Several years ago, when Elizabeth Softky first heard of the concept of universal basic income, she had her doubts. She was a public school teacher at the time, and she knew how hard it was […]
Category: Tech News
The Wolf Tree and the World Wide Web
In this essay from Finding the Mother Tree, Suzanne Simard reflects on parenting, climate change, and the networks at the heart of the forest.
Industrial robots surge to help companies meet demand
North American companies boosted spending on industrial robots in Q1 as they scrambled to keep up with pandemic-driven demand.Read More
Juul inventor’s Myst lands funding as institutional investors turn to China’s e-cigs
Over the past several years, institutional investors had largely shied away from China’s e-cigarette makers, an industry that was teeming with shoddy workshops and lacked regulatory oversight. But investors’ attitude is changing as China sets […]
A conversation with Bison Trails: the AWS-like service inside of Coinbase
Coinbase shares tumbled today to their their lowest point since the company began trading publicly on April 14. The market often moves in mysterious ways, but several drivers could be at play, including Coinbase’s high […]
SoftBank leads $15M round for China’s industrial robot maker Youibot
SoftBank has picked its bet in China’s flourishing industrial robotics space. Youibot, a four-year-old startup that makes autonomous mobile robots for a range of scenarios, said it has notched close to 100 million yuan ($15.47 […]
Proper data hygiene critical as enterprises focus on AI governance
AI use raises pressures to understand the provenance of data. That means greater AI governance will be needed.Read More
Why did Bill.com pay $2.5B for Divvy?
As expected, Bill.com is buying Divvy, the Utah-based corporate spend management startup that competes with Brex, Ramp and Airbase. The total purchase price of around $2.5 billion is substantially above the company’s roughly $1.6 billion post-money […]
The future of virtual deal-making and the return to work
Even the legal industry is not immune to digital transformation, as technology changes how deals are made. AR/VR tech will be the future.Read More
Emergence Capital co-founder Jason Green on transitioning out of the firm, and what’s next
Succession is a major issue for many venture firms. Institutional investors, founders — even reporters — often get attached to individual members of a team, and when one of those individuals, particularly a firm co-founder, […]