so they can provide feedback about strategy and product development. The startu

Cheers lets you play matchmaker with friends

The latest addition to the dating app scene is Cheers, a newly launched matchmaking app available to users in New York City. Founded by former Instagram engineer Sahil Ahuja, Cheers sets itself apart by offering friend-matchmaking and social posting features to facilitate new connections. Cheers (

Concentric helps companies keep track of their sensitive data

Enterprises have a data inventory problem. The amount of data they’re collecting and storing is increasing, and that data is being spread across disparate storage buckets. Yet many organizations rely on processes that essentially amount to pencil-and-paper methods for tracking data provenance

This new UK startup is building classic-style cars with a modern EV twist

When U.K. custom electric car creator RBW showed off its Roadster and GT models at Monterey Car Week this year, the vehicles stunned a lot of attendees, CEO Peter Swain recently told technewss. “We had four ‘wows,’ where people would go: ‘Wow, that’s beautiful. Wow,

Snapchat brings camera shortcut to the iPhone lock screen

Users with iPhone iOS 18 and later can now replace the flashlight or native camera lock screen shortcut with the Snapchat camera. Once a picture is taken or video is recorded with the shortcut, users will have to unlock their phone before sharing. Snapchat says more than 55,000 Snaps are created e

UK competition regulator to investigate Alphabet's investment in Anthropic

The U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a formal probe into Alphabet’s investment in AI rival Anthropic. The investigation comes three months after the CMA confirmed it was inviting “interested parties” to comment on Alphabet’s various investments in Ant

Notion's email product is nearing launch

Notion seems to be close to launching its email product called Notion Mail according to multiple sources. Earlier this year, Notion acquired Skiff, a privacy-focused email service and app. At the time, Skiff said that it would provide a 12-month sunset window to users so that they have enough time

From Goodreads’ founder, Smashing debuts its AI-powered app for online readers

Smashing, a new app curating the best of the web from Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, is now available to the public. Like Goodreads, the app aims to create a community around content. But this time, instead of books, the focus is on web content — like news articles, blog posts, social media

After selling Anchor to Spotify, co-founders reunite to build AI educational startup Oboe

The co-founders who sold their last startup to Spotify are working on a new project: an AI-powered educational startup called Oboe backed by a $4 million seed investment. The new company, hailing from Nir Zicherman and Michael Mignano, aims to democratize access to learning the way that their prior

UK revives plan to reform data protection rules with an eye on boosting the economy

A new data bill from the U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) aims to revive several measures that failed to pass under the prior government, while rowing back on some controversial post-Brexit reforms proposed by conservative ministers. The government reckons the “D

Finix raises $75M to take on Stripe as a payment processor

For years, Finix has been slowly chipping away at Stripe – which handles payments for millions of businesses. But after previously helping companies set up internal payment systems of their own, the startup officially became a payment processor in 2023, just like Stripe. Now Finix is gearing up f

AI networking startup Boardy raises $3M pre-seed

Boardy, a professional networking startup driven by AI voice technology, announced Thursday the closing of a $3 million pre-seed round.  The company was co-founded by its CEO Andrew D'Souza, Matt Stein, Shen Sivananthan, and brothers Ankur Boyed and Abhinav Boyed. They came up with this i

Supply chain startup Interos lands new customers, cash

Each year, supply chain disruptions cost the global economy trillions of dollars. In a recent McKinsey poll, nine in ten businesses said they had encountered logistics challenges over the past 12 months. Headwinds have only grown stronger as chaos reigns in key shipping corridors. Attacks on freig