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White-label SaaS shipping startup Outvio closes $3M round led by Change Ventures

Outvio, an Estonian startup that provides a white-label SaaS fulfillment solution for medium-sized and large online retailers in Spain and Estonia, has closed a $3 million early-stage financing round led […]




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Acrew Capital, Jeff Bezos back Colombia-based proptech La Haus’ $100M debt, equity round

La Haus, which has developed an online real estate marketplace operating in Mexico and Colombia, has secured $100 million in additional funding, including $50 million in equity and $50 million […]




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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Latham & Watkins were top M&A legal advisers by value and volume in retail sector for H1 2021, finds GlobalData

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Latham & Watkins were the top mergers and acquisitions (M&A) legal advisers in the retail sector for H1 2021 by value and volume, respectively. Simpson […]







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SoftBank’s Humanoid Robot Pepper Can’t Hold a Job, Gets Shelved 

SoftBank has stopped production of its humanoid robot Pepper, after experiences showed that it had trouble holding a job. (Photo by Owen Beard on Unsplash)   By John P. Desmond, Editor, AI Trends   SoftBank […]




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Vaayu’s carbon tracking for retailers raises $1.6M, claims it could cut CO2 in half by 2030

Carbon tracking is very much the new hot thing in tech, and we’ve previously covered more generalist startups doing this at scale for companies, such as Plan A Earth out […]




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Is the US labor shortage the big break AI needs?

Chetan Dube Contributor Chetan Dube is the founder and CEO of Amelia, a former assistant professor at New York University and an expert on autonomics, cognitive computing and the future […]







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Twitter to begin pilot testing Fleet ads starting today

Ads are coming to Twitter’s version of Stories, known as Fleets. The company announced today it will began pilot testing Fleet ads in the U.S., which will bring full-screen, vertical […]