Startups & Leaders

Ford Motor Company and Volvo Cars are collaborating with an e-waste startup to launch a first-of-its-kind electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling program in California, the companies announced Thursday.The companies will work to create...

Published on Thursday, February 17, 2022 Jasmine Shells, MBA ’21, founded her startup in Chicago with the intention of building it in Chicago as well. But when it came time...

In 2019, Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang founded Deel, a startup that aims to help companies compliantly hire and pay talent remotely all around the world. The pair’s mission was...

A whopping seven — that’s how many pairs of shoes the average person in the United States purchases each year. At this rate, the footwear market is ripe for green...

In times when convenient shopping has still not become yet that convenient, Paris-based Boxy has raised €25 million to become a national network of autonomous convenience stores. The Series A...

‘Embedded commerce’ started with things like PayPal and has evolved with products like Stripe, many years later. But ‘embedded finance’ is appearing as a new wave in FinTech, with the...

"Mentee" and "mentor" are words that make me cringe. They connote an antiquated, excessively formal transactional relationship where the "mentor" has valuable knowledge, connections, or status and the "mentee" is...

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Technology Corp. on Wednesday released a new strategic plan that pointed to a declining pipeline of new business startups in the state but stopped short...

Over 100 startups from around the country signed a letter Wednesday to Congress members Nancy Pelosi, Kevin McCarthy, Charles Schumer and Mitch McConnell asking the lawmakers to keep a startup-friendly...