Startups

Dara Khosrowshahi, the Iranian born entrepreneur who became CEO of Uber in August 2017 succeeding founder Travis Kalanick, told the audience at the show that he believes the Saudi government made a mistake, which many see as being behind the heinous murder. He said...

WeWork's Marcelo Claure - the Chairman, has sent a memo to employees that states the company has investigated policy abuse and fired 13 employees.  Mr. Laure has further mentioned that layoff did not only happen at one office location but from all regions of...

Google is planning to launch an accelerator program to support the startups working to measure climate change, environment, sustainability, and similar projects. Kate Brandt, Chief Sustainability Officer at Google, while attending the Web Summit 2019 tech event in Lisbon, Portugal announced the future...

With two months left in 2019, Indian tech startups are already having a great year as a record amount of $11.3B has flown into the local ecosystem of the country, as reported by TechCrunch.  This is the first time that Indian startups have raised...

WeWork, an American commercial real estate company that provides shared workspaces for technology startups, founded in 2010. Eventually, after the ouster of its Co-founder Adam Neumann, the company lost its valuation from heft $47 billion to $7.5 billion, as reported by CNBC. WeWork...

Canva is now valued at $3.2 billion after an $85 million fundraise by Mary Meeker’s venture capital firm joined by General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, Blackbird, and Sequoia China. It is an eye-popping new valuation as the amount has dramatically increased from  $2.5 billion...

Healx, a UK-based biotechnology startup, has secured a $56 million in Series B funding to combat rare diseases using AI as reported by Bloomberg. This funding round was headed by Atomico, an investment company led by Swedish billionaire and founder of Skype Niklas...

WeWork planned to cut 2,000 jobs at the end of October 2019 after the failed IPO. WeWork — an American commercial real estate company that provides co-working space to companies and startups was founded in 2010. The company has over 800 locations worldwide...