Browsing Category: Startups

  • Oto snags $5.3M seed to use AI to understand voice intonation

    Oto, a startup spun off from research at SRI International to help customer service operations understand voice intonation, announced a $5.3 million seed round today. Participants in the round included Firstminute Capital, Fusion Fund, Interlace Ventures, SAP.iO and SRI International . The total includes a previous $1 million seed round, according to the company. Teo …

    December 17, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Skyryse shows off end-to-end autonomous flight technology with helicopter demonstration

    Skyryse is a three-year-old transportation startup that is approaching the future of aviation from a different angle when compared to most. You often see startups building new kinds of aircraft, with electric powertrains, multiple rotors for vertical take-off and landing, and more: Skyryse thinks the smarter approach is to start at a more fundamental — …

    December 17, 2019 | by Raheel
  • San Diego’s Trust & Will raises $6 million for online estate planning

    Estate planning in the U.S. is a $180 billion industry and, unlike many of the other areas in the multitrillion-dollar financial services market, it’s one that has yet to see a slew of technology companies come in to try to improve efficiencies. One notable exception is Trust & Will, the San Diego-based startup that has …

    December 17, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Automated web app testing startup ProdPerfect raises $13M Series A led by Anthos Capital

    This morning ProdPerfect, a technology startup focused on web application testing, announced a $13 million Series A led by Anthos Capital. Anthos is perhaps best known for investing in Honey, a startup which recently sold to PayPal for several billion dollars. ProdPerfect, a remote-focused company, closed a $2.6 million seed round earlier in 2019. Fika Ventures and Eniac Ventures took part in the Series …

    December 17, 2019 | by Raheel
  • HackerRank acquires Mimir, an online platform for computer science courses

    HackerRank, a popular platform for practicing and hosting online coding interviews, today announced that it has acquired Mimir, a cloud-based service that provides tools for teaching computer science courses. Mimir, which is HackerRank’s first acquisition, is currently in use by a number of universities, including UCLA, Purdue, Oregon State and Michigan State, as well as …

    December 17, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Satori Cyber raises $5.25M to help businesses protect their data flows

    The amount of data that most companies now store — and the places they store it — continues to increase rapidly. With that, the risk of the wrong people managing to get access to this data also increases, so it’s no surprise that we’re now seeing a number of startups that focus on protecting this …

    December 17, 2019 | by Raheel
  • New media investment firm Attention Capital acquires Girlboss

    Attention Capital, a new outfit that buys, builds and scales media brands, is acquiring Girlboss, the female-focused multi-media business founded by Sophia Amoruso, who will join the firm as a founder partner. A spokesperson for LA-based Girlboss declined to disclose terms of the deal, but said Attention Capital has acquired 100% of the business. Girlboss …

    December 17, 2019 | by Raheel
  • Indian B2B food tech startup HungerBox raises $12M from Paytm and others

    HungerBox, an Indian food tech startup that has courted 10 of the 11 largest companies in the country to use its services, today announced it has raised $12 million from Paytm and others as it looks to sign clients in Southeast Asia. The three-year-old startup’s new financing round, a Series C, was funded by a …

    December 16, 2019 | by Raheel