The number of startups building buy now, pay later (BNPL) services is long. Just this year we’ve seen French BNPL startup Alma raise a $130 million equity round, BillEase raise $11 million for BNPL in the Philippines, Lipa Later raise
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It’s not a startup reckoning, it’s a recorrection
In the beginning of the pandemic, we learned which companies were unprepared to handle a cataclysmic event. Now, as the world slowly starts to reopen in light of vaccinations, we’re learning which companies that soared during the pandemic also lost
3D content collaboration startup Taichi Graphics closes $50M Series A
It operates Taitopia, a cloud-based platform for 3D graphics creation, sharing and remote collaboration, sort of like “Figma for 3D content” in its own words. Undergirding the platform is its open-source programming language Taichi, which offers a high-performance computation on
Nigerian healthtech startup Reliance Health raises $40M led by General Atlantic
There’s no denying the growth of healthtech globally over the past three years thanks to the pandemic. The event has accelerated the use of telemedicine, virtual care, and drug delivery, thus fuelling investor interest in the sector. Investment has also
Korean micromobility startup Swing grabs $24M for growth, expands to Japan
Swing, a South Korean electric scooter and micromobility startup, announced today it has raised $24 million in a Series B round to spur its growth and expansion to Japan. The funding was led by White Star Capital, which also invested
How to recruit when your software startup is in stealth mode
Michael Fey leads Island as co-founder and CEO, relying on his extensive experience in cyber security, enterprise software and cloud technology. A company’s most valuable asset is its people, especially for organizations still in their infancy. A startup’s founding team
The startup sobriety gambit
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After the acquisition: 3 startup founders share their exit experiences
In an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014, then-CEO of Pure Storage, Scott Dietzen, was asked about the possibility of exiting via acquisition. He didn’t pull any punches: “Acquisitions always suck, and suck worse than you think that they are
This startup wants you to like coffee-free coffee
Most of these ingredients are upcycled, the company said, meaning that if they weren’t used by Atomo, they’d likely be thrown away. Date seeds, or pits, are usually “scattered in the field,” said Atomo CEO Andy Kleitsch. “We give them
Shares of EV start-up Lucid surge as much as 47% after confirming deliveries of its first car
People test drive Dream Edition P and Dream Edition R electric vehicles at the Lucid Motors plant in Casa Grande, Arizona, September 28, 2021. Caitlin O’Hara | Reuters Shares of electric vehicle start-up Lucid Group surged by as much as
Fusion startup builds 10-foot-high, 20-tesla superconducting magnet
Enlarge / The assembled magnet gets lowered into its testing apparatus. Commonwealth Fusion Systems In 2015, a group of physicists at MIT did some calculations to rethink how we’re approaching the problem of fusion power. High-temperature, nonmetallic superconductors were finally