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On November 15, China’s autonomous driving startup Pony.ai submitted its red herring prospectus and launched its IPO. It will be listed on Nasdaq under the stock code “PONY” and potentially become the world’s first publicly traded robotaxi company. Pony.ai plans to offer 15 million American Depositary Shares (ADS), priced between $11 and $13 per share, […]
Nigerian wealth management startup Bamboo has launched a fee-free remittances app – Coins By Bamboo – for seamless transactions from Canada to Nigeria. Founded in 2019 and a Y Combinator alumni, Bamboo is an investment platform that gives Africans the tools to build wealth from the ground up through real-time access to the global markets, […]
Pictured here is an AI-generated clip from Vidu’s website. The tool can create videos from text or image prompts. Evelyn Cheng | CNBC BEIJING — Beijing-based Shengshu Technology on Wednesday said that its artificial intelligence-powered text-to-video tool Vidu will now be able to generate videos by combining images. Vidu already allows users worldwide to create […]
A few days ago, an old friend reached out to me about a project he was working on. At first glance, it seemed exciting, so, I took the bait. We talked, and he asked if I’d be interested in helping out. I thought, “Why not?” The idea had potential, and I was curious to see […]
Amsterdam-based startup Sympower has secured €21mn as it looks to scale its grid-balancing technology. Sympower partners with businesses that use a large amount of electricity. It gains access to some of their energy assets and can turn them on and off when the grid requires balancing — a process called demand response. Sympower’s software platform […]
Jeffrey Tiong, founder and CEO of PatSnap. Courtesy of Jeffrey Tiong. Many entrepreneurs will say that building a successful startup is costly — both financially and emotionally. Just ask Jeffrey Tiong. The 40-year-old is the founder and CEO of intellectual property and research and development startup Patsnap, a Singapore-based unicorn company that has surpassed an […]
La antigua The Crowd Angel, plataforma lanzada en 2011 por Inveready, formar parte de la compaa propietaria de Fellow Funders. Nueva etapa para Dozen Investments, la plataforma online de crowdfunding o financiacin participativa fundada en 2011 en Barcelona por Inveready y un grupo de inversores bajo la denominacin de The Crowd Angel. La firma, que […]
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended his government’s $470 quantum computing bet as the project hangs in the balance following Queensland’s decision to review a deal it struck to fund a start-up alongside the federal government. In April, the federal and Queensland Labor governments both pledged $470 million in equity, loans and grants to US-based […]
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers. “Three years ago, during the hard Covid lockdown in The Netherlands, the news arrived at our company; we were going to be acquired by a competitor. At that point, my reference to company acquisitions was Meta buying Instagram or movies depicting evil corporations pushing local shops […]
Summary In this special celebratory installment of Startup Junkies, we sit down for our four hundredth episode! Hosts Jeff Amerine, Jon Cadieux, Caleb Talley, Daniel Koonce, and Matthew Ward gather to reminisce about past ventures and share their experiences in the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Northwest Arkansas. The episode marks a significant transition for the podcast, […]