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U.S. retailers throw out $18 billion worth of spoiled food every year, which is bad for both the bottom line and the environment. San Francisco startup Afresh creates software that uses algorithms and artificial intelligence to help stores optimize their fresh food inventories and cut back on waste. Founded in 2016, the company says it…

When it comes to climate change, cement production is a major culprit, accounting for about 7 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. New Jersey-based Solidia uses a patented process to address this problem, replacing limestone with a synthetic material that requires lower temperatures and less energy than traditional methods. The cement absorbs CO2 as it hardens, all of which amounts…

Fetch has created both a picking robot and a freight one. While the “Fetch” can grab items off shelves, a warehouse doesn’t need to go all-in on robots to take advantage of their efficiency. The new “Freight” robot acts more like a trained dog, steadfastly sticking to either a human or another robot’s side. A…

New York City-based Better.com is trying to upend the antiquated mortgage application process by bringing it online. The company doesn’t charge fees or commissions and instead makes its money only via interest. And whereas traditional mortgage applications can take weeks, getting pre-approved on Better.com takes just a few minutes thanks to a largely automated process. The company, which lent…

Indian aerospace startup Skyroot Aerospace recently unveiled its Dhawan-1 Rocket Engine on the 100th birthday anniversary of Indian rocket scientist for which it’s named – Dr.Satish Dhawan. According to the company, the Dhawan-1 is notable in that it’s completely 3D printed, runs solely on cryogenic propellants, and was manufactured in India. The Dhawan-1 will power…

Singapore-based startup EcoWorth Tech has developed a technology for the sustainable treatment of wastewater. It provides a breakthrough solution for removing and recuperating organic contaminants from Industrial and Oil & Gas wastewater. The technology integrates seamlessly into the latest water remediation processes in a highly cost-efficient manner. Additionally, EcoWorth Tech uses biomass waste to produce…

StanPlus focuses on supporting the patient in emergency and non-emergency situations, helping them reach the hospital, care center, or home. They operate across all segments, from simple vehicles for patients with limited mobility to fully equipped Advanced Life Support (ASL) vehicles to handle all types of emergencies and medical air transportation. With a fleet of…

We all know all cars generally run on fuel, and with the rise of continuous demand, fuel is dangerous. Therefore, Sea6 Energy has a unique idea: grow algae on seawater and use the resulting algal biomass to produce biomass. Their plans presently include making renewable chemicals and food additives using algae. Sea6 also created novel…

The startup operates a flexible salary platform, which is not a salary advance but gives employees control to access a part of their earned salaries on their own whenever they need, helping middle and lower-income people with any daily expenses or emergencies. If you don’t have money, the Bengaluru startup says that the credit card…

If you want to sell your household scrap, what you generally do? The majority of the audiences will say they wait for the “Kabadiwala” scrap collector to come. The traditional setup of a collector roaming in the streets and shouting for junk is well-known and understood. Also, it has remained the same for so many…

Lechal is the world's first company to launch a haptic footwear; the startup has received 10,000 orders in the first three months after the official launch.

Aloe vera, a natural moisturizer and herbal panacea for diseases, can also generate electricity and power batteries.

Priothera announced it has closed $35.4 million in Series A funding led by Fountain Healthcare Partners

Fintech startup Lydia goes to work with monetary API startup Tink for its open banking options in its app. Lydia began as a peer-to-peer fee app and now has 4 million customers in Europe. Lydia’s vision has evolved to become a financial super app that lets you control your bank accounts and access various financial services. In France, you can…

Lalamove,  an on-demand logistics service active in China, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, has officially entered the U.S. seven years after launch. As the COVID-19 pandemic keeps millions of Americans home, Hong Kong-based Lalamove believes it can seize the growing demand for delivery services in the country. It makes its debut in the Dallas Fort-Worth area, a major hub for…

Seattle startup Picnic raised an additional $3 million from existing investors as it gears up for a commercial rollout of its pizza-making robot.

Seattle-based biotech company HDT Bio enabling global access to immunotherapies for oncology and infectious disease, closed its seed financing round, totalling ~$3M.

Cardiac Dimensions in the development of innovative, minimally invasive treatments for functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) in patients with heart failure, closed a $17.5m Series C financing.

The startup also announced the funding that it had landed a $1 million contract with the U.S. Air Force to help fight COVID-19 with information and knowledge derived from fragmented public sources

According to intelligence platform VentureCap Insights, Neuron is valued at $47.2 million, after raising US$18.4 million via the issue of new shares between late February and early March.

XtalPi, an American-Chinese biotech firm that focuses on AI-assisted drug discovery, has raised a $319 million round C from a slate of enthusiastic investors led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund.

Established in 2009, Immusoft develops immune cell technology that uses blood cells from a patient to create therapeutic proteins targeted to treat diseases.

The global machine learning market is expected to grow from $1.41 Billion in 2017 to $8.81 Billion by 2022, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 44.1%

SpotOn Transact, a software and payments company for small and medium-sized businesses, secured $60 million in Series C funding just six months after announcing its $50 million Series B investment.

Now Papa has raised $18 million for its Series B round led by Comcast Ventures.

The remote-controlled drone can lift a load of up to 200 kilograms (440 lb) and has a range of 40 kilometers (25 miles), making it ideal for jobs such as delivering medicines to a hospital or dropping off components at a factory.

Oracle and Walmart said they were together investing to acquire 20% of the newly formed TikTok Global business.

The startup recently signed a partnership with SUSE, the world’s largest independent open-source software company.

Mobile car repair startup Wrench is diving deeper into services that go beyond vehicle maintenance

Indian companies can spend less both in terms of manufacturing and operating costs as compared to US companies, the country has an enormous talent pool of engineers, and the VC ecosystem is warming up.

Over 14 startups have raised funding since March 2020, as online education sees a massive boom in India.

Pune-based energy distribution company Repos Energy has registered over 150 fuel startups in less than a month.

General Motors announced its second major electric vehicle partnership in less than a week on Tuesday, this time a $2 billion deal with startup Nikola. GM will take an 11% ownership stake in the Phoenix company and will engineer and build Nikola’s Badger hydrogen fuel cell and electric pickup truck. The Badger is expected to…

Proxgy is a visual commerce product that lets users experience almost everything just by sitting on their sofa.

Cricket commentator and expert Harsha Bhogle has invested an undisclosed amount in gaming startup Fantasy Akhada, and will be the brand’s face for the next two years, the company said on Friday.

SoftBank Group is exploring assembling a group of bidders for TikTok’s India assets and has been actively looking for local partners, according to people familiar with the matter.

Cred, a digital community of creditworthy individuals, merchants and institutions, on Wednesday announced that it has become the official partner of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020.

PicnicHealth, the startup that’s looking to give patients a way to manage their care in one place and pharmaceutical companies access to patient records for real-world data, has just raised $25 million in financing to grow its business. Founded in 2016 by a former international development worker and Crohn’s Disease patient, Noga Leviner, PicnicHealth’s initial…

Consumer electronics startup boAt, through its parent company, Imagine Marketing Pvt Ltd, has raised ₹25 Cr in debt from venture debt and specialty lending firm InnoVen Capital. Founded by Aman Gupta, a chartered accountant, and Sameer Mehta, a former executive director at Kores (India) Ltd in 2016, boAt has over the years expanded its product…

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan’s philanthropic organisation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, has invested in education technology startup Eruditus, its second capital infusion into an Indian firm. People close to the development told ET that the funding is part of Eruditus’ ongoing Series D round that will see the company raising around $100…

Phool.co, an IIT Kanpur backed biomaterial startup, has raised about ₹10 crores in a pre-series A funding round led by Ian Fund and San Francisco-based Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. Founded by engineering graduates Ankit Agarwal and Prateek Kumar in July 2017, Phool.co is a startup focused on the circular economy which converts the floral waste…

StemoniX will receive about 78% of Cancer Genetics' 2.31 million outstanding shares, making it the majority owner of the company. At Cancer Genetics's press timeshare price of around $7, the transaction will be worth $12.6 million to StemoniX.

The latest round brings its total funding to date to $ 13 million, with the support of previous investors Eniac, Famiglia, SignalFire, Congruent, AME and Joe.

MindTree has decided to start it's own $120 Mn fund to invest in tech startups.

Commenting on the app launch, Atul Kapoor, Founder, sense.bio said, "Now since the unlock is happening across the nation and people are resuming work now it's the time to take extra safety measures with protecting themselves and boosting their immunity. We have made sure of the quality of products and are made in India."

The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India said it has joined hands with the startup hub and incubation center at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB) to spearhead innovations in the mobility space.

  Bengaluru-based startup Pixxel is getting ready to launch its first Earth-imaging satellite later this year, with a scheduled mission aboard a Soyuz rocket. The roughly one-and-a-half-year-old company is moving quickly, and today it’s announcing a $5 million seed funding round to help it accelerate even more. Indian venture capital firms, Lightspeed India Partners, Blume…

Subscription-based water purifier startup DrinkPrime on Tuesday raised ₹21 crores ($3 million) in a Pre-Series A round from Omidyar Network India and Sequoia Surge. The money will help the startup strengthen its team and invest in its growth plans to reach 1 million households in the next 3 years. “We are currently operating in Bangalore and…

In a bid to support India’s growing startup ecosystem, Ritesh Agarwal, founder, and CEO of Oyo Rooms will work as an advisor and mentor with Mumbai-based incubator Venture Catalysts (VCats). Agarwal will work with Dr. Apoorv Sharma, founder of VCats to promote entrepreneurship across the country’s tier 1, 2, and 3 cities and help India…

The fresh capital will be used to expand the company’s presence in towns and improve its collection efficiency and lending cycle management, Eduvanz said in a statement.

Coda is one of the newer entrants in the workplace productivity known as “the future of work,” which includes companies ranging from video-conferencing platform Skype to Microsoft’s Office 365.

The Submarine optical fibre cable project came into being when PM Modi began the development of the 2,312-Kilometers long submarine optical fibre cable project connecting Chennai - Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Through this, its customers and AIA Vitality members can gain access to personal health coaching services based on their specific needs via Holmusk's network of nutritionists and dietitians.

The amount would make Byju’s India’s second-most valuable startup after Alibaba Group Holding-backed financial payments brand, Paytm.

Emphasizing on increasing private investment in agriculture, Tomar said his vision is to attract the youth to agriculture and rejuvenate the sector. He also stressed the need to make agriculture competitive, provide handholding to agriculture-based activities, and adopt new technology at the earliest to boost productivity.

In a statement, Apple said that its Siri does not contain features included in the Xiao-i patent, which the iPhone maker argues relates to games and instant messaging.

"A deal could be completed by Monday, according to people familiar with the matter, and the talks involve representatives from Microsoft, Bytedance, and the White House. Talks are fluid, and a deal may not come together," The Wall Street Journal reported.

We are going to talk about a New York startup Air.Co and they make Vodka.They extract CO2 from the air and mix it with water to make a vodka.

FSD Pharma has instigated the process of liquidating all FV Pharma assets, including the sale of the Company’s cannabis production facility in Cobourg, Ontario.

Google released a model card toolkit, a set of toolset designed to facilitate AI model transparency reporting for developers, regulators, and downstream users.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote, “To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we are extending our global voluntary work from home option through June 30, 2021, for roles that don’t need to be in the office.”

In more than 200 pages of court filings former employee Parmar included clippings of some posts showcased on the UC News app that he alleged were false.

EDF said the Abu Dhabi solar photovoltaic plant would have a capacity of 2 GW, which would make it the largest single-project solar plant in the world, generating the equivalent electricity to power more than 160,000 households each year.

Both companies aim to combine 5G with edge computing to create a “cognitive automation” Artificial Intelligence framework. The platform will recognize natural language and allow autonomous decision making in various scenarios.

A report from Business Insider had stated that Microsoft is slashing around 1,000 jobs across its businesses this week.

“I am excited to continue serving the company as we navigate through the COVID-19 situation, execute the strategy that we first envisioned at the time of the merger, and drive towards the achievement of our Vision 22 goals,” said Mr. Bruehlman.

“Today marks the next big step as Walmart India’s pioneering cash-and-carry legacy meets Flipkart’s culture of innovation in the launch of Flipkart Wholesale. By leveraging each other’s strengths and unique expertise, this combined team will break new ground in their shared mission to help Indian businesses grow and succeed. We look forward to a bright future for Flipkart Wholesale,” said Judith McKenna, President, and CEO of Walmart International.

“We want to Imagine Meats to be the choice for anybody seeking the taste of meat, without the guilt of environmental and public health impacts – just as it will be for our own family,” said Genelia Deshmukh, founder of Imagine Meats.