Fintech startup Flutterwave has partnered with Visa to launch a consumer payment product for Africa called GetBarter. The app-based offering is aimed at facilitating personal and small merchant…
DouglasJanuary 17, 2019
20% Of Alaskans Don’t Have Access To Broadband Internet. This Satellite Startup Aims To Change That.
Internet satellite startup Astranis, which aims to deliver cost-effective high-speed internet to underserved markets, announced Wednesday that it has signed an exclusive agreement to provide satellite…
DouglasJanuary 16, 2019
Next-gen pharmacy Alto Pharmacy has raised $50 million in a series C round of funding from Greenoaks Capital, Zola Capital, and Jackson Square Ventures. Founded in 2015 after…
DouglasDecember 6, 2018
Meet BlueCargo, a logistics startup focused on seaport terminals. The company was part of Y Combinator’s latest batch and recently raised a $3 million funding…
DouglasNovember 23, 2018
Today we are proud to announce that Pachyderm has closed a Series A financing of $10M led by Benchmark, with participation from existing investors Ace…
DouglasNovember 15, 2018
Grin, the Mexico City-based electric scooter company backed by Y Combinator, is merging with São Paulo-based Ride to further the company’s expansion across Latin America. This comes shortly after Grin…
DouglasOctober 26, 2018
“I think any company scaling today has to have a crypto strategy. This is the start of ours,” Omni founder and CEO Tom McLeod tells me. His…
DouglasOctober 17, 2018
Grin, an electric scooter startup backed by Y Combinator, has raised a $45.7 million Series A to operate shared, electric scooters in Latin America.
DouglasOctober 15, 2018
Last week the Federal Government released an update to their self-driving policy known as Automated Vehicles (AV) 3.0. This update is especially significant because, for the…
DouglasOctober 8, 2018
Honda will commit $2.75 billion as part of an exclusive agreement with GM and its self-driving technology subsidiary Cruise to develop and produce a new…
DouglasOctober 3, 2018