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Waymo starts self-driving pick-ups for Lyft riders
Jun 27, 3:36PM
Autonomous driving company Waymo has launched its tie-in with Lyft, using a “handful” of vehicles to pick up riders in its Phoenix testing zone, per CNBC. To be eligible, Lyft users requesting a ride have to be doing a trip that both starts and ends in the area of Phoenix that it’s already blocked for […]
Fellow raises $6.5M to help make managers better at leading teams and people
Jun 27, 3:21PM
Managing people is perhaps the most challenging thing most people will have to learn in the course of their professional lives – especially because there’s no one ‘right’ way to do it. But Ottawa-based startup Fellow is hoping to ease the learning curve for new managers, and improve and reinforce the habits of experienced ones […]
Fungible raises $200 million led by SoftBank Vision Fund to help companies handle increasingly massive amounts of data
Jun 27, 3:00PM
Fungible, a startup that wants to help data centers cope with the increasingly massive amounts of data produced by new technologies, has raised a $200 million Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund, with participation from Norwest Venture Partners and its existing investors. As part of the round, SoftBank Investment Advisers senior managing partner Deep […]
250 retailers will compete against Amazon's Prime Day, up from 194 last year
Jun 27, 2:54PM
Amazon’s Prime Day event, now in its fifth year, is no longer just a big sales day for Amazon — it’s become the official kickoff to back-to-school shopping season and a new sales holiday that extends across the web among rival retailers. And those retailers’ competitive response to Prime Day is bigger than ever this […]
Cathay Innovation leads Laiye's $35M round to bet on Chinese enterprise IT
Jun 27, 2:22PM
For many years, the boom and bust of China’s tech landscape have centered around consumer-facing products. As this space gets filled by Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and more recently Didi Chuxing, Meituan Dianping, and ByteDance, entrepreneurs and investors are shifting attention to business applications. One startup making waves in China’s enterprise software market is four-year-old Laiye, […]
Amazon snags Taylor Swift to headline its Prime Day 2019 concert
Jun 27, 2:09PM
Amazon is going big on this year’s Prime Day. In addition to expanding its popular sales event to two days instead of one, the retailer is also planning to host a Prime Day Concert headlined by Taylor Swift, exclusively for Prime members. The concert streams worldwide on July 10, 2019, at 9 PM ET on […]
Denver and Providence are next up for Verizon's 5G rollout
Jun 27, 1:44PM
There's going to be a point in the not so distant future when the addition of new 5G cities won't be news. After several years of hype, however, we're still not quite there. The 5G picture is set to be quite different by year's end, but for now, the big network war is one of […]
Amperity update gives customers more control over Customer Data Platform
Jun 27, 1:03PM
The Customer Data Platform (CDP) has certainly been getting a lot of attention in marketing software circles over the last year as big dawgs like Salesforce and Adobe enter the fray, but Amperity, a Seattle-based startup, has been building a CDP solution since it launched in 2016, and today it announced some updates to give […]
Volkswagen launches WeShare all-electric car sharing service
Jun 27, 12:37PM
Making good on plans revealed last year to debut an EV-exclusive car sharing service, Volkswagen is actually launching its fleet for customers – debuting WeShare, a new shared service similar to Car2Go or GM’s Maven, but featuring only all-electric vehicles. Initially, WeShare will be available only in Berlin, where it’s launching today with 1,500 Volkswagen e-Golf […]
Corporate travel platform TripActions quadruples valuation with $250M Series D
Jun 27, 12:00PM
The business plans to use the funds to double down on the international market.
CTRL-labs scoops up Myo armband tech from North
Jun 27, 12:00PM
Before pivoting to smart glasses, Thalmic Labs (now North) tried its best to make its Myo gestural arm band controller the future of user input. Now, another startup is picking up the baton, acquiring patents related to the product and customer data. The IP is being bought by CTRL-labs, a New York-based startup full of […]
Amazon launches Counter in-store pick-up in the US, starting with 100 Rite Aid locations
Jun 27, 11:46AM
Amazon’s strategy to bring more brick-and-mortar options into its vast e-commerce empire, and its ambition to sell more pharmaceutical products, today may have found themselves a little more knitted together. The company announced a new service in the US called Counter, a free in-store pick-up service where Amazon shoppers can arrange to collect packages. And […]
Pavegen, which harvests energy and data from footsteps, secures crowd and Hinduja Group funding
Jun 27, 11:32AM
Pavegen, a UK startup which harvests energy from people's footsteps and also tracks that data, has raised £2.6m on its crowdfunding push having doubled its initial £950k target. The campaign secured funds from over 1,400 investors, including partnership and anchor investment from major global engineering conglomerate Hinduja Group and family investment firm Tamar Capital. The […]
Electric scooter and bike startup Grow hits 10 million trips across Latin America
Jun 27, 11:00AM
Latin America-based Grow, which formed after micromobility companies Grin and Yellow merged earlier this year, has hit 10 million rides. Grin, which first started operating about one year ago in Mexico, has since expanded into 23 cities across Latin America. That is, of course, thanks in part to its mergers with Yellow and Ride. This […]
Toronto Raptors founder brings Bird scooters to Canada as a platform partner
Jun 27, 11:00AM
Bird’s somewhat weird but also very clever global expansion model is to let others handle it, and one of those others is bringing their service online this month. Bird Canada, which is a wholly Canadian-owned company entirely distinct from Bird, will begin offering on-demand electric scooter rental service in Alberta this month, with plans to […]
Laundrapp and Zipjet merge to form largest on-demand laundry service in UK, seal new funding
Jun 27, 10:49AM
Two of Europe's biggest on-demand laundry startups are merging today. Laundrapp from London and Zipjet from Berlin are confirming the completion of a previously-rumored merger through which the combined business will become the largest on-demand laundry business in the UK. Alongside this, the combined business has completed a funding round from existing investors including Toscafund, […]
Grab raises more money — again
Jun 27, 10:21AM
Southeast Asia’s highest-capitalized startup is sitting on even more money from investors today after ride-hailing Grab announced it has raised $300 million from Invesco. The deal takes Singapore-based Grab $7.5 billion raised to date. The money is part of its ongoing — feels-like-everlasting — Series H round which was started last June via a $1 […]
Station F launches a co-living space for 600 startup people
Jun 27, 9:31AM
Startup campus Station F is expanding beyond its original building in Paris with a co-living space called Flatmates. 600 people will be able to rent a room in shared apartments. Compared to traditional accommodation in Paris, it's much easier to get a room as you don't need a French full-time work contract, guarantors and all […]
Host your country's startup delegation at Disrupt Berlin 2019
Jun 27, 9:00AM
Creative technology and innovative ideas know no boundaries, which is why thousands of early-stage startup founders, investors, innovators and entrepreneurs — from more than 50 countries — will convene at Disrupt Berlin 2019 on 11-12 December. In keeping with an international focus, we're searching for countries that want to shine a spotlight on their best […]
WeGift, the digital rewards platform, raises £4M Series A
Jun 27, 8:00AM
WeGift, the U.K. startup that has developed a platform to let businesses easily issue e-gift cards and other digital rewards, has closed £4 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Stride.VC — the relatively new early-stage venture capital firm founded by Fred Destin and Harry Stebbings — alongside a number of other investors […]
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