Social metaverse ecosystem builder Peer has made a key talent acquisition, hiring the “Wonka” design team that developed the popular 3D social maps platform Zenly, which was later acquired by Snapchat...
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Blockchain startup Tari Labs wins restraining order against Lightning Labs over Taro protocol
Blockchain startup Tari Labs has won a temporary restraining order against bitcoin developer Lighting Labs’ Taro protocol. Lightning announced the protocol in April of last year. It aims t...
This Startup Says It Can Breed A Better Tomato On Demand
Sound Agriculture CTO Travis Bayer (L) and CEO Adam Litle (R). Sound Agriculture California startup Sound Agriculture is launching a pilot project with its new tomato, which it says has been bred quic...
A16z invests in crypto wallet infrastructure startup Capsule
Deals • March 14, 2023, 12:00PM EDT Published 30 minutes earlier on Capsule, a crypto wallet infrastructure startup, emerged from stealth with funding. Andreessen Horowitz (via its accelerator C...
Singapore Has A New Backer For Travel And Retail Startups In Asia
Gharage is in search of some winning investment opportunities in Asia. getty The business incubator and venture builder, Gharage, has landed in Singapore in pursuit of early-stage travel and retail st...
Messi Invests in a Web3 Soccer-based Game Startup Named Matchday
In a surprising move, the legendary football player Lionel Messi has backed the web3 soccer game startup Matchday in a whopping $21 million funding round. The blockchain-based firm that aims to transf...
Silicon Valley Bank failed for one simple reason: its key startup clients lost faith.
Silicon Valley Bank SIVB, -60.41%, a 40-year-old bank at the heart of the valley’s ecosystem, was forced to shutter Friday after its core depositors — many of them startup companies — took out $42 bil...
Web3 Startup Helps Indonesia’s Tourism Economy Survive
Linda Adami, founder of Web3 and NFT startup Quantum Temple, is on a mission to preserve and promote cultural heritage through technologies based on an immutable ledger. Through her startup, the 30-so...
FDIC Forms Deposit Insurance for Troubled Crypto Start-up Lender SVB
The FDIC said depositors would have access to their insured deposits. Silicon Valley Bank has over $209 billion in assets and $175.4 billion in total deposits. Binance CEO mocked US critics as two ban...
The SEC Revoked the Registration of The Game’s Crypto Startup
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revoked the registration of ParagonCoin, the crypto company promoted by rapper The Game. The SEC deemed that the firm was in default and had violated ...
SEC Revokes License of ParagonCoin Crypto Startup
ParagonCoin Limited, a crypto startup focusing on the marijuana industry, has had its registration revoked by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for violating securities laws a...
Meet K2 Space, a spacecraft startup leveraging SpaceX Starship
Cofounders and brothers Karan Kunjur, left, and Neel Kunjur. K2 Space A pair of brothers is aiming to challenge the way spacecraft are built, by going against the industry trend and designing massive ...
Rapper The Game’s crypto startup gets registration revoked
A crypto startup backed by the American rapper Jayceon Terrell Taylor, better known as “The Game,” had its registration revoked by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for violat...
‘Sheer panic’ has gripped Silicon Valley VCs and founders amid worries that the startup industry’s most important bank is in trouble
Silicon’s Valley’s clubby world of venture capital investors and entrepreneurs plunged into panic on Thursday amid fast-spreading reports of financial trouble at one the startup industry&#...
Founded by Apple vets, startup Humane has raised $241 million without a single customer
Even in 2023, companies can still raise hundreds of millions without any proof of product market fit. Since co-founding their startup five years ago, ex-Apple executives Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Ch...
Lionel Messi Supports Web3 Soccer Game Startup Matchday
Matchday has secured an official license from FIFA as well as the FIFPRO players association. It’s working on a suite of Web3 games accessible to most users. The rapid developments within the Web3 eco...
Zero-Knowledge Crypto Startup Proven Raises $15.8M in Seed Round
“The last few months have highlighted an issue that has long plagued both traditional financial and digital asset firms – efficiently fostering trust with customers while maintaining a necessary...
Framework Ventures leads $15.8 million round into ‘proof of solvency’ startup
Proven, a firm providing zero-knowledge proof technology so that crypto firms can prove solvency, raised a $15.8 million round led by Framework Ventures. Other investors in the seed funding round incl...
Lionel Messi Backs Web3 Soccer Game Startup Matchday in $21M Round
Matchday, a soccer-centric Web3 gaming startup, announced today that it has raised $21 million in seed funding to develop a suite of games—with legendary soccer player Lionel Messi’s venture capital f...
Jur Introduces Startup Society Founders’ Awards to Recognize Web3 Pioneers and Foster Ecosystem Development
Advertisement     Upcoming Polkadot parachain, Jur is seeking to revolutionize the Web3 ecosystem as it unveils the launch of its Startup Society Founders’ Awards prog...
Cyble Recognized by Forbes as One of America’s Best Startup Employers 2023
ALPHARETTA, Ga.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Cyble, the Y Combinator-backed leader in AI-powered global cyber threat intelligence, today announced that it has been recognized as one of America’s Best Startup Emplo...
NFT Startup Candy Digital Taps Getty Images for ’70s Music and Photos
When Candy Digital launched in 2021, the NFT firm came out swinging with its official line of Major League Baseball collectibles. Stepping up to the plate again, this time with Getty Images, the compa...
Jur Launches Startup Society Founders’ Awards To Reward Web 3.0 Innovators and Promote Ecosystem Growth
Jur, the upcoming Polkadot parachain building the DAO 2.0 stack, invites founders to pitch their ‘Startup Society’ ideas to notable figures from Web 3.0, including Tim Draper of Draper Associates, Ed ...
Altria makes $2.75B investment in e-cigarette startup NJOY
Days after exiting its stake in troubled electronic cigarette maker Juul, Altria announced a $2.75 billion investment in rival electronic cigarette startup NJOY. The Marlboro maker gets full ownership...
DeFi Startup Wants To Help Traders Hedge Uniswap Impermanent Loss
MEV Capital, a DeFi-focused institutional investment manager, is rolling out a new impermanent loss hedging product designed to provide downside protection on Uniswap yields — and its exact structure ...
Swiss Hypersonic Startup Destinus Appears Destined For Same Path As U.S. Counterparts
Destinus’ Eiger subscale drone flew for the first time last fall, helping the hypersonic startup … [+] gain basic aerodynamic and flight control data. Destinus Destinus uses the optimistic...
Meet The Startup That’s Putting Ice Factories In Shipping Containers For Winn-Dixie Supermarkets
Ice is heavy and hard to transport. That’s why Relocalize plans to make it in shipping container factories near its customers, starting with Southeastern Grocers. getty Canadian startup Relocali...
After split with Kanye West, UK audio startup Kano asks for funding
Kanye West arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 9, 2020, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Evan Agostini | Invision | AP British audio and computing hardware startup Kano is planning to raise equity ...