Yak Tack is a super simple app to boost vocabulary
Word nerds with a love for linguistic curiosities and novel nomenclature that’s more fulsome than their ability to make interesting new terms stick will be thrilled…
Amazon announces $250 million venture fund for Indian startups
Amazon on Thursday announced a $250 million venture fund to invest in Indian startups and entrepreneurs focusing on digitization of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in…
IBM acquires Italy’s MyInvenio to integrate process mining directly into its suite of automation tools
Automation has become a big theme in enterprise IT, with organizations using RPA, no-code and low-code tools, and other technology to speed up work and bring…
Altman brothers lead B2B payment startup Routable’s $30M Series B
We all know the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital adoption in a number of areas, particularly in the financial services space. Within financial services, there are…
Atrium, which help sales managers more easily see who is (or isn’t) crushing it, just raised $13.5 million
There’s no shortage of data-driven sales management tools in the market. Naturally, Atrium, a five-year-old, San Francisco-based company cofounded by serial entrepreneur Pete Kazanjy, says it…
Daily Crunch: Coinbase goes public
Coinbase makes an impressive public debut, Dell spins out VMware and Ford announces a new hands-free driving system. This is your Daily Crunch for April 14,…
Creator monetization and CRM startup Pico raises $6.5M
Pico, a New York startup that helps online creators and media companies make money and manage their customer data, announced today that it has launched an…
Hear how to raise big funding (and use it well) from FirstMark’s Rick Heitzmann and Orchard’s Court Cunningham
Orchard, founded in 2017, was relatively early to the proptech industry. The company, originally called Perch, focused on dual-trackers, which are folks who are both buying…
Kroger launches its first Ocado-powered ‘shed’, a massive, robot-filled fulfillment center in Ohio
After inking a deal to work together almost three years ago, U.S. supermarket chain Kroger and U.K. online grocer Ocado today took the wraps off the…
Deepfake video app Avatarify, which process on-phone, plans digital watermark for videos
Making deepfake videos used to be hard. Now all you need is a smartphone. Avatarify, a startup that allows people to make deepfake videos directly on…
MIT startup Pickle raises $5.75M for its package-picking robot
There’s no doubt this past year has been a major watershed moment for the robotics industry. Warehouse and logistics have been a particular target for an…
Alexa von Tobel outlines how founders should manage personal finances
Von Tobel outlines steps to stay out of debt, build credit and accumulate wealth to ensure financial peace of mind as you take on the most…
Messaging app Wire raises $21 million
Wire, the end-to-end encrypted messaging app and service, has raised a $21 million Series B funding round led by UVC Partners. As the company said a…
Vanadium ion battery startup Standard Energy raises $8.9M Series C from SoftBank Ventures Asia
Standard Energy, a vanadium ion battery developer, announced today it has raised a $8.9 million Series C from SoftBank Ventures Asia. The South Korea-based company says…