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 ...

Patient monitoring startup Doccla secures $3.3M seed funding for ‘virtual wards’ platform – TechCrunch techcrunch.com Doccla, a health tech startup with a platform that can monitor patients on hospital wards and in the home, has secured a $3.3 million seed funding round, led by...

A new kind of PE fund plans to roll up German startups into potential unicorns and bigger exits techcrunch.com German private equity investor FLEX Capital (based out of Berlin) says it has now closed its second fund of €300 million with the aim of effectively rolling-u...

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...

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

China's globalizing startups could be a boon to US cloud giants techcrunch.com The cloud market is cooling as businesses look for ways to curb cloud spending in post-COVID times and an uncertain economy....