• startup funding: ETtech Deals Digest: Startup funding falls 30% on year to $73 million this week

    Startup funding in the penultimate week of April 2024 declined by nearly 27.9% from the same period a year ago, totalling $74 million across 14 deals. However, deal density in the latest week improved to $5.3 million per deal, as per Tracxn data. From April 6 to April 12, 2023, startups had raised about $2.4 million per deal. Funding was down sequentially as well, from $103 million across 15 funding rounds in the previous week. Of the total corpus raised this week, fundraises of...

  • Manchester Digital gets Barclays Eagle Labs funding to support local startups

    Regional tech industry body Manchester Digital has been awarded funding from Barclays Eagle Labs to support local startups. The funding, awarded as part of the Barclays Eagle Labs Ecosystem Partnership Programme, will assist 200 startups and founders spread evenly across the 10 boroughs of Manchester. “Our Startup Activator programme offers a bold vision of a […]

  • Family Guy star reveals his mother tried to get the show cancelled: My parents ‘hate the show’

    Patrick Warburton said the money he earnt voicing Joe Swanson on the popular cartoon helped support his parents

  • Best Amazon Echo Show deal: Get a refurbished Amazon Echo Show 15 without remote at Woot!.

    As of April 25, get a refurbished Amazon Echo Show 15 device without remote for just $149.99 at Woot!. That's a savings of $130 and a discount of 49%.

  • 6 Effective Funding Strategies for Startups

    Navigating startup financing is complex. Entrepreneurs find themselves at the crossroads of innovation and survival, where a single decision can either fuel their dreams or extinguish their aspirations. Here we look at six ways you can finance your startup to support your business for long-term success.

  • Knuckles TV show getting a physical release

    Knuckling up at retail

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    Kansas to get federal funding for broadband access

    Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Federal officials are signing off on a plan to provide 451-million-dollars to expand and improve high-speed internet service in parts of Kansas. State officials say the funding from the U.S. Department

  • OpenAI Startup Fund quietly raises $15M

    The OpenAI Startup Fund, a venture fund related to — but technically separate from — OpenAI that invests in early-stage, typically AI-related companies across education, law and the sciences, has quietly closed a $15 million tranche. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, two unnamed investors contributed the $15 million in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

  • Deadline to apply for startup chip funding on the horizon

    The tech minister is urging semiconductor leaders to apply for funding through the soon-to-expire Chips Joint Undertaking. UK semiconductor companies and researchers are currently eligible to apply for access to a £5m funding pot for research. British firms gained access to the funding in March when the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) announced […]

  • Local parks getting upgrades with state funding

    Rep. Marla Brown, R-Lawrence, announced on Thursday the release of $100,000 in state funding for upgrades to Pearson and Marti parks in Lawrence County. The funding stems from the Pennsylvania Parks and Forest Foundation (PPFF), according to Brown.

  • Knuckles review: Sonic's sidekick gets his own show

    It sure seems like a lot of classic cartoon characters have found their way to Paramount+, from the Paw Patrol narcs to good old SpongeBob. The streamer also hosts the two most recent films about a certain famous blue hedgehog, so naturally his pal Knuckles’ spinoff series would premiere on the platform—on April 26, to be precise—as well. But save for the very expository first episode, Sonic himself doesn’t appear in Knuckles, as the alien boys’ movie dad James Marsden is conveniently “out of...

  • Ohio has $4 billion in unclaimed funds -- how to get your share

    The Ohio Department of Commerce reported last week that its Division of Unclaimed Funds is safeguarding about $4 billion in unclaimed funds.