Clubhouse voice chat leads a wave of spontaneous social apps April 18, 2020 Forget the calendar invite. Just jump into a conversation. That’s the idea powering a fresh batch of social startups poised to take advantag...
Molotov partners with SchoolMouv to offer video lessons April 17, 2020 Schools have been closed for the past month in France. That’s why French startup Molotov is leveraging its over-the-top TV service to offer...
Trade Republic, a German Robinhood, raises $67M led by Accel and Founders Fund April 16, 2020 In the US, Robinhood has led the charge in upending the stock investing model through its mobile-first, minimal-step, commission free tradin...
NASA reveals ambitious multi-spacecraft plan to bring a piece of Mars back to Earth April 16, 2020 That NASA intends to collect a sample from Mars and return it to Earth is well known — they’ve said so many times. But how would they go abo...
Sprout.ai raises $2.5M to speed up insurance claims April 15, 2020 Sprout.ai , an insurtech incubated at London’s Imperial College that is applying AI to insurance claims,, has raised $2.5 million in additio...
Gousto, a UK meal-kit service, raises another $41M as business booms under lockdown April 15, 2020 Food delivery — be it ready-made restaurant meals, groceries, or anything in between — has seen a huge surge of activity in the last few wee...
Taxfix raises $65 million for its mobile tax filing app April 15, 2020 Berlin-based startup Taxfix has raised a $65 million Series C funding round. Index Ventures is leading the round with Neil Rimer joining th...
View, the dynamic glass company that raised $1.1 billion from SoftBank in 2018, is laying people off April 15, 2020 View , a 13-year-old, Milpitas, Calif.-based company that makes dynamic glass designed to reduce heat and glare as well as lessen eyestrain,...
Financial tech startup Previse raises $11 million to help suppliers get paid faster April 15, 2020 Previse , a fintech focused on helping suppliers get faster payment, announced that it has raised $11 million in new funding led by Reefknot...
Mayfield raises $750 million across two funds April 15, 2020 Silicon Valley mainstay the Mayfield Fund has raised $750 million across two new funds, the firm said today . The venture capital firm sai...
Medopad rebrands as Huma, acquires BioBeats and TLT to expand its biomarker platform April 15, 2020 Some big changes are underway for London-based Medopad , a startup that builds software for medical practitioners to monitor patients remot...
Slite raises $11 million for its internal notes tool April 15, 2020 French startup Slite has raised an $11 million Series A round led by Spark Capital with existing investors also participating. Slite is a ...
Google announces a Journalism Emergency Relief Fund for local newsrooms April 15, 2020 Google is offering financial support to local newsrooms hit by the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of its Google News In...
India’s FarEye raises $25M to grow its logistics SaaS startup in international markets April 14, 2020 More than 150 e-commerce and delivery companies globally use an Indian logistics startup’s service to work out the optimum way before they s...
Luxury consignment retailer The RealReal lays off 10% of workforce, furloughs 15% April 14, 2020 Online consignment company The RealReal is the latest tech company to lay off and furlough employees amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In the comp...
One month after White House pledges, access to testing and equipment still lags April 13, 2020 One month after President Trump declared a national emergency and announced commitments from some of the nation’s largest companies to help ...
Tesla’s furlough calls begin with delivery and sales taking a hit April 10, 2020 Tesla started Friday to furlough its sales and delivery workforce — with the least experienced employees bearing the brunt of the action — ...
It’s “bullshit” that VCs are open for business right now (but that could change in a month) April 09, 2020 This afternoon, the law firm Fenwick & West hosted a virtual roundtable discussion with New York-based venture capitalists: Hadley Harr...