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Engine Biosciences expands its digital drug discovery pipeline with $43M round
a day ago –
Drug discovery is a large and growing field, encompassing both
ambitious startups and billion-dollar Big Pharma incumbents. Engine
Biosciences is one of the former, a Singaporean outfit with an expert
founding crew and a different approach to the business of finding new
therapeutics, and it just ...
Tesla has installed 200,000 Powerwalls around the world so far
a day ago –
Tesla has installed its 200,000th Powerwall, the company’s home
battery storage product, the company said in a tweet on Wednesday.
Tesla’s CFO Zachary Kirkhorn told investors during a first-quarter
earnings call in April that Tesla is continuing to work through a
“multi-quarter backlog on Powerwa...
Vise CEO Samir Vasavada and Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire break down the art of the pitch
a day ago –
"The deck has to show that you're solving an important problem,
that you've got the path to an important solution, that there is a big
market opportunity, and that your team is positioned to execute."
Ada Health closes $90M Series B led by Leaps by Bayer
9 hours ago –
The digital health space continues cooking on gas: Berlin-based
Ada Health has closed a $90M Series B round of funding led by Leaps by
Bayer, the impact investment arm of the German multinational pharma
giant, Bayer AG. Other investors in the round include Samsung Catalyst
Fund, Vitruvian Partner...
Wayflyer raises $76M to provide ‘revenue-based’ financing to e-commerce merchants
10 hours ago –
Wayflyer, a revenue-based financing platform for e-commerce
merchants, has raised $76 million in a Series A funding round led by
Left Lane Capital. “Partners” of DST Global, QED Investors, Speedinvest
and Zinal Growth — the family office of Guillaume Pousaz (founder of
Checkout.com) — also put mo...
Twitter says concerned with India intimidation, requests 3 more months to comply with new IT rules
12 hours ago –
Twitter called the recent visit by police to its Indian offices a
form of intimidation and said it was concerned by some of the
requirements in New Delhi’s new IT rules. Speaking for the first time
since a special squad of Delhi police made a surprise visit to two of
its offices on Monday, Twitte...
Breinify announces $11M seed to bring data science to the marketing team
4 hours ago –
Breinify is a startup working to apply data science to
personalization, and do it in a way that makes it accessible to
nontechnical marketing employees to build more meaningful customer
experiences. Today the company announced a funding round totaling $11
million. The investment was led by Gutbra...
Coda’s Shishir Mehrotra and Madrona’s S. Somasegar to talk taking on Google on Extra Crunch Live
4 hours ago –
Collaborative software is so hot right now, but the space is
also incredibly crowded. It can be hard to rise above the noise, but
Coda has managed to do so with $140 million in funding and a valuation
topping $600 million. So it should go without saying that we’re excited
to hear from Coda CEO […]
Dapper Labs backs art hardware startup Infinite Objects in $6 million seed raise
4 hours ago –
The NFT world is all about reshaping the idea of digital
ownership, but art hardware startup Infinite Objects sees a big
opportunity in making physical copies of those assets as it looks to
reshape digital art and collectibles. The startup makes screens that
show a single video from a single arti...
SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook
32 minutes ago –
The idea of directly incentivizing users is a common rallying
cry in the crypto community: Imagine an internet free from monopoly tech
giants where users control and monetize their own data.
Orbiit raises Seed funding to automate the interactions within an online community
40 minutes ago – has raised a $2.7 million round led by Bread and
Butter Ventures with participation from new investors High Alpha
Capital, LAUNCHub Ventures and Company Ventures. Existing investors
Founders Fund, which led Orbiit’s $1M...
CorrActions raises $2.7M to help avoid errors in human-machine interactions
an hour ago –
CorrActions, a noninvasive neuroscience startup that uses sensor
data to evaluate a user’s cognitive state due to drowsiness, alcohol,
fatigue and other issues, today announced that it has raised a $2.7
million seed round. Early-stage fund VentureIsrael, seed fund Operator
Partners and the Israel...
The Verge
San Jose approves Google’s gigantic and controversial new downtown campus
a day ago –
Image: Google
After first proposing it in 2017, Google has received unanimous
approval from the San Jose City Council to move forward with its
Downtown West development plan, CNBC reports. The company and city have
reached an agreement to develop around 80 acres of land in downtown San
Jo...
( Part of Facebook's plan to become totally irrelevant )
You can join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces rooms from a browser starting Wednesday
20 hours ago –
Twitter Spaces on the web. | Image: Twitter
You’ll be able to join Twitter’s Clubhouse-like Spaces from desktop
and mobile web browsers starting Wednesday, the company announced,
making the company’s social audio rooms much more widely accessible.
Previously, you could only join Spaces fr...
Microsoft’s ‘biggest change’ to Outlook for Windows improves shared calendars
8 hours ago –
If you’ve ever had to share an Outlook calendar with colleagues,
you’ll know how painful it can be when things go wrong. I spent a
decade of my professional career in IT support, and shared calendar
problems with Outlook for Windows were a daily problem. Microsoft is now
promising that it is “dra...
Save up to $150 on Beats noise-canceling wireless headphones
6 hours ago –
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge
Amazon’s Prime Day for 2021 may happen on June 21st and 22nd,
according to Bloomberg. Last year’s Prime member-exclusive shopping
holiday was delayed until October due to the pandemic. In years prior,
Amazon had hosted Prime Day in the summer. But with Jun...
Instacart adds faster ‘Priority Delivery’ which is sure to cause headaches for delivery workers
22 minutes ago –
Instacart
In the crowded food- and grocery-delivery space, Instacart is hoping
that shaving off a few minutes makes all the difference. To that end,
it’s creating a new “priority delivery” option that debuts today in
select markets and promises to have orders fulfilled in “as fast as 30
m...
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