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."
Now Facebook is extending an olive branch and allowing some top media companies, including the Washington Post, New York Times, and News Corp, to share in the profits.
From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, these are the top stories that moved markets and had investors, business leaders, and entrepreneurs talking this week on Cheddar.
UC Berkeley's Seismological lab is working to give people state-wide a heads-up next time a quake comes their way with the new MyShake app for iPhones and Androids.
Under the agreement, Softbank will inject The We Company with $5 billion of new financing. Embattled founder and ex-CEO Adam Neumann reportedly will step down from the board with a buyout of up to $1.7 billion.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Wednesday, October 23, 2019.
Despite the earnings wins and stock prices that have skyrocketed 154 percent year-to-date, Snap's fourth-quarter guidance came in a little lighter than analysts expected.
The surprise announcement, which sent shares up nearly 40 percent in early trading hours, comes months after Biogen discontinued research on the drug.
Robinhood got a head start six years ago with its fresh, easy-to-use trading platform and a mission to democratize the financial system by not charging commission fees. But now, with the major brokerages dropping their own commission fees to zero, it’s a new era for rising competitors.
David Marcus, the head of Facebook’s Calibra, reportedly told banking seminar attendees that the project is open to having a series of stablecoins pegged to specific government-backed currencies.
CEO Christophe Georges of British luxury automaker Bentley Motors said the company's first, fully electric vehicle will be in showrooms by 2025, with plug-in hybrid models arriving in 2023.
