Former 500 Startups accelerator company Pluto AI is announcing $2.1 million in fundraising today from Fall Line Capital, Refactor Capital, Unshackled Ventures, Comet Labs and additional angels. Pluto is taking advantage of the sensorification of modern water treatment plants to extrapolate insights that can save operators precious time, money and water. Read More
PhenixP2P, one of the five finalists in our 2016 Disrupt London Battlefield competition, today announced that it has raised a $3.5 million Series A round led by KB Partners. With this, the company has now raised $5.5 million for its real-time video streaming solution that promises to offer far lower latency and a better user experience than similar services. Read More
A startup called Clearmob makes it easier for marketers to optimize their campaigns on social media. The company provides a dashboard that plugs into their Facebook account and can help make sense of their spend and provide suggestions for how they could better target potential users and customers. Read More
Tesla is trading up again today, after a strong run yesterday that saw its total market cap value leapfrog Ford’s. It passed GM’s market cap on Tuesday, meaning it’s now the most valuable U.S. automaker as measured by the stock market’s standards. It looked quite likely that this was going to happen yesterday, and Tesla’s stock has been on a tear following its… Read More
According to a new study involving more than 120,000 job offers transacted on Hired, a jobs marketplace for tech workers, the average female candidate is still making less than her male peers for the same work, and sometimes far less. Read More
Netflix’s The Defenders brings together the four heroes for whom it’s created individual series from the Marvel universe, and now we have our first look at the team. It’s not much of a look, admittedly, since it’s mimicking grainy black and white security camera footage, but it’s a look nonetheless. The Defenders is a team-up miniseries featuring Luke Cage,… Read More
Microsoft is getting into the “fun camera app” game with a new iOS application called Sprinkles, which has now earned a featured spot in the “New apps we love” section of the App Store. The gist with Sprinkles, clearly aimed at a teen audience, is to offer a variety of traditional photo decorating tools like stickers, emoji and captions, but leverages… Read More
ODG may already be surfacing its ambitions to put smart glasses on consumers’ faces, but the company has not forgotten about the specific and highly-unique needs of its enterprise customers. Today, the augmented reality company unveiled a model of its glasses optimized specifically for business customers who need a more advanced level of protective eyewear. The R-7HL (The HL stands… Read More
Finally coming to the pet tech space this summer: an app-controlled cat door that will tell you when your pet has left the building. RIP privacy for pets! Read More
The big news out this morning from Apple’s unprecedented sit down with the press this week is the company’s plans to tear down and rethink the Mac Pro. But a few other hardware nuggets arose from that meeting, as well. Namely, the fact that the company is planning new iMacs more aggressively focused on pro users, along with a standalone display designed for use specifically with… Read More
Yelp this morning announced it has paid $20 million in cash to acquire the Wi-Fi marketing company, Turnstyle Analytics, which offers a service that allows businesses to connect with their customers over a freely provided Wi-fi network. The move, Yelp explains, is aimed at expanding the types of business marketing services Yelp already offers beyond those that are focused on customer… Read More
Cohesity, a company that helps enterprises to store and manage all of the secondary data they create outside of their production apps, today announced that it has raised over $90 million in a Series C round led by GV (aka Google Ventures) and Sequoia Capital. Sadly, the company’s investor’s won’t let it disclose the exact number, except that it’s over $90 million (and… Read More
Nissan’s upscale auto brand Infiniti is putting down startup roots in Canada with a new accelerator designed to help spur growth of companies that focus on internet-of-things and smart city technology. The new Infiniti Lab follows the model of the debut Lab launched by the carmaker in Hong Kong in 2015, and is the first Lab in North America, as well as Canada’s first… Read More
Oscar Health came in with a bold plan to reform healthcare in the U.S. when it launched in 2013. The idea was to sell insurance through exchanges via the Affordable Care Act, thus lowering the cost and making the process easier for folks without insurance to get on it. And that plan seems to have worked out well for the startup (if you can call it that). Oscar Health is now worth $2.7 billion… Read More
Apple this week took the fairly unprecedented step of announcing that it was going back to the drawing board to re-envision the Mac Pro. The company invited a handful of editors in to its inner sanctum including our own Matthew Panzarino to discuss its plans, moving forward. Meantime, however, the company is giving the existing Mac Pro a performance boost as it works on building a… Read More
Resolute Ventures just closed its third fund with $65 million. It’s a sizable step up from its first two funds, which closed with $47 million and $45 million, respectively. The five-year-old firm, with offices in San Francisco and Boston, is run by just two general partners: Mike Hirschland, who spent 17 years with Polaris Partners before founding Resolute, and Ranaan Bar-Cohen,… Read More
Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the world wide web, has been honored with the 2016 Turing Award. The award, which is often referred to as the Nobel Prize for the computing industry, is present annually by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to an individual who made “major contributions of lasting importance to computing.” It is named in honor of… Read More
“If we’ve had a pause in upgrades and updates, we’re sorry for that — what happened with the Mac Pro — and we’re going to come out with something great to replace it.” Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller is talking to a small group of reporters in a white stucco building near its headquarters in Cupertino. The purpose of… Read More
