Over the past four years, TechCrunch has brought together some of the biggest names in robotics: founders, CEOs, VCs and researchers for TC Sessions: Robotics+AI. The show has provided a unique oppor
01:38 Tao Zhang is founder and managing director of Dao Ventures. He says the new U.S. charges against Huawei are unlikely to have a big impact on other countries' decisions to use Hua
Matteo Franceschetti, CEO of Eight Sleep, would prefer that you don’t call his startup a mattress company.Eight Sleep does sell mattresses, albeit smart ones packed with sensors and temperature
London’s tech scene is playing musical chairs. In people news from the investors scene, the UK’s Angel CoFund (ACF) has now made two key appointments to the team and board. Former ACF Chairman G
U.K. startup Daye is rethinking female intimate care from a woman’s perspective, starting with a tampon infused with cannabidiol that tackles period pain.It’s also quietly demolishing the retrograde a
Donny Hall, the chief executive and co-founder of the used car certification service, SureSale, knows used cars. The serial entrepreneur built and sold a previous business, CarSure, which was an insur
In part two of a survey that asks top VCs about exciting opportunities in open source and dev tools, we dig into responses from 10 leading open-source-focused investors at firms that span early to gro
Casting a cold eye on customer behavior and their future lifetime value has brought the Los Angeles-based startup Retina $2.5 million in new funding.The new financing was anchored by previous seed rou
Toronto-based Top Hat, a company that makes a number of software tools for teachers in higher education, today announced that it has raised a $55 million Series D funding round co-ed by Georgian Partn
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Friday it has approved the establishment of ADB Ventures, a new venture platform that will support and invest in startups offe
Medloop, which allows patients to manage healthcare needs and providers, has secured €6 million from Kamet Ventures and AXA.The cash will be used to enhance its product offering and continue expansion
05:23 CGTN's Rachelle Akuffo speaks with Rebecca Fannin, founder and editor of Silicon Dragon Ventures and author of Tech Titans of China about the UK's decision to allow Huawei to bui
Drone delivery may not make a lot of sense for food or parcel delivery yet, but for hospitals it could be a lifesaver. A new test program is being inaugurated at UC San Diego’s Jacobs Medical Ce
Blossom Capital, the venture capital firm co-founded by ex-Index Ventures and LocalGlobe VC Ophelia Brown, just raised a new $185 million fund.The firm’s remit remains broadly the same: to be th
TriggerMesh, a startup building on top of the open source Kubernetes software to help enterprises go “serverless” across apps running in the cloud and traditional data centers, has raised
China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government's investment promotion department said on Tuesday that it has assisted 487 overseas and Mainland com
Uber said on Tuesday it has sold its food delivery business, UberEats, in India to local rival Zomato as the American ride-hailing giant continues to shed lossmaking operations and become profitable