Shyam Sharma 
New School Foods said its muscle fiber and scaffolding technology to produce alternative seafood products is now at a point where it can be demonstrated and a pilot facility built. The company’s first product is a vegetable fillet that looks, cooks, tastes and flakes like wild salmon. The announcement comes after the Toronto-based plant-based fish … Read more
Reliance Retail, India’s largest retail chain, will begin accepting retail payments in digital rupees in a move that could boost adoption of the country’s recently launched CBDC. The Mukesh Ambani-led company said it is partnering with ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank and fintech Innoviti Technologies to launch the in-store support for digital rupee. Customers who … Read more
For freight forwarders, getting pricing data for their customers usually involves going to multiple sources and then consolidating information into spreadsheets. That is time-consuming and complicated, especially since price data is constantly changing. Freightify wants to make the process as easy as comparing airline tickets with its vertical SaaS platform. The Singapore-based startup announced today … Read more
Lex, the hookup and social app that launched in 2019 with a nod to 1980s lesbian personal ads, is changing. Just how much exactly will change is still an open question. Sure, the venture-backed startup behind the queer app gave it a fresh coat of paint last week, but by refocusing on “friends and community,” … Read more
Atomic AI, which uses machine learning to explore the potential of RNA in drug discovery, raised a $35 million Series A round. They have developed a machine learning model that can accurately predict the structure of RNA molecules from a limited set of data. They have since improved their model and are using it to … Read more
Last year, Coinbase launched an asset recovery tool for people who really don’t understand how blockchain works and think they can send CDAI coins to an Etherium wallet. I know this sounds like a pretty specific example, and I’m able to make it because I’m the moron who made that mistake several years ago. I … Read more
Marketo, which was developed, among other things, to improve marketing around social media users, was eventually acquired by Adobe. Now a new startup hopes to do what Marketo did in Web 2.0, but this time in web3. Addressable has a digital fingerprinting startup that claims to be able to match anonymous crypto wallets with social … Read more
Writing an obituary is not an easy task. That’s an understatement – it’s incredibly painful, usually expensive too. But someone has to do it. Or maybe not. Consider leaving it to AI. That’s the pitch that Empathy, a platform that supports families who have recently suffered a loss, is making with the launch of its … Read more
While crypto markets remain volatile, enterprise blockchain adoption continues to grow as companies find new use cases for the technology, according to Daniela Barbosa, general manager of blockchain and identity and executive director of Hyperledger at The Linux Foundation. One of the biggest demands of the past two years has been “hybrid use cases,” Barbosa … Read more
Tiger Global believes India is likely to have the highest equity returns in the world going forward, his partner Scott Shleifer said during an investor call on Tuesday, even as he admitted the investor giant has made much more money in China and the US. “We think this is the best place to invest,” says … Read more