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M1 Finance grows to $1 billion in assets on its platform
Chicago startup M1 Finance hit a major milestone this week — it now has more than $1 billion in assets on its platform. And the company says it’s reached that mark faster, and with less venture capital funding, than some of its peers. M1 announ.....»»
Startup wants to boost personal safety with a smart bracelet
Five years after it began as a conversation within the walls of Harvard Business School, Flare, the Boston-based startup behind a smart bracelet designed to get the wearer out of potentially dangerous situations and prevent sexual assault, has made it.....»»
This Salesforce rival just got bigger with acquisition of Seattle startup
Salesforce rival Freshworks has snapped up AnsweriQ, marking its second acquisition in less than a year as the $3.5 billion unicorn grows its annual billings nearly 60 percent. AnsweriQ, based in Seattle with approximately 20 employees, will give.....»»
USF-born tech startup Molekule raises $58M in Series C round
Molekule, a tech startup born out of University of South Florida research, has closed another multimillion-dollar investment round. The San Francisco-based company with a focus on clean technology raised $58 million this week. "The air purifier marke.....»»
Vouch, an insurance startup for startups, grows its Chicago presence
A San Francisco-based insurance startup that sells coverage to other startup companies is growing its Chicago office as the city continues to become a hotbed for the insurance-tech industry. Vouch, a Y Combinator-backed startup that sells insurance spec.....»»
Darryll Pines is serious about growing University of Maryland"s business ties
Incoming University of Maryland President Darryll Pines says he's serious about building out the school’s tech and startup ecosystems. “The university is an incredible innovation ecosystem, but we were not leveraging every aspect of it. Now you w.....»»
Houston to host first XFL championship game in April
The XFL, the startup football league from professional wrestling mogul Vince McMahon, will host its inaugural championship game in Houston. Representatives from the XFL, the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority and the University of Houston made the.....»»
The rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, who started Theranos when she was 19 and will now stand trial over "massive fraud" in July 2020
Reuters/Stephen Lam Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford University at 19 to start blood-testing startup Theranos, and grew the c.....»»
Shares of gene-editing startup Beam jump 40% after upsized IPO
Gene-editing startup Beam Therapeutics raised 80% more than initially planned when it closed its initial public offering and began trading on the Nasdaq on Thursday, just one week after a neighboring company doubled its market launch goal. Beam d.....»»
Wright State, UD partner with Southwest Ohio universities in startup accelerator
Wright State University, the University of Dayton and three neighboring universities have entered into a partnership that is expected to increase the resources and opportunities available to the region’s early-stage startups. Startups formed to.....»»
Startup to create non-addictive painkiller raises $30M
Saint Louis University said Tuesday that “one of the biggest investments in research commercialization†in the university’s history has come as result of a San Diego-based startup’s recently announced $30 million Series A funding round. The.....»»
Defense business opts to test battle gear locally
A year after getting his computer science Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and co-founding a Baltimore startup developing communications technology for the military, Herbert Rubens started looking... To view the full story, click the title link......»»
Working at a coffee shop saved my life. 3 years later, I bought the coffee shop — here"s how I did it.
Shutterstock/Vixit Angela Burns is the owner of Little Bean Coffee Company in Antioch, Illinois; check out the shop on Instagram. When Burns dropped out of Purdue University for mental health reasons, she began working at Cafe.....»»
A student-housing startup grows to 100 employees by being selective about its employees — and its investors
Business InsiderUniplaces Uniplaces, a web platform focused on helping students find accommodations in Spain, Paris, Portugal, and other locations throughout Europe, .....»»
St. Louis digital health startup plots expansion into Colorado
St. Louis-based Phas3 got its start at Saint Louis University. Now it's expanding its footprint to Colorado......»»
How Hanukkah went from a minor festival to a major holiday in America
Golden Pixels LLC/Shutterstock Dianne Ashton is a professor of religion at Rowan University. Ashton writes that Hanukkah was originally a relatively minor holiday, generally slipping by unnoticed. But after the Civil War, Hanukkah assemblies began.....»»
Corning Taiwan partners with university to set up startup accelerator
Corning Display Technologies Taiwan has partnered with Taidah Entrepreneurship Center under National Taiwan University (TEC NTU) to set up an accelerator to help startups develop innovative applications using the company's materials and technologies......»»
Broken bones, hit-and-runs -- and booze -- part of e-scooter life at NCSU
Even as the e-scooter pool decreased in downtown Raleigh, the vehicles were still operating at North Carolina State University – including Lime, among the companies the city is in talks with about future contracts. But even at the university, the.....»»
Apple quietly acquired AI startup Spectral Edge to beef up the iPhone camera
Yves Herman/Reuters Apple quietly acquired UK AI startup Spectral Edge. A university spinout, Spectral Edge specialises in AI tech which sharpens up photographs taken on hazy days. The amount Apple paid for Spectral Edge is unknown, but last year the c.....»»
Google"s self-driving car company Waymo has broken ground in Europe by buying an Oxford startup
Waymo Alphabet self-driving subsidiary Waymo announced Thursday that it had acquired Oxford University spinout Latent Logic. As well as buying up Latent Logic's tech and talent, Waymo ann.....»»