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    LineLeap lets users pay to skip the line at bars

    No one likes standing in line. I was reminded of just how awful the experience can be last Saturday, while being herded like...

    Connectly, now backed by Alibaba, taps AI to personalize text messages to customers

    Stefanos Loukakos, formerly a director at Meta’s business-focused Messenger division and, briefly, the tech giant’s blockchain org, noticed several years ago that online retailers were...

    Atomico backs Tem to help businesses buy renewable energy directly from sources

    A U.K. startup wants to do for utilities what neobanks have been doing for the financial sector for more than a decade: disrupt...

    Drybaby is a dating app for the ‘sober curious’ movement

    Drybaby is the newest dating app designed for singles who are sober or interested in reducing their alcohol consumption.  The app arrives as 41%...

    French embedded insurance startup Neat secures $55 million

    It’s not every day that you hear about a large funding round for a French startup in the current funding environment. But Neat,...

    Sri Mandir helps Hindus visit sacred temples and offer donations virtually, from their phones

    While living in the U.S., the Trivedi family was looking for a solution to follow a ritual practice of worshiping at one of...

    Heart disease is the world’s biggest killer — this Cambridge Uni spinout is using AI to find new treatments

    While artificial intelligence (AI) promises to transform all manner of industries, the biggest game-changing breakthroughs in this new era of data-infused machine intelligence...

    Alpha Partners raises $153M third fund for pro-rata investments

    Steve Brotman started Alpha Partners in 2014 with a novel idea at the time: investing alongside early-stage VCs to help preserve their ownership...

    The coolest startup in the Bay Area is a baseball team called the Oakland Ballers

    The most cliche advice for startup founders is to identify a problem in your life and find a way to solve it. A...

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