Qureight, a Cambridge-based health tech company that develops digital infrastructure for complex medical data, has raised $8.5m (£6.8m). The company was founded in response to the limited treatment options for complex heart and lung diseases. According to Qureight, part of the problem is that researchers have to manually extract important information from large volumes of […]
Layoffs usually drive attention and sympathy toward affected employees, but rarely does anyone talk about what happens to the recruiters who are sometimes also asked to leave when companies decide to cut headcount. Indeed, tech firms cut up to half of their recruitment teams when they were laying people off in droves back in 2022 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Paediatric behavioural and developmental health platform Butterfly Learnings on Thursday announced that it completed a series A funding round raising Rs 32 crore.Insitor Impact Asia Fund II and Enzia Ventures led the funding. Other participants included CIIE (IIMA Ventures), Foundation Botnar, 9 Unicorns, and Venture Catalysts.The company plans to use the funds to “extend its reach across multiple states and cities in India through a 200-center network,” it said in a statement. It currently has...
ClickPost, a logistics intelligence platform for online retailers, has raised $6 million in a funding round led by early-stage venture capital firms Inflexor Ventures partners and Athera Venture Partners. The round also saw participation from Riverwalk Holdings and its existing investor Rebright Partners.ClickPost said the funds will be used for introducing enhanced products and to extend its presence into new geographical areas, as well as further within its existing regions. We've seen some of...
Pune-based agritech firm Ecozen on Friday said it has raised $30 million (about Rs 250 crore) in a mix of equity and debt from existing investors including US-based global investment manager Nuveen.The debt support in the deal was fulfilled by InCred Credit Fund and U.S. International Development Finance Corporation through Ecozen’s exclusive advisor Setuka Partners, said a company statement.Ecozen said it has grown fivefold over the past two years, with a threefold increase in profit. The maker...
The global data centre market is poised for robust growth in the coming
Medulance, an emergency healthcare services startup, has raised $3 million in Series A funding, led by Alkemi Growth Capital.The funding round also saw participation from investors such as Dexter Capital, Boat founder Aman Gupta, and Emcure Pharmaceuticals’ executive director Namita Thapar. The New Delhi-based startup has raised fresh capital after running as a profitable bootstrapped company for six years, it said in the statement.The funds will be used to increase its presence across the...
Tiger Woods made history again this week by making the Masters cut for a record 24th consecutive time. But he couldn’t do much more than that. He shot a five-over-par 77 on Sunday, a day after a dismal 82 in the third round. Woods was able to finish a tournament for the second time since the start of 2023. “It was a good week all around,” he said, still upbeat after his Sunday round. “I think that coming in here, not having played a full tournament in a very long time, it was a good fight on...
Tiger Woods is back in action at Augusta National Golf Club. Here's how he fared in his second round at the 2024 Masters.
The updated regulation will require colleges and universities across the country to either raise staff salaries to $58,656 or grant them overtime pay by Jan. 1, 2025.
For centuries, farmers used almanacs to try to understand and predict weather patterns.Now, a new crop of Latin American startups is helping do that with artificial intelligence, promising a farming revolution in agricultural giants like Brazil, the world's biggest exporter of soybeans, corn and beef.Aline Oliveira Pezente, a 39-year-old entrepreneur from the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, was working at agriculture company Louis Dreyfus Commodities when she noticed a problem in how the...
Puffer Finance secures $18 million in funding round led by Brevan Howard Digital and Electric Capital. Crypto exchanges Coinbase and Kraken also invest in the Ethereum liquid restaking protocol. Puffer Finance, an Ethereum liquid staking protocol on Eigenlayer, has raised $18 million in its latest funding round. An announcement on Tuesday says Brevan Howard Digital […]