London-based start-up, Notpla has been named a winner of the 2022 Prince William’s Earthshot Prize in the Build a Waste-Free World category. The firm makes a range of packaging materials from seaweed – as  an alternative to plastic. Founded by Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez and Pierre Paslier, while they were students at Imperial College London and […]

Kapu, a social commerce startup, raised $8 million in seed funding. The company is hoping to help reduce the burden of buying food for Kenyan consumers by digitizing the informal retail sector in Kenya.

Berlin and Barcelona-based micro-mobility startup, Wind Mobility has disclosed $50 million in Series A funding. The company was initially into bike rentals but later moved its focus on operating e-scooter rentals in Europe, Israel and Asia. Earlier the company had raised $22 million from Chinese Source Code Capital and Europe’s HV Holtzbrinck Ventures.

The society is undergoing a major shift that is giving consumers both the power of choice and also convenience.

Every holiday season brands one toy as the ‘Hot Toy’ of the season. The recent holidays did that for Fingerlings, a popular line of 12-cm long animatronic plastic monkeys, unicorns and sloths from Montreal-based toymaker WowWee.

Mixed reality makes changing the content, people, or even location of a meeting quick and easy. Not just that, it even allows workers to act upon the data generated from smart devices, and connect seamlessly with others across physical space. The demand for mixed reality is on a rise in the modern workplace.