Dr. Phil Wagner is the founder and CEO of Sparta Science. After studying medicine at USC, he was frustrated with the lack of evidence-based approaches to performance and injury prevention in sports, the military, and occupational medicine, which inspired him to start Sparta Science. During my medical training at LAC + USC Medical Center in … Read more
Thank you for reading Startups Weekly. Would you like the weekly summary in your inbox every Saturday? Login here. Last week, edtech entrepreneurs, investors and analysts gathered at ASU + GSV, an annual global edtech conference, to reflect on the sector’s newly-discovered limelight following the massive shock of COVID-19. Aside from the masked excitement of … Read more
“I like to think of successful branding as creating a company where customers would be annoyed to part with their identity,” growth marketing expert Julian Shapiro told us earlier this week. “For example, they would stop being the man with Slack stickers on his laptop. Or the woman who no longer wears Nike shoes every … Read more
Grocery delivery apps provide convenience for customers, but a lot of headaches for restaurants, like commissions of up to 40% and very few tools to build customer loyalty. Singapore-based Tablevibe aims to help restaurants reduce their reliance on third-party delivery apps, helping them get more direct orders and returning customers. The startup is part of … Read more
Chip design is a long trial and error process that takes years to get a design to market. Motivo, a five-year-old chip industry veteran startup, is developing software to accelerate chip design with AI from years to months. Today the company announced a $ 12 million Series A. Intel Capital led the round together with … Read more
Archer Aviation is demanding US $ 1 billion in damages from Wisk Aero, according to court records on Tuesday, significantly escalating the ongoing legal battle between the two air taxi rivals. Wisk “carried out a knowingly bogus out-of-court smear campaign that projected independent defamatory statements about Archer into the world,” the file said. On this … Read more
Pave, a San Francisco-based startup that helps companies benchmark, plan, and communicate compensation to their employees, has raised $ 46 million in a Series B. YC Continuity led the round, which was also attended by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners. The round comes eight months after Pave completed a $ 16 million Series A … Read more
FreshBooks, a Toronto-based cloud accounting software company focused on SMBs, announced today that it has secured $ 80.75 million in a Series E funding round and $ 50 million in debt financing. Existing funder Accomplice led what the company described as “an insider round” that turned FreshBooks unicorn with a valuation of “over $ 1 … Read more
Amazon and the parent company of its top Indian seller Cloudtail have decided not to continue their joint venture after May 2022, the two companies said in a statement on Monday, hours after India’s highest court ruled that the American e-commerce company and Walmarts Flipkart must be subject to antitrust investigations. Billionaire NR Narayana Murthy’s … Read more
Hello friends! Lucas always starts with that, doesn’t it? Lucas is out for a couple of weeks so I’ll take care of Week In Review until he gets back. TL; DR about me: I’m Greg and I’ve been with TechCrunch for a very long time. I joined around the time that Twitter found the vowels … Read more