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AI startups on pace to break funding records in 2019

Posted in Business, Software on 11th Oct, 2019
by Alex Muller

Artificial intelligence’s potential to transform a growing range of industries has venture capitalists writing checks to promising startups at a rate that will likely set a new record in 2019 for the industry.

VentureBeat: You've closed your financing round. Congratulations. Now what?

Posted in Business on 29th Oct, 2018
by Alex Muller

Before you settle back into your day-to-day tasks, make time for these four critical post-financing actions:

Vertical farm start-up Plenty raises $200m

Posted in Business on 24th Jul, 2017
by Alex Muller

Plenty, a San Francisco vertical farming start-up, has raised $200m (54m) from big-name investors.

Trump will eliminate $2 billion climate change research from NASA

Posted in Science on 25th Nov, 2016
by Alex Muller

NASA's Earth science division is set to be stripped of funding in favor of exploration of deep space.

What does a Trump administration mean for US science?

Posted in Science on 11th Nov, 2016
by Alex Muller

Since Tuesday, many scientists have been laying out their concerns about the future of the US research community under a Trump administration.