“Imagine a world where you never lose your luggage,” says CEO of Bluesmart, Diego Saez-Gil. He motions to a compact carry-on suitcase sitting beside us and tells me he can track this piece of luggage anywhere.
Saez-Gil’s Y Combinator-backed startup makes these hardshell suitcases. It can locate, lock and weigh your belongings from an app on your smartphone.
After launching early last year, True Link Financial just pulled in $3.5 million in funding to help America’s elderly from getting roped into scam charges.
The technology is simple enough in concept. True Link provides its clients with a pre-paid credit card. The card not only puts in place a spending limit, it also guards against potential spending pitfalls — like unauthorized additional charges companies sometimes stick consumers with.
Here’s a little known fact: having green thumbs doesn’t necessarily mean you have the most environmentally friendly home. While maintaining a garden may be good for the soul, it can lead to serious resource waste, not to mention water and electricity bills through the roof.
Two companies that offer smart gardening technologies, GreenIQ and Parrot, have joined forces to provide garden lovers with an efficient, eco-friendly and economical way to keep plants healthy. Their collaboration not only paves the way for a new sector of home-use Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies, but gardens and our planet could become greener because of it.
PureLiFi, a spin out of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, is developing what it calls ‘LiFi’ technology, an alternative to wireless networking, such as WiFi or 5G, based on visible light communication (VLC). Specifically, the tech uses pulsating LED light, imperceptible to the human eye, as a way of sending data from one LiFi-equipped device to another.
Today the startup is disclosing that it’s raised £1.5 million in a new round of funding round led by Scottish-based angel group London & Scottish Investment Partners (LSIP), with additional funding from the Scottish Investment Bank (SIB) and Old College Capital, the venture investment arm of the University of Edinburgh.
THE new year has arrived at last, so it is natural to reflect on the happenings of the previous year.
In 2014, software companies overshadowed other industries in terms of the most rapidly growing in North America. Let us examine the fastest-growing technology industries of 2014 and discuss how these industries will affect 2015.
Deloitte Technology Fast 500
Every year, Deloitte Technology Fast 500 recognises tech’s fastest-growing companies. These companies include public and private, as well as large and small. Innovative industries included are software, hardware, semiconductors, clean technology, life sciences and telecoms.
Garmin has revealed that its acquiring South Africa-based startup iKubu, a company that was nearing the final stages of building a bike radar that tells cyclists the speed and distance of vehicles approaching from behind.
The low-energy (LE) radar is placed on the rear of the bike, with the data sent wirelessly to a device mounted on the bike’s handlebars. It can detect rear-approaching cars at a distance of 140 meters.
If you’re a fan of craft beer, you might be tempted to try homebrewing — if only it wasn’t (to quote my colleague Ryan Lawler) “a pain in the ass.”
Startup PicoBew has built a machine called Zymatic that should make the process a lot easier, automating the brewing process and making it more consistent. PicoBrew’s Greg White even pitched it (half-jokingly, I think) as an “Internet of Beer” device: “The Internet of Things was so last week.”
Como cada inicio de mes, repasamos las inversiones más importantes que se han cerrado en el sector de las startups tecnológicas en España durante el mes anterior, en este caso el diciembre.
Descripción: Startup que ha desarrollado un sistema tecnológico pensando para el ahorro energético, la seguridad, el confort y el cuidado de las personas dependientes en el hogar.
Tech entrepreneurs were busy in 2014, building startups and raising money for products that could make it big in 2015.
While no one can predict the future, there are a handful of startups we are especially excited to watch in the coming year.
This unscientific list, compiled by VentureBeat’s staff from their own reporting, is an eclectic list of startups that we think are especially promising. We did the same thing last year, picking 26 amazing startups to watch in 2014. How did we do? Check out our analysis of our 2014 picks. (And we’ll do the same thing with this list next year.)
