Kateeva has raised $38 million to build flexible displays using its inkjet printing technology. Its technology could lead to bright and thin TVs with curved and bendable screens.
Fundings for hardware startups are rare in Silicon Valley. But Kateeva is an exception thanks to its patented technology that has been in development for years.
The fourth round of funding included new investor Samsung Venture Investment Corp. (SVIC). Other existing investors participating in the round are Sigma Partners, Spark Capital, Madrone Capital, Partners, DBL Investors, New Science Ventures, and Veeco Instruments.
The startup’s system, which comes with a soil sensor that can tell you pH, humidity, temperature, soil nutrition and moisture and an automated water valve, helps gardeners figure out how to precisely care for their plants. A paired app lets users see recommendations on which plants to use given their garden’s conditions.
A group of venture capital and tech company execs chose Alfred as the winner of TechCrunch’s “Startup Battlefield” contest here at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference.
Alfred is a subscription-based service that provides people to do basic tasks for you, like picking up dry cleaning, doing laundry, getting groceries, going to the pharmacy, cleaning the house, and a lot of other tedious and/or time consuming tasks.
The service might also subcontract with services like Washio (for laundry), Task Rabbit (for random tasks), or Instacart (for groceries).
FOBO Tire is an advanced Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) using latest Bluetooth 4.0 that works directly with your Android and iOS device. It also comes with an intelligent In-Car monitoring unit that works simultaneously with your smart phone. So that you will still get an alert in the absence of the smart phone.
Launching publicly on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage this afternoon is a company called StudyRoom, which aims to take student study groups and tutoring online, and make them more social. The company has already been running trials of its program in six universities, starting this spring, and now claims to reach 40,000 students across the U.S. who use it as a platform for social, peer-to-peer learning.
The technologies that leading private companies are using (aka their Tech Stack) are now available on their CB Insights profiles. With the addition of this tech stack data on programming languages, frameworks, and databases powering startups across the tech ecosystem, we wanted analyze what technologies are being used by today’s most valuable startups.
Specifically, we analyzed the tech stacks of private venture-backed companies with valuations at or over $1 billion.
La prestigiosa revista Wired, en su versión para el Reino Unido, publicaba de nuevo este verano su top 10 de startups más destacadas de nuestra ciudad, hecho que vuelve a demostrar que Barcelona es cada vez más reconocida como centro emergente de empresas tecnológicas de nueva creación.
El artículo, antes de nombrar las 10 startups catalanas, repasa diversas noticias que reflejan la ciudad condal como hub para negocios globales: eDreams fue valorada en 945 millones de libras esterlinas después de salir a bolsa el pasado mes de abril, o que Softonic anunciaba que tenía más de 125 millones de usuarios mensuales.
Exovite desarrollará en Tel Aviv una aplicación móvil para poder tratar lesiones musculares desde casa con electroestimuladores. Sólo 12 empresas en todo el mundo participan en esta iniciativa del gigante informático, encaminada a financiar proyectos de interés.
Kansas-based startup MindMixer just grabbed $17 million to better connect companies and governments with community members, consumers, and clients.
MindMixer is social-good tech. It is civic minded social networking, focused on connecting community organizations to one another and to the communities they serve to help projects get off the ground. Organizations can post ideas about community improvement projects, like the addition of bike racks in a downtown area, and community members can weigh in. The company hopes to make communication between local non-profits, government organizations, and community members more fluid.
Fresh educational technology startups are being promoted by the day, but not all of them deserve your attention. However, we sometimes encounter innovations that can really level up students’ and teachers’ productiveness. With the right tools at hand, the classroom can become a motivational setting that inspires every student and teacher to give their best. The following tools are some of the most successful recent educational technology concepts that can achieve that.
