TREND REPORTS
Food Conglomerate Starday Raises $4M
[Investing]
2021/08/20 09:06
Starday, a healthy and sustainable food products company, raised $4 million in seed funding to take on “big food” incumbents.Equal Ventures and Slow Ventures co-led the round and were joined by Haystack, Great Oaks Venture Capital, XFactor Ventures, ABV and a group of angel investors.Chaz Flexman, co-founder and CEO, started the remote first company in late 2020 after leaving Pattern Brands....
Future OPPO Phone Cameras to Debut Telephoto Zoom Lens and 5-Axis OIS
[Tech]
2021/08/20 09:05
Continuing to lead smart device innovation, OPPO teases its upcoming mobile phone camera technology online at the future imaging technology launch event. From a telephoto lens to greater stabilization, the features are rumored to go into production from the end of 2021 once miniaturization of the camera solutions are tried and tested. the announcements coincide with the tech company’s call for...
What Brands Need To Know About Young China’s Surgery Boom
[Business]
2021/08/20 09:04
Unlike the West’s focus on individuality, a unified standard of beauty haunts Chinese women, so they require different messaging from Western brands. Beauty surgery has boomed in China over the past decade, as more and more beauty consumers feel pressure to conform to China’s rigid beauty standards.Young China’s beauty ideals differ from the individuality of the West, prizing a “white, thin...
The World's Most Valuable Luxury Brands of 2021
[Business]
2021/08/20 09:03
From Louis Vuitton to Cartier, these are the world's most valuable luxury brands of 2021.The other most valuable luxury brands include Prada, Rolex, Gucci among the top 10, according to a study by Brand Z/Kantar[forbes]
(Patent) Tesla Patent Application Describes Wild Glass-Forming Techniques for Cybertruck
[Tech]
2021/08/19 09:10
Could the Cybertruck boast some artful windows? Possibly, but it seems a tad over the top.The Tesla Cybertruck may not be coming this year, but the automaker's clearly busy sorting out what the production electric pickup truck will bring to the road. In a new patent application Tesla filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office this month, the automaker described a glass-forming method that in...
(Video) Nvidia Opens Its ‘Metaverse’ by Adding Millions of Blender Users to Omniverse
[Business]
2021/08/19 09:09
Nvidia’s Omniverse, billed as a “metaverse for engineers,” has grown to more than 50,000 users. But Nvidia now hopes to dramatically expand this base with the addition of millions of Blender users who use a simple tool to create 3D imagery.At the online Siggraph visual computing event, Nvidia announced it is launching a major expansion of the Omniverse, the simulation and collaboration platf...
(PDF) BCG - Understanding The Global Price-Sensitive Consumer
[Consumer]
2021/08/19 09:08
One might assume that the world is awash in frugal buyers. Why wouldn’t it be? With most of the global economy struggling to recover from the COVID-19 crisis, one would expect households to be tightening their budgets.Indeed, in the major markets we have studied, in rich and poor nations alike, anywhere from 70% to 90% of consumers identify themselves as “value conscious.”But how thrifty are...
A Startup is Making 'Real' Milk, Cheese, and Ice-cream Without Cows -Perfect Day
[Business]
2021/08/19 09:07
We've grown used to oat milk and soya milk — now a food-tech startup is taking alternative milk to the next level.California-based Perfect Day uses fungi to make dairy protein that is "molecularly identical" to the protein in cow's milk, says co-founder Ryan Pandya. That means it can be used to make dairy products such as cheese and yogurt."We were interested in the question of what is in milk...
Automation-as-a-Service Startup Rapid Robotics Raises $36.7M
[Investing]
2021/08/19 09:06
Rapid Robotics, a startup providing out-of-the-box automation solutions for manufacturers, today announced it has raised $36.7 million in a series B round co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Tiger Global, with participation from NEA, Greycroft, Bee Partners, and 468 Capital. The round, which values Rapid at $192.5 million post-money, brings the company’s total funding to date to $54.2 million.Accord...
