Former Starbucks and Amazon exec leading stealthy NFT search and discovery startup – GeekWire
Ben Straley, CEO of Thred. (Thread Photograph) A new Seattle startup is leaping into the nascent environment of NFTs in an attempt to develop a research and discovery system for the electronic tokens. Thred lately lifted $3.5 million to help enhance…
Startup cites breakthrough in quest for ‘wearable brain’ – GeekWire
Ixana’s 3 co-founders, L-R: Shovan Maity, head of investigate Angik Sarkar, CEO and Shreyas Sen, a Purdue college professor who came up with the new chip. A earlier unfamiliar Seattle startup, founded by semiconductor and technological innovation…
Aizen acquires Kurvv, a Seattle startup that helps predict equipment failure – GeekWire
Bellevue, Clean.-primarily based Kurvv, which sells AI tools that forecast products failure, is becoming acquired by Aizen, an AI-concentrated fintech startup based mostly in Singapore. Ryan Lee, CEO of Kurvv. (Picture courtesy of Ryan Lee) “The…
AI Startup Aibee Becomes Unicorn With Fresh Funds From Xiaomi
(Bloomberg) — Aibee, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, is getting fresh funding from smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp, which propels its valuation to more than $1 billion. Most Read from Bloomberg The startup is also receiving new funds from…
Crypto Startup That Wants to Scan Everyone’s Eyeballs Is Having Some Trouble
(Bloomberg) — Worldcoin — the billion-dollar startup that wants to give cryptocurrency to every living human by imaging their eyes — has recently halted operations in at least seven countries due to a host of logistical hurdles that have prompted…
Why You Should Build a Startup When Everything Has Already Been Invented
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Brilliant ideas are few. There are fewer than 100 truly large markets in the world. And there is no point in developing a second Twitter or a second Snapchat. So, every good idea has already…
This Seattle startup just raised $2.2M for an app that detects ear infections
Wavely Diagnostics CEO Arna Ionescu Stoll. (Wavely Photo) The news: Wavely Diagnostics, a Seattle-based startup developing a smartphone app to detect ear infections, has raised $2.2 million to launch and market its product. The app is tied to virtual…
Autobooks Named as Top Detroit Startup to Watch in 2022 by Purpose Jobs | News
DETROIT, Dec. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Purpose Jobs, the Midwest’s largest startup and tech community, today announced Autobooks as the #1 Detroit Small Startup to Watch on its list of Midwest Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2022.…
This startup wants to help you save money on groceries, and combat food waste
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN Business It may be harder to find deals in the grocery store these days. Flashfood wants to help fix that, while also preventing food waste. Here’s how it works: The Flashfood app shows which grocers in your area have…
SoftBank-Backed Startup Better.com Axes 900 in Three Minutes
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty Better.com, the SoftBank-backed mortgage startup with a wildly temperamental founder, laid off roughly 10 percent of its workforce today, or about 900 people in the United States and India,…