Immigrants are making startups great again. Per a new study from the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP), 55 percent of the billion-dollar startups in the United States are led by immigrant CEOs and founders. What’s more, immigrants occupy crucial […]
The Silicon Valley startup CNEX Labs is in a battle with Chinese telephone giant Huawei over what the U.S. company’s officials are calling theft of crucial technology. Yiren Ronnie Huang, CNEX’s co-founder, went to a federal court in Texas this week to […]
Native advertising is thought of as the sort of next frontier for digital brand marketing in an age where newspapers are long gone and cable subscriptions might be following them. So despite it being a relatively new industry, it’s no […]
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 […]
