By all accounts, the London startup scene was abuzz with Entrepreneur First‘s latest Demo Day today, as 25 startups — up from nine! — took to the stage to pitch their wares. The so-called “talent first” investor targets the best technical graduates in Europe and beyond to put them through a six-month program where they form teams and in turn found startups.
By all accounts, the London startup scene was abuzz with Entrepreneur First‘s latest Demo Day today, as 25 startups — up from nine! — took to the stage to pitch their wares. The so-called “talent first” investor targets the best technical graduates in Europe and beyond to put them through a six-month program where they form teams and in turn found startups.
pair of Myo gesture-control armbands and a computer or smartphone may make it faster and easier for the hearing impaired to communicate using sign language with those who don’t understand it.
Ten nascent businesses applying machine learning to everything from answering medical questions to recruiting university students were tapped for Microsoft Ventures’ latest accelerator, kicking off this week in Seattle.
It’s the third running of the accelerator program in Seattle. The focus this time around is machine learning and data science, enabled, naturally, by Microsoft services such as Azure ML and Cortana Analytics Suite.
La aceleradora de proyectos de Internet móvil IMPACT ha elegido en su tercera y última open call 18 iniciativas de negocio de Internet móvil que apoyará con financiación y formación intensiva. Cada una de ellas recibirá una media de 100.000 euros para desarrollar sus proyectos.
Texas Medical Center added a second class of startups to its accelerator program and acknowledged that it has tweaked its approach.Although the second group will focus on digital health, the next cohort starting in July will be devoted to medical device innovation.
Cumulus Networks, a startup selling a version of Linux for data center networking hardware, has closed a $35 million round of funding. The valuation of Cumulus has fallen below what it was two years ago for an earlier round, cofounder and chief executive JR Rivers told VentureBeat.
Participants in the round include Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sequoia Capital, SV Angel, Wing Venture Capital, and one new investor, Top Tier Capital, Rivers wrote in an email. Rivers wouldn’t provide specific valuation figures.
Cumulus is seen as a challenger to Cisco, the ruler of the data center switching market. Rivers happens to be a former Cisco executive.
Travel tech startups have been seeing considerable momentum, raising $5.2B in funding through 12/21/15. Startups in the travel tech space are making it easier to fly, tour, find lodging, and much more.
We used CB Insights data to identify 90 private companies in travel tech and mapped them according to the seven main categories where they’re operating. The 90 travel tech startups included are addressing general booking and search services as well as a range of market niches like private jet booking, among other things.
