Startups & Leaders

(Modumetal Photo) Here’s a roundup of recent funding news from Pacific Northwest startups: Modumetal, a Seattle-area industrial startup that makes coating technologies, raised $14 million in a round led by Atlas...

By Nick Erickson After his first day working at JP Morgan in New York, JT Liddell, M.B.A. ’14, stared bleakly out the window of his home for that night—which was...

Across the electronic device supply chain, there are many links. For smartphones, there are original equipment manufacturers (think Apple, Samsung, Motorola), mobile network operators (think Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T) and mobile...

TechCrunch explored the changing state of the insurtech market last week, diving into category wins and losses from recent quarters and what’s ahead for the sector this year. Insurtech companies...

BROOMFIELD — Alio Inc., a Broomfield-based medical-technology company, has added a veteran of the health care sector to its board of directors. Jyoti Palaniappan joined Alio after decades of health...

Busuu is a language learning app named after an endangered Bantu language from Cameroon. The startup was recently bought by US company Chegg for $436 million (€385 million). Its founder,...

Last year was record-breaking for African startups. I know I’m probably starting to sound like a broken record, but the astronomical growth is worth highlighting again and again. In this...

Israeli nanotech startup Gauzy has announced the raising of a $60 million Series D to be used mainly to acquire France-based Vision Systems, which develops ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System)...

Stock brokerage firm DriveWealth has entered the cryptocurrency industry by launching two subsidiaries designed to allow its partners to offer crypto trading to retail investors. DriveWealth is a New Jersey-based company...

For years, open-source software in China was only attracting developers and was poorly understood by returns-seeking investors. But they are finally having a moment like their Western counterparts. The latest...