Ukraine’s Startups Kept Innovating Through 1 Year of War
“Many people here and across the world were pissed off about some of his posts,” says Pranskevičius, who is based in Kyiv. “But what we’ve seen is...
Enter the Hunter Satellites Preparing for Space War
Rogers’s last job for the government was leading teams within US Space Command that planned how and when to deploy defensive and offensive military space systems....
Big Tech Laid Off Thousands. Here’s Who Wants Them Next
Remote work. Competitive salaries. A streamlined hiring process. They’re all perks being offered to prospective tech workers from an unlikely employer: the US government. Soaring Silicon...
Welcome to Digital Nomadland
Seen from afar, the parish of Ponta do Sol looks as compact and picturesque as a postcard. There’s a small roundabout at the center, a gas...
Cannabis Banking Startups Want to Make It Easy to Buy Weed
Physical safety is also a concern that fintech startups are trying to address. The more banks that go online and enter the space, the safer the...
Would You Sell Your Vacation Days for Cash?
PTO Genius, another startup launched in 2020, nudges employees that its algorithm guesses are at risk for burnout—based on factors like long hours and behavior changes—to...
One Solution to the Food Waste Problem: Eat Your Garbage
The villains of climate change tend be what we put out: carbon-spewing cars, soot-emitting power plants, farting cows. So it follows that we might make a...
Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful ‘Mafia’ Gets a New Boss
The power of Y Combinator has always been its network. The legendary Silicon Valley startup accelerator is known for smelting mere ideas into some of the...
Get Used to Startups Trying to Reinvent Housing
In 2016, the WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann described home as “a feeling” rather than something you own. He was introducing WeLive, his company’s concept for rental...
Raising Startup Funding Used to Be Easy—Not Anymore
In 2021, when Roshan Patel was raising his startup Walnut’s first round of funding, his email inbox overflowed with interest from investors. Venture capitalists loved his...