NBA star Stephen Curry. (Aubrie Pick photo) Seattle-based pay equity startup Syndio has raised more than $ 30 million in funding in its four years, but a new $ 1 million support from early-stage investors Penny Jar Capital announced on Monday is special notable because the company is anchored by NBA star Stephen Curry. Curry … 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
The technical terms with the highest above-average usage in job advertisements in each state. (Canva graphic) A new study of the use of technical jargon in job advertisements has identified the worst culprits in the United States. And we would like to speak to Washington State. According to an analysis by Canva, maker of online … Read more
India could fight with the second wave of the coronavirus, rising unemployment and a dwindling economy, but the South Asian nation’s burgeoning startup ecosystem has never had it better. High profile investors in India have long been aggressively pursuing growth and late stage businesses, and record amounts of capital have flowed into the country. But … Read more
Jai Kisan, an Indian startup trying to bring financial services to rural India, where commercial banks have single-digit penetration, said Monday it had raised $ 30 million in a new round of funding to help scale its business. Hundreds of millions of people in India now live in rural areas. Most of them have no … Read more
The University of Washington AfterLife Listings team during a virtual presentation. Clockwise from top left: Co-Founder Clara Kobashigawa, Co-Founder Aidan Shev, and UX Specialist Brendan Tran. (UW photo) A team of University of Washington students tasked with making funeral plan-related planning and transactions easier has won the $ 25,000 grand prize in the 2021 Dempsey … Read more
Schottland zieht langsam aber sicher die Aufmerksamkeit im Startup-Bereich Großbritanniens auf sich. Im Jahr 2020 haben schottische Startups laut Tech Nation zusammen 345 Millionen Pfund gesammelt und mit fast 2.500 Startups die meisten aufstrebenden Tech-Unternehmen außerhalb Londons. Auch die Mittelbeschaffung für Risikokapital nimmt jedes Jahr stetig zu. Die schottische Hauptstadt Edinburgh bietet eine wunderschöne, hügelige … Read more
Angus Sullivan, Group Executive, Commonwealth Bank; and Jon Beros, Co-Founder and CEO of Little Birdie Melbourne-based Little Birdie, an e-commerce startup aiming to become the “new home page for online shopping,” won’t be released until next month, but has already attracted a large investor. Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), the largest of Australia’s “Big Four” … Read more
For this morning’s edition of The Exchange, Alex Wilhelm studied information recently released by mobile gaming studio Jam City as it prepares to go public in a $1.2 billion blank-check deal with DPCM Capital. “Jam City is a bit like Zynga, but unless you are a mobile-gaming aficionado, you might not have heard of it,” … Read more
As cloud-native apps become more and more central to how businesses function, a startup founded by the developers of a popular open-source authorization management tool for cloud-native application environments is announcing some means to expand its commercialization efforts to expand the opportunity. Styra, the startup behind Open Policy Agent, has raised $ 40 million in … Read more