Osmo Game Aims To Lower Age Limit To Learn Concepts Behind Coding

Literacy is being redefined in our era of digital technology. The language of coding is becoming an essential element of literacy in the United States—as Latin and Greek once were for... Read more »

Code School Leaders Share Their Edtech Picks To Make All Kids “Coding Natives”

Workers who already have a college degree now often top off their credentials by doing a stint at a code school—July and August are the peak enrollment periods, says San Francisco-based... Read more »

The Future of Human-Machine Culture Imagined At Robo Madness West

Roboticists covered a sweeping range of topics at Xconomy’s annual Robo Madness West conference last week, from the ethics of artificial intelligence to the powerful impact of robots that have faces.... Read more »

Twilio’s $150M IPO May Bolster Faith In Unicorns—-Or Some Of Them

Venture investors, as well as tech companies hesitant to try going public, were hanging on the outcome of communications software company Twilio’s IPO this week in hopes that it would signal... Read more »

LightCyber Reaps $20M To Advance Its Cyberattack Detection Services

LightCyber, a cybersecurity company that specializes in detecting hackers once they’ve breached the outer defenses of a data network, announced today it raised $20 million in a Series B financing... Read more »

Visiting A “Legal Hacker” Who Finds Cracks In IoT Security

If you’ve been rambling around Second Street in San Francisco’s South of Market tech hub recently (shown here), you might have seen an unusual sight—-a tall young Australian walking along with... Read more »

Barefoot Scores $130M for Programmable Switch To Make Networks Smart

We’re all always watching out for those new companies whose innovations turn out to be the gateway for systemic change across many tech sectors, as early mobile devices and cloud computing... Read more »

Qadium Reaps $20M Venture Round For IoT Device Search Engine

Tim Junio was a young security consultant for DARPA, the tech research division of the U.S. Department of Defense, when the agency called for responses to an interesting challenge.

That was:... Read more »

A Front Row 5,000 Rows Deep in AltspaceVR’s Virtual Theater

Can a concert in a virtual auditorium sell out? To get the best seat, does your avatar have to camp out overnight at the virtual ticket booth?

The questions that come... Read more »

Cybersecurity Company Agari Raises $22M For E-Mail Shield

Cybersecurity company Agari, which guards against hacker attacks initiated through fraudulent e-mails, announced today it has raised $22 million in a Series D fundraising round lead by Norwest Venture Partners... Read more »

ThoughtSpot Raises $50M for Business Data Search Engine

“The consumption of data by humans has increased maybe millions of times compared to what we used to use,” Ajeet Singh says. “This is possible because of search.”

By that, serial... Read more »

Geodesic Capital Closes $335M First Fund For Growth Investing

Geodesic Capital, a year-old venture capital firm that plans to help U.S. companies expand into Japan and other countries in Asia, has raised a $335 million inaugural fund with backing... Read more »

Schoold Uses Machine Learning to Do Your College Scholarship Hunt

Now that high school seniors have made the fateful choice of a college to attend in the fall, their parents are free to pull out tufts of hair as they figure... Read more »

OBE Wants To Dress The Fashionable VR Gamer

Well before the debut of a slew of virtual reality headsets for consumers this year, game makers and other tech companies were getting ready to feed the expected demand for VR... Read more »

Vetting Cloud Security Companies: Scale VC Sets The Scene

[Corrected 5/11/16, 12:59 pm. See below.] When Ariel Tseitlin joined Netflix in 2011 to help it transition from a movie DVD rental company to a Web-based streaming entertainment service,... Read more »

Augmedix Plans To Expand Google Glass-Based System For Healthcare

A year ago, a flurry of news stories declared the failure of Google’s Web-connected eyewear Google Glass after the company halted sales of the novel item whose debut it had trumpeted... Read more »

Lufthansa Cargo Backs RocketSpace’s New Logistics Accelerator

RocketSpace, the big San Francisco co-working space that’s evolving into a matchmaker between corporations and innovative startups, said today it has signed up air freight giant Lufthansa Cargo as a... Read more »

Purdue’s Fintech Experiment: An Alternative to Pricy Student Loans

Purdue University, which prides itself on teaching innovation, is joining with a financial technology startup in an unusual partnership that may pave the way for lower-cost tuition payment options for students... Read more »

$1B Lumina Foundation Backs New Education Credentials Framework

Advocates of online education say it can provide learning opportunities as good as college coursework, but at a much lower cost. The broad offerings of edtech companies now range from foreign... Read more »

An LP Becomes Owner of Silicon Valley VC Firm Northgate

Venture capital firms are usually owned by their founders and other firm executives who actively decide how to invest the money entrusted to them by wealthy individuals and institutions, such as... Read more »