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Uber Eats pilots autonomous delivery with Serve Robotics, Motional
17 mei 2022 · 5 min
Uber Eats is launching two autonomous delivery pilots in Los Angeles on Monday with Serve Robotics, a robotic sidewalk delivery startup, and Motional, an autonomous vehicle technology company.
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Classiq raises additional funding for its quantum algorithm design tools
16 mei 2022 · 4 min
Tel Aviv-based Classiq, a startup that wants to make it easier for developers to build quantum algorithms and applications, today announced that it has raised additional funding for its service by adding HSBC, NTT Finance, and Intesa Sanpaolo as new investors.
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Bubbles aims to supercharge chats with async video messaging
16 mei 2022 · 6 min
Bubbles, a startup that pitches its platform as the “anti-Zoom” for video messaging, today announced that it closed a $8.5 million funding round led by Khosla Ventures, Craft Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, 468 Ventures, and Bain Capital.
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Gusto raises an extension round, following Faire as unicorns react to a changing market
13 mei 2022 · 4 min
Gusto, an HR technology unicorn worth nearly $10 billion, has raised an extension to its 2021-era Series E funding round.
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Leland breaks into the coaching space with a focus on careers, not classes
13 mei 2022 · 6 min
The coaching world is crowded. There’s BetterUp, a re-skilling platform that wants to bring executive coaching to employees, and Sounding Board, which mixes SaaS and coaching services.
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Singapore-based Good Startup raises $34M fund to invest in alternative protein companies
12 mei 2022 · 3 min
Good Startup, a Singapore-based venture capital firm focused on alternative protein, has closed its latest fund.
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Berlin’s GetHenry breaks into last-mile delivery e-bike scene with $17.4M seed
12 mei 2022 · 5 min
Berlin-based GetHenry, a startup that provides electric last-mile delivery bikes to couriers and logistics companies, has raised a $17.4 million (€16.5 million) seed round to expand its business across Europe.
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EV startup Canoo sues major investor over sketchy share sales
11 mei 2022 · 4 min
Electric vehicle startup Canoo has filed suit against one of its largest shareholders, demanding that the firm pay back more than $61 million in “short-swing profits.”
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Blueland takes its ‘don’t ship water’ model to body wash
11 mei 2022 · 4 min
To date, Blueland, fresh off its $20 million fundraise back in February, has mostly been focusing on home cleaning products.
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Fertility startup Hannah Life Technologies gets $5.15M Pre-Series A
10 mei 2022 · 3 min
Hannah Life Technologies, a startup for couples trying to conceive, announced today it has raised $5.15 million in pre-Series A funding led by Monk’s Hill Ventures.
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South Korea’s OHouse lands $128M to add AR to home improvement app
10 mei 2022 · 5 min
During the worst days of the pandemic, when people were stuck at home and starving for some form of entertainment beyond streaming yet another TV series, many turned to DIY home improvement projects.
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Daniel Ek pumps $50 million into Spotify: ‘I believe our best days are ahead’
9 mei 2022 · 3 min
Spotify cofounder Daniel Ek said on Friday that he’s pouring $50 million into the music streaming service, driving its stock price up by more than 3% to a high of $108.98 per share during regular trading hours.Â
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Lucid is raising prices on its luxury Air EV by as much as 13%
9 mei 2022 · 7 min
Lucid Group is the latest automaker to up the price of its electric vehicles. The company announced Thursday alongside its first-quarter earnings report that it was raising prices of the variants of its luxury Air sedan, beginning June 1.
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Tomorrow Farms wants to revamp the pantry
6 mei 2022 · 4 min
Tomorrow Farms is turning the concept of pantry and refrigerator staples on its head to create foods that are better for us.
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Shopify acquires shipping logistics startup Deliverr for $2.1B
6 mei 2022 · 8 min
Shopify today announced that it will acquire Deliverr, a San Francisco, California-based ecommerce fulfillment startup, for $2.1 billion.
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As supply chain issues mount, Fictiv helps companies get from prototype to manufacturing
5 mei 2022 · 4 min
It used to be getting from prototyping to manufacturing meant long, expensive trips to places like Shenzhen and a whole lot of trial and error. Fictiv was founded back in 2013 to address some of the biggest pain points of bringing products to market.
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Fundid’s injects first funding into providing capital, credit for small businesses
5 mei 2022 · 4 min
Fundid has a three-pronged approach to simplifying access to capital for small businesses with fewer than 10 employees.
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Getlife wants to democratize life insurance in Europe
4 mei 2022 · 4 min
Meet Getlife, a Madrid-based startup that just raised $6.3 million (€6 million) in seed funding. The company wants to make it easier to access life insurance products in Europe. For instance, there’s no medical exams needed to subscribe to Getlife.
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Backed by Tiger Global and Sequoia India, Toplyne helps product-led growth teams tackle user conversion
4 mei 2022 · 4 min
For product-led growth companies (PLG), the perennial question is: how do we get non-paying customers to subscribe?
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LottieFiles raises Series B to make the animation format even more ubiquitous
3 mei 2022 · 4 min
Lottie animations are everywhere. The JSON-based file format, first introduced as an open-source library by Airbnb engineers, can now be seen in the top 500 iOS and Android apps, said LottieFiles co-founder Kshitij Minglani.
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Anthropic’s quest for better, more explainable AI attracts $580M
3 mei 2022 · 4 min
Less than a year ago, Anthropic was founded by former OpenAI VP of research Dario Amodei, intending to perform research in the public interest on making AI more reliable and explainable. Its $124 million in funding was surprising then, but nothing could have prepared us for the company raising $580 million less than a year.
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Vyoma is the latest player seeking to prevent satellite collisions with space junk
2 mei 2022 · 5 min
As you might’ve heard, it’s getting a little crowded in space, between thousand-satellite constellations à la SpaceX’s Starlink and the millions of pieces of space junk accumulated from decades of launches.
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Glorang scores $10M Series A to expand its edtech marketplace across Asia
2 mei 2022 · 4 min
Glorang, a Seoul-based edtech startup that offers after-school classes and extracurricular activities via online for students between the ages of 3 and 18, said Friday it has raised a $10 million Series A funding co-led by Korea Investment Partners and Murex Partners, along with Japan’s Pksha Capital.Â
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HackerOne buys YC-backed PullRequest to add code review to bug-squashing platform
29 april 2022 · 4 min
PullRequest, a five year old startup that came out of Y Combinator in 2017, helps software developers by providing an external code review team.
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Madison Reed, which made DTC hair color a thing, is now going after larger retail footprint
29 april 2022 · 5 min
Buoyed by a new $33 million investment, plans are in the works to add another 20 hair color bar locations and hire 850 new colorists by the end of the year.
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Deepset raises $14M to help companies build NLP apps
28 april 2022 · 6 min
Natural language processing (NLP), the field of AI that involves parsing text for tasks including summarization and generation, is a fast-growing technology.
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Zippedi is using robots to digitize inventory for last-mile delivery
28 april 2022 · 5 min
Luis Vera believes the third time is the charm. The self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur admits that his vision for digitizing retail was a decade or two early when he started his journey in the 90s.
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Umaro is turning ocean-farmed seaweed into imitation bacon
27 april 2022 · 5 min
Don’t call it a pivot, exactly — but it’s a fascinating journey, nonetheless. Umaro Foods, which is set to release a seaweed-based bacon replacement, entered the world as Trophic.
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Qualified raises $95M to help Salesforce users with sales pipeline generation
27 april 2022 · 6 min
Lead generation is a critical cornerstone in the world of sales — in a seemingly infinite sea of potential customers, you need to know who wants to buy, or who might buy.
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Lengow acquires e-commerce intelligence startup Netrivals
26 april 2022 · 4 min
A bit more than a year after private equity firm Marlin Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Lengow, the company is expanding its product offering with the acquisition of Netrivals.
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As it brings its bipedal robots to market, Agility announces a $150M round
26 april 2022 · 4 min
Yesterday, Amazon announced that Agility Robotics is one of the five initial startups benefitting from the company’s $1 billion innovation fund.
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Manila-based MadEats is more than a ghost kitchen startup
25 april 2022 · 3 min
MadEats, Y Combinator alum, claims to be the first “‘full-stack’ delivery-only startup in the Philippines,” with their own virtual storefront, ghost kitchens and fleet of drivers.
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Skyflow and Plaid partner in effort to bolster fintech data security
25 april 2022 · 4 min
Skyflow, which sells data privacy tools for corporate customers, this morning announced a partnership with Plaid, a unicorn that helps pass fintech data between parties through an API.
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Construct Capital’s $300M fund targets critical infrastructure automation
22 april 2022 · 4 min
The firm invests in the manufacturing, transportation and logistics sectors, which, they say “represent over half our country’s GDP and have not been tech-enabled.”
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Meet Morado, a two-month old Colombian marketplace for the beauty industry that just raised $5M
22 april 2022 · 4 min
Morado, a two-month-old Colombian startup aiming to digitize beauty salons in Latin America, has raised $5 million in a pre-seed round from a bevy of global investors.
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Singapore-based healthcare startup Ordinary Folk gets $5M to fight stigma
21 april 2022 · 4 min
Ordinary Folk, a Singapore-based telehealth startup dedicated to men and women’s health issues, has raised $5 million in pre-seed funding from Monk’s Hill Ventures.
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SaaS demo platform Demostack raises $34M to expand to new markets
21 april 2022 · 5 min
Demostack, a San Francisco, California-based startup creating a “demo experience” platform for software-as-a-service (SaaS) sales teams, today announced that it raised $34 million in a Series B round led by Tiger Global Management.
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Everstage raises $13M Series A to make sales commissions more transparent
20 april 2022 · 3 min
For sales reps, commission plans are often complicated and lack transparency, leading to accounting errors and frustration. Everstage, a sales commission platform, solves that, letting sales rep see exactly how much they earned.
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Planetary wants to help food startups brew up more fake meat
20 april 2022 · 5 min
Planetary aims to bring all of the alternative protein production planets into orbit with its scaling technology.
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Chipotle launches $50M venture fund in bid to foster new restaurant tech
19 april 2022 · 6 min
In a bid to position its brand as more tech-forward — and, in the process, foster new culinary innovations — Chipotle today announced the launch of Cultivate Next, a venture fund run by Curt Garner, the restaurant chain’s chief technology officer.
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Nowadays puts its spin on plant-based nuggets
19 april 2022 · 7 min
Its first product is a crispy, plant-based riff on chicken nuggets that is made with just seven ingredients.
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Sika lets patients ‘hack’ their health savings accounts to buy wellness products tax-free
18 april 2022 · 7 min
What if you could buy a Peloton with pre-tax dollars? How about vitamins and supplements? Skincare products? Or even mattresses and massages?
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Speckle snags $5.5M seed to build open source platform for 3D drawings
18 april 2022 · 4 min
The founders of Speckle, an early-stage startup based in London, are both trained architects and engineers, probably a rare combination. It enabled them to see and understand firsthand the issues associated with exchanging large proprietary 3D files from vendors like Autodesk and Trimble.
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Itilite secures $29M to automate corporate expensing workflows
15 april 2022 · 6 min
For the bulk of the past two years, the pandemic has put the kibosh on corporate travel of nearly any kind.
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Tokyo-based Luup to more than double shared e-scooters, e-bikes
15 april 2022 · 4 min
Shared micromobility company Luup has raised $8 million (1 billion yen) in debt and asset financing to meet the growing demands of Japan’s micromobility market, which according to a recent report, is projected to reach $11.6 billion in 2030.
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Shipium gives e-commerce retailers Amazon-like supply chain tech
14 april 2022 · 4 min
E-commerce retailers of all sizes can have that supply chain coordination layer that enables them to provide fast and cheaper shipping, too.
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Snap debuts its fifth cohort of Yellow accelerator startups
14 april 2022 · 4 min
Snap’s in-house Yellow accelerator program, which invests in startups, has debuted its fifth batch of investments.
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Hookdeck snares $2.4M seed to help developers manage webhooks
13 april 2022 · 4 min
Hookdeck founders Alexandre Bouchard and Eric Tran were working on a product to help manage webhooks in 2020 when they became discouraged and decided to step away to gain some perspective.
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Montonio is building the payment and checkout solution to rule them all
13 april 2022 · 5 min
Meet Montonio, an e-commerce checkout solution created by a small startup based in Tallinn, Estonia. The company just raised a $12 million Series A funding round (€11 million) led by Index Ventures.
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Bosch picks up Five.ai after the self-driving startup pivoted to B2B and then put itself up for sale
12 april 2022 · 6 min
Consolidation is moving ahead in the world of autonomous driving, with the latest development coming out of Europe.
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