Startup News

GUEST: The esports industry is one of the fastest growing segments in sports and entertainment, on pace to generate as much as $5 billion in revenue by 2020 — and advertisers obviously want in. One of the primary reaso...

GUEST: If you grew up in the U.S., you’ve probably seen at least one episode of The Jetsons, a cartoon from the 1960s depicting a 21st-century futuristic society with push-button meals, floating cities, and a robot nam...

GUEST: Token​ ​​airdrops​​ ​seem​ ​to​ ​be​ ​a​ ​thing​ ​in​ ​crypto​ ​PR​ ​right​ ​now.​ ​An​ ​airdrop​ ​is​ ​basically​ ​when​ ​a​ ​blockchain...

Inside Music is the latest project to come out of Google’s Creative Labs. It’s a kind of next-level equalizer in virtual reality that uses WebVR and comes from a partnership with the music-analyzing podcast Song Expl...

Life is Strange: Before the Storm is trying to recapture the magic of teens in Arcadia Bay, a fictional small town in Oregon, without the supernatural elements of the first game. Life is Strange debuted in 2015 as an epi...

YellowHead has launched Alison, a machine learning technology that predicts how mobile advertising campaigns, known as paid user acquisition, will turn out. The Israeli startup helps mobile app and game developers get be...

ANALYSIS: A White House staffer under President Obama and Michael Bloomberg’s former campaign manager have an idea for states looking to attract more startups: approach economic development like education reform. In a ...

GamesBeat 2017 is at San Francisco’s beautiful Fort Mason on October 5 and October 6, and we’re delighted to announce our next three speakers. This batch can help us see understand the past and the present when it co...

PRESS RELEASE: Calm.com, one of the world's leading companies in the meditation space, announced today that it has launched the first platform in the US geared towards improving the mental health of college students thro...

Would you be willing to climb into an autonomous car? You slip into the backseat, but there’s no driver to be found. The car speeds off into traffic, and you go into a panic. That’s a question experts have started as...

PRESS RELEASE: Augmenix, Inc., a medical technology company that develops, manufactures, and sells proprietary absorbable hydrogels that separate and protect organs at risk during prostate radiotherapy (RT), announced th...

PRESS RELEASE: TeamSnap, the household name in integrated sports management, confirmed today its popular iOS app now ranks as the No. 11 highest-rated app*. The latest ranking data comes from App Annie, widely regarded a...

ANALYSIS: In its earliest days, Silicon Valley was happy to eschew national politics. The availability of venture financing and the focus on emerging technologies that, for a while at least, were nurtured beyond the atte...

I’m almost done playing with Knack 2, the new PlayStation 4 platformer game built around the character who can morph himself from a tiny creature to a behemoth in a second. My colleague Anthony John Agnello reviewed th...

Panorama Education Releases “Get To Know You Survey “,That Helps Students and Teachers Get To Know Each Other. Panorama Education has released a new online survey tool for teachers and students to get to know one ano...

Danish edtech startup Labster has raised $10 million in a series A round of funding led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Northzone and Unity Technologies founder David Helgason. Founded out of Copenhagen in ...

If you wait until the end of the flight that unleashes 100 people onto a murderous island in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, the game will automatically kick you out. At this point, you may look around and see that a ha...

PRESS RELEASE: Truveris, a healthcare technology company that pioneered cloud-based data analytics solutions for the $450 billion prescription benefits industry, today announced that the company has secured $25 million i...

University Of Texas At Austin, Texas Venture Labs Announces 2017 Cohort The Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs has announced the 14 startups going through their fall cohort in their accelerator. The teams, spanning healthcar...

Wisr Helps Colleges and Universities Build Strong Online Communities For Students, Alumni and Supporters To Connect and Share Knowledge When mentoring college startups one of the first things I do is tell each startup fo...

As one of the biggest ecommerce companies in the U.S., Amazon has set up dozens of fulfillment centers near major conurbations across Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Texas, Washington, among other states. But odd...

PRESS RELEASE: Nimble announced today that CircleBack - an AI-powered contact, capture, and cleaning tool - now comes pre-built in its award-winning Social Sales and Marketing CRM. From email signature capture, which ena...