Startups & Leaders

Niro, a homegrown embedded consumer lending Fintech, has raised $3.5 Mn in a seed funding round led by Elevar Equity. The funding also saw participation from angel investors like Kunal Shah, Nitin...

Mumbai: Arcana Network, a blockchain startup that offers decentralised storage and data privacy platform for Ethereum, has raised $2.3 million led by Republic Crypto and Woodstock Fund. Digital Currency Group...

Four years af­ter start­ing Terns Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals to­geth­er in search of an elu­sive NASH win, Wei­dong Zhong and Mar­ti­jn Fe­naux are re­unit­ing at a new start­up. On pa­per, Sci­wind Bio­sciences —...

Atlanta started 2021 off with Calendly and Salesloft crossing the $1 billion valuation mark, putting the focus on the city’s impressive productivity and ‘SalesTech’ space.  Michael Gorodisher has watched the...

REAL ESTATEBoston to restrict parking at new developmentsBoston will set a ceiling on how much parking it allows at new housing and commercial development, particularly near transit. The Janey administration...

COLUMBIA — When Mapquest co-founder Chris Heivly comes to a city seeking his help to attract more fast-growing technology companies, he spends the first 100 days meeting with the founders...

The startup myth goes something like this: You launch a startup in your dorm room, get into Y Combinator, find product-market fit, experience hockey-stick growth, raise some funding and expand...

The Milwaukee area's largest business group is promising to put more emphasis on funding startup firms.The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce said it's best known for attracting corporations and helping...

Built Technologies, a construction finance platform, announced $125 million in Series D funding at a valuation of $1.5 billion. Lead investor TCV, along with Brookfield Technology Partners, 9Yards Capital, XYZ Venture...

OptoScale is a forerunner in capturing and analysing high-value data for fish farmers – an annual market it estimates will grow from approximately $10 million today to $400 million by...