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Sweden's Engaging Care raises €2.5M seed to scale patient communication and improve outcomes
Apr 17, 12:25PM
Engaging Care, the Swedish heathtech startup founded by Annica Belfrage and Charlotta Tönsgård (who was previously CEO of online doctor app Min Doktor), has raised €2.5 million in seed funding. The round is co-led by two European venture capital firms: Connect Ventures and Crowberry Capital. It follows the company’s €800,000 pre-seed funding in July from […]
Super raises $20M to fix the home services and repairs market with its subscription service
Apr 17, 11:30AM
Home owners in the US spend upwards of $300 billion annually on home repairs and maintenance — a huge sum that often comes with another, more hidden cost: the stress of finding reliable tradespeople, managing those jobs, and (in the worst-case scenario) picking up the pieces if things go wrong. Now, a startup called Super […]
Enterprise events management platform Bizzabo scores $27M Series D
Apr 17, 10:00AM
Bizzabo, the New York and Tel Aviv-based events management platform, has raised $27 million in Series D funding. Leading the round is Viola Growth, along with new investor Next47. We’re also told that previous backers, including Pilot Growth, followed on. The new funding brings the total raised by the company to $56 million. Originally launched […]
Dutch chipmaker NXP makes China push by backing radar company Hawkeye
Apr 17, 9:35AM
Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has come a long way since Qualcomm’s outsize $44 billion to acquire it fell through last year. In an announcement released on Tuesday, NXP said it’s agreed to back and partner with Hawkeye Technology, a Chinese company specializing in automotive radars, as part of an ambition to capture the rapid growth […]
Aptiv takes its self-driving car ambitions (and tech) to China
Apr 17, 5:37AM
Aptiv, the U.S. auto supplier and self-driving software company, is opening an autonomous mobility center in Shanghai to focus on the development and eventual deployment of its technology on public roads. The expansion marks the fifth market where Aptiv has set up R&D, testing or operational facilities. Aptiv has autonomous driving operations in Boston, Las […]
TED raises $280M to help nonprofits battle climate change, online sex abuse and more
Apr 17, 2:06AM
TED is unveiling the eight participants in the second year of The Audacious Project, a program aimed at helping nonprofits pursue their most ambitious goals. TED’s Chris Anderson told reporters yesterday that this is “an attempt to solve one of the most annoying things about the nonprofit world” — the fact that organizations have to […]
Student sues JD.com's billionaire CEO Richard Liu for alleged rape
Apr 17, 1:53AM
A Chinese student has filed a lawsuit against JD.com founder and chief executive Richard Liu, alleging the billionaire businessman raped her in Minnesota back in August, four months after local prosecutors decided not to press charges. The lawsuit, which was filed in Hennepin County on Tuesday, is seeking damages of more than $50,000. It identifies […]
What would it mean to eradicate the mosquito?
Apr 17, 1:30AM
Paul Orlando Contributor Share on Twitter Paul Orlando has operated startup accelerators on three continents and teaches entrepreneurship and runs the on-campus incubator at the University of Southern California. He writes about unintended consequences and startups. From "blitzscaling" to "move fast and break things," startups are focused on growth and speed – that's change at […]
Google starts rolling out better AMP URLs
Apr 17, 12:45AM
Publishers don’t always love Google’s AMP pages, but readers surely appreciate their speed, and while publishers are loath to give Google more power, virtually every major site now supports this format. One AMP quirk that publisher’s definitely never liked is about to go away, though. Starting today, when you use Google Search and click on […]
Birth control delivery startup Nurx taps Clover Health's Varsha Rao as CEO
Apr 17, 12:05AM
Rao, Airbnb's former head of global operations, joined Clover Health as COO in 2017.
Kindbody raises $15M, will open a 'Fertility Bus' with mobile testing & assessments
Apr 16, 11:54PM
RRE Ventures has backed the New York-based fertility startup.
Cytora secures £25M Series B for its AI-powered commercial insurance underwriting solution
Apr 16, 11:05PM
Cytora, a U.K. startup that developed an AI-powered solution for commercial insurance underwriting, has raised £25 million in a Series B round. Leading the investment is EQT Ventures, with participation from existing investors Cambridge Innovation Capital, Parkwalk and a number of unnamed angel investors. A spin-out of the University of Cambridge, Cytora was founded in […]
Sila Nano's battery tech is now worth over $1 billion with Daimler partnership and $170 million investment
Apr 16, 10:00PM
Sila Nanotechnologies and its battery materials manufacturing technology are now worth more than $1 billion. The company, which announced a $170 million funding led by Daimler and a partnership with the famed German automaker, started building out its first production lines for its battery materials last year. That first line is capable of producing the […]
Facebook's Portal will now surveil your living room for half the price
Apr 16, 9:39PM
No, you’re not misremembering the details from that young adult dystopian fiction you’re reading — Facebook really does sell a video chat camera adept at tracking the faces of you and your loved ones. Now, you too can own Facebook’s poorly timed foray into social hardware for the low, low price of $99. That’s a […]
Xbox One does away with discs in new $249 All-Digital Edition
Apr 16, 9:14PM
Discs! What are they good for? Well, if they're nice if you don't want to be tied to an online-only ecosystem. But if you don't mind that, Microsoft's latest Xbox One S "All-Digital Edition" might be for you. With no slots to speak of, the console is limited to downloading games to its drive — which is how we've been doing it on PC for quite some time.
Unicorns: A tale of two continents
Apr 16, 9:00PM
It costs a staggering 50-100 percent more in the U.S. to create a company valued at $1 billion than in Europe.
Netflix added 9.6M subscribers in Q1, with revenue of $4.5B
Apr 16, 8:41PM
Netflix just released its earnings letter for the first quarter of 2019. The company says it saw growth of 9.6 million paying subscribers, up 16 percent year-over-year. That’s significantly ahead of the 8.9 million new subscribers that analysts had predicted. On the financial side, the quarter came in right at expectations, with revenue of $4.5 […]
Amazon launches a certification program for Alexa skill developers
Apr 16, 8:14PM
Developers building voice-enabled applications for Amazon Echo and other Alexa-powered devices will now have a new way to validate their abilities, with Amazon’s launch of a new AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty certification. This is the first time Amazon has offered a certification program for Alexa developers, the company says. Certification programs are […]
Qualcomm stock skyrockets 23% as Apple legal battle concludes
Apr 16, 8:08PM
Qualcomm stock surged after the announcement that the company has settled its multi-billion-dollar lawsuits with Apple. At market close Qualcomm’s stock price settled at $70.45 after opening at $57.46. The stock surge showcases just how surprising the resolution is, especially given how wholeheartedly Apple appeared to be moving forward with Intel to keep Qualcomm tech […]
Apple and Qualcomm are ending their legal battles
Apr 16, 7:26PM
The years-long legal battle between Apple and Qualcomm appears to be coming to an end. In a standoff that has been brewing since 2017, Apple argued that Qualcomm was charging too much for patent licensing. After Apple shifted to using Intel chips, Qualcomm moved to get iPhone imports banned in countries around the world for […]
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