Orus offers business insurance products to restaurant owners and other small companies
French startup Orus has raised an $11.6 million Series A funding round (€11 million). The startup offers insurance products specifically designed for small and medium companies....
Heura adds ‘York ham style slices’ to its 100%-plant-based vegan mix
Barcelona-based Heura, a disrupter in the plant-based protein space since 2017, has a product hitting shelves shortly in Spain and France that it reckons will have...
Zest Equity, a UAE-based startup digitizing private market deals, raises $3.8M seed funding
UAE-based Zest Equity, a startup digitizing private market dealings, has raised $3.8 million seed funding to build more tools for enabling fast and transparent transactions by...
Saronic, a defense startup building autonomous ships, raises $55M
Saronic, a startup developing autonomous ships for defense, has raised $55 million in a Series A round led by Caffeinated Capital with participation from 8VC, Andreessen...
Ultra-portable monitor from Espresso Displays goes 4K
When I reviewed the Espresso Display last year, I concluded that it would be a great addition to a mobile office setup for workers who needed...
John Riccitiello steps down as unity CEO with former Red Hat chief exec Jim...
Weeks after upsetting developers with a proposed runtime fee, only to quickly backtrack on the idea, Unity announced today that CEO John Riccitiello was stepping down...
Instagram Threads preps a Trending Topics feature in battle with X
In an effort to better compete with X (formerly Twitter), Instagram’s Threads is preparing to launch a much-in-demand feature: Trends. A Threads user spotted the update...
California passes law mandating VC firms to release investments’ diversity information
Last night, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 54, which will require venture capital firms in the state to annually report the diversity...
The AI race, crypto doldrums, and the future of fake fish
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.
Our Monday show covers the...
Accel leads $21M investment in UK care home marketplace Lottie
The U.K. care home sector was pegged as £7.7 billion market in 2021, according to most recent estimates, yet capacity is shrinking at a time when...