What This Year’s Seed Funding Tells Us About The Startup Future news.crunchbase.com Our latest data-dive focused on seed and pre-seed rounds of $2 million or more announced in 2021 -- of which there are a little over a thousand reported. The an...

TikTok owner ByteDance buys a top virtual reality hardware startup – TechCrunch techcrunch.com TikTok parent company ByteDance seems to be looking to one-up Facebook anywhere it can. After taking over the mantle of most-downloaded social media app in the ...

Council Post: African Startups Going Global For Success forbes.com The African continent has become a fertile ground for startups....

These Startups Want To Give Us The Best Night’s Sleep And Investors Are Tucking In news.crunchbase.com Startups are injecting technology into our sleep routine, a small part of our day that has an outsized impact on the quality of our waking hours and overall hea...

Crypto services startup Ripio raises $50 million in Series B funding round theblockcrypto.com Latin America-based blockchain firm Ripio has raised $50 million in a new Series B funding round....

News aggregator SmartNews raises $230 million, valuing its business at $2 billion – TechCrunch techcrunch.com SmartNews, a Tokyo-headquartered news aggregation website and app that’s grown in popularity despite hefty competition from built-in aggregators like Appl...