by The Brio Team | Jul 24, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Jon Russell / Source: TechCrunch Grab, the ride-hailing company competing with Uber in Southeast Asia, has pulled in $2 billion of new financing from existing investors Didi Chuxing, the company that defeated Uber in China, and SoftBank. Didi said...
by The Brio Team | Jul 21, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Natasha Lomas / Source: TechCrunch Is AI chipmaker Graphcore out to eat Nvidia’s lunch? Co-founder and CEO Nigel Toon laughs at that interview opener — perhaps because he sold his previous company to the chipmaker back in 2011. “I’m sure Nvidia will...
by The Brio Team | Jul 21, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Jon Russell / Source: TechCrunch The U.S. tech IPO window may have reopened in 2017 following a lull last year, but the outlook is also looking rosier for another listing platform located on the other side of world. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange...
by The Brio Team | Jul 20, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Katie Roof / Source: TechCrunch While consumers are increasingly turning to Amazon to buy everything from home goods to electronics, a newly launched app called Dote believes there’s an opportunity to compete with the e-commerce giant’s fashion...
by The Brio Team | Jul 20, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Andrew Medal / Source: Entrepreneur As a startup founder, the term “runway” has an entirely different meaning than what most people think of when they hear the term. For those unfamiliar, runway refers to the amount of capital on hand before a...
by The Brio Team | Jul 20, 2017 | Getting Funded
Author: Matt Winesett / Source: AEI The future economy can create wealth, but what about work? — City Journal With the impact that automation and robotics will soon have on manufacturing and retail, one can imagine all firms radically improving their...