Just a few weeks ago, 18-year-old best friends Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot graduated from high school. While most teens their age would be living it up […]
The fight over Fisker’s assets is already heating up
Fisker is just a few days into its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and the fight over its assets is already charged, with one lawyer claiming the startup has been […]
Squarespace sells restaurant reservation system Tock to American Express for $400M
Website building platform Squarespace is selling Tock, its restaurant reservation service, to American Express in a deal worth $400 million — the exact figure that Squarespace paid for […]
Change Healthcare confirms ransomware hackers stole medical records on a ‘substantial proportion’ of Americans
Change Healthcare has confirmed a February ransomware attack on its systems, which brought widespread disruption to the U.S. healthcare system for weeks, resulted in the theft of medical […]
All the media companies that have licensing deals with OpenAI (so far)
OpenAI has been busy trying to curry favor (and fighting copyright infringement lawsuits) with media companies to use their content. Here’s a roundup of all the publications that have agreed to licensing deals with the ChatGPT maker.
Hero wants to save the day for companies facing a working capital crunch
Hero, a new fintech startup based in Paris, is announcing an €11.3 million all-equity funding round led by Valar Ventures ($12.2 million at today’s exchange rate). For the […]
C12, the French quantum computing startup founded by two twin brothers, raises $19.4 million
C12 is announcing that it recently raised an €18 million funding round ($19.4 million at today’s exchange rate). Originally founded in 2020 as a spin-off from the Physics […]
The fall of EV startup Fisker: A comprehensive timeline
Henrik Fisker once envisioned a burgeoning EV empire at the startup he named after himself, which was to be led by the Ocean SUV. But cracks started showing […]
Société Générale to sell its freelancer challenger bank Shine to Ageras
Four years after acquiring Shine, a French fintech startup that offers bank accounts to freelancers and very small companies, Société Générale has announced plans to sell Shine to […]
Fisker failed because it wasn’t ready to be a car company
Two years ago, an employee at Fisker Inc. told me that the most pressing concern inside the EV startup was not whether its Ocean SUV would get built. […]