OZY, the embattled media startup, is now at the center of a maelstrom of its own making. Also, Vermont’s first unicorn. Read More
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Can Warby Parker reach the vaunted $10 billion valuation?
Eyeglasses retailer Warby Parker is going public via direct listing Read More
Amplitude CEO’s ode to scrutiny ahead of going public
Last valued at $4 billion, data analytics and product development startup Amplitude is going public via direct listing. Read More
Meet Thistle, the startup that wants to secure billions of IoT devices
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For more than two decades, Window Snyder has built security into products at some of the biggest companies in the world. Now, she’s unveiling her own company that aims to bake security into billions of connected devices made by other companies. San Francisco-based Thistle Technologies said on Thursday that it received […]
Former Airbus chief joins board of flying taxi startup
Our mission to make business better is fueled by readers like you. To enjoy unlimited access to our journalism, subscribe today. Thomas Enders, a former chief executive of aviation giant Airbus, is joining the board of a fledgling flying taxi company. Enders’s appointment is a coup for Lilium, a Munich-based company that has pioneered the use […]
Backed by Chelsea Clinton’s venture capital fund, this startup aims to make having cancer less lonely
On Jan. 11, 2018—on the cusp of her 30th birthday—Liya Shuster was diagnosed with a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Over the past three years, Shuster taken the knowledge gained from her experience and channeled it into Alula, a new online hub of resources intended to support both patients as well as family and friends […]
Investors still engage in racist redlining. Why haven’t we done something about it?
I am a Black woman of multiethnic, including white, heritage working in the tech startup world. From this statement alone, it’s obvious I don’t fit the typical mold of Silicon Valley. My background doesn’t either. I spent part of my youth in foster care and was a liberal arts major at UC–Berkeley. In college, I […]
Why micro-gyms could be the next big thing in fitness
Wilfred Valenta opened his first “micro-gym” almost two years ago, repurposing a 580-square-foot office space in downtown Montreal and renting it out by the hour to fitness trainers and small workout groups. He couldn’t have known back then how fortuitous his timing was. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing many big gyms to stay closed, his […]
Very Superior Security raises $60 million to Create data Drive Areas for DoorDash, Brex
After Mahmoud Abdelkader ceded his final firm,” a fiscal technician, or fintech, company in which he worked as chief technology officer, to longtime rival Stripe in 2015, the stunt meant just temporary defeat. At the moment, Abdelkader was constructing payments railings for internet marketplaces. However, he understood, answers to the thorny issue of securely transferring […]
U.K. startup’s breakthrough Can Assist quantum computers from the Search for exotic Substances
A little U.K. startup has created an algorithm which greatly lowers the degree of calculating power required to run a metric which may pave the way for creation of new materials. Researchers from the business, Phasecraft, together with researchers in the University of Bristol, revealed {} issue from quantum physics– even just one that’s too […]