Tag: startups
Cocoon’s social app for close friends gets VC backing to chase...
You may have heard the pitch before, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram aren’t homes for your real friends anymore because they’re too big, too commercial...
Max Q: NASA signs up new Moon delivery companies
There were lot of highlights in the space industry this past week (even though a rocket launch that was supposed to happened is now...
Code and compete in the TC Hackathon at Disrupt Berlin
We’re in the home stretch to the TC Hackathon going down at Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December. If you have what it takes to compete...
Camp Grounded Digital Detox returns after founder’s death
Summer camp for adults and beloved tech-free weekend getaway Camp Grounded ground to a halt in 2017. Its big-hearted founder, Levi Felix, who’d espoused...
RPA Firm Automation Anywhere raises $290 million in Series B Funding
RPA Firm Automation Anywhere has raised $290 million in Series B round of funding at a post money valuation of $6.8 billion. The funding...
Bandit opens a ‘mobile-only’ coffee shop in New York
If you wander into the Bandit coffee shop in Midtown New York, you won’t be able to just walk up to the counter and...
PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B
PayPal announced today it has agreed to acquire Honey Science Corporation, the makers of a deal-finding browser add-on and mobile application, for $4 billion,...
VEnvirotech transforms organic waste into bioplastics
After a year of testing out environmental technologies for a private company, co-founder Patricia Ayma developed a process for bioplastic production using bacteria. The...
Circ, the Berlin-based e-scooter company, makes layoffs following ‘operational learnings’
Circ, the Berlin-based e-scooter rentals — or so-called micromobility — company founded by Lukasz Gadowski of Delivery Hero fame, has made a number of...
Cheq raises another $16M to fight ad fraud
Cheq, a startup focused on preventing ad fraud and ensuring that ads run in brand-safe environments, has raised $16 million in Series B funding.
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