Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now French robotics startup Exotec has raised $ 90 million in a round of funding led by London-based VC firm 83North. Founded out of Lille in 2015, Exotec develops autonomous industrial robots called Skypods that can move horizontally and vertically, and …
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GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Sideloading platform SideQuest is taking $ 650K in early investment from BoostVC, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, and The Fund. The relatively small preseed funding will help SideQuest’s Shane Harris and Orla Harris build a testing service and …
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GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Meet one of gaming’s newest unicorns. Playco has raised $ 100 million at a $ 1 billion valuation for instant games across a wide variety of platforms. That’s a lofty valuation for a company making a web …
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GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Unity Technologies has raised more than $ 1.3 billion in an initial public offering (IPO) at a $ 13.6 billion valuation. Unity makes tools for developers to create games and other computer-generated entertainment. San Francisco-based Unity filed …
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South Korean tech giant, Naver, just led a US$ 80 million (S$ 108 million) investment round into Carousell, the online marketplace startup announced in a press release earlier today (15 Sep). Mirae Asset-Naver Asia Growth Fund and NH Investment & Securities are the two other investors included in the consortium. …
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Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Ouster, a San Francisco-based lidar startup that launched out of stealth in December 2017, today secured $ 42 million in funding, bringing its total raised to $ 140 million. Cofounder and CEO Angus Pacala says the fresh capital will be …
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Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Berbix, a startup developing an “automated” identity verification platform, today closed a $ 9 million funding round. A spokesperson told VentureBeat the new capital is being earmarked for team and customer growth. According to McKinsey, the “ID-verification-as-a-service” market will grow …
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Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Synthego, which is developing a machine learning-based approach to engineering genomes, today closed a $ 100 million funding round. The startup says the funding will be put toward expanding the capabilities of its platforms designed to produce reagents and cells …
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Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Chili Piper today announced it has raised $ 18 million to grow its sales platform for booking meetings and phone calls. With the fresh capital, Chili Piper plans to invest in product capabilities and expand its sales and marketing efforts …
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