Semios, a Vancouver, BC-based company developing agricultural technology to assess crop status and risk, today announced a $ 100 million investment. Founded in 2010, Semios wireless IoT network helps farmers assess the yield and quality of their tree fruits, nuts and other crops in near real time. Sensors measure the climate, soil moisture, and insect … Read more
For more than a year, Zoom’s mission has been to transform itself from an application into a platform. To that end, there were three announcements last year: Zoom Apps Development Tools, the Zoom Apps Marketplace, and a $ 100 million development fund to invest in some of the more promising startups building tools on their … Read more
Online abuse, disinformation, fraud, and other malicious content are on the rise, and tracking is becoming more complex. Today, a startup called ActiveFence, which has been quietly building a technology platform to detect threats during their formation and planning, and make it easier for trust and security teams to fight them on platforms, comes out … Read more
In May, Path Robotics announced a Series B for $ 56 million. It was a sizeable increase in the robotics rounds. But the Columbus, Ohio-based startup is already back, launching a “preventive” Series C just two and a half months later. And it’s a huge thing. The company has raised $ 100 million under the … Read more
More and more mainstream venture capital firms are jumping on the crypto bandwagon as investors increasingly view Bitcoin as an investable asset, despite the recent massive price drops of some major cryptocurrencies. Amber Group, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency trading startup, announced Monday that it had raised $ 100 million in a Series B funding round … Read more
Icosavax creates virus-like particles using technology licensed from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. (Icosavax photo) New financing: At a moment when everyone is talking about vaccines, a Seattle-based biotech company taking an unusual approach to vaccine production raised $ 100 million in a Series B round. The startup creates computerized, virus-like particles … Read more