Educational technology start-up Kidaptive recently closed a $19 million Series C round of funding. The company's co-founder and CEO P.J. Gunsagar explains how this surge of funding is impacting Kidaptive's plans.
Gunsagar says this funding will help his company tackle new clients, improve algorithms, and provide the ability to expand into new markets.
"The demand for parents for the kind of analytics we provide is very high," explains Gunsagar. "At the heart of everything we do is the learner model--we take a very holistic approach to understanding who that child is across several learning dimensions."
Twitter said in a statement Friday that its board of directors has unanimously adopted a “poison pill” defense in response to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s proposal to buy the company and take it private.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency use authorization for what it says is the first device that can detect COVID-19 in breath samples.
Catching you up on what you need to know on April 15, 2022, with four of the victims from the Brooklyn subway shooting still hospitalized as the suspect is held without bail, Russia resumes attacks on Kyiv, teachers across the country receive their largest pay raises in decades, and more.
The major U.S. indexes closed Tuesday off of session lows as investors digest the latest read on inflation, showing it remains hot. Wall Street is also preparing for earnings from big banks and monitoring potential policy moves from the Federal Reserve. Peter Tuchman, a stock trader at TradeMas, joins Cheddar News' Closing Bell and highlighted tech stocks in particular. 'The tech sector, which led us to record highs before the 1st of this year, are now the ones that are leading us lower,' he said.
