Champ Suthipongchai Contributor Champ Suthipongchai is a founder and primary care physician at Creative Ventures, a deep technology company that invests in early stage companies. When you hire for your startup you need to understand one thing: this might be one of the worst times to look for talent. While [...]
Just when Beatriz Acevedo thought she was out, a chance to start Suma Wealth pulled her back in. The California-based company, which exhibited as part of the Battlefield 200 at australiabusinessblog.com Disrupt, is designed for Latinos, offering in-cultural financial content, products and experiences to help them take control of their [...]
Shares of Delhivery are down more than 32% since Thursday, below its May issue price, after the Indian logistics company posted moderate quarterly business growth this week. Delhivery said this week that its supply chain service and truckload volumes had shrunk in the quarter ending September. Shares of Delhivery collapsed [...]
Canberra food tech startup Nourish Ingredients has raised $28.6 million (A$43 million) in Series A to produce synthetic fats that make fake meats taste better. Horizons Ventures – the private investment arm of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing – doubled down on the idea, backing Nourish’s first $11 million in [...]
A new startup aims to help companies build and leverage communities around their products so they can bypass multiple disparate tools and manage everything on one platform. Founded in the Czech Republic in 2021, talkbase launched from stealth just a few weeks ago, backed by $2 million in pre-seed funding [...]
Global tech giant Microsoft is taking on Canva with a new free graphic design app in Microsoft 365. A web preview of the Designer app is already available for early use, with the company’s corporate VP, Liat Ben-Zur, say the app grew out of PowerPoint, where Designer uses AI to [...]
When owls launched in 2021, it was a car rental service for shared car drivers. But after its founders realized that many car-sharing drivers do not have access to credit, particularly in Latin America, the Buenos Aires-based company switched to fintech and offered drivers financial services through a behavioral scoring [...]
It’s no secret that the pandemic has pushed healthcare to go virtual, theoretically making it easier for patients to attend appointments and access the care they need. But Rebecca Weisinger, CEO and co-founder of Rest Healthhas seen many patients falter in the long process of qualifying for devices they need. [...]
Edtech platform Clipboard, which helps school manage students’ extracurricular activities, has raised $3.1 million. The round was led by SaaS-focused Sydney VC EVP, with support from existing backer Jelix Ventures and Sprint Ventures., Clipboard is an online attendance system that streamlines timely communication for staff, students, and parents when students [...]
Burnout among employees is real. Reports suggest work-related chronic stress could cost companies money up to $190 billion annually in reduced production and sick days, not to mention the much-discussed “big layoff” with employees jumping in search of a better work-life balance. In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared [...]