head News of 09/22/20

Alternative Protein Companies Have Raised A Whopping $1.5 Billion Through July Of This Year

Alternative protein companies have raised a whopping $1.5 billion through July of this year image Companies like Perfect Day, Impossible Foods, and a host of other startups that are developing replacements for animal farmed goods used in food, clothes, cosmetics, and chemicals have raised a whopping $1.5 billion through the first half of the ...

‪CBP Seized A Shipment Of OnePlus Buds Thinking They Were “Counterfeit” Apple AirPods‬

‪CBP seized a shipment of OnePlus Buds thinking they were “counterfeit” Apple AirPods‬ image U.S. Customs and Border Protection proudly announced in a press release on Friday a seizure of 2,000 boxes of “counterfeit” Apple AirPods, said to be worth about $400,000, from a shipment at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. But the ...

Bose’S Music-Playing Sunglasses Are Back

Bose’s music-playing sunglasses are back image Glasses/sunglasses with built-in speakers have been a thing for a shockingly long time now. They’ve never been particularly popular, mind, but at the very least, they’re an interesting enough concept for companies to continue taking a sporadic ...

Peer Medical Allows Lung Cancer Patients To Anonymously Share Treatments With Each Other

Peer Medical has a big mission. After his father died of lung cancer, serial entrepreneur Ed Spiegel vowed to create a better way for lung cancer patients to deal with their disease. The startup has so far raised a $1.2M seed funding round for ...

Take A Closer Look At Elon Musk’S Neuralink Surgical Robot

Take a closer look at Elon Musk’s Neuralink surgical robot image While the science was front-and-center in Elon Musk’s presentation about Neuralink , his human brain computer inference company, the surgical robot the company debuted made a splash of its own. The rounded polycarbonate sci-fi design of the ...

Funding For Mental-Health Focused Startups Rises In 2020

Funding for mental-health focused startups rises in 2020 image Turning away from the public markets, IPOs, SPACs and Palantir for a moment, would you like to talk about startups again? I would. This morning, I pored over venture capital funding patterns for wellness-focused startups. Broadly, according to a ...

Microsoft Brings Transcriptions To Word

Microsoft today launched Transcribe in Word, its new transcription service for Microsoft 365 subscribers, into general availability. It’s now available in the online version of Word, with other platforms launching later. In addition, Word ...

Sony WH-1000XM4 Headphone Review

Sony WH-1000XM4 headphone review image There was a mixed reaction among the TechCrunch staff when Sony’s WH-1000XM4 were announced the other week. There was excitement among those looking for new headphones and disappointment for those who’d recently purchased a different pair. The ...

Here Are Four Areas The $311 Billion CPPIB Investment Fund Thinks Will Be Impacted By COVID-19

Here are four areas the $311 billion CPPIB investment fund thinks will be impacted by COVID-19 image The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, an asset manager controlling around $311 billion in assets for the Canada’s pensioners and retirees, has identified four key industries that are set to experience massive changes as a result of ...

Five Success Factors For Behavioral Health Startups

Five success factors for behavioral health startups image Courtney Chow Contributor Share on Twitter Courtney Chow is an associate with Battery Ventures in San Francisco who focuses on early and growth-stage internet, software and services companies. ...

On Demand Mental Health Service Provider Ginger Raises $50 Million

Ginger , a provider of on demand mental healthcare services, has raised $50 million in a new round of funding. The new capital comes as interest and investment in mental health and wellness has emerged as the next big area of interest for investors ...

Sony’S Excellent Over-Ear Headphones Get Smarter

Sony’s excellent over-ear headphones get smarter image Sony knows how to make a great pair of headphones. The WH-1000XM3 are one of the best received pairs of over-ear models in recent years. Two years later, the company is ready to unveil their successors, which sport a number of smart connected ...

OnePlus’S Fully Wireless Earbuds Are Unexceptional, But At Least They’Re Pretty Cheap

OnePlus’s fully wireless earbuds are unexceptional, but at least they’re pretty cheap image OnePlus’s first fully wireless earbuds just aren’t very good. It doesn’t give me joy to say that. OnePlus is a fascinating company that has produced some really great handsets at prices that don’t break the bank — and that’s precisely what ...

Bang & Olufsen’S Beoplay e8 Sport Offer The Best Sound In Workout-Friendly True Wireless Earbuds

Bang & Olufsen’s Beoplay E8 Sport offer the best sound in workout-friendly true wireless earbuds image Bang & Olufsen is taking its excellent track record for delivering maximum quality, natural-sounding audio and wrapping it in a sports-oriented package with the Beoplay E8 Sport  ($350). These totally wireless earbuds come with a long list of ...

Higher Steaks Brings Home The Bacon, Revealing Lab-Grown Pork Belly And Bacon Strips

Higher Steaks brings home the bacon, revealing lab-grown pork belly and bacon strips image In what could be a starting gun for the commercialization of the cell-based meat business, upstart cultivated meat company Higher Steaks said it has managed to produce samples of its first products — bacon strips and pork belly made in a lab ...

Startup Launches Innovative New Product That Pays Amazon Marketplace Sellers Daily

Third-party sellers are the dominant driver of sales on Amazon’s marketplace, accounting for 58% of its total and growing. We know that the pandemic, ironically, has been good for Amazon, which has reported net sales in Q1, up by 26% ...

Meditation App Meditopia Secures $15m Series A Co-Led By Creandum And Highland

The coronavirus continues to hit people hard mentally, and this has meant a boom for mental death and meditation apps. According to a recent report from app store intelligence firm Sensor Tower, the world’s 10 largest English-language mental ...

TradeDepot Adds $10 Million To Add Financial Services To Its Supply Chain Services For African SMBs

TradeDepot adds $10 million to add financial services to its supply chain services for African SMBs image Nigeria’s e-commerce startup TradeDepot , which connects international brands to small businesses in Africa, has raised $10 million in a new round of funding to expand its business into financial services and credit offerings for retailers. ...

Fringe Pitches A Monthly Stipend For App Purchases And Subscriptions As The Newest Employee Benefit

Fringe is a new company pitching employers on a service offering lifestyle benefits for their employees in addition to, or instead of, more traditional benefits packages. “We didn’t think it made sense that employees need to be sick, ...

With Partnerships At Major Children’S Hospitals, Manatee Seeks Clinical Validation Of Its CBT-Based App

With partnerships at major children’s hospitals, Manatee seeks clinical validation of its CBT-based app image When Manatee founder Damayanti Dipayana’s brother was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, the family took all the steps to ensure that he was properly cared for. All of the things that could have been an obstacle to getting treatment ...