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Arianee raises $9.6M seed funding to develop its luxury industry blockchain
Arianee, an alliance of brands that develops distributed ledger blockchain technology to track and trace luxury goods, today announced it has closed $9.6 million in seed funding. The company aims to develop its technology for members to create what it calls “digital passports” for any object, guaranteeing authenticity and securing resale. This round brings together leading ...
Digital cryptoasset custodian firm Komainu raises $25M in funding round
Komainu, a regulated cryptoasset custody services provider for institutions by institutions, today announced it closed a New $25 million round of funding. The Series A round was led by Alan Howard of Elwood Asset Management, with additional participation from Galaxy Digital, NOIA Capital and Nomura Research Institute. Digital assets are part of blockchain distributed ledger ...
IonQ to become publicly traded pure quantum computing company
Quantum computing firm IonQ Inc. today announced that the company will go public by way of a merger with dMY Technology Group Inc. III, a so-called special-purpose acquisition company. Upon closing the deal, IonQ will begin trading under the symbol “IONQ” as a publicly traded pure-play hardware and software company in the quantum computing market. ...
Lucid announces Lucidspark integration with Jira for team visual collaboration
Lucid Software Inc., a provider of visual collaboration software for teams, Thursday announced a new integration for its virtual whiteboard, Lucidspark, with Jira Cloud that’s aimed at enhancing how teams collaborate remotely. Using Lucidspark Cards for Jira, teams will be able to plan and roadmap projects and identify potential roadmaps and bring ideas to mind. ...
LazyLedger Labs blockchain firm closes $1.5M in seed funding
Blockchain distributed ledger outfit LazyLedger Labs announced Wednesday that it closed a $1.5 million seed funding round led by Interchain Foundation and Binance Labs to build what it calls a “pluggable consensus and data availability” layer. Blockchain technology allows developers to create distributed peer-to-peer applications that self-execute using smart contracts on the network. Under normal circumstances, ...
Tableau launches new COVID-19 global data tracker for businesses and governments
Tableau Software LLC, a Salesforce.com Inc. company, today announced the launch of a new COVID-19 Data Hub and global tracker with a data visualization dashboard for cases, deaths, infection rates, testing, vaccination rates, contact tracing, testing eligibility, economic impact and more. This data tracker is designed to give governments, businesses, humanitarian groups and other organizations ...
Enterprise blockchain firm Finboot secures $3.35M in funding
Enterprise distributed ledger blockchain solution provider Finboot Tech S.L. today announced it has secured $3.35 million in funding from investors led by the Development Bank of Wales. The company provides a suite of blockchain applications and middleware designed for the enterprise, known as MARCO, that provide companies the ability to secure documents and gain visibility ...
Singapore develops blockchain for verified COVID-19 test results
In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the government of Singapore has adopted a new standard for protecting verification for globally interoperable health documents based on tamper-proof distributed ledger blockchain technology. Cryptographic hashes, blockchain technology, privacy protection and proof of identity will be combined to facilitate cross-border verification of health documentation such as COVID-19 ...
Scope AR launches WorkLink Create enterprise augmented reality authoring platform
Scope AR, an enterprise-class augmented reality solution provider, today announced the launch of WorkLink Create, a new web-based application for quickly creating and sharing AR content within the workplace. WorkLink Create will allow aerospace, medical device and industrial professionals to quickly prototype their own augmented reality content without coding knowledge or 3D modeling experience. That’s ...
Applause launches application testing platform with expert community
Crowdsourced testing solutions company Applause App Quality Inc. today announced the launch of its Product Excellent Platform to provide customers access to enterprise-grade software-as-a-service infrastructure, digital testing solutions and access to the world’s largest community of digital experts. With PEP, Applause intends to provide customers and brands the capability of finding bugs in software before ...