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Restaurants rode a wave of usage of food delivery services like Deliveroo, Uber Eats and DoorDash in the last year, discovering new revenues and ways to connect with diners to offset the fact that in-person trade for many of them had disappeared overnight. But they also discovered something less appetizing: dealing with the mess of […]

The last five years have seen a plethora of fintech applications in Nigeria (and Africa, in general) grow at an astonishing rate. But most of these companies and developers find it difficult to access real-time banking data. This, in turn, creates a bottleneck when onboarding and verifying customers. Since 2019, Plaid-esque companies, but with different […]

The week-long festivities will include a Nobel laureate chat, customized student admit hubs and a sampling of Berkeley's academic and student life

Given Stripe's status as the U.S.' most highly valued venture-backed private company, and its pivotal role in e-commerce, we decided to take a peek under its hood and use Crunchbase data to understand the business a bit better.

Orca Security's March funding round made the two-year-old software startup a unicorn—and gave it an unusual claim to fame. With approximately $4 million in annualized revenue when it briefed investors early this year, the cybersecurity company's $1.2 billion valuation translated to 300 times ...

After ten years of bootstrapped and profitable growth, Octopus Deploy has secured a mammoth $223 million investment from Insight Partners.

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Blade Kotelly is a Senior Lecturer on Design Thinking and Innovation, bringing expertise to the world's top brands to better innovate in complex product and service environments.

Meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin fell on Tuesday after hitting an all-time high in a wild session that saw supporters of the token once considered a parody use hashtags to fuel a rally until it l…

After five years of providing non-dilutive financing for founders, Clearbanc is tired of being only a bank. So, it's rebranding, and has just raised $100 million Series C at a $2 billion valuation off of its broader ambitions. The new valuation is five times larger than it was when Clearbanc closed a Series B in […]

Cape Privacy, the early stage startup that wants to make it easier for companies to share sensitive data in a secure and encrypted way, announced a $20 million Series A today. Evolution Equity Partners led the round with participation from new investors Tiger Global Management, Ridgeline Partners and Downing Lane. Existing investors Boldstart Ventures, Version […]

Apple's introduction of ARKit changed the game for entrepreneurs, not unlike the App Store did on a much, much larger scale back in 2008. One entrepreneur, Dana Loberg, has capitalized on the launch of ARKit with her startup Leo AR. Leo is the result of a few pivots. The company first started out as MojiLala, […]

Farshad Yousefi and Masoud Jalali used to drive through Palo Alto neighborhoods and marvel at the outrageous home prices. But the drives sparked an idea. They were not in a financial position to purchase a home in those neighborhoods (to be clear, not many people are) either for investment or to live. But what if […]

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is now the default business model for most B2B and B2C software startups. And while it's been around for a while now, its momentum keeps accelerating and the ecosystem continues to expand as technologists and marketers are getting more sophisticated about how to build and sell SaaS products. For all of them, we're […]

Austin based start-up will use recent funding to grow their team, increase outreach and launch a range of no-code tools which will allow users to build their own data collection and workflow solutions.

One after another, Chinese tech giants have announced their plans for the auto space over the last few months. Some internet companies, like search engine provider Baidu, decided to recruit help from a traditional carmaker to produce cars. Xiaomi, which makes its own smartphones but has stressed for years it's a light-asset firm making money […]

First time founder looking for recommendations for lawyers with experience in startups + CA employment law.Context: I'm working on a promising startup idea but recently learned that a different group at my (large tech) company is in the very early stages of a potentially competitive project. Want to find someone who understands the law to help me understand if this idea is DOA or if I can still pursue it.…

Natalie Khoei and Shadi Kord, cofounders of Meshki, are among the entrepreneurs on this year's 30 Under 30 Asia list catering to the growing demand for online shopping in the region and beyond.

After the toughest year in their generation, these 300 millennials and Gen-Zs have persevered to survive and even thrive despite long lockdowns, restricted travel and uncertainties on all fronts.

If you're spent any time on TikTok lately, then you've probably seen a number of Popl's ads. The startup has been successfully leveraging social media to get its modern-day business card alternative in front a wider audience. Packaged as either a phone sticker, keychain or wristband, Popl uses NFC technology to make sharing contact information […]