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…
Confusion Reigns in Britain’s Fight Against the Gig Economy
New Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi may have found an early nemesis in the form of London Mayor Sadiq Khan. But for the rider-sharing firm’s legal team, just one name dominated the beginning…
Seceon Founder Chandra Pandey on “Broken” Cybersecurity and Being a Self-Investor
Chandra Pandey is founder and CEO of Seceon, a cybersecurity company dedicated to protecting data on a global scale. Pandey talks to Red Herring about new business partnerships, dealing with VCs and…
Will Sudan’s Sanctions Drop Finally Connect Its Entrepreneurs With The World?
It is almost a quarter-century since Omar al-Bashir appointed himself President of Sudan. In that same year, 1993, America deemed al-Bashir’s government a state sponsor of terror – a label it shares…
Red Herring Asia 2017: Winning Startups “Drive Disruption”
Red Herring Asia 2017 took place in Manila Wednesday and Thursday last week. The gathering showcased the best Asian tech and entrepreneurship across a variety of talks, discussions and presentations. It culminated in the announcement…
Personio CEO Renner: “Focus on the Future, Not Just Now”
Hanno Renner is co-founder and CEO of Personio, a cloud-based HR management and recruitment solution for small and medium businesses (SMEs). The Munich-based startup has won over $14m in funding since its…
3D Printing: The Coolest Objects We Can Make Today
3D printing has come a long way. The first 3D-printed object was a small, black cup-shaped item, created by Colorado native Chuck Hull in 1983. Back then Hull called his breakthrough “stereolithography”.…