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It’s time to expand the horizons of microscopy, according to Israeli startup Augmentiqs, as the instruments — used for seeing small objects invisible to the naked eye — have remained essentially unchanged since their invention some 400 years ago. It’s still an “analog box that uses glass and light,” said…
Figure Technologies, a nearly two-year-old, San Francisco-based fintech cofounded by Mike Cagney, the founder of the more established fintech company SoFi, is raising a whole lot of money — again. By February of this year, Figure had already raised $120 million in equity funding from a gaggle of investors, including…
Indore-based Edtech startup, Digital Gurukul, has partnered with German tech networking company Certif-ID to roll out blockchain-powered certificates, which will allow employers to access the diplomas of applicants from any geographical locations. By integrating blockchain with certificates and diplomas, Digital Gurukul is eliminating the need to send or physically present…
Miko is an Indian robot that has been entertaining and educating children in Asia. Now it wants to befriend American kids. Its Mumbai-based creator Emotix announced series A funding round of $7.5 million in August. Butler is a warehouse robot from Gurugram. Its maker GreyOrange has clients from Japan to…
MediaFem allows you to make that money without having to sell to ONLY ONE company (Taboola and Outbrain are the same company now). With Taboola and Outbrain poised to become a single company, they no longer have to worry about competing with one another for business. But as a combined…
Indonesian consumer insights platform Populix has closed a $1 million seed funding round led by Intudo Ventures that also received participation from Gobi Agung and Pegasus Tech Ventures. Founded in January 2018, Populix provides real-time consumer feedback to help clients make better business decisions. Its products range from intensive research…
Here are the top names from the enablers community in the state, who are helping it in the journey of being a startup hub Gujarat has more than 33 incubation centres with over 200 startups with them at a given point in time “Gujarat has a high entrepreneurial spirit and…
Cody Bainbridge, sophomore in Engineering, buys coffee from the Robot x Coffee Machine outside of Grainger on Apr. 14. The robot serves between 100 to 200 cups a day. The entrepreneurship community at Illinois has plenty of resources but lacks connective tissue. According to entrepreneurship figures on campus, students stagnate…
Movers and makers at Hardware Park for the Purilan launch Nov. 20, 2019. Photo via Facebook Anyone who’s been paying attention to Birmingham over the past few years knows that the city is fast becoming a hub of startup activity. Even Forbes weighed in, wondering whether Birmingham will be the…
On December 11 and December 12, some of the brightest minds in fintech are coming to TechCrunch Disrupt in Berlin. While we’ll sit down with some of the most famous tech CEOs and investors, the agenda is particularly packed when it comes to fintech. On the main stage, I’ll interview…