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Netradyne, a startup that uses cameras and edge computing to improve commercial driver safety, has scored $150 million in Series C funding. The fresh cash will help the company double…

Netradyne raises $150M in Series C to improve commercial driver safety

The gamification of payments is not a new concept. A number of companies are attempting to combine gamification and payments in creative ways. And today, one such company, Play2Pay, has…

Play2Pay raises $13M to convert mobile user engagement into bill payment

Leap, a platform for people over 55 to learn via social interaction, has raised $3.1 million in a seed round led by European early-stage investor Creandum and SF-based South Park…

Leap, a ‘social learning’ platform aimed at over 55s, raises a $3.1M seed round

Influencer marketing is one of the fastest-growing and one of the most impactful media channels today. There’s a growing ad-blocking movement and key demographics are spending less time in front…

Kenya’s AIfluence closes $1M for its AI-powered influencer marketing platform

The global social market is rapidly growing. With over 1.25 million online social sellers in Egypt alone, the Egyptian social e-commerce market is forecast to be worth more than $14.8…

Egyptian social e-commerce platform Taager raises $6.4M led by 4DX Ventures

The exoskeleton/exosuit category has been heating up over the past few years. It makes sense, really. There are two giant — and dramatically different — potential customer bases. On one…

Verve Motion raises $15M following exosuit pilot with grocery workers

New funding boosts Butlr’s ability to apply real-time people-sensing technology beyond real estate and retail uses to monitor falls and other movements for active seniors who are aging in place.

Butlr Technologies, developing anonymous people sensors, inks $7.9M seed round

The fintech funding continues to roll in at a rapid pace, a result of the huge shift underway in how consumers spend and manage their money. In the latest development,…

Revolut confirms a fresh $800M in funding at a $33B valuation to supercharge its financial services super app

Indian startup Inshorts, which operates an eponymous news aggregator service, has raised $60 million in a new financing round as its two-year-old bet — the launch of a new social…

India’s Inshorts raises $60 million following Public social network app growth

First created to give supply chain merchants a streamlined way to communicate with buyers, Tinvio is now preparing to launch financial services, including financing and credit card issuing. The Singapore-based…

Singapore-based Tinvio raises $12M Series A to build financial services for supply chain merchants

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Easy Eat AI, a Singapore-based startup that wants to “transform restaurants into technology companies,” announced today it has raised $5 million in funding. Easy Eat AI offers an operating system…

Easy Eat AI raises $5M to help Southeast Asian restaurants digitize their operations

Part of Y Combinator’s current batch, Deskimo wants to make finding coworking spaces easier. Its on-demand booking app is currently available in Singapore and Hong Kong, with plans to enter…

YC-backed Deskimo, an on-demand coworking space app, launches in Singapore and Hong Kong

Chevrolet Bolts are back in the news — this time for another consumer alert issued by the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration, less than a year after the agency…

NHTSA urges some Chevy Bolt owners to park their car away from home, citing fire risk

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It’s so critical to frame the problem from your perspective. And I also think that this is a really great opportunity to introduce emotion to really build a more compelling…

Khosla’s Adina Tecklu breaks down how to nail your pitch

We knew DMs were on the way to Clubhouse and today the new feature landed, spicing up the audio-only app with a text-based chat feature. Clubhouse’s new direct messaging system,…

Clubhouse ventures beyond audio with Backchannel, a new messaging feature

When Microsoft announced this morning that it was releasing a cloud PC service called Windows 365, it got me thinking. While Windows 365 is about packaging a virtual Windows business…

Could Cloud PCs be Microsoft’s gateway to Chromebook-like hardware?

The United States has fallen behind China and Europe in the production and adoption of electric vehicles, especially from 2017 to 2020, according to a study by the International Council…

Semiconductor wafer producer SK Siltron CSS to invest $300M in US to boost EV supply chain

Woven Planet Holdings — an entity created by Toyota to invest in, develop and eventually bring future of transportation technologies like automated driving to market — has acquired HD mapping…

Toyota’s Woven Planet acquires HD mapping startup Carmera

As it promised last month, Amazon has launched its serialized fiction Kindle Vella store that lets you unlock episodic, self-published stories via in-app purchases. The new platform is a way for readers to discover…

Amazon launches its mobile-first Kindle Vella serialized story platform