InDrive, known for its bidding-based ride-hailing model across Asia and Latin America, is rolling out a “super-app” strategy aimed at frontier markets — expanding beyond cabs to deliver daily essentials to its users. Beginning with grocery deliveries in Kazakhstan, InDrive plans to expand into multiple verticals over the next 12 months across its top markets, […]
KPop Demon Hunters Starts Unexpected Global Trend
The hit animated film KPop Demon Hunters has recently started a Korean culture-inspired trend! [Video could not be displayed] “Yangmeori” is a term referring to the sheep head towel worn in Korean saunas that is shown in a scene of the movie when the girls are at the sauna. | @yourkoreandad/TikTok Nick Cho, known as @yourkoreandad on […]
TDK backs Ultraviolette with $21M to take India-made electric motorcycles global
Two months ago, Indian electric motorcycle startup Ultraviolette expanded into 10 European countries. Now, fueled with $ 21 million in an all-equity round led by the corporate venture arm of Japanese electronics giant TDK Corporation, Ultraviolette is putting its expansion plans into overdrive. The nine-year-old startup plans to grow its European footprint fourfold, enter other […]
Hubble Network plans massive satellite upgrade to create global Bluetooth layer
Hubble Network’s satellite-powered Bluetooth network is getting a big upgrade. The Seattle-based startup, which aims to bring to enterprises what Apple’s Find My has brought to consumers, has built a powerful new phased-array receiver that will enable what Hubble CEO Alex Haro calls a “true Bluetooth layer around the Earth.” This advanced payload will fly […]
India eyes global quantum computer push — and QpiAI is its chosen vehicle
QpiAI, an Indian startup that claims to integrate AI and quantum computing for enterprise use cases, has raised $ 32 million in a new funding round co-led by the Indian government as the company aims to expand its presence and develop utility-scale quantum computers for markets around the world. The Indian government’s $ 750 million […]