Browsing Category: Startups

  • Index and Credo lead a $2.75M seed in anti-fraud tech, Resistant AI

    Prague based Resistant AI has nabbed a $2.75M seed round. The security startup’s machine learning technology is designed to be deployed on top of AI systems used for financial decision making to protect customers in markets such as financial services and ecommerce from attacks such as targeted manipulation, adversarial machine learning and advanced fraud. The …

    April 30, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Digging for dollar signs amid edtech’s current momentum

    Edtech was long defined by stodgy sales cycles, sluggish adoption and splashy pitches to K-12 districts with tight budgets, but the COVID-19 pandemic turned that reputation on its head in short order. Now, companies in the space are entering Q2 — traditionally a slower time reserved for product development and extra focus on existing clients …

    April 29, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Wise locks down $5.7 million to scale its challenger bank designed for small businesses

    Stripe and Shopify have transformed the face of commerce for small business users, yet when it comes to putting that cash somewhere, SMBs have found that the banking options aren’t quite as transformative. Wise is a new challenger bank built specifically for small businesses. The startup is aiming to insert itself as an essential service …

    April 29, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Arm is offering early-stage startups free access to its chip designs

    The year’s already off to a rocky start for hardware companies, and we’re only beginning to see the true impact COVID-19 will ultimately have on the market. Arm — the U.K. company behind the designs of chips for everyone from Apple to Qualcomm to Samsung — is hoping to kickstart developing by offering up access …

    April 29, 2020 | by Raheel
  • When regulation presents a (rare) opportunity

    Bradley Tusk Contributor Bradley Tusk is the founder and CEO of Tusk Ventures. More posts by this contributor In London, Uber has won the battle but risks losing the war Shockingly, Congress acted responsibly in regulating autonomous cars… So what’s next? Every time we realize something new about the coronavirus, it’s always worse than we …

    April 29, 2020 | by Raheel
  • EV startup Nio secures $1 billion investment from China entities

    Chinese electric vehicle startup Nio has secured a $1 billion investment from several state-owned companies in Hefei in return for agreeing to establish headquarters in the city’s economic development hotspot and giving up a stake in one of its business units. The injection of capital comes from several investors, including Hefei City Construction and Investment …

    April 29, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Determined AI makes its machine learning infrastructure free and open source

    Machine learning has quickly gone from niche field to crucial component of innumerable software stacks, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. The tools needed to create and manage it are enterprise-grade and often enterprise-only — but Determined AI aims to make them more accessible than ever by open-sourcing its entire AI infrastructure product. The company …

    April 29, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Atlassian co-founder and co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes is coming to Disrupt SF 2020

    Atlassian is about as ubiquitous to software engineers as Google is to the rest of us. The Sydney-based company, which launched in 2002, develops tools and services for enterprise collaboration and marched efficiently to a public offering in 2015. So it goes without saying that we’re thrilled to have Atlassian co-founder and co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes …

    April 29, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Extra Crunch Live: Join Roelof Botha for a live Q&A on May 6 at 2pm ET/11am PT

    23andMe. MongoDB. Eventbrite. Evernote. Bird. Square . Tumblr. Unity. YouTube. Xoom. Roelof Botha has had a seat on each of these companies’ boards, but his list of investments is much, much longer. The Sequoia partner, leading the firm’s US business, is legendary in Silicon Valley and the broader tech world, and we’re very excited that …

    April 29, 2020 | by Raheel
  • Utah-based seed fund Kickstart closes fifth fund worth $110M

    Continuing our week’s coverage of new venture funds, this morning let’s dig into Kickstart’s latest capital pool. Kickstart Seed Fund, based in Utah’s Salt Lake City, has raised a $110 million Fund V it announced this morning, its largest to date. The firm’s rise to investing prominence has largely coincided with Utah’s own emergence as a …

    April 29, 2020 | by Raheel