Siadhal Magos and Shahriar Tajbakhsh were working at Uber and Palantir, respectively, when they both came to the realization that hiring â particularly the process of interviewing â was becoming unwieldy for many corporate HR departments. âIt was clear to us that the most important part of the hiring process is the interviews, but also […]
As more funding flows into deep tech to address difficult global problems like climate change, PhD entrepreneurs coming out of Europeâs top universities and labs are increasingly turning their research into companies. French spinout Diamfab, founded in 2019, is one example. Its co-founders, CEO Gauthier Chicot and CTO Khaled Driche, both PhDs in nanoelectronics and […]
Alex Chatzieleftheriou founded Blueground in 2013 after being frustrated with the dearth of short-term furnished apartments in Europe. He had been traveling as a consultant for McKinsey, living almost exclusively in hotel rooms for months. âOne time the company had to pay up to âŹ15,000 for a hotel room in Amsterdam. And there wasnât enough […]
Have you noticed the massive gap between consumer and business apps on your phone? While consumer apps are both beautifully designed and easy to use, business apps are simply painful to use. A European startup is developing a suite of B2B apps that are designed for mobile first because phones have become the main computers […]
Byjuâs secured favorable outcomes in two court hearings Thursday, paving the way for the embattled edtech startup to move ahead with the extraordinary general meeting scheduled for Friday. The National Company Law Tribunal refused to defer on Thursday Byjuâs planned EGM, where the Indian startup seeks to increase the authorized share capital to give effect […]
StealthMole, an AI-powered dark web intelligence startup that specializes in monitoring cyber threats and detecting cybercrime, announced Thursday that it has raised a $7 million Series A funding round. The Singapore-headquartered startup with an R&D office in South Korea will use the fresh capital to establish additional R&D centers and support more commercial uses of […]
By any benchmark, Accel is among the top venture firms in India. With nearly two dozen Indian unicorn startups, including several category leaders, Accelâs track record speaks for itself. But yet, the partners leading the firmâs early-stage accelerator program, called Atoms, are uncharacteristically introspective about their learnings and the changes they have been implementing to […]
Robots made their stage debut the day after New Yearâs 1921. More than half-a-century before the world caught its first glimpse of George Lucasâ droids, a small army of silvery humanoids took to the stages of the First Czechoslovak Republic. They were, for all intents and purposes, humanoids: two arms, two legs, a head â […]
Amazon invested a further $2.75 billion in growing AI power Anthropic on Wednesday, following through on the option it left open last September. The $1.25 billion it invested at the time must be producing results, or perhaps theyâve realized that there are no other horses available to back. The September deal put $1.25B into the […]
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek on Tuesday signed Senate Bill 1596 into law, joining California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts and Minnesota in a growing list of states embracing a right to repair for citizens. The law is set to go into effect January 1. The billâs coauthors Janeen Sollman and Representative Courtney Neron took inspiration from Californiaâs […]