One of the fascinating things about watching an emerging startup ecosystem is that it isn’t just companies that are scaling, the very VC firms that feed them are growing themselves, too. That’s perhaps best embodied by Golden Gate Ventures, a Singapore-based firm founded by three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs in 2011 which is about to close a […]
View More Golden Gate Ventures hits first close on new $100M fund for Southeast AsiaCategory: Co-founder
WhatsApp now allows group voice and video calls between up to 4 people
WhatsApp has added a much-requested new feature after it began to allow users to make group voice and video calls. It’s been just over three years since the company, which is owned by Facebook, introduced voice calls and later a video option one year later. Today, WhatsApp counts over 1.5 billion monthly users and it says […]
View More WhatsApp now allows group voice and video calls between up to 4 peopleIn Argentina, venture capital surges even as the broader economy stutters
Even as the Argentine government was announcing the biggest slide in the country’s economic output in nearly a decade, technology investors in the nation’s capital are all gearing up for record fundraising years. Three of the country’s biggest firms (which are still small by international standards) are raising new, exponentially larger, funds in a sign […]
View More In Argentina, venture capital surges even as the broader economy stuttersArrivo partners with a Chinese state-owned infrastructure developer to commercialize hyperloop tech
Arrivo, the upstart high-speed mass transit technology developer launched by a former co-founder of Hyperloop One, has inked a massive partnership with a Chinese state-owned infrastructure developer to help finance mobility projects around the world. Genertec America, an affiliate of the China National Technical Import and Export Corp., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the […]
View More Arrivo partners with a Chinese state-owned infrastructure developer to commercialize hyperloop techAs product development incorporates more feedback, development toolkit productboard raises $8M
Since its debut on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage in September 2016, demand for a service like productboard, which gives companies a wholistic view of product development and encourages input from across an organization, has only gotten more acute, according to company chief executive Hubert Palan. Now, with an $8 million commitment from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers […]
View More As product development incorporates more feedback, development toolkit productboard raises $8MGlasswing Ventures closes its artificial intelligence-focused fund with $112 million
One year after receiving a whopping $75 million commitment to invest in early stage companies applying artificial intelligence to various industries, Glasswing Ventures has closed its debut fund with $112 million. It’s a significant milestone for a firm that purports to be the largest early stage investor focused on machine learning on the East Coast, […]
View More Glasswing Ventures closes its artificial intelligence-focused fund with $112 millionPopular crypto service MyEtherWallet hit by attack after Hola VPN gets hacked
MyEtherWallet, one of the internet’s most popular services for managing cryptocurrencies, suffered a serious security breach for the second time this year after a widely-used VPN service was compromised for five hours. MyEtherWallet (MEW) is used to access crypto wallets and send and receive tokens to/from other wallets. Today, it warned that users of its […]
View More Popular crypto service MyEtherWallet hit by attack after Hola VPN gets hackedCrypto and venture’s biggest names are backing a new distributed ledger project called Oasis Labs
A team of top security researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and MIT have come together to launch a new cryptographic project that combines secure software and hardware to enable privacy-preserving smart contracts under the banner of Oasis Labs. That vision, which is being marketed as the baby of a union between Ethereum and […]
View More Crypto and venture’s biggest names are backing a new distributed ledger project called Oasis LabsThe brains behind one of marketing’s biggest hits are out to reshape the industry again… with direct mail
Postie, a new Los Angeles-based startup, has a vision for the future of advertising and marketing — and it’s direct mail. Founded by some of the men responsible for the biggest hits in online marketing (like the Dollar Shave Club commercial that launched what became a billion dollar acquisition) think that its time to take technology […]
View More The brains behind one of marketing’s biggest hits are out to reshape the industry again… with direct mailImplantable 3D printed organs could be coming sooner than you think
At MBC Biolabs, an incubator for biotech startups in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, a team of scientists and interns working for the small startup Prellis Biologics have just taken a big step on the path toward developing viable 3D printed organs for humans. The company, which was founded in 2016 by research scientists Melanie Matheu […]
View More Implantable 3D printed organs could be coming sooner than you thinkPlaymaji is looking to bring its retro-gaming, modular console to market
Tucked away in a far corner of the West Pavilion of the Los Angeles Convention center among the independent game developers showcased by IndieCade during E3, is a small booth demonstrating the latest Polymega hardware, a device that’s billing itself as the NES Classic for every old school game released on every old school gaming platform. […]
View More Playmaji is looking to bring its retro-gaming, modular console to marketThese are the competitive pressures driving automakers to accelerate new tech adoption
The transformations that companies like Tesla, Uber and Lyft bring to the auto industry are changing more than just the ways car companies think about drivetrains and ownership, and its opening doors for new ways of thinking about the entire mobility industry. That’s the word from some of Israel’s top investors from the stage at […]
View More These are the competitive pressures driving automakers to accelerate new tech adoption