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Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Thursday, November 29. Chinese startup Geek+ raises $150 million in funding to launch its futuristic AI-enabled logistics robots.  Geek+ , a Beijing, China-based AI & Robotics company, completed a $150 million Series B financing to further invest in innovative products and solutions, global distribution network, and customer service. The latest financing round was led by Warburg Pincus was led by Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm based in New York. To date, Geek+ has raised a total of  about $240 million, raised over four rounds. Founded in 2015 by Yong Zheng, Geek+ is a pioneer of AI-enabled logistics robots for warehouses. It integrates Robotics, AI, Big Data, Cloud Computing, and IoT technologies to provide intelligent robotics solutions and supply chain services. The company’s AI-enabled logistics solutions include “cargo-to-man” picking system, intelligent moving system, intelligent sorting

Getty Getty Everyone wants to build an app these days. The question for new developers-turned-entrepreneurs is how to go from concept to company to corporation without imploding along the way. When it comes to creating and marketing an app, optimization is key. Not only must your app operate at the highest level, but also you must learn how to create it, fine-tune it and ramp up your marketing to beat out the competition. Your startup depends on it. With more than 15 years of product development experience, my team and I have been providing an approach and plan to bootstrap startups based on app ideas for quite a while. We've helped both startups and Fortune 500 companies deliver their product ideas in a way that is sustainable and guarantees a future. Here are some practical ways to help you do the same: Do Your Marketing Research The first and most crucial step in generating your app idea is to test it against the market. No matter what concept you have in mind, someo

A Richmond-based startup company that wants to revolutionize how visitors experience museums and historic sites has raised $1.3 million in investments. ARtGlass, a maker of augmented reality software for smartglasses, said Wednesday it had completed an angel investment round with significant backing from investor networks and individuals in Virginia. ARtGlass was co-founded by husband and wife Greg and Marion Werkheiser. The company provides software that enables historic and cultural sites to provide visitors with special transparent smartglasses that can be used during tours and superimpose 3D images or text on a landscape or objects. Earlier this year, the historic home of President James Monroe near Charlottesville started using the ARtGlass technology, which was introduced by the company at cultural sites in Europe. Last week, George Washington’s Mount Vernon in Fairfax County started using the technology for augmented reality tours. The investment will be used to su

Startup Battlefield Africa is right around the corner. This year it’s in Lagos, Nigeria on December 11. As usual, we have a stellar lineup of panels that will include investors and founders discussing issues such as blockchain, raising venture capital on the continent and beyond and much more. And of course companies will compete in Startup Battlefield, our premier startup competition. Startup Battlefield consists of 15 teams competing in three preliminary rounds — five startups per round — which have only six minutes to pitch and present a live demo to a panel of expert technologists and VC investors. Five of the original 15 startups will be chosen to pitch a second time to a fresh set of judges. One startup will emerge the winner and receive a US$25,000 no-equity cash prize and win a trip for two to compete in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2019 (assuming the company still qualifies to compete at the time). You can apply for a limited supply of free spectator tick

Imran Khan, former chief strategy officer at Snap Inc., has raised $17.5 million for his new e-commerce startup, according to a source familiar with the deal. Lightspeed Venture Partners was lead investor, with Khan's friends and family also participating. Why it matters: Khan is launching a multi-brand retailer aimed at millennials, with an eye toward someday taking on Amazon. Khan's wife Cate, who recently stepped down as head of retail for Amazon-owned Quidsi, will join the startup as a co-founder. Jeremy Liew, a Lightspeed partner and early investor Snap, sees big potential in the multi-brand retailer model that Khan is going after, pointing to a slew of billion dollar-plus e-commerce exits in the last five years. “Like the alumni of PayPal and other great companies, Snap employees will go on to build a new generation of startups. We are thrilled to partner with Imran and Cate Khan to fund the first of the Snap mafia.” — Jeremy Liew The Los Angeles-based business

Each vial contains one gram of ashes Elisa Perednia A satellite carrying the ashes of about 100 people is about to be launched into space, the first ever dedicated memorial spacecraft. Called Elysium Star 2, the small satellite – known as a CubeSat – is the work of San Francisco-based startup Elysium Space. On board, customers have each paid about $2,500 to send the remains of a loved one into orbit. “I know a lot of people connect to the poetry and beauty of the night sky, so I knew this was something a lot of people could enjoy,” said Thomas Civeit, the founder of the company and a former NASA contractor. The spacecraft is being launched on a reused SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as part of the ambitious SSO-A rideshare mission, scheduled to lift-off no earlier than December 1. Organized by the company Spaceflight Industries, this launch will see more than 60 different satellites taken into orbit. As part of this mission, Elysium Star

Thirty European tech CEOs of big startups signed a letter about stock options in Europe. Other tech CEOs can join the group and sign the letter before it is sent to policymakers on January 7. As you can read in the letter below, these CEOs think Silicon Valley isn’t the only region suffering from talent crunch. It could be a “serious bottleneck to growth.” “Over the next twelve months, Europe’s startups will need to hire more than 100,000 employees,” the letter says. “Without delay, we call on legislators to fix the patchy, inconsistent and often punitive rules that govern employee ownership—the practice of giving staff options to acquire a slice of the company they’re working for.” Here’s the current list of signatories: Johannes Reck (GetYourGuide), Alice Zagury (The Family), Christian Reber (Pitch), Johannes Schildt (KRY / LIVI), Peter Mühlmann (Trustpilot), Ilkka Paanenen (Supercell), Taavet Hinrikus (TransferWise), Lucas Carne (Privalia), Jean-Charles Samuelian (Alan), Alex Sa

Are you an aspiring maker? Or a budding entrepreneur? Maybe you just have a great idea and need the resources to pull it off. No matter what stage you’re at with your idea, Techstar ’s Startup Weekend is the place to be this weekend.  This weekend event, which lasts from Nov. 30-Dec. 2, will be held at HFA Solutions in Bentonville. Northwest Arkansas Startup Weekend: Maker Edition will empower entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas, design and create prototypes and get feedback on their ideas in less than three days. “What’s really cool about this ‘maker’ themed event is that it will be held at  HFA’s Design Lab ,” says Haley Allgood, of Startup Junkie. “With access to this space, participants will have the tools they need actually to build their minimum viable product during the weekend. Local engineers, artists, and tinkers are volunteering their time to help the teams on Saturday. They will also get coaching from successful entrepreneurs about the business model around their product

Want to get an edge on the competition for your small business? The Startup Weekend is a 54-hour event where you can learn how to be the best tech savvy entrepreneur you always wanted to be. The event starts on Friday night, and continues through the weekend. It is held at 35 N 1st E, Rexburg, Idaho. Christmas is in the air. With events going on all weekend. Instead of staying at home hiding from the eggnog chugging carol singing people that always come out at this time of year, come join in. The Rexburg Tree Festival, Christmas at Hemming Village and Christmas Lego building are sure to bring out the Christmas spirit to Rexburg residents. Brigham Young University-Idaho is also pulling out all of their stops for their Christmas program. In addition, come listen to Brian Stokes Mitchell and the best that BYUI has to offer. Startup Weekend: Rexburg Nov 29 at 5 PM – Dec 1 at 9 PM Madison Business Incubator and Accelerator 35 N 1st E, Rexburg, Idaho 83440 For all event details, pl

Deputy, a Sydney-based employment software company for casual workers, has raised $US81 million for its global expansion plans. The Series B raise was led by the US venture capital company IVP, which previously backed Dropbox, Twitter and Slack. The company currently operates in 80 countries, and counts Qantas and McDonalds among its clients. Deputy, an Australian workforce management software startup, has set new benchmark for series B raise, pulling in $US81 million ($A111m) from US backers. VC firm IVP, the Silicon Valley investment business that previously backed the likes of Dropbox, Slack and Twitter, led the round with support from OpenView. Based in Sydney, Deputy has been around for a decade, and previously raised $US25 million ($A33m) in a Series A round backed by OpenView and Australian VC firms Square Peg Capital and EVP. CEO and co-founder Ashik Ahmed said the business “was basically bootstrapped and self-funded” for its first eight years, but as global demand for

Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Tuesday, November 27. Amazon had the biggest shopping day ever on Cyber Monday. Online retail giant, Amazon, says it had its biggest shopping day ever on Cyber Monday . Customers ordered over 180 million items over the five days starting with Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. However, the company did not disclose revenue from the shopping holidays. According to the report, of the 180 million items sold on Amazon website, the all-new Echo Dot was the #1 selling product on Amazon globally, from any manufacturer, in any category. The best-selling products across all categories on Amazon.com included all-new Echo Dot, Fire TV Stick 4K with all-new Alexa Voice Remote, and Fire 7 tablet with Alexa, according to the report. Enterprise messaging startup Eko Communications raises $20M for its European expansion. Eko , a messaging startup founded by Thailand Billionaire Heir, has just closed $20 million in f

TEHRN -- The science and technology park of Mashhad in northeastern Iran will host the dietary and herbal supplement startup weekend on November 27 to 29, Mehr reported. Startups and knowledge-based companies active in the field of producing probiotic and prebiotic supplements and brain function development as well as startups manufacture weight loss products and innovative technology in producing dietary and herbal supplements. The event applies gamification, techniques intended to leverage people's natural desires for socializing, learning, mastery, competition, achievement, status, self-expression, altruism, or closure, or simply their response to the framing of a situation as game or play.  Three selected teams will be introduced to the investors and then they commercialize their products with the help of accelerators. SB/MQ/MG https://ift.tt/2r5cydh

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Open-source software powerhouse Red Hat has acquired storage software startup NooBaa and will fold the company into its existing storage portfolio with an eye toward enhancing its container strategy . Ranga Rangachari, Red Hat vice president and general manager of storage and hyper-converged infrastructure, said in a blog Tuesday morning that the company intends to use NooBaa's technology to bring a "comprehensive set of data services" to its storage portfolio, including Red Hat Ceph Storage and Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage. "We believe that the combination of data resiliency features and greater ease of data migration between cloud providers adds to Red Hat's value proposition around application portability," Rangachari wrote. The integration with the OpenShift Container Platform will allow developers to create data-driven applications more efficiently and take advantage of NooBaa's services while providing a consistent experience across pl

"You'd have to be nuts not to take advantage of the unique investment opportunity presented by one of the most business-friendly countries in the world, with the youngest, best-educated workforce in Europe," Bill Clinton, former US President said at the Invest in Ireland Forum in New York in February 2012. Ireland’s historical and geographical advantage makes this island nation attractive to technology companies. For example, Ireland is the only English-speaking country in the eurozone. Also, Ireland is located between Europe and USA allowing businesses to access both the markets. The Irish government is passionate about supporting technology businesses and offers one of the lowest corporation tax rates in Europe at 12.5%. Technology companies can also avail of a 25% tax credit against research and development costs. Ireland also has double taxation agreements with more than 60 countries. Left to right, Hardeep Walia, co-founder and chief executive officer of Motif I

The founders of Evertrace Darina Onoprienko (CEO) and Gautier Lobry (CTO) The Hundert The Hundert is a Berlin-based startup project and print magazine featuring outstanding companies and their founders since 2013. Every issue puts 100 amazing startups in the spotlight and tells their stories. Previous editions include 100 Female Founders Europe , 100 Startups New York  and  100 Startups Berlin — the most famous one so far. The printed magazine of each edition can be found at various events and conferences across Europe.  Their freshest edition Vol. 11 features the 100 most innovative startups of Germany.  Thomas Eichhorn, the product owner of The Hundert tells me that he expects this one to become the most famous one very soon. "Six photographers traveled through Germany this summer and staged the startups at their locations. That's why we have a very exciting mix of startups, pictures, and cities. This was also a big challenge, as this was our first 'country edi