Earlier this year, KoBold Metals found what might be one of the largest high-grade copper deposits of all time, with the potential to produce hundreds of thousands of metric tons per year, the company’s CEO said. Now, just eight months later, KoBold is close to raising over half a billion dollars. The funding should help […]
Air Doctor raised $20M to plug a gap in how people find doctors when they’re travelling
Travelling abroad comes with its unique set of stresses, and one of the biggest is what to do if you find yourself unwell. Can you find a doctor who speaks your language, will accept your insurance, and let you avoid the costs and stress of visiting an unfamiliar hospital emergency room? A startup called Air […]
Heart disease is the world’s biggest killer — this Cambridge Uni spinout is using AI to find new treatments
While artificial intelligence (AI) promises to transform all manner of industries, the biggest game-changing breakthroughs in this new era of data-infused machine intelligence arguably lies in the field of drug discovery. By analyzing vast amounts of biological data, AI can help researchers predict how different chemical compounds will interact with specific targets in the body, […]
YC alum Odigos aims to help enterprises find errors and stamp out latency in their systems
Companies’ data architecture today looks nothing like it did 20 years ago, but monitoring and tracing tools haven’t followed suit, making it difficult for engineering teams to identify the root cause of errors and latency issues. Israeli developer Eden Federman thinks the solution is distributed tracing, a more advanced observability method, but he found adoption […]
32-Year-Old Man Makes $281,000 A Month Selling Things You Could Find At A Grocery Store
Sometimes a career change involves risk. Thankfully, that risk paid off for one business-savvy man in China. Unrelated photo | Lycs Architecture/Unsplash After experiencing burnout, a tech employee quit his job to start a fruit e-commerce business. The 32-year-old, surnamed Lin, didn’t strike gold though until he cashed in on a popular wellness trend on […]