Sunday, an insurtech startup based in Bangkok, announced it has raised a $45 million Series B. Investors include Tencent, SCB 10X, Vertex Growth, Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, Quona Capital, Aflac Ventures and Z Venture Capital. The company says the round was oversubscribed, and that it doubled its revenue growth in 2020. Founded in…
California DoorDash workers protested outside of the home of DoorDash CEO Tony Xu on Thursday, prompted by a recent California Superior Court Judge ruling calling 2020’s Proposition 22 unconstitutional. Prop 22, which was passed last November in California, would allow app-based companies like DoorDash, Uber and Lyft to continue classifying workers as independent contractors rather…
Netflix has released the trailer (below) for Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space, a five-part docuseries following SpaceX’s first all-civilian mission. Directed by Emmy Award winner Jason Hehir (The Last Dance) and billed as “the first Netflix documentary series to cover an event in near real-time,” the shows will feature preparations and training for the mission,…
Firefly launched its first rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and on board it carried a number of payloads with an intended destination of low Earth orbit. The rocket took off as planned, and seemed to be doing fairly well during the initial portion of the launch, before experiencing “an anomaly” that clearly…
Shahar Keinan Contributor Pek Lum, co-founder and CEO at Auransa, has more than 20 years of genomics and drug discovery experience and is the chief architect behind Auransa’s technology. Startups devoted to reproductive and women’s health are on the rise. However, most of them deal with women’s fertility: birth control, ovulation and the inability to…
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NASA says it’s confident its Perseverance rover has successfully collected its first sample of Martian rock. The achievement marks a significant breakthrough for the mission team after an initial attempt to gather a similar rock sample ended in failure last month. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is overseeing the current Mars mission, said that…
The BMW Group announced Thursday its intentions to commit to a 50% reduction from 2019 levels in global carbon dioxide emissions during the use-phase of its vehicles by 2030, as well as a 40% reduction in emissions during the life cycle of the vehicle. These goals, including a plan to focus on the principles of…
No great surprise here, but Locast — which took over-the-air broadcasts from the major network channels in about three dozen major markets in the United States — is no more. After a couple years in existence, the networks banded together and filed suit. And on Sept. 1, 2021, a federal judge granted summary judgement that…