April 2023

Coast, a demo platform for ‘API-first’ companies, lands $2.1M

April 5, 2023

Spencer Levitt and Austin Pager met early on as classmates at Northwestern University and spent the next several years building apps powered by a wide range of APIs. After developers kept tapping them to help with API integrations, they set out to build a tool for “API-first” companies to offer simpler integration experiences. “During Y […]

Coast, a demo platform for ‘API-first’ companies, lands $2.1M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Verto claims a quarter of SVB customers operating in Africa are opening accounts on its platform

April 5, 2023

Verto, a London-based B2B cross-border foreign exchange (FX) and payments enabler for startups and small businesses, said it has acquired a quarter of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) customers from Africa and the MENA region. According to the startup’s own data, SVB had nearly 250 clients operating in both regions before its collapse — the American bank […]

Verto claims a quarter of SVB customers operating in Africa are opening accounts on its platform by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

Blockchain builder Ava Labs partners with Korea’s SK Planet to expand Asia footprint

April 5, 2023

Ava Labs, a company that builds out layer-1 blockchain Avalanche, has partnered with SK Planet, the data management and marketing platform unit of South Korean company SK Square. SK Planet will launch Avalanche Subnet UPTN to offer Web3 infrastructure in South Korea.  The partnership comes less than a month after the New-York based digital asset […]

Blockchain builder Ava Labs partners with Korea’s SK Planet to expand Asia footprint by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

1 Travel Stock No Investors Wants to Touch in 2023

April 5, 2023
Recessionary concerns triggered by a plethora of economic headwinds have dampened market sentiments. Given the market dynamics, it could be wise to avoid weak and beaten-down travel stock Hall of…

After losing sight of its initial pitch, Mojo Vision eyes pivot with $22.4M raise

April 5, 2023

News of Mojo Vision’s pivot rather poetically dropped during CES. After years of trying out the latest iteration of the company’s smart contact lens in various Las Vegas hotel suites, I found myself typing up this news sitting in the hallway of the Wynn, waiting to talk to an HTC executive about their VR play. […]

After losing sight of its initial pitch, Mojo Vision eyes pivot with $22.4M raise by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

3 Stocks to Evade in the Middle of Earnings

April 5, 2023
With a slowing economy and increasing concerns of a potential recession, fundamentally weak stocks might see big plunges this earnings season. Hence, it might be wise to avoid Neovasc (NVCN),…