Bridgestone has put more than $100M into eco-tires made of shrubs
Drought-friendly plant can produce rubber good enough for Indy race tires. Enlarge / A Firestone race tire made from guayule plants, pictured next to the little woody shrubs that made it possible. (credit: Bridgestone) There's.....»»
Saving the Great Plains with prescribed fire, mixed grazing
Rangelands in the Great Plains, and the ranchers who depend on them, are losing battles against an invasion of brush and shrubs on historical grasslands......»»
Tiger Global-led $100M investment makes Apna India’s fastest unicorn
A 22-month-old startup that is helping millions of blue- and gray-collar workers in India learn new skills and find jobs has become the youngest firm to join the coveted unicorn status in the world’s second-largest internet market. Apna announced o.....»»
Theranos promised investors $1B in revenue despite internal projection of just $100M
Jurors heard about mounting losses, fudged data from first witnesses. Enlarge / Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes collects her belongings after going through security at the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building with her defense team on August 31,.....»»
EnerVenue raises $100M to accelerate clean energy using nickel-hydrogen batteries
In order to support a buildout of renewable energy, which tends to over-generate electricity at certain times of day and under-generate at others, the grid is going to need a lot of batteries. While lithium-ion works fine for consumer electronics and.....»»
T-Mobile confirms hack that could have impacted 100M customers
T-Mobile has confirmed a potentially huge data breach and says it's now conducting an investigation to determine the full extent of the incident......»»
$100M donation powers decade-long moonshot to create solar satellites that beam power to Earth
It sounds like a plan concocted by a supervillain, if that villain’s dastardly end was to provide cheap, clean power all over the world: launch a set of three-kilometer-wide solar arrays that beam the sun’s energy to the surface of the Ea.....»»
Fortnite challenge guide: Drive an IO vehicle with off-road tires
The latest set of Fortnite challenges is live, and one of them requires you to drive an IO vehicle with off-road tires. Here's how to complete the objective......»»
Microbes engineered to convert sugar into a chemical found in tires
The future environmental footprint of the tire industry could be substantially shrunk thanks to a new ecofriendly way found by four RIKEN researchers that harnesses bacteria to make a chemical used in synthetic rubber......»»
Work-Bench will continue supporting early-stage enterprise startups with new $100M fund
In spite of the pandemic, New York City remains the center of commerce and business, and over the last decade a robust startup community has developed there. Work-Bench, the NYC VC firm that concentrates on early-stage enterprise seed investments, an.....»»
Work-Bench will continue supporting early stage enterprise startups with new $100M fund
In spite of the pandemic, New York City remains the center of commerce and business, and over the last decade a robust startup community has developed there. Work-Bench, the NYC VC firm that concentrates on early stage enterprise seed investments, an.....»»
Vietnamese on-demand e-commerce platform Loship raises $12M at a valuation of $100M
Loship, the Vietnamese on-demand e-commerce platform that started as a reviews app, announced today it has raised $12 million in pre-Series C funding, bringing its valuation to $100 million. The round was co-led by BAce Capital, an Ant Group-backed v.....»»
Industrial cybersecurity startup Nozomi Networks secures $100M in pre-IPO funding
Nozomi Networks, an industry cybersecurity startup that aims to shield critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, has raised $100 million in pre-IPO funding. The Series D funding round was led by Triangle Peak Partners, and also includes investment.....»»
UK Pharmaceutical Firm Fined For Hiking Drug Price 6,000%
Slashdot reader Bruce66423 shares a report from the Guardian: The UK's competition watchdog has imposed fines of more than £100m on the pharmaceutical company Advanz and its former private equity owners after it was found to have inflated the p.....»»
No-code Bubble raises $100M to make technical co-founders obsolete
Bubble enables anyone — coder or not — to begin building modern web applications using a click-and-drag interface that can connect data sources and other software together in one fluid interface. Among Silicon Valley circles, a fun parl.....»»
Accel doubles down on 1Password, which just raised $100M more at a $2B valuation
The previously bootstrapped 1Password raised its first round of external capital in 2019, a $200 million Series A led by Accel that represented the VC firm’s largest single investment in its 35 years. Toronto-based 1Password is one of tho.....»»
ActiveFence comes out of the shadows with $100M in funding and tech that detects online harm, now valued at $500M+
Online abuse, disinformation, fraud and other malicious content is growing and getting more complex to track. Today, a startup called ActiveFence, which has quietly built a tech platform to suss out threats as they are being formed and planned, to ma.....»»
ActiveFence comes out of the shadows with $100M in funding and tech that detects online harm
Online abuse, disinformation, fraud and other malicious content is growing and getting more complex to track. Today, a startup called ActiveFence, which has quietly built a tech platform to suss out threats as they are being formed and planned, to ma.....»»
Indonesian B2B marketplace GudangAda raises more than $100M in new funding
GudangAda, a Jakarta-based marketplace that brings wholesalers closer to retail stores and other buyers, announced it has closed a Series B of more than $100 million. The company says the round was oversubscribed, passing its initial target of $75 mi.....»»
Path Robotics raises another $100M
In May, Path Robotics announced a $56 million Series B. It was a sizable raise, as far as robotics rounds go. But the Columbus, Ohio-based startup is already back for more, raising a “pre-emptive” Series C a mere two and a half months later. And.....»»
Choco bites into $100M Series B, at a $600M valuation, to build a more transparent, sustainable food supply chain
Choco is digitizing the food supply chain as the United States estimates of the food produced here approximately 40% is wasted. The United States estimates of the food produced here approximately 40% is wasted. Globally, $2.6 trillion annua.....»»