Funding for Southeast Asia’s car trading platforms is like buses. After a long wait without news, a third startup has raised funding in the space of a month. Carsome, a Malaysia-based company that also operates in Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand, announced today it has raised a $19 million Series B …
Read More »Travis Kalanick is launching a venture fund
Travis Kalanick, the controversial co-founder and one-time chief executive of Uber, is launching a new investment fund called the 10100 Fund. According to an announcement on his Twitter account, the new fund will focus on “large-scale job creation.” Investment areas are to include real estate, e-commerce and emerging innovations in …
Read More »Technology infrastructure launchpad The Fabric raises $15 million
The Fabric, an early-stage investment company developing new infrastructure technologies, has raised $15 million for its third investment vehicle. Announced at the Montgomery Summit in Santa Monica, Calif., the new financing came from Verizon Ventures (the investment arm of TechCrunch’s parent company’s parent company) and March Capital Partners, a Los …
Read More »UiPath raising around $120M at $1B+ valuation for its ‘software application robotics’ for internal organisation jobs
The preliminary buzz around bots– applications that run partially or entirely using natural language processing, artificial intelligence, computer system vision and other AI tech to help customers ask and answer questions, purchase things and get other stuff done– might have waned a bit, however a startup constructing the equivalent for …
Read More »Dish: Vegetarian Curry
So I was provided a challenge to develop a blog site about a Vegetarian Curry of my choice and I think I have discovered a dish that both tastes excellent and is a really healthy vitamin dense meal. This curry is based on a Thai Green Curry recipe. I attempted …
Read More »Egyptian vegetarian moussaka
For the majority of, the word Moussaka invokes pictures of layers of fried eggplant, juicy minced beef and in some cases even a layer of creamy bechamel sauce baked to perfection. The moussaka that I am sharing with you today (as you have actually most likely thought by looking at …
Read More »Enormous LEGO DeLorean Looks Like it Could Truly Travel BACK TO THE FUTURE
You may not need roadways, but if you wish to build your own almost life-sized variation of Doc Brown’s DeLorean time machine from Back to the Future out of LEGO, it ends up you do need 65,143 pieces and over 290 hours to put them completely. Which is simply what …
Read More »Target’s New Fashion Collaboration Is with Hunter – and the Rain Boots Are All Under $50!
Mark your calendars: Target revealed its most current style partnership, and it’s one for the entire household. The superstore teamed with the heritage shoes and clothes brand name Hunter on an unique collection of males’s, ladies’s and children’s clothing and accessories introducing in shops and online at Target.com on April …
Read More »First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale
< div data-test-id="article-review-body" itemprop="articleBody"> The first Lego pieces made from plant-based plastic sourced from sugar walking cane will go on sale this year, the company has revealed. The 85-year-old Danish toymaker said production has actually started on a range of Lego botanical elements or pieces such as leaves, bushes and …
Read More »RedDoorz raises $11M to grow its budget hotel network in Southeast Asia
RedDoorz, a budget hotel startup focused on Southeast Asia, has closed $11 million in new funding to expand its presence. The three-year-old startup is a number offers a network of hotels that are grouped together under a single brand. The goal is a happy combination that marries the ubiquity of …
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