Education startup Eruditus has raised $113 million in a Series C funding round, as the company continues to provide universities with online learning options amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The round was led…
Cape Town’s DataProphet Wins $6m Series A Round
South African AI manufacturing startup DataProphet has secured a $6 million Series A funding round, as it plans to scale internationally. Cape Town and London-based VC firm Knife Capital led the round…
WhatsApp Hopes its Misinformation-Busting Feature Will Help Democracy
Social media platform WhatsApp has launched a new feature it hopes will make discourse more truthful. “Search the web” allows users to click on a small magnifying-glass image next to posts shared…
Italian Healthcare Startup InSilicoTrials Wins $3.5m Series A Round
Italian startup InSilicoTrials, which creates cloud-based simulations for clinical trials, has raised $3.5 million (€3m) in Series A funding. The round, led by Milan’s United Ventures with support from Rome-based Pi Campus,…
Tech Abandons Hong Kong, as Beijing Moves In
Tech companies are already beginning an exodus of Hong Kong – just weeks after Beijing enacted a prohibitive security law in the region. Small firms have already moved data—and in some cases…
TikTok vs. Facebook: Could the U.S. Really Ban TikTok?
With over 800 million active users worldwide, TikTok’s growth since its $1 billion rebrand of Music.ly in 2018 — a number thought to have been bolstered by the coronavirus pandemic — has…
Portshift CEO Ran Ilany: “Kubernetes will Become the De Facto Deployment and Orchestration Target”
Portshift is a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity firm that provides a Kubernetes-native security solution – “a single source of truth for containers and cloud-native applications security.” It has raised over $5 million to…
India’s China Ban is a Come-Get-Me for Europe and the US
This week India’s government decided to ban 59 China-based apps, including popular social media platform TikTok. Based on national security fears, it’s the largest-ever ban of Chinese tech by a global democracy.…
Germany’s Corona Warn App: How Effective is the Country’s Corona-Battler?
It’s been a little under a fortnight since the German government launched its “Corona-Warn” contact tracing app. Thirteen million Germans—16% of the country’s population—have downloaded it so far. For an effective fight…
Switzerland Develops first Google, Apple Tracing API-based App
Swiss authorities have launched a contact-tracing app it hopes will stymie the spread of Coronavirus – the first to use Google and Apple’s tracing API. “SwissCovid”, currently in its pilot phase, will…