Edtech unicorn Vedantu has launched its first hybrid learning centre in Muzaffarpur, following in on the strategy of other edtechs and competitors Byju’s, Unacademy and PhysicsWallah, among others.This comes as online education platforms shed the pandemic-induced growth, as offline centers ...
Aiming to compete with Bilt in the nascent property renter rewards market, Stake, a startup that provides cash back and banking services to renters, today announced that it raised $12 million in a Series A round led by RET Ventures’ ...
Mottu, a São Paulo-based motorcycle rental startup, has raised $30 million in equity in a Series B round of funding. The company, which aims to give independent couriers a way to work for logistics and food delivery apps, also ...
Progress so far: banks, VC firms and startups Big plans for climate finance On April 4, the U.K.’s development finance institution, Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) Group, formally changed its name to British International Investment. As part of the name ...
We are all aware that something needs to be done to reduce our carbon footprint, but many of us have no idea where to start. Naturally the best place to start anything is from the beginning and in carbon planning the beginning is to measure where you are now - what your current carbon emissions are.
Ankiti Bose (Image: @ankitibose/Instagram) Ankiti Bose announced on June 30 that she has resigned from Zilingo’s Board. In a statement, the former CEO, who was sacked, said she is resigning due to the opacity of information as a board ...
Ensuring that businesses are properly prepared to react to a cyber attack, and to secure assets and data afterward, is entirely dependent on the proactive steps businesses take in advance so they can respond to such an incident quickly and efficiently. James Tamblin, BlueVoyant UK President discusses how to protect your business when a cyber incident strikes.
It is no secret that the technology sector is not going through the best of times. We have seen several unicorns make drastic decisions about their businesses, announcing layoffs and exiting markets in which they were present in order to reduce costs and preserve their liquidity.
Accounting firms are missing a key opportunity to adopt Open Banking to help meet the needs of small businesses facing a cash flow squeeze, according to a report by iwoca, one of Europe’s largest small business lenders, and AccountingWeb.
The recent collapse of UST has once again demonstrated that many of the so-called stablecoins in the web3 world today are tied to high-risk and often unsustainable assets. As decentralized finance attempts to expand its reach, it appears to ...
Vistage has released its quarterly UK SME CEO Confidence Index for Q2 2022. The study reports that the SME business confidence index hit 77 points, a 22% decrease since the last quarter.
Fung, an Amsterdam-based startup, has raised $2.7mn (€2.5mn) in a pre-seed funding round co-led by Global Founders Capital (GFC), Kingsway Capital, Kindred Capital, and Karatage.
La Bom, the Spanish/British sustainable swimwear brand for all active women, launches today in the UK and with the company launch it showcases a collection of active ready, fully recycled ECONYL swimwear.
THE ECONOMIC TIMESSwiggy, the food delivery and quick commerce player, said its employees will have the option to receive liquidity of up to $23 million against their employee stock ownership plan (Esop) – its first milestone as a part of ...
From L to R Anand Prakash Pulkit Jain and Vamsi Krishna- Vedantu founders Tiger Global-backed edtech unicorn Vedantu has joined a growing list of online education companies, such as Byju’s, Unacademy and Physicswallah, that are opening offline tuition centres. ...
A Swiggy Delivery boy | Representative image Food and grocery delivery platform Swiggy will be buying back shares worth $23 million issued under its employee stock option program (ESOP) from about 900 employees in a bid to incentivise them. ...
Apple announced Thursday that developers can now use a third-party payment system for the South Korea App Store. The company specified that developers will need to submit a separate binary for iOS or iPadOS “distributed solely on the App Store ...
Samsung Electronics said Thursday it has kicked off mass production of 3-nanometer chips, becoming the first company to do so globally, as it aims to beat Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, or TSMC, the world’s most advanced foundry chipmaker. Samsung said ...
With the worst of the coronavirus pandemic seemingly – hopefully – behind us, many of the world’s leading economies are looking for ways to begin recovering and rebuilding from the financial downturn they have experienced as a result.
When Yoeal Haile started Aspira, a lending service, in 2017, he wanted to give Kenyans more choice about buying stuff on credit. The business eventually grew to a point where it offered over $1 million in loans to customers ...
India’s Lenskart is buying a majority stake in Japan’s Owndays, the two firms said, creating one of Asia’s biggest online retailers of eyewear. The firms did not disclose the financial terms of the deal, but a person familiar with ...
ETtechSpocto, a Mumbai-based artificial intelligence-powered collect tech platform, has brought on board a slew of executives, who have worked with tech giants such as Amazon and Google, on its tech team.The idea is to use their expertise to bolster Spocto’s ...
ETtechNew Delhi: Shares of Zomato continued to slide on Thursday, marking its fourth consecutive session of fall. The stock of the food delivery giant has slumped about 25 per cent since Monday after the company acquired the quick commerce delivery ...
ETtechAquaExchange, a fintech platform catering to India’s shrimp and fish ecosystem, raised $3 million in funding from Endiya Partners, Accion Venture Lab, and other existing investors.The firm plans to deploy the capital for improving its tech, e-commerce operations and expanding ...
Opensea, the popular NFT marketplace that hit a colossal $13 billion valuation in January, is warning users of email phishing after a data breach. A staff at Customer.io, an email vendor contracted by OpenSea, misused their employee access to ...
Consumer packaged goods companies — think PepsiCo or Nabisco — face steep challenges from the rising cost of living and distribution. As inflation continues unabated, consumers’ disposable income isn’t going as far as it used to while products are ...
AgenciesAs startups in India keep firing their staff to navigate through the ‘funding winter’ and more than 60,000 can lose their jobs in 2022 alone, the country is preparing to welcome 200 unicorns in the next four years.As thousands more ...
GetVantage co-founders Amit Srivastava and Bhavik Vasa (L-R) GetVantage, a Mumbai-based lending platform for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), said on June 30 that it has raised $36 million led by Varanium Nexgen Fintech Fund, DMI Sparkle Fund, and existing ...
Some SMEs don’t want to get (or have access to) equity funding, but also want to stay away from high-interest bank loans. That’s the gap that revenue-based financing platforms like GetVantage want to fill. The Mumbai-based startup announced today ...
ETtechDirect-to-consumer beauty and personal care company Good Glamm Group’s (GGG) efforts to acquire the consumer care business of the Raymond Group that houses the Park Avenue and Kamasutra brands has hit a valuation roadblock, said people in the know.Existing investors ...
Y Combinator has announced Launch YC, a platform where people can sort accelerator startups by industry, batch, and launch date to discover new products. The famed accelerator, which has seeded the likes of Instacart, Coinbase, OpenSea, and Dropbox, invites ...
Very soon, humanity will get to view the deepest images of the universe that have ever been captured. In two weeks, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) — NASA’s super expensive, super powerful deep space optical imager ...
The newsletter platform Substack laid off 13 employees today, mostly in HR and writer support roles. Co-founder and CEO Chris Best informed the company after holding meetings with the affected employees, which also included founders Hamish Mackenzie and Jairaj ...
Fast track to being tracked Strategic complaint Consumer rights groups in Europe have filed a new series of privacy complaints against Google — accusing the advertising giant of deceptive design around the account creation process which they say steers ...
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Shared micromobility company Bird’s board of directors has appointed Shane Torchiana as president of the company, replacing the company’s CEO and founder Travis VanderZanden. The new roles will begin effective June 29, per a regulatory filing. VanderZanden, who previously ...
AlgiKnit is on a mission to offer more environmentally conscious materials for the heavily polluting fashion and textile industries. The startup is developing materials from seaweeds such as Macrocystis Pyrifera, one of the planet’s most renewable and regenerative organisms, ...
Pokémon Go developer Niantic is running into trouble as it builds “the real-world metaverse.” Like so many other tech companies facing turbulent economic times, the company decided to let go of 8% of its staff, affecting about 85 to ...
Google announced today that its Switch to Android app for iOS users is now compatible with all Android 12 phones. The iOS app, which launched earlier this year, makes the transition between the mobile platforms easier to manage by helping ...
Imagine for a second that you could roll up the entire cloud market, everything from SaaS to infrastructure to platform, CDNs (content data networks), managed private clouds, data center rentals — everything. What would that be worth in a quarter? ...