Japanese instant-credit provider Paidy allocates $143 million from investors including PayPal Ventures
Paidy is a Japanese financial tech startup that gives instant credit to customers in Japan. It has recently announced that it has accumulated a total of $143 million in new financing. This involves an $83 million Series C expansion from investors, including PayPal Ventures and...
Amboss, the learning platform for medical professionals, raises €30M Series B
Amboss, the Berlin-based ‘Medtech’ startup that offered a learning app for students but has turned to a knowledge platform for medical professionals, has raised €30 million in Series B funding. The round is driven by Partech’s growth fund, with Target Global representing as a co-investor. ...
Catalyte originates a toolkit for corporate ‘up-skilling.’
Catalyte, the code training and placement service, based in Baltimore, has launched a new software service. The service is created to take its machine learning-based skills-evaluation and coaching program to organisations around the country. Funds are already addressing almost $100 million for its outsourced software...
If the pilot becomes incapacitated, small planes can land themselves with Garmin Autoland
Here is a terror scenario for you: You are traveling in a small plane, and suddenly the only pilot who knows how to fly passes out. In the movies, somebody would talk one of the passengers into safely landing the plane. In reality, that is...
Duality, a safety startup co-founded by the inventor of homomorphic encryption, raises $16M
The universality of APIs and cloud solutions have started up a world of exciting ways for businesses to build a service without having to create every part of it. However, they have unleashed something more, too: an extended risk of violations resulting from data being...
App income scales 23% every year to $21.9B in Q3
Global app income extends to rise, thanks to the increase in mobile gaming and the subscription economy. The Battle Between App Stores During the third quarter of 2019, customer revenue rose 22.9% year-over-year from $17.9 billion to approach an estimated $21.9 billion over both the...
DJI announces the smallest Mavic drone yet
The Mavic Pro was a discovery when DJI declared it a little over three years ago. More About The Mavic Pro The foldable drone was specifically the shot in the run the industry required to help make the technology more available for the masses. The...
Amazon axes $14.99 Amazon Fresh fee, offering grocery delivery free for Prime members to promote the use
Amazon is setting up the heat once again in the business of groceries, and especially, grocery delivery, to make its services more enticing in the aspect of competition from Walmart. Recently, the company declared that it would make Amazon Fresh free to utilize for Prime...
Standard Cognition Acquires Deepmagic to Rival Amazon Go
Estimated at $535 million, autonomous retail startup Standard Cognition has appeared as an upcoming tech giant and the biggest hope for merchants to battle with Amazon Go. Cashierless checkout is poised to modify brick-and-mortar business. Moreover, shop owners worry that they would have to battle...
SmileDirectClub’s prior CEO is back with the latest dental startup called Tend
An increasing number of unique dental brands has been drawing money from venture investors who are still booting themselves for missing runaway hits. Most well-known amongst these breakout companies is the newly public SmileDirectClub. It sells teeth-straightening products straight to consumers and is loved by...
