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Media & Entertainment
Video Window Remote aims to help remote workers feel connected to the office
6:49 am PDT • August 17, 2021
As many companies shift to a hybrid approach to work, where some folks are working in the office and some at home, it’s easy for the home-based workers to feel…
Biotech & Health
Digital therapy program for fibromyalgia receives FDA breakthrough device designation
6:39 am PDT • August 17, 2021
Swing Therapeutics, a digital therapeutics startup, has received an FDA breakthrough device designation for their 12-week smartphone-assisted fibromyalgia management program. This is the company’s first breakthrough designation, and precedes a…
Featured Article
The 2022 Toyota GR 86 brings performance to the people
The sports car market can seem like an exclusive club, one reserved for those with enough extra cash and garage space to make such a highly impractical passion purchase. More often than not, these prestige items are billed with intimidating power numbers and equally frightening price tags, both tacitly challenging would-be buyers — Can you…
6:07 am PDT • August 17, 2021
Starday raised $4 million in seed funding to take on “big food” incumbents.
I watched a lot of skate videos growing up. At some point, failures became as important a fixture as perfectly executed tricks. The spills and the injuries could be downright…
Biotech & Health
GSK and R/GA Ventures are launching a health studio for startups
6:00 am PDT • August 17, 2021
GSK Next, the innovation arm of GSK Consumer Healthcare, is launching a new mentorship and business development program. Called the Re/Wire Health Studio, the program will eventually select six startups…
Robotic pizza has proven a surprisingly popular goal for startups. Over the past several years, some of those dreams have been more successful than others. Zume is probably the most…
Transportation
Bird is the latest operator to integrate its e-scooters and e-bikes with Google Maps
6:00 am PDT • August 17, 2021
Micromobility company Bird has officially joined the ranks of e-scooter and e-bike operators that are integrated with Google Maps, which now surfaces nearby vehicles for users in the U.S. Bird’s…
Startups
Split.io announces $50M Series D to continue growing feature flag platform
5:38 am PDT • August 17, 2021
As developers build applications, they often want to test new functionality on a limited set of users to blunt any possible negative impact or to gauge user reaction to the…
Startups
Monte Carlo closes $60M Series C on the back of rapid ARR growth
5:00 am PDT • August 17, 2021
The company raised a Series B earlier this year, a $25 million round led by GGV and Redpoint. Both Series B lead investors participated in Monte Carlo’s Series C.
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Enterprise
Salesforce announces first integrations with Slack after closing $28B sale
5:00 am PDT • August 17, 2021
When Salesforce acquired Slack at the end of last year for almost $28 billion, you had to figure they had some big plans for the company. Today the CRM giant…
Hamburg’s state government has been formally warned against using Zoom over data protection concerns. The German state’s data protection agency (DPA) took the step of issuing a public warning yesterday,…
Startups
Hopper raises $175M at $3.5B+ valuation as travel surges and its fintech tools help offset variant concerns
4:30 am PDT • August 17, 2021
Travel tech company Hopper has raised a $175 million Series G, the company said today. That’s nearly the same amount it raised in a Series F round that closed earlier this…
Fintech
African fintech Pngme raises $15M for its financial data infrastructure platform
4:01 am PDT • August 17, 2021
Unbundling financial data through APIs and driving data-driven insights with value-add products in Africa keeps getting more exciting as major players continue to raise more money for scale. Less than…
Startups
MOLOCO raises $150M Series C led by Tiger Global at a $1.5B valuation
4:00 am PDT • August 17, 2021
MOLOCO, an adtech startup that uses machine learning to build mobile campaigns, announced today it has raised $150 million in new Series C funding led by Tiger Global Management, taking…
Startups
Brex buys Weav, a universal API for commerce platforms, for $50M
4:00 am PDT • August 17, 2021
Fintech Brex first partnered with Weav, a developer of a universal API for commerce platforms, last summer. In March, Brex launched Instant Payouts for Shopify sellers using the startup’s technology.…
Startups
xentral, an ERP platform for SMBs, raises $75M Series B from Tiger Global and Meritech
3:26 am PDT • August 17, 2021
Enterprise Resource Planning systems have traditionally been the preserve of larger companies, but in recent years the amount of data small to medium-sized businesses can generate has increased to the…
Startups
A leaked bill for Nigerian startups reveals a theme of licenses, fees, fines and sentences
3:16 am PDT • August 17, 2021
For a while, there have been talks about revamping the outdated 2007 Act of Nigeria’s information and technology body, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). The bill, which established…
Media & Entertainment
informed., you want to be? Trio of European media veterans take on the problem of news economics
2:07 am PDT • August 17, 2021
News is vital to society, but it’s also incredibly expensive to produce. As ad rates have suffered across the industry (minus a positive blip this summer), publishers have increasingly turned…
It’s not even half a year since crypto exchange Bitpanda announced a $170 million Series B — when, back in March, Austria’s first unicorn was being valued at $1.2 billion.…
