by RJ Shara | Feb 10, 2021 | Startups
Cybersecurity startup CYE has actually raised $100 million in a new growth round, led by financial investment company EQT and with participation from 83North. CYE was founded in 2012 by Reuven Aronashvili to assist business fortify their security posture. It does this in large part by performing offensive operations against their customers– with their explicit […]…
by RJ Shara | Feb 9, 2021 | Startups
Soon, your cloud picture backups could live on beams transmitted in between satellites rather of in substantial, power-hungry server farms here in the world. Start-up LyteLoop has actually invested the previous five years doing taking on the physics challenges that can make that possible, and now it’s raised $40 million to assist it leapfrog the staying engineering […] LyteLoop’s new funding will provide it with enough runway to accomplish its next significant milestone: putting 3 prototype satellites equipped with its novel data storage technology into orbit within the next 3 years. Harlev stated five years into its starting, the business is really confident in the science that underlies its information storage techniques– and thrilled about the advantages it might use over standard information warehousing technology utilized today.”Everyone on every single data center has the same exact same possible maximum level of data security,” he said. Anything that can be used on Earth, we can apply in our information center, but for example, the fact that we’re storing information on photons, we could put in quantum file encryption, which others can’t. On top of security, LyteLoop’s model likewise offers benefits when it comes to privacy, because the information it’s saving is technically constantly in transit in between satellites, which suggests it’ll be subject to an entirely different set of guidelines vs. those that come into play when you’re talking about information which is warehoused on drives in storage facilities….
by RJ Shara | Dec 22, 2020 | Startups
Japanese start-up Astroscale has actually shipped its ELSA-d spacecraftto the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan , where it will be incorporated with a Soyuz rocket for a launch scheduled for March of next year. This is an essential objective for Astroscale, because it’ll be the first in-space demonstration of the company’s technology for de-orbiting area debris, a […]…
by RJ Shara | Nov 23, 2020 | Startups
Boulevard, a medspa management and payment platform, has actually raised$27 million in a brand-new round of funding regardless of a company slowdown&caused by the COVID0-19 pandemic. Established 4 years earlier by Matt Danna and Sean Stavropoulos, Boulevard was inspired by Stavropoulos’inability to schedule a hairstyle and Danna’s inkling that the failure of hair salons and […]
Through those months of interviews the 2 developed the scheduling management and payment platform that would end up being Boulevard. The concept was that Boulevard might build a pretty large service catering to the requirements of a specific niche industry that hadn’t typically been exposed to a purpose-built toolkit for its vertical. On average, organizations increase reservations by 16 %, retail revenue jumps by 18 %and gratuity paid out to stylists leaps by 24%for services that utilize Boulevard, the company stated.”Boulevard is rejuvenating the hair salon and medspa industry, as evidenced by the business’s continual 300-400 %income development over the last 3 years,”said Damir Becirovic of Index Ventures, whose firm led the company’s Series A round and has doubled down with the new capital infusion. As Boulevard broadens, the company might look to get deeper into financial services for the salons and medspas that it’s already working with….
by RJ Shara | Jul 28, 2020 | Startups
ClimaCell, the weather forecasting and intelligence service that is utilizing a variety of interesting brand-new methods to collect weather information, today announced that it has actually raised a $23 million Series C round co-led by new financier Pitango Development and existing financier Square Peg Capital. With this new round, the Boston and TelAviv-based business’s total funding […] As ClimaCell co-founder and CEO Shimon Elkabetz told me, the round came together well after the worldwide COVID-19 lockdowns had actually started and the team never ever fulfilled with its brand-new financiers in individual. ClimaCell is the only SaaS business that enables actionable items ahead of weather condition occasions rather than responding to them and their implications and ramifications,” stated Aaron Mankovski, handling basic partner at Pitango Growth, in today’s announcement. Elkabetz kept in mind that the business prepares to utilize the new funding to broaden both its go-to-market efforts and to focus on the fundamental R&D that makes its platform work. While the customer app might not be ClimaCell’s main focus, it utilizes the very same technology in the back end, including a version of Insights for leisure activities. …
by RJ Shara | May 24, 2020 | Startups
I see far more research study posts than I could possibly write up. This column gathers the most interesting of those documents and advances, in addition to notes on why they may show essential worldwide of tech and start-ups. In this edition: a new type of laser emitter that utilizes metamaterials, robot-trained canines, a breakthrough […] There are more exotic qualities for lasers beyond wavelengths and intensity, ones researchers have been attempting to exploit for years.
The problem with such”twisted light “is that it’s very difficult to discover and control., is a laser emitter that can produce twisted light of record pureness and angular momentum– a measure of simply how twisted it is. …
by RJ Shara | Apr 16, 2020 | Startups
Food delivery — be it ready-made restaurant meals, groceries, or anything in between — has seen a huge surge of activity in the last few weeks as people have sheltered in place to slow down the spread of the novel coronavirus. Today, one of the startups that’s built a business specifically in meal-kits in the […] …
by RJ Shara | Mar 12, 2020 | Startups
YC-backed Giveaway lets folks give away their unused or unnecessary items in a marketplace. Unlike other buy and sell or donation platforms, Giveaway uses a virtual currency on the platform to reward people for listing their products for free on the app. Users earn Karma coins each time they list an item on the website. […] …
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