tech startups

A wave of bankruptcies has taken over several high-profile tech startups, including WeWork, Olive AI, Convoy, and Veev, indicating a possible new pattern in the tech sector. As reported by the New York Times, these closures and bankruptcies are the most recent instances in an emerging trend of tech...

The story was first published on the Benzinga India Portal. SoftBank Group Corp (OTC: SFTBY) is reportedly set to sell stakes in Paytm and Zomato as the Japanese investment firm looks to turn a profit on its bets following a recent rally in their share prices. What Happened...

Spotify Technologies SA (NYSE: SPOT) CEO Daniel Ek wants to give nascent European technology start-ups a boost so that they can grow up to compete with Silicon Valley leviathans, the Financial Times reported Thursday. What Happened: Ek, whose wealth is estimated to be around $3.8 billion...

Since writing about the challenges ahead for food supply chains, I have been thinking about how perishable foods and other items are transported from one part of the world to another. What is the role for new technologies in global supply chains for perishable products? The question gnaws at me...

Pointivo, an Atlanta-based startup that makes artificial intelligence (AI) 3D analytics technology, has closed a Series A funding round of $7 million. The round was led by BIP Capital with participation from Blue Lagoon Capital and Thirteen Castles, among others. Founded in 2014 to commercialize...

Google. Microsoft. Facebook. All mega-companies with humble beginnings. Successful startups are pretty common nowadays. But this has hardly always been the case. Entrepreneur, author, blogger and venture capitalist Brad Feld has been funding technology startups since the early 1990s. He sat down...

The hype continues as another dot-com heads west. Rob Gough, President of CouponChad.com and DefinitiveDeals.com, recently moved his websites from Indianapolis, Ind. to Los Angeles, Calif. Known by many as "Silicon Beach," Los Angeles has been referred to as an emerging hotbed for technology...