Financial technology company WeLab announced it secured $220 million in Series B financing. Three investors participated in the round: Alibaba Group, IFC, and Credit Suisse. Founded in 2013 in Hong Kong, WeLab’s proprietary risk management technology is designed to analyze unstructured mobile big data to make
ThinkRF Corp., a software-defined spectrum analysis company, announced the creation of a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary, ThinkRF Inc., and the opening of its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Rhys Robinson, a communications industry expert, joins the ThinkRF team to lead these initiatives. He brings over 25 years of
Howler, a collaborative joke writing site that crowdsources humor, is now available on Slack. Slack users can access more than 90,000 jokes written by Howler's community of joke writers by typing ‘/howler’ followed by any keyword. They can also click the joke link through to
Global cybersecurity provider Forcepoint announced that Allan Alford joined the company as chief information security officer. With more than 25 year of IT and security experience, Alford joined Forcepoint from Pearson, where he was product and business information security officer. Prior to that, he held various
HR technology company Zenefits announced the appointment of Shaun Wiley as the company’s chief financial officer.. Prior to joining Zenefits, Wiley served as CFO of CoreHR, a cloud-based HCM and payroll software company based in Europe, and as CFO at Torrent Technologies. He spent twelve years
Reflex is a modern update of the manual SLR 35mm film camera. Its interchangeable mount plate makes shooting with lenses produced by other brands possible, meaning photographers can continue using the products they already own. Its interchangeable back also gives photographers the option of having
Enterprise IT startup Flightdocs announced it secured $10 million in financing from Argentum Capital Partners. Flightdocs provides maintenance tracking software solutions to the aviation industry, including tools such as Work Orders, eLogbooks, eSignature, customized reports, and overview dashboards. The company’s Enterprise Inventory web and mobile app
Clips, an iOS app created by Apple for making and sharing videos with text, effects, and graphics, released their 2.0 product version. It comes with a redesigned interface and a host of new features adapted to the new iPhone X. For instance, the photo button
VR Maker is a 360-degree virtual tour platform that allows users to create professional virtual reality content with their smartphones. Its online virtual tour builder allows them to link their panoramas, and add notes, tags, hotspots and a floor plan. Users can embed their virtual
Unity Technologies, an American video game development company, announced Mike Acton and Andreas Fredriksson, two AAA engine and performance experts, have joined the company as principal engineers. Prior to Unity, Acton served as the engine director for ten years at Insomniac Games. With more than