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Here are quick hits of the biggest news from the keynote as they are announced.
When Newchip, an online accelerator promising to help startups, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 2023, it was revealed that the company had just…
So did investors laugh them out of the room when they explained how they wanted to replace Quickbooks? Kind of.
PeakBridge intends to invest in between 16 and 20 companies, investing around $10 million in each company. It has made eight investments so far.
Healthy growth helps B2B food e-commerce startup Pepper nab $30 million led by ICONIQ Growth
Co-founder and CEO Bowie Cheung, who previously worked at Uber Eats, said the company now has 200 customers.
We took the pulse of emerging fund managers about what it’s been like for them during these post-ZERP, venture-capital-winter years.
Cleaning the outside of buildings is a dirty job, and it’s also dangerous. Lucid Bots came on the scene in 2018 with its Sherpa line of drones to clean windows…
Mushrooms continue to be a big area for alternative proteins. Canada-based Maia Farms recently raised $1.7 million to develop a blend of mushroom and plant-based protein using biomass fermentation. There’s…
Here’s everything Apple just announced at its Let Loose event, including new iPad Pro with M4 chip, iPad Air, Apple Pencil and more
Today is Apple iPad Event day, and we bring you all the iPad goodness you can stand, including if some of the rumors are true of what’s coming, like a…
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They thought they were joining an accelerator — instead they lost their startups
Lacey Hunter thought all was well as she put her startup through the three-month Newchip accelerator. Then the organization filed for bankruptcy in May 2023. Things went from bad to worse later that year when she discovered warrants of her company — rights to buy an ownership stake — had…
Chicago-based Hyde Park Venture Partners closes $98M Fund IV with two investments made so far
Hyde Park Venture Partners is known for having visibility into more than 90% of mid-continent startups and being early backers of companies like ShipBob, FourKites, G2, LogicGate and Dentologie.
“Teampay represents this new class of fintech companies that came up,” said Paystand CEO Jeremy Almond.
The company produces plant-based ingredients from raw microalgae biomass, generated from spirulina or chlorella, that it claims is more nutritious than meat.
Dripos brings together point-of-sale, mobile payments, employee management and payroll, loyalty and marketing automation and administrative functions like accounting and banking.
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Fintech Fundid was shut down over interest rates and a strained cap table
To keep going, Fundid “needed to put up a lot more collateral because of the changing environment,” Stefanie Sample said.
SoftBank-backed TabaPay is buying the assets of a16z-backed Synapse, after it filed for bankruptcy
After a tumultuous year, banking-as-a-service (BaaS) startup Synapse has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and its assets will be acquired by TabaPay, according to the two companies. The deal is…
Dataplor’s “secret sauce” combines technology and public domain data with a human factor, employing over 100,000 people, called Explorers, to validate all the data via computer.
Companies can identify qualified suppliers from Diagon’s network of equipment suppliers, system integrators and service providers. Then leverage a toolkit to manage those complex projects.
Overall, 16% of Maven’s portfolio companies have reached a minimum $500 million exit or valuation, which is 10x industry average, the firm said.
Don’t have time to be in Las Vegas? That’s OK: We’ve summed up the most important parts of this year’s Google Cloud Next.
Today, Yoshi Mobility settled into three business lines: preventative maintenance, virtual vehicle inspections and electric vehicle charging.
With Metalab Ventures, the venture arm will play the role of a long-term value investor, essentially “putting our money where our mouth is,” CEO Luke Des Cotes said.
Cross-border is hot right now, so it’s no surprise that one of the trends among Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 batch of nearly 30 fintech startups is how to more easily…
Homebase’s human resources and team management app targets the two-thirds of Americans who will never work from home.
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan chastises a San Francisco lawmaker again — this time about an email bill
Garry Tan expressed his displeasure at California State Assembly member Matt Haney over a proposed late-night email bill he authored.
Animal-free egg protein startup Onego Bio is one step closer to cracking the traditional egg market
Onego Bio claims Bioalbumen is “bioidentical” to ovalbumin, which is the major protein in chicken egg white.
Supaglue’s team will accelerate the work Stripe’s been working on real-time analytics and reporting across its platform.
Matter Venture Partners will invest in between 15 and 20 companies with the new fund in the area of “hard tech.”
Century Health is applying AI to clinical data to uncover new applications for drugs.
Food-as-medicine startup Chiyo helps postpartum moms with nutrition after raising $3 million
Unlike other meal service providers that want you to be customers for life, Chiyo’s goal is to get you off of its program.