Advertisers face something of an unusual problem at the 2010s are past the halfway mark and roaring away toward the ’20s. Consumers have a screen in their pocket at all times – and, even better, a screen that is digital and connected to the Web and...
Using Google Glass, a health care startup has seen its way to a new round of funding. Reuters reports that Augmedix — a San Francisco-based company that relies upon Alphabet Inc.’s connected eyewear to provide doctors and other health care professionals with medical transcripts (such as...
Unlockd, a mobile ad startup that promises to bring down phone bill costs, has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The startup partners with cellphone companies to push mobile ads to users’ Android phone screen. In return, the subscribing users get a discount on their...
PayPal is throwing its weight behind a mobile app called Acorns Grow by leading its $30 million funding round. Acorns is designed to help young investors get into the game by enabling them to deposit small amounts that automatically goes into a brokerage account that...
A year can make a big difference to how the world sees a business model. A year ago it seemed every entrepreneur was looking to be the “Uber of” something, and every VC with a checkbook and a functioning pen seemed willing and at the...
In a bit of a switch, startups that concentrate on serving businesses rather than consumers are garnering a bit more money from venture capital firms — who, as Reuters noted, want to see investment returns “sooner rather than later.” That’s a marked change of pace...
Logistics, particularly in shipping, more or less make the world go round. Done right the average person doesn’t think much about them, mostly because the process by which goods ship from one side of the world to the other is not the type of story...
The venture capital industry in the United States raised $12 billion, across 57 funds, in the first quarter of this year, as noted by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), in conjunction with Thomson Reuters. The commitments represented a 59 percent growth in terms of...
Investor letters are not generally highly renowned for their incredible readability. That’s never been a real problem since shareholders aren’t looking to be entertained when they read the annual missive from the CEOs whose firms they own a share of; they are looking to be...
