Startups

To get noticed by Silicon Valley’s startup machine Y Combinator is every budding entrepreneur’s dream. One of the world’s most influential and renowned accelerators, which…

A Berlin, Germany, startup called Locomore has launched the world’s first crowdfunded train service. The renovated 1970s train, with retro orange-and-brown livery and the words…

Crowdfunding has been a big help to good causes in Nigeria. Last year, donations kept a rape counseling center in Lagos from shutting down. And…

Naspers, the most valuable company in Africa, has once again been defeated by an internet business in Nigeria. WeChat, the free messaging and calling app…

It’s been a rough week for Uber in Europe. In France, two executives are standing trial on charges that its cheaper option, UberPop, violates a…

Rejection isn’t the end of the road. Just ask Brian Chesky, CEO of the home-rental site Airbnb. Chesky recently published a post on Medium including…

Slack, a chat app for businesses, announced today that it now has 1.1 million daily active users, with 300,000 of them paying for premium features,…

This post has been updated. Last month, Quartz went hunting for the biggest “unicorn makers” in the venture capital world. By analyzing data from research…

Unicorns—the nickname given to startups worth at least $1 billion—are becoming more commonplace these days. Though more than 100 companies joined the billion-dollar-startup club last…

If you asked Airbnb about its impact in San Francisco, the company would direct you to a rosy economic impact study that found the home-rental…

The first quarter of 2015 marked a slowdown in venture capital activity, in terms of both the number of deals and cumulative amount invested. But…

Unicorns, or startups valued at $1 billion or more, have been getting a lot of attention lately. But it isn’t just high-profile tech companies like…