Denis Kalinin Contributor Denis Kalinin works at venture fund Runa Capital as Asia Business development manager, devoted to connecting the Western and Asian VC worlds and bringing long-term value to both. China is becoming a superpower in the tech industry. According to Straits Times, China is the only place in the world where it takes…
Media technology company Amagi announced Friday $100 million to further develop its cloud-based SaaS technology for broadcast and connected televisions. Accel, Avataar Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners joined existing investor Premji Invest in the funding round, which included buying out stakes held by Emerald Media and Mayfield Fund. Nadathur Holdings continues as an existing investor.…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Natasha and Mary Ann took over this week’s show with Chris and Grace, which meant that our overdeveloped senses of curiosity filled up the script just fine (even on a somewhat short week). Unintentionally, today’s episode was built around…
Microsoft said in January this year that Teams, its online collaboration platform, was being used by over 100 million students — boosted in no small part by the COVID-19 pandemic and many schools going partly or fully remote. Now, it’s made another acquisition to continue expanding its position in the education market. The company has…
Amazon (AMZN) – Get Amazon.com, Inc. Report said Thursday it will offer to pay the full college tuition for more than 750,000 U.S. hourly employees as job openings in the country hit a new record high. Shares of the online retail giant were off slightly to $3,504.69 at last check. Stocks Waver as COVID-19 Concerns Blunts…
CHESTNUT RIDGE, N.Y., Sept. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — BioHiTech Global, Inc. (Nasdaq: BHTG), a sustainable technology and services company, announces today that Chief Executive Officer Tony Fuller will present at the H.C. Wainwright 23 rd Annual Global Investment Conference, which is being held virtually from September 13 – 15, 2021. Mr. Fuller will provide an…
The aviation industry is notoriously difficult to decarbonize, in part because airplanes use a petroleum-based fuel to fly. Alder Fuels wants to change that. The new clean tech company, headed by Bryan Sherbacow, is developing a low-carbon jet fuel that can be used as a 100% drop-in replacement for petroleum fuel, without needing to adapt…
Supabase, the backend-as-a-service startup, announced this week that it raised a $30 million Series A. Supabase is often described as an open source alternative to Google’s Firebase … which is a pretty good way to put it for those who know what Firebase is. For those who don’t: Supabase is a collection of tools that…
DUBLIN, Sept. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — The “Global Toy Market (2021 Edition) – Analysis By Product Type, By Age, By Distribution Channel, By Region, By Country: Market Insights, COVID-19 Implications, Competition and Forecast (2021-2026)” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. Global Toy Market was valued at USD 93.63 Billion in the year 2020. During…
Artem Milinchuk Contributor Artem Milinchuk is the founder and CEO of FarmTogether, a fintech platform channeling funding into natural assets, starting with U.S. farmland. Farmland as an asset class has proven itself to be a stable investment decade after decade. Farmland’s negative correlation with the Dow Jones Industrial Average sits at an eye-popping -43% for…