New York news portal Quartz is being sold to a Japanese media company in a deal worth up to $110 million, as the latter seeks to expand its international footprint. Uzabase, a…
Startups
Somatix Co-founder and CEO Eran Ofir: “To Succeed, You Must Be in Touch with Reality”
Eran Ofir is co-founder and CEO of Somatix, a gesture-driven health and wellbeing wearable tech company. Founded in 2015 in New York City, the firm is now backed with $7.5 million in…
Giant iTab Founder Mark Jones: “The Tech was Easy – Finding a Route to Market was Tougher”
When Mark Jones founded London firm Giant iTab, in 2009, the smartphone revolution was truly underway. Apple’s iPhone 3GS was flying off shelves and RIM’s BlackBerry Storm was trying – vainly –…
San Francisco Protests Target Tech, Inequality
Protesters in San Francisco have blocked streets with electric scooters and let off smoke bombs, in a demonstration aimed at the city’s handling of its large tech companies compared with the poor.…
Telecoming CEO Cyrille Thivat: “5G will be a New Era of Digital Consumption”
Ten years ago, when Madrid-based mobile firm Telecoming was founded, Apple’s iPhone had only just gotten 3G connectivity – and BlackBerry’s Bold 9000 was the handset in the pocket of almost every…
Proscia is Fighting Cancer with Artificial Intelligence
It is a centuries-old image of good science: the lab-coated expert, hunched over a microscope analyzing a glass slide. Proscia wants to resign it to history – at least, when it comes…
Danes Templafy Close $17.2m Series B Round
Templafy, a Danish template management company, has won $17.2 million in Series B funding. The round is led by New York City-based Insight Venture Partners, with additional investment from London’s Dawn Capital,…
Factmata Wins $1m More for its Fight Against Fake News
UK-based fact-checking startup Factmata has won a $1 million funding round. The company, whose 25-year-old founder Dhruv Ghulati drew headlines last year having successfully blind-pitched Mark Cuban, was given its latest round…
NetNumber CEO Doug Ranalli: Build the Story, then Get The Finance
Doug Ranalli often tells people he’s never held a proper job. That’s not really the truth – though regular office life clearly wasn’t his deal. Ranalli’s first taste of entrepreneurialism came aged…
Red Herring Crowns Top 100 Global Winners in California
The Red Herring Top 100 Global event concluded last week with the crowning of a hundred of tech’s brightest startups. The two-day conference, which took place in Los Angeles, welcomed hundreds of…