Tech News update Dallas tech startup raises $200 million in new capital to accelerate growth Mar 19, 2020 StackPath, a Dallas edge computing startup, expects to accelerate its growth with more than $200 million in new financing from two investors. The…
Tech News update Startup founders are building companies on WhatsApp Mar 14, 2020 In Asia, where I work as a partner at an early-stage VC firm, startups are regularly rolling out a minimum viable product (MVP) and then transacting…
Tech News update Google announced acquiring data analytics startup Looker for $2.6B Feb 14, 2020 When Google announced that it was acquiring data analytics startup Looker for $2.6 billion, it was a big deal on a couple of levels. It was a lot of…
Tech News update How UK startup IoT Solutions is transforming public services Jan 28, 2020 Squeezed for cash, local authorities across the UK are turning towards technology to help them solve civic problems and improve the management of…
Tech News update Apple buys edge-based AI startup Xnor.ai for a reported $200M Jan 16, 2020 Xnor.ai, spun off in 2017 from the nonprofit Allen Institute for AI (AI2), has been acquired by Apple for about $200 million. A source close to…
Tech News update Dublin start-up Pointy is set to be acquired by Google Jan 15, 2020 Google plans to acquire Dublin start-up Pointy, which has created a device that automatically lists a bricks-and-mortar stores inventory online so…
Tech News update Cloudflare acquires stealthy startup S2 Systems Jan 8, 2020 Cloudflare announced that it has acquired S2 Systems, a browser isolation startup started by former Microsoft execs. The two companies did not…
Tech News update Union Square Ventures leads legal tech startup Juro’s $5M Series A Jan 7, 2020 Juro, a UK startup that’s using machine learning tech and user-centric design to do for contracts what Typeform does for online forms, has caught the…
Cyber Security Snap reportedly acquires a deepfake startup Jan 4, 2020 Snap has purchased AI Factory, an image and video recognition startup, according to Variety on Friday. Snapchat reportedly used AI Factory’s…
Tech News update On-demand delivery startup Glovo raises $167 million at over $1 billion valuation Dec 19, 2019 European on-demand delivery startup Glovo has raised €150 million ($167 million) in a series E round of funding led by UAE-based investment firm…