Amazon Care, the medical care arm for Amazon’s employees, has recently partnered with Bill Gates-backed research program SCAN to pick up and deliver at-home coronavirus test kits in Seattle. As reported first by CNBC, Amazon is going to be working with Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network, or SCAN, a new research initiative backed in part by…
European research platform Dealroom recently announced that it has raised €2.75mn in Series A funding round. The round was led by Shoe Investments and Knight Venture Capital. Founded in 2013 by Yoram Wijngaarde, Dealroom is an Amsterdam-based data and software platform, which shows worldwide intelligence about startups, innovation, and venture capital investment. Dealroom is used…
Jeff Bezos who founded Amazon Inc., which has been often criticized for its damage to the environment, has recently committed $10bn to a new fund to tackle climate change. Announcing the news on Instagram, the e-commerce tycoon said that the Bezos Earth Fund would “fund scientists, activists, NGOs — any effort that offers a real…