Startups & Leaders

Maryland transportation officials have declined a quixotic plan proposed by a startup rail company to dig a tunnel through downtown Baltimore and reroute Amtrak trains through a downtown hub that...

Unicorn India Ventures has invested $2 million as seed round in FairPlum, a startup founded by former Unilever executives Rupesh Agarwal, Mitesh Thakkar, and food and beverages...

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has endorsed Zambia’s efforts to establish a startup itself to establish itself as a hub for thriving startups. The founder, who in early 2022 spoke with...

Labor shortages have been frequent in certain areas over the past few years. Other variables, including workplace safety problems, increasing employee turnover, and an aging population, also create concerns about the...

With the COVID-19 pandemic causing a widespread health scare, the insurance industry in India saw an influx of new-age tech-driven startups that not only addressed health and other insurance needs,...

Here’s a quiz question: what’s common to Amanda Seyfried, Jared Leto, Jesse Eisenberg and Joseph Gordon-Levitt? The answer: They have all been cast as flawed tech entrepreneurs in movies or...

True, Ukraine and its people have had a rough last decade, but it hasn’t stopped the country from building a rapidly growing and high-quality startup ecosystem. As a result, the...

Dubai-based mobility startup SWVL, has acquired Berlin-based public mobility solutions provider door2door for an undisclosed sum Founded in 2012, door2door has developed a proprietary "mobility as a service" MaaS...

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm, Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff...