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| 19.11.2019 | Reata Rakes In $505M to Advance Development of Two Rare Disease Drugs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Reata Pharmaceuticals on Tuesday closed a stock sale, raising $505.1 million to advance the company’s two lead drug candidates to regulatory review.
Reata’s stock price jumped... |
| 01.10.2019 | We’re Beginning to Realize the Cloud’s Full Potential at the Edge | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Amazon Web Services (AWS), the first “public cloud” offering third-party data storage and compute services, launched in March 2006, and by 2012, there were multiple credible c... |
| 27.09.2019 | At Venture Summit, 3 Takeaways For Entrepreneurs From VC Phil Black | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
No one would argue that San Diego is overflowing with venture capitalists in the way, say, the San Francisco Bay Area is. In fact, the region’s relative dearth of investors is... |
| 26.09.2019 | Medallia Acquires Hospitality Software Startup Zingle for $42M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 2:40 p.m. 9/27. See below.] Zingle, a startup whose software is used by hospitality, travel, and retail industries to more easily and quickly connect with their custo... |
| 25.09.2019 | CyberFortress Adds $3M Seed Round for Cybersecurity Insurance Tech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Antonio—[Updated 12:22 p.m. See below.] CyberFortress, a cybersecurity company focused on the insurance industry, closed a $3 million seed funding round co-led by New York... |
| 25.09.2019 | TigerGraph Raises $32M to Extend Graph Database Use to Businesses | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
TigerGraph, one of the companies advancing the use of graph databases for faster analysis of the connections among people and things, announced today it raised $32 million in ... |
| 24.09.2019 | Amazon Launches Virtual Clinic to Help Its Employees Get Healthcare | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Amazon has created a new service where its employees can get treatment and advice for non-emergency health issues, according to a website the tech giant recently brought onlin... |
| 23.09.2019 | Katerra To Make Ultra-Strong Wood Panels at New Factory in WA | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 9/23/19, 6:29 pm. See below.] Construction tech firm Katerra, a 4-year-old Bay area startup with a big fundraising total, a big backer, and big ambitions, officially ... |
| 20.09.2019 | Boston Tech Watch: DataRobot, IBM-MIT, Firefly, Aliro, Embr & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
More money is flowing into AI research at MIT, thanks to an expansion of the Institute’s partnership with computing giant IBM; DataRobot announces its $200 million-plus fundin... |
| 20.09.2019 | Q&A: New Rady Dean Ordóñez on School’s Growth, Startups, Ethics & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Under Bob Sullivan, the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego matured into its teenage years. Sullivan became Rady’s founding dean in 2003, ahead of the fall 2004 enrollme... |
| 18.09.2019 | Aliro Technologies Lands $2.7M to Help Developers Go Quantum | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s still a ways off before visions of all-powerful encryption-breaking quantum computers come to pass. But the new quantum technologies here today are already beginning to m... |
| 18.09.2019 | WI Watchlist: MSI Data, Cellular Dynamics, WARF, Redox, & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s time to catch up on recent news in Wisconsin’s innovation community. Read on for details.
—MSI Data, a Milwaukee-based business that develops software for organizations i... |
| 17.09.2019 | Automated Trucking Company TuSimple Adds $120M More From Investors | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
UPS, the global package delivery giant, took a minority stake this summer in TuSimple, a self-driving trucking company, but didn’t reveal financial details.
On Tuesday, the Sa... |
| 17.09.2019 | HMS’s $36M Deal to Buy VitreosHealth Combines Complementary Firms | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
One Texas-based healthcare software business has acquired another in an all-cash deal worth $36.5 million, the companies announced late Monday.
Irving, TX-based HMS Holdings (... |
| 16.09.2019 | Why Menlo Ventures Backed Construction Tech Firm Fieldwire | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Corrected 9/17/2019, 8:58 a.m, and 9/18/19, 4:53 p.m. See below.] Fieldwire, whose mobile app helps builders and construction crews coordinate their work, announced today it ... |
| 13.09.2019 | Boston Tech Watch: Neural Galaxy, Link Ventures, & More Epstein Fallout | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The funding deals ramped up this week in Boston, and the drip, drip, drip of details about the MIT Media Lab and Jeffrey Epstein continued to form an unwelcome puddle for univ... |
| 13.09.2019 | Cloudflare’s $525M IPO Emboldens Already-Confident Internet Booster | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 9/13/19, 11:40 am ET. See below.] Cloudflare has had its share of controversy, and is in a market with a wide range of more established competitors, from Amazon Web S... |
| 13.09.2019 | Booming CS Demand Brings Ex-Acquia CEO Back to His UW Roots | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Tom Erickson was ready to retire to Australia. But then the Wisconsin native and veteran technology executive got an offer from his alma mater that he decided he couldn’t pass... |
| 06.09.2019 | Boston Tech Watch: MIT Epstein, Notarize Cash, New Carbonite Execs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For a week shortened by the Labor Day holiday heralding the coming end of summer, the past few days yielded their fair share of Boston-area technology business news. Read on f... |
| 06.09.2019 | WI Watchlist: Epic, Frontdesk, Shine, StartingBlock Madison & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
With summer coming to a close, it’s time to catch up on recent happenings in Wisconsin’s innovation clusters. Read on for details.
—Epic Systems, the electronic medical record... |
| 05.09.2019 | Cogito Raises $20M to Expand Call Center Emotional Intelligence | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Cogito CEO Joshua Feast isn’t convinced that artificial intelligence will topple the staffing model for call centers. Customer service is not destined—at least anytime soon, h... |
| 04.09.2019 | As Clean Power Buying Surges, LevelTen Helps Firms Track Energy Data | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
LevelTen Energy, a Seattle-based startup that helps corporations make renewable energy purchases, on Wednesday released new performance monitoring software it says allows user... |
| 04.09.2019 | SF’s Ginger Raises $35M in Burgeoning Digital Therapeutics Market | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Ginger, a San Francisco-based digital health startup developing software to help patients manage mental and behavioral health conditions, announced Wednesday it has raised $35... |
| 30.08.2019 | Boston Tech Watch: DraftKings Drives, The Engine Revs, NuTonomy Swaps | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 12:35 pm, 8/30/19. Clarified new DraftKings venture.] Welcome to August’s automotive-themed tech news round-up. This week’s batch of news features a dose of updates t... |
| 28.08.2019 | ThoughtSpot Nabs $248M for Accessible Analytics, Nears $2B Valuation | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
ThoughtSpot, a software company formed to make data analytics accessible for business staffers without data science expertise, announced today it raised $248 million in a Seri... |
| 27.08.2019 | NuTonomy Switches to Chrysler For More Elbow Room in Self-Driving Cars | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There’s a time in a self-driving car company’s life where a minivan is just more sensible than a sleek, European city car.
NuTonomy, the autonomous vehicle startup spun out of... |
| 27.08.2019 | Seattle Startup Funding Tidbits: Blokable, Zenoti, PTO Exchange | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Keep up with venture capital funding activity in the Seattle area with recent news from three local startups. The companies—Blokable, Zenoti Software, and PTO Exchange—are dev... |
| 23.08.2019 | VMware: “We Bought Carbon Black for $2.1B!” Analysts: “Oh… Why?” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The deal VMware unveiled this week to buy cybersecurity firm Carbon Black triggered a heaping share of skepticism.
“I’m having a hard time with the Carbon Black acquisition,” ... |
| 23.08.2019 | Boston Tech Watch: Epstein, MIT Media Lab, Carbon Black, JRNI & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A slower news week for Boston technology news, but not without its fireworks. Among them: Researchers are not taking the news well that MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito had exte... |
| 22.08.2019 | VMware Dropping $4.8B to Buy Carbon Black, Pivotal Software | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
VMware is shelling out big bucks for two companies to fill out its technology stack: developer platform Pivotal Software for $2.7 billion and cybersecurity firm Carbon Black f... |
| 21.08.2019 | Splunk To Pay $1B For SaaS App Monitoring Firm SignalFx | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Splunk, an IT operations management and information security company, announced today it has clinched a deal to buy cloud software application monitoring company SignalFx for ... |
| 20.08.2019 | Startup Blooma Launches With $2.75M to Digitize Commercial Lending | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Many facets of the finance industry, a highly regulated sector of the economy, are still reworking the tools used to move around money so that they fit a digital world.
Digita... |
| 19.08.2019 | Enterprise Software Startup Ally Nabs $8M to Support Global Growth | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Ally, a startup developing software to help businesses chart strategies and track progress toward meeting goals, announced Monday it has raised $8 million from investors to su... |
| 16.08.2019 | Boston Tech Watch: Buoy Health, Cambridge Crops, Polarity & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week, we’re tracking venture capital deals in digital health, augmented reality for the enterprise, wellness, and food tech. Read on for details.
—Buoy Health said it sna... |
| 14.08.2019 | WI Watchlist: AmFam, Venture Investors, Understory, Gener8tor & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s time to catch up on some recent headlines from Wisconsin’s innovation clusters:
—Venture Investors and American Family Ventures are making progress on raising new venture... |
| 14.08.2019 | Mason Raises $25M to Help Software Firms Deploy, Manage Applications | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Amazon Web Services and other businesses that charge customers to host their software applications have become a popular option for tech startups. Part of the reason for the p... |
| 14.08.2019 | Qualcomm Taps Former Palo Alto Networks CEO as Board Chairman | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Wireless giant Qualcomm has appointed Mark McLaughlin, the former CEO of network security company Palo Alto Networks, as chairman of its board of directors.
McLaughlin joined ... |
| 09.08.2019 | San Diego Tech Roundup: Ezoic, Trust & Will, Oska Wellness & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Summer can be a slow time in San Diego, but its startups have stayed busy. Read on for news of recent financings, plus upcoming opportunities to connect with the local tech co... |
| 09.08.2019 | Boston Tech Watch: Nike, Cybereason, Care.com, LaunchByte & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Nike goes shopping in Boston. Cybereason tracks down another big investment. Care.com makes a change at the top. A purported venture capitalist gets arrested for alleged fraud... |
| 07.08.2019 | SDSI Accelerator For Sports Startups Gets Qualcomm Foundation Boost | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Entrepreneurs who are accepted into the next 20-week accelerator program run by SD Sports Innovators will get the opportunity to learn from senior Qualcomm employees as they w... |
| 06.08.2019 | SoftBank Commits $200M to Cybereason, Cybersecurity’s Newest Unicorn | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Software has become arguably the most effective weapon for criminals and nation states. In response, security technology businesses are pulling in huge investments to enhance ... |
| 06.08.2019 | Seattle Startup Remarkably Gets $4.1M to Market Real Estate Software | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Remarkably, a Seattle-based startup that provides users with real estate marketing software and analytics services, announced Tuesday it has raised $4.1 million in seed fundin... |
| 02.08.2019 | Boston Tech Watch: Jobble, Soofa, Dynatrace, Markforged & DataRobot | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Boston tech scene lands its first IPO of 2019. DataRobot rakes in about $200 million more. Pushback on facial recognition spreads from Somerville, MA, to neighboring Cambr... |
| 31.07.2019 | Markforged Sues Desktop Metal Over “Dirty Tricks” in 3D Printing War | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Markforged is reviving its courtroom battle with 3D printing rival Desktop Metal with a lawsuit that alleges “a campaign of dirty tricks” by the competitor that violates a 201... |
| 31.07.2019 | ProsperOps Seeks Spot in the Growing Cloud as Amazon Still Dominates | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Austin—[Updated 1:28 p.m. See below.] Cloud computing is big business, and Amazon Web Services is the biggest. A new Texas startup is carving its own space in this growing sec... |
| 29.07.2019 | DataRobot, Now a Unicorn, Raises Close To $200M for Machine Learning: Sources | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Update: On Sept. 17, DataRobot announced it had raised $206 million in a Series E round led by Sapphire Ventures. It brings the Boston company’s total amount raised to $431 m... |
| 26.07.2019 | Boston Tech Watch: Carbonite, iRobot, Circle, Toast, & Flare Capital | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
CEO hopping in Boston, trade-war fallout, acquisitions, IPOs, and autonomous ships. This week in Boston tech news had it all. Read on for all the details.
—Mohamad Ali is step... |
| 24.07.2019 | Connect All Startup Accelerator Seeks New Cohort of Diverse Founders | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The first business accelerator program in southeast San Diego is accepting applications for its second cohort of entrepreneurs, who would start the program in fall.
The six-mo... |
| 24.07.2019 | Livongo Upsizes IPO to $355M in Bid to Become Netflix of Health | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Livongo Health, a digital health company developing devices and software to help patients manage treatment for diabetes and other chronic conditions, said it expects to net $3... |
| 23.07.2019 | Healthtech Investor Flare Capital Raises $255M for Second Fund | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Flare Capital Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm investing in healthcare technology, has raised $255 million for its second fund.
Co-founder and general partner Mic... |
| 23.07.2019 | Moving Services Startup HireAHelper Acquired By Seattle’s Porch | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
HireAHelper.com, an online marketplace that links people who are moving to a new home with local movers and related services, has been acquired by Porch, which operates a mark... |
| 23.07.2019 | Turnkey, TrustRadius, Homeward, Geekdom, Ion, GasMob, & More TX Tech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Let’s catch up with the latest innovation news in Texas.
—Turnkey Vacation Rentals, an Austin-based company founded in 2013, has raised $48 million to expand to new markets an... |
| 22.07.2019 | Software Intelligence Firm Dynatrace Aims to Raise $427M in IPO | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 7/22/19, 1:15 pm: Added IPO timing and updated headline.] Enterprise software business Dynatrace plans to take in $427.2 million from its initial public offering, the... |
| 19.07.2019 | Boston Tech Watch: Medumo, Zilla, Armored Things, Fortify & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The week in Boston tech news hit on all the highlights: health technology, 3D printing, crypto, blockchain, CEO moves, fintech, and plenty of venture cash. Read on for the det... |
| 19.07.2019 | San Diego Roundup: Qualcomm, Philter, Stella Labs, VC Funding & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Comic-Con International may be holding everyone’s attention this week, but the tech community has stayed busy amid all the action (and increased traffic). Let’s catch up with ... |
| 18.07.2019 | VMWare Plans to Acquire Bitfusion for Application-Enhancing Software | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Austin—VMWare announced Thursday it intends to acquire Bitfusion, a startup with offices in Austin, TX and Silicon Valley that makes software aimed at optimizing the way hardw... |
| 16.07.2019 | Artemis Fund, TechStars Impact, Robin Autopilot, & More TX Tech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Let’s catch up with the latest innovation news in Texas.
—Mark Cuban and Serena Williams are among investors to fund maternal health startup Mahmee. The Los Angeles-based star... |
| 15.07.2019 | Lendbuzz, AI Auto Startup That Steps in When FICO Fails, Raises $150M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
No traditional credit history? No problem. At least that’s how Lendbuzz, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to underwrite auto loans, sees it. The Boston-based softwa... |
| 15.07.2019 | Amperity Raises $50M for Marketing Software Used by Consumer Brands | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Amperity, a Seattle-based startup developing software to help consumer-facing brands collect and manage customer data, announced Monday it has raised $50 million in new financ... |
| 15.07.2019 | Aura Wants to Take Its $150M and Stock a Consumer Cybersecurity Toolbox | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Two recently combined consumer cybersecurity companies are heading off under a new branding to make a run at providing some online peace of mind for regular folks, and they’re... |
| 12.07.2019 | Boston Tech Watch: Cisco, Acacia, Great Hill Partners & GNS Healthcare | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Billions with a “b” is the word of the week in Boston tech news, with Cisco paying a couple billion dollars for a Massachusetts tech firm and PE firm Great Hill Partners closi... |
| 11.07.2019 | Record Exit Value for VC-Backed Startups Could Fuel Investment | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
More than a third of the companies that went public in the first half of this year were backed by venture capital.
That, plus robust merger and acquisition activity, set a rec... |
| 10.07.2019 | Money Transfer Services Remitly Bags $135M in New Equity Funding | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As larger sums of cash are remitted from first-world countries to the developing world, upstart money transfer services are competing with established businesses for a piece o... |
| 10.07.2019 | New Funds for Procyrion, Remedy, OncoNano, Vyopta & More TX Tech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 7/10/19, 11:41 am CT. See below.] Let’s catch up with the latest innovation news in Texas.
—Austin startup Vyopta, which makes a video conference system dashboard for... |
| 09.07.2019 | Microsoft, Providence Tie-up Focuses on Cloud Tech in Healthcare | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Microsoft, long known for its Windows operating system and prowess in the world of enterprise software, is among the computing and software giants companies making inroads in ... |
| 09.07.2019 | AV Mapping Startup Carmera Joins Baidu’s Open-Source Apollo Platform | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Just as Google is developing autonomous vehicles through its subsidiary Waymo, China’s largest online search engine, Baidu, is also racing to develop AVs. Last week, the compa... |
| 09.07.2019 | Cisco Invests in Optical Tech With $2.6B Acacia Communications Deal | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Cisco is buying Maynard, MA-based Acacia Communications (NASDAQ: ACIA) for $2.6 billion in a deal to boost the networking giant’s stock of optical technologies, the companies ... |
| 08.07.2019 | From Buyout to Spinout to IPO? Dynatrace Eyes $300M Public Offering | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Dynatrace, a 14-year-old enterprise software intelligence company, has filed papers to raise $300 million from an initial public stock offering aimed at restocking its war che... |
| 05.07.2019 | Healthtech Startups: Connect with HHS Officials in Detroit on July 15 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Are you a healthcare technology startup based in Southeast Michigan or Southwest Ontario? If so, you’re invited to attend a one-day-only meeting to connect with representative... |
| 03.07.2019 | WI Watchlist: Microsoft, Exact Sciences, Shine & MKE Tech Hub | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 7/3/19, 2:25 pm CT. See below.] Before everyone checks out for the Fourth of July holiday, let’s catch up on some recent Wisconsin innovation news:
—Shine Medical Tec... |
| 03.07.2019 | Free Workshops, Tools, & Advice? Centrepolis Aids Hardware Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Although Michigan is home to 2,500 small manufacturers and is the center of the domestic auto industry, it didn’t have a hardware technology incubator until Lawrence Technolog... |
| 03.07.2019 | Q&A: Providence Exec on Bluetree Acquisition, Trends in Health Tech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Providence St. Joseph Health, a Renton, WA-based organization that operates 51 hospitals and 829 clinics across five US states, announced its latest strategic, IT-focused acqu... |
| 03.07.2019 | Talk of Broadcom Buyout of Symantec Puts Broader IT Focus Into View | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Broadcom is once, twice, three times a multi-billion-dollar dealmaker (well, basically) in the past year if it follows through on its reported talks to acquire Mountain View, ... |
| 01.07.2019 | Brain Corp., Maker of Robotics Tech, to Open European HQ in Amsterdam | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Brain Corp., a robotics startup whose technology powers automated floor cleaning machines in retail stores, malls, warehouses, and airports, announced Monday it is opening its... |
| 01.07.2019 | IPO to Watch: Digital Health Developer Livongo Plans to Go Public | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Digital health businesses haven’t had trouble raising venture capital funds from investors—2018 was a record year with $8.1 billion in funding—but few of them have made the mo... |
| 28.06.2019 | As Cities Ban Face Recognition, Body-Cam Firm Axon Also Nixes It | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This week’s decision by police equipment manufacturer Axon to forego using facial recognition software in its body cameras follows a string of other actions against the use of... |
| 28.06.2019 | Boston Tech Watch: Vaxess, Fusion Power, Wayfair & MassChallenge | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
An acquisition, accelerator awards, access to venture capital, and arguments over e-commerce sales to migrant detention centers. All that and more in this week’s Boston tech n... |
| 27.06.2019 | Degreed Raises $75M to Expand in Growing Workforce Training Sector | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Degreed, which helps businesses upgrade the skills of their staffers through an online gateway to learning resources, announced Thursday it has raised $75 million to grow the ... |
| 27.06.2019 | Providence St. Joseph to Buy Wisconsin Health IT Consultant Bluetree | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Providence St. Joseph Health, a large network of hospitals and clinics headquartered in Renton, WA, said Thursday it plans to acquire Bluetree Network, a consultancy that spec... |
| 27.06.2019 | What’s Worth $34B? IBM Gets OK in Europe for Acquisition of Red Hat | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
IBM’s acquisition of open-source software maker Red Hat cleared the hurdle of approval from European regulators Thursday because it raised no concerns about competition, accor... |
| 26.06.2019 | Detroit’s StockX Gains Unicorn Status After $110M Series C Investment | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Southeast Michigan is now home to another unicorn startup.
Detroit-based e-commerce company StockX announced Wednesday that it has raised $110 million in a Series C funding ro... |
| 25.06.2019 | Hate to Pump Gas? Booster Scores $56M to Scale Mobile Fill-Ups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Booster, an on-demand service that fills gas tanks for car owners while they shop at a mall or work at their office desks, announced Tuesday it has raised $56 million to expan... |
| 25.06.2019 | Led by Tech, Healthcare Debuts, IPOs in 2019 Show Positive Returns | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Even as Uber, Lyft, and other high-profile initial public offerings underperformed out of the gate, the average share price of companies that have gone public in the US this y... |
| 25.06.2019 | Funds for Phlur, Arrive Logistics, Aunt Bertha & More TX Tech News | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Let’s catch up with the latest innovation news in Texas.
—Austin-based fragrance maker Phlur raised $7 million in a Series A round, the company announced. The investment was l... |
| 25.06.2019 | Everactive Snags $30M Series C to Advance Battery-less IoT Sensors | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Everactive, a Bay Area startup, has raised $30 million in a Series C funding round. The investment was led by Future Fund with participation from Blue Bear Capital, ABB Techno... |
| 21.06.2019 | Boston Tech Watch: Polaris, GE, DataRobot, Facial Recognition Woes | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 8:50 am, 6/21/19. See below.] Two weeks-worth of Boston tech news coming your way that covers new cash, executive moves, wary public sentiment on facial recognition, ... |
| 20.06.2019 | Veracode CEO Sam King on Surviving Whirlwind of Cybersecurity M&A | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Life has been changing at Veracode so rapidly in the past two years that you could easily forgive someone for not remembering who owned the company on any given day.
Focused o... |
| 19.06.2019 | Perceptive Automata Uses Neuroscience to Help AVs Predict Intent | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Those of us who like to ride our bikes on city streets know the importance of The Staredown. Say a biker is trundling past an intersection and a car is inching forward to make... |
| 19.06.2019 | WI Watchlist: Aaron Rodgers, Redox, Zywave, Rusinow & More | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s time to catch up on some recent Wisconsin innovation news:
—Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has a new title: venture capitalist. He co-founded and serves as g... |
| 13.06.2019 | Gener8tor to Make Startups From Scratch in Revamped Milwaukee Program | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 6/14/19, 10:25 am CT. See below.] Gener8tor, a Wisconsin-based organization with a growing network of startup accelerators across the Midwest, is shaking up the forma... |
| 13.06.2019 | VidMob Adds $25M Led by Austin-Based BuildGroup for Adtech Software | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
You’ve probably seen a VidMob advertisement, or at least an ad the company had some influence on, and not known it.
The New York-based startup has helped make or optimize digi... |
| 12.06.2019 | Hi Marley Raises $8M From Investors to Streamline Insurance With AI | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Insurance tech startup Hi Marley has landed $8.7 million from True Ventures and Underscore VC to extend its conversational AI tools to help people buy and manage their policie... |
| 12.06.2019 | IPO Scorecard: CrowdStrike Gains 70 Percent on First Trading Day | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike delivered the kind of market debut this week that was an unfulfilled dream for the much-anticipated IPOs of Uber and Lyft earlier this year.
Sun... |
| 11.06.2019 | Trust No One: Edgewise Raises $11M to Segment and Secure Networks | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 12:01 pm, 6/11/18. See below.] The retreat underway in cybersecurity from the ramparts of the outward-facing firewall has spurred a crop of tech startups promising an... |
| 11.06.2019 | Insurance Tech Startup CyberFortress Starts Risk Assessment Service | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Antonio—CyberFortress, an insurance tech startup founded late last year, is graduating from the Plug and Play accelerator and launching a new service that gauges how vulne... |
| 10.06.2019 | Salesforce to Boost Analytics Suite With $15.7B Deal to Buy Tableau | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 6/11/19 10:36 a.m. See below.] Salesforce is joining forces with Tableau Software, announcing Monday it plans to acquire Seattle-based Tableau in an all-stock deal va... |
| 07.06.2019 | Mark Your Calendars: Startup Week Detroit Kicks Off on June 17 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Every year, Detroit’s entrepreneurial community comes together for a five-day event encompassing panel discussions, TED talk-style keynote speeches, bootcamps, tech demos, and... |
| 07.06.2019 | Boston Tech Watch: IKEA and Ori, Skyworks and Huawei & Massport and Turo | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 6/7/19, 9:50 am. See below.] Quite a range of topics in this week’s batch of Boston technology news: robot furniture, male fertility, airport car rental spats, as wel... |
| 06.06.2019 | Synapse Banks $33M to Grow its Automated Back Office for Fintechs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Prominent venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has jumped in to back San Francisco startup Synapse, which has assembled a plug-in infrastructure to process financia... |
