Want to contribute to the PPE movement on the ground but aren’t sure where to start? Get Us PPE is launching a grant program and curriculum based cohort to kickstart DIY manufacturing groups interested in making and distributing impermeable gowns. GetUsPPE celebrates the maker community for filling pressing, short-term PPE shortages with innovative designs. They […]
Whether you are trying to raise $10,000 or $10 million, fundraising is fundamentally about doing your homework.
LittleBits, the New York-based open source hardware startup that produces modular snap-together circuitry kits, announced this morning that it has raised just over $44 million in its Series B funding from DFJ Growth as well as Morgan Stanley, Grishin Robotics, and Wamda Capital, among others. This is one of the largest rounds to come out of […]
JD.com, a notable rival to Chinese ecommerce behemoth Alibaba, launched a funding site last week called JD Equity Crowdfunding. JD’s first experiment in crowdfunding, Coufenzi is like Kickstarter in that it lets individuals fund products; JD Equity is instead aimed at entrepreneurs looking for early investors, with the goal of creating a “complete ecosystem for […]
Y Combinator, one of the most famous incubator programs in the industry, today announced added support for the growing number of hardware startups they fund.
NASA is proposing a Centennial Challenge to build robotic rocket sample return systems.
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