Elementary Robotics raises cash to expand in Los Angeles’ growing robotics hub
Elementary Robotics has raised $3.6 million in seed funding to begin building a manufacturing facility and expand its presence in Los Angeles as t ...
The SaaS VC gap: China & other markets trail the US
Chinese startups rule the roost when it comes to total reported venture dollars raised so far in 2018. That is, mostly. In one key category at lea ...
Spatial raises $8 million to bring augmented reality to your office life
Legitimate augmented reality use cases are hard to come by. Spatial, which dubs itself as a cross-reality platform, is launching today with $8 mi ...
Cratejoy sheds 60% of its workforce amid restructuring effort
Cratejoy, a startup that runs a marketplace for subscription businesses and helps founders launch and scale their own subscription box services, ...
Eight Roads Ventures targets Southeast Asia deals
Eight Roads Ventures, the investment arm of financial giant Fidelity International, is moving into Southeast Asia where it sees the potential to ...
Old media giants turn to VC for their next act
The Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 eras weren’t kind to the world’s largest media conglomerates, throwing their business models into question, creating who ...
Market research firm GlobalWebIndex takes first VC with $40M Series A
Market research firm GlobalWebIndex, which provides consumer insight data for marketing purposes for customers including Google, Spotify, WPP, I ...
Coding gets a real-life magic wand with Kano’s Harry Potter kit
Kano has been an undeniable success story. The company, which began life as a Kickstarter project, had shipped north of 200,000 of its Raspb ...
Zoox’s fresh $500M, how to spend $6.3B and Microsoft’s fine fiscal year
There's much in the venture capital world, and technical is forefront.
First up was Zoox’s epic $500 million infusion. The self-driving company is ...
Landbot gets $2.2M for its on-message ‘anti-AI’ chatbot
Who needs AI to have a good conversation? Spanish startup Landbot has bagged a $2.2 million seed round for a ‘dumb’ chatbot that doesn’t use AI ...