A $5 million funding round was given to Baltimore startup FactoryFour, per a Friday press release. The company specializes in manufacturing management, allowing producers to customize their production methods. The Friday announcement confirmed that investor August Capital was the body […]
Among the accelerator programs in Bogota, Founder Institute Colombia is back after a five-year hiatus under new director Mads Schmidt Petersen. Many of the fastest-growing companies have gone through the Founder Institute accelerator program in order to build their teams, transition […]
If you’re looking for an ordinary story of Silicon Valley startup founders, then keep looking, because Bill Binney and Kirk Wiebe aren’t your run-of-the-mill tech presidents. The two men spent decades at the National Security Agency before making their legacies […]
Officials from the Food and Drug Administration recently raided the Silicon Valley offices of e-cigarette startup Juul and seized thousands of documents, according to a report from CNBC on Tuesday. The seizure was reportedly a complete surprise to the company heads […]
It’s not every day that Kazakhstan gets to be in the startup spotlight, but that should all change in two weeks when a notable industry conference will take center stage in the Central Asian country. There’s a lot to like […]
The U.S. payment startup Stripe was valued at $20 billion after its latest funding round, according to an announcement made on Wednesday. The company said it had raised $245 million in that round of funding. The company, which was valued […]
Tiny Aruba may not be known for much beyond its exotic vacations, but a new group of technology players in the Caribbean country are trying to make it known as the world’s ‘Silicon Beach.’ With the fourth annual edition […]
After years of speculation, Bill Gates’ clean energy fund Breakthrough Energy Ventures, which is valued at $1 billion, has finally announced that its ready to start investing in companies that aim to dramatically cut the world’s carbon emissions. According to […]
Asia has long been talked about as the next big marketplace for emerging industries. Now that the secret is out and the region’s ascension seems inevitable, the question becomes how supercities like Jakarta, Manila and Bangkok (which each boast populations of […]
It’s not easy to make your startup stick out from the crowd with hundreds of thousands of businesses being created each month in an already crowded startup ecosystem. Every entrepreneur does the heavy lifting of getting their business off the […]
One of the largest airline operators in the world has announced a partnership with the polemic, crime-predicting startup Palantir. United Airlines has become the first airline to team up with Palantir, according to the Sociable’s Tim Hinchliffe, although the two […]
The United States Air Force continues to carve space out for itself in the startup world and it is doing so with a quickness. The service branch has announced that it will hold a 24-hour acquisition conference in which it […]
