French startup Agricool has raised $4.3 million (€4 million) from newly launched VC firm Daphni as well as Parrot founder Henri Seydoux and Captain Train (acquired by Trainline) co-founder Jean-Daniel Guyot. Agricool’s product is quite unusual as the company wants to grow strawberries and later other fruits and vegetables inside shipping containers. With many people […]
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How Slack Became The Fastest Growing Business App of All Time [Infographic]
14th @ Irving: NYC Tech Community’s Home in Union Square
Until now, New York City’s technology community has led a nomadic existence—meetups in startup lounges strewn with pizza, incubators operating out of empty corporate cubicles. There were opportunities to learn, make connections, and find work, but they were often hidden in the gated warrens of “Silicon Alley,” a loose term for the corridor connecting the […]
7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund’s Brain
Richard Craib is a 29-year-old South African who runs a hedge fund in San Francisco. Or rather, he doesn’t run it. He leaves that to an artificially intelligent system built by several thousand data scientists whose names he doesn’t know. Under the banner of a startup called Numerai, Craib and his team have built technology […]
Business Success: 24 Famous Entrepreneurs Share their Top Strategies
Tesla powers a whole island with solar to show off its energy chops
Tesla completed its $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity this week, and, to celebrate, the company has announced a major solar energy project: wiring up the whole island of Ta’u in American Samoa. Previously, the island ran on diesel generators, but over the past year Tesla has installed a microgrid of solar energy panels and batteries that […]
Platio turns sidewalks into solar collectors
Platio is a new company from Hungary dedicated to putting solar panels just about everywhere. They’re starting with sidewalks. Founded by a team of engineers and architects the system uses solid solar panels overlaid on plastic backing that ensures the panels won’t break when stepped on or rolled over and that each panel connects with […]
Consumers Interested in Self-Learning Navigation for the Car
BOSTON, Nov. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Despite concerns about privacy, consumers are interested in systems which learn driving behavior and provide help with navigation. This is according to a recent survey from the In-Vehicle UX (IVX) group at Strategy Analytics According to the report (“Consumers Show Robust Interest in Self-Learning Navigation”), consumer interest is strong for systems which learn […]
This startup has built a prosthetic leg from sugar cane for disabled people to walk, dance and Rise
Prajwal Basavaraja is a 25-year-old student pursuing a Visual Graphics course in Bangalore. Although he is a leg amputee, he has never let his disability prevent him from realising his dream of becoming an athlete. Nagesh Chowdappa, another amputee hailing from the city, is a Team Lead at Infosys BPO. While he was awarded multiple […]
Silicon Valley’s fastest growing companies succeed because they aren’t focused on selling
A trait shared by the fastest growing and most disruptive companies in history—Google, Amazon, Uber, AirBnb, and eBay—is that they aren’t focused on selling products, they are building platforms. The ability to leverage the network effects of a platform is something that the technology industry learned long ago—and perfected. It is what gives Silicon Valley […]