by Asmawisham | May 17, 2017 | Technology
Upload, which shifted the “UploadVR” brand to its media arm earlier this year, closed a funding round in September of last year raising $4.5 million, TechCrunch has learned. The timing of the previously unreported funding round was alluded to in a sexual harassment...
by Asmawisham | May 17, 2017 | Technology
Next Story The Partnership on AI adds Intel, Salesforce and others as it formalizes Grand Challenges and work groups Another Disrupt, another Startup Alley. In this exciting video I wear a unicorn head, stare dumbfounded at a founder who told us to go away, and talk...
by Asmawisham | May 17, 2017 | Technology
SoFi was founded on the business of helping high-earning graduates refinance their student loans. But perhaps ironically, CEO Michael Cagney thinks today’s record amount of student loan debt is a bad thing.“I wish there were a lot less student loan debt out there,”...
by Asmawisham | May 17, 2017 | Technology
Oscar Health CEO Mario Schlosser came on stage with me at Disrupt yesterday at our annual New York conference to talk about his company and the more than $200 million it took in net losses last year. Though he mentioned the Feds still owed his company the equivalent...
by Asmawisham | May 17, 2017 | Technology
You’re working late at the 7-Eleven when a masked man comes through the door with a gun. You raise your hands, follow his instructions, empty the cash register and throw some burners in the bag. As he runs out the door, you note his height, collect yourself and call...