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There are more licensed private spaceports in the United States than you might guess — but depending on who you ask, there aren’t nearly enough. Last year saw new records set regarding the size and number of investments in space tech, and a fair amount of those funds went to launch startups. There are more […]

Trucking is currently the most popular mode of transporting freight in the U.S., accounting for around $12.5 billion of the $17 billion freight market, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. But with thousands of small and single-vehicle operators and legacy (often paper-based) systems underpinning communications, it’s also one of the most inefficient. Now there […]

Dan Jones, the former General Partner at Global Founders Capital (the venture arm of Rocket Internet) and previously an investor with Fidelity, is thought to be nearing the first close of a new early-stage venture capital fund. Dubbed “Jigsaw,” the VC firm appears to be co-founded with Dan Smith, who previously ran Anthemis Exponential and […]

Neo4j, the premiere graph database development platform, announced the release of version 4.0 today, which features unlimited scaling among other updates. Graph databases are growing increasingly important as they are used to find connections in data, such as if you bought this, you might like this related item on an e-commerce site; or if you […]

Dating app Tinder is the latest tech service to find itself under formal investigation in Europe over how it handles user data. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced a formal probe of how Tinder processes users’ personal data; the transparency surrounding its ongoing processing; and compliance with obligations with regard to data subject […]

SpaceX’s next-generation spacecraft is already well into development, but CEO and founder Elon Musk clearly would like development to move at an even faster rate. Musk tweeted early Tuesday morning that SpaceX would be hosting a “Starship career day” at the company’s Stargate building in Boca Chica, Texas, where it’s currently working on producing the […]

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today we’re talking to Alex Niehenke, a venture capitalist with Scale Venture Partners, who has an interesting argument to make: The SaaS and cloud market is maturing, and incumbents are squeezing startups out of certain […]

Sarita Gupta Contributor Share on Twitter Sarita Gupta is director of Future of Work(ers) at the Ford Foundation. Imagine that your boss calls you and your co-workers into a meeting and announces that you are all getting raises. But before any glasses are raised for a toast, you are told that you’re not getting a […]