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An anonymous reader writes: People spend one-third of their lives asleep. What if employees could work during that time … in their dreams? Prophetic, a venture-backed startup founded earlier this year, wants to help workers do just that. Using a headpiece the company calls the “Halo,” Prophetic says consumers can induce a lucid dream state, […]
Sam Altman attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 16, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights
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Ty Roush reports via Forbes: Convoy, a Seattle-based digital freight booker with investors that include billionaires Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, announced Thursday it would be shutting down, according to Bloomberg, after the company failed to find a buyer amid a “massive freight recession.” Convoy’s founder and chief executive Dan Lewis notified employees in an […]
Oct 4 (Reuters) – Headway, a healthcare tech startup that connects patients and in-network therapists, has raised $125 million in Series C funding, the company told Reuters. The round of financing, which valued the company at $1 billion, was led by Spark Capital with participation from existing investors including Thrive Capital, Accel, and Andreessen Horowitz. […]
SINGAPORE, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Vietnamese internet company VNG Corp (VNZ.HNO) has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States via VNG Ltd, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing showed. The listing will make VNG . . .
Crypto exchange Binance.US has faced a series of legal and financial challenges as regulators have increased their scrutiny of crypto companies of all kinds. Now it’s teaming up with another embattled crypto firm in an attempt to regain access to a steady flow of dollars. For more than a month, customers of the crypto exchange […]
The student-led NYU Impact Investment Fund (NIIF) has successfully completed its fourth investment with a $30,000 investment in EdVisorly, a Black- and female- founded business that has developed a community college-to-university platform, empowering community college students to connect with a university and achieve a bachelor’s degree. EdVisorly is NIIF’s latest annual investment in four years. “We are very […]
BlocPower is a Black-owned climate tech startup that is making American cities smarter, greener and healthier. BlocPower partners with utilities, government agencies, and building owners to identify unhealthy, energy-wasting buildings to retrofit. The New York based startup then works with these building owners to develop, install and finance upgrades that reduce fossil fuel consumption—like replacing […]