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/PRNewswire/ -- First Resonance, a Los Angeles-based start-up transforming manufacturing with its Factory Operating System, ION, today announced a $14M Series...

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You might have heard about Serve Robotics, the Postmates spin-off robot department under Uber’s wing. Chrissy Teigen is the latest star to experience it “in the wild” when driving and encouraged it to cross the street.

Textbook and tutoring company Chegg is acquiring a leading language learning platform to expand its offerings into different languages. The company announced it will acquire Busuu, a UK company, for approximately $436 million in an all-cash transaction. Founded in 2008, Busuu offers courses in a dozen languages and serves more than 500,000 paying subscribers, according to the…

/PRNewswire/ -- Serve Robotics, the leading autonomous sidewalk delivery company, today announced the closing of a $13 million expanded seed funding round,...

Singapore-headquartered space tech startup SpeQtral has raised $8.3 million in a funding round led by Xora Innovation.

Precision agriculture platform Fasal raises $4 mn in pre-Series A round

This week was marked by new announcements from fund managers, including some that could seemingly alter the investment landscape.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Poladrone, an end-to-end drone solutions provider headquartered in Malaysia, has raised US$4.29 million (RM18 million) in a Seed round led by Wavemaker Partners, one of Southeast Asia's leading venture capital firms. Other investors that participated in the round include the Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC), a strategic investment fund wholly owned by the Khazanah Nasional

Rhinoceros beetles are one of the greatest threats to oil palm crops, attacking plants while they are young and potentially lowering a farm’s yield for years. They also affect workers’ health, since pesticides need to be sprayed frequently. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Poladrone wants to change the way farms use pesticides with a combination of […]