June 15, 2025

The U.S. Navy is more aggressively telling startups, ‘We want you’

While Silicon Valley executives like those from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI are grabbing headlines for trading their Brunello Cucinelli vests for Army Reserve uniforms, a quieter transformation has been underway in the U.S. Navy. How? Well, the Navy’s Chief Technology Officer Justin Fanelli says he has spent the last two and a half years focused […]

Jetstream, a Ghanaian e-logistics platform for Africa’s B2B importers and exporters, takes in $13M equity, debt

January 10, 2023

The market for cross-border logistics services is said to hit revenues of $32 billion by 2025, with several companies vying for market share in the ever-growing competitive industry. Ghanaian e-logistics startup Jetstream Africa is on the list, and today, it’s announcing that it has secured $13 million in equity and debt pre-Series A financing.  Fintech […]

Jetstream, a Ghanaian e-logistics platform for Africa’s B2B importers and exporters, takes in $13M equity, debt by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

Qarnot creates green data centers by putting servers in central heating boilers

January 10, 2023

Running a data center means that you have to find innovative ways to manage heat from the servers. And French startup Qarnot is standardizing its process to reuse fatal heat and turn it into an asset. While the startup has been around for a while, Qarnot now wants to reach the next level. It has […]

Qarnot creates green data centers by putting servers in central heating boilers by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Singapore-based Supermom helps parenting brands navigate a post-cookie world

January 10, 2023

Supermom, a parenting platform with 20 million users in six Southeast Asian countries, offers parents price comparisons, communities and the chance to earn money by completing surveys. For brands, it gives them a way to conduct market research and collect first-party data, which is important as marketers prepare for a post-cookie world. The Singapore-based startup […]

Singapore-based Supermom helps parenting brands navigate a post-cookie world by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Korean handmade goods marketplace Backpackr gears up to expand into Southeast Asia

January 10, 2023

About a decade ago, Donghwan Kim helped his cousin, a ceramist, look for sales channels, like flea markets, to sell his ceramics. But they had a hard time locating a suitable platform, so after about a year, Kim decided to create a marketplace for handmade goods himself in South Korea called Backpackr. Today, Backpackr, which […]

Korean handmade goods marketplace Backpackr gears up to expand into Southeast Asia by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

FCC moves to form Space Bureau as its role in regulating orbit intensifies

January 9, 2023

The Federal Communications Commission regulate lots of industries and practices relating to telecommunications and the internet, but it is now cementing its role as a space regulator by voting to create a brand new bureau specializing in the topic. Bureaus are the divisions of the agency that handle different areas of industry: media, wireless, consumer, […]

FCC moves to form Space Bureau as its role in regulating orbit intensifies by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

How companies at CES are taking on climate change (or pretending to)

January 9, 2023

I can’t get it out of my head: A honkingly big Caterpillar sign that read, “JOIN US AS WE BUILD A BETTER WORLD.” The digital recruitment billboard at CES 2023 followed promos for an autonomous compactor and excavator, and proceeded another callout: “CHECK OUT OUR BIG AUTONOMOUS TRUCK ⬇.” I did, and boy was it […]

How companies at CES are taking on climate change (or pretending to) by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch