Month: February 2021
Medisafe raises $30 million in Series C led by pharma giant Sanofi
Calcalist: New funds will be used to double the workforce at the health tech startup that digitally connects patients and doctors
Read MoreMars rover’s giant parachute carried secret message
The huge parachute used by NASA’s Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message.
Read MoreWATCH LIVE: House appropriations hearing on Jan. 6 attack and Capitol security failures
On Thursday, the Acting House Sergeant-at-arms Timothy Blodgett and Acting Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police Yogananda Pittman will appear before the House about Jan. 6 security failures.
Read MoreLob raises $50M for its direct mail platform
Lob is a startup promising to help businesses deliver physical mail more quickly and affordably, and with more personalization. The company estimates that its platform has been used to deliver mail to one in two U.S. households. And today, it’s
Read MoreTrump tax returns are now in the hands of the Manhattan district attorney – CNBC
Trump tax returns are now in the hands of the Manhattan district attorney CNBC Trump’s tax returns and related records turned over to Manhattan district attorney CNN Trump’s tax returns handed over to Manhattan prosecutors NBC News Manhattan prosecutors reportedly obtain millions of
Read MorePfizer-BioNTech Announces They Will Test a Third Dose of Their COVID-19 Vaccine
Pfizer-BioNTech has begun testing a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine in a small group of people. The vaccine is currently authorized in several countries in a two-dose regimen, given 21 days apart, and has proven in studies to be
Read MoreRohingya Refugees From Myanmar Adrift In Indian Ocean
Human rights groups say a boat trafficking over 90 Muslim minority Rohingya from Myanmar has broken down. They have little food & water and nobody wants them.
Read MoreBerlin’s MorphAIs hopes its AI algorithms will put its early-stage VC fund ahead of the pack
MorphAIs is a new VC out of Berlin, aiming to leverage AI algorithms to boost its investment decisions in early-stage startups. But there’s a catch: it hasn’t raised a fund yet. The firm was founded by Eva-Valérie Gfrerer who was
Read MoreWhy Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman is still struggling with her hamantaschen
Well before the Purim treats made headlines when an article by a non-Jewish writer disparaging them recently resurfaced, Perelman has wondered how sacrilegious an update would be
Read MoreWith Atlanta rising as a new hub for tech, early stage firm Tech Square Ventures gets a new partner
Atlanta is coming up in the tech world with several newly minted billion-dollar businesses hailing from the ATL and the city’s local venture capital community is taking notice. Even as later stage firms like the newly minted BIP Capital rebrand
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