- Nov- 2021 -26 NovemberNews
Oxygen – A Neobank to raise over $500 Million
Oxygen is a startup that is bringing digital banking services to freelancers and micro-and small-sized businesses. It is in talks to raise a new round at a valuation of over $500 million. How Oxygen started? Oxygen has headquarters in San Francisco.…
- 24 NovemberNews
Xiaomi’s most high-profile auto investments of 2021
In this past year, we have written a lot about the smartphone giant Xiaomi’s multiple high-profile auto investments. As a result, it seems that Xiaomi might just become the biggest competitive threat to other carmakers in the field. Xiaomi has…
- 23 NovemberNews
HT Aero, China’s flying car startup raises $500M
Chinese electric-vehicle startup Xpeng introduced a flying car startup HT Aero. It has raised $500 million as part of a new round of funding as it pushes to popularize its technology. The company says it plans to mass-produce by 2024. HT Aero,…
- 22 NovemberNews
Xpeng planning to launch pilot Robotaxi program
Xpeng Motors will launch a pilot robotaxi program in China in the second half of 2022. Robotaxi is an autonomous ride-hailing service. The program is part of the company’s latest efforts to offer full-scenario autonomous driving capabilities by the middle…
- 18 NovemberNews
Europe’s Top Startups Tackling Menopause
In recent years we have seen many European startups tackling menopause. why? well, femtech is expected to be a $50bn market by 2025. While many startups have built products and services around fertility or periods, one neglected category is menopause. According…
- 13 NovemberNews
European football clubs integrate Socios ‘fan tokens’
European clubs have jumped into crypto with Socios fan tokens. As the fans enjoy and go wild on their favourite team winning, some sing, some drink. Others unlock their phones and blow their hard-earned cash on a faddish cryptocurrency tied…
- 12 NovemberNews
Robotic archaeologist Lucy launched by NASA
Robotic archaeologist Lucy, NASA’s newest asteroid probe, blasted off from Kennedy Space Center here in Florida. Lucy embarked on a 12-year mission to study two different clusters of asteroids around Jupiter known as Trojans. These swarms represent the final unexplored…
- 11 NovemberNews
German Startup Sono Motors Files For US IPO
Sono Motors is a Munich-based EV startup. It has filed for a US IPO. The brand aims to produce an all-electric hatchback with solar cells integrated into its body. This design is named the Sono Sion. It has a claimed…
- 10 NovemberNews
How to build a perfect startup pitch?
One of the top questions entrepreneurs ask their communication coach is how to deliver a winning startup pitch to potential investors. They want to know if there’s a magic formula to get an investor to say yes and buy into…
- 4 NovemberNews
Space Perspective raises $40M Series A
Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic have ushered in a new era of space tourism has been successfully ushered in. But the two-year-old startup Space Perspective is planning to take people to space using rockets and spaceplanes.
- 3 NovemberNews
Reliable Robotics bagged $100M Series C funding
The pilot is the most important and expensive aspect of running a cargo operation. A pilot is needed to take off as well as land. The rest of the time is pretty much instruments. Therefore, Reliable Robotics has come up…
- 2 NovemberNews
NFX-backed Pepper Bio Emerges from stealth
Pepper Bio is a seed-stage company based in Boston. Recently it has emerged from stealth. The startup has been building a computational platform. Going by the words of co-founder and chief scientific officer Samantha Dale Strasser, the company believes it…
- 1 NovemberNews
Pagos raises $10M to offer API-driven payment intelligence
Pagos is a payment intelligence infrastructure startup. Former Braintree and PayPal execs founded this startup earlier this year. It has raised $10 million in seed funding. The remote-first Pagos is building a data platform and API-driven micro-services. As per the reports, it…
- Oct- 2021 -31 OctoberNews
Bosch China estimates auto chip shortage to last through 2022
Head of Bosch China, Chen Yudong said that a global chip shortage will continue to hurt Chinese automakers in 2022. Why is it in focus? The Chinese automakers are hit hard with the ongoing global chip shortage. The country’s auto…
- 29 OctoberNews
SBI Holdings makes hostile $1.1bn move on Shinsei
SBI Holdings is a Japanese online financial conglomerate. It has launched a potentially hostile $1.1bn stakebuilding exercise in Shinsei Bank. Twenty-one years ago, Shinsei Bank’s stunning private equity rescue by JC Flowers reshaped the Japanese lending landscape. What does SBI…
- 27 OctoberNews
Pakistani edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed
Pakistani ed-tech startup-Maqsad was founded this year. It was founded with a goal to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students. Its founders Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in London in order to found this…
- 21 OctoberNews
Aurora Propulsion Technologies closes €1.7M seed
Aurora Propulsion Technologies is one of a handful of startups that have emerged in the past few years to help simplify the problem of spacecraft propulsion. Why is it important? Recently we have seen that more spacecrafts are being sent…
- 20 OctoberNews
Meituan got fined $534 million for antitrust violations
Friday headlines revealed that Chinese food delivery giant Meituan got fined by the country’s top antitrust regulator. A hefty RMB 3.4 billion ($534 million) was fined on Chinese food delivery giant Meituan for antitrust practices. Reason behind Meituan getting fined…
- 19 OctoberNews
Flippa raises $11M in Series A Round
Flippa is an online marketplace to buy and sell online businesses and digital assets. It announced its first venture-backed round. This was an $11 million Series A. Flippa sees over 600,000 monthly searches from investors looking to connect with business…
