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| 13.09.2024 | Tokenized Real-World Assets (Excluding Stablecoins) Market Value Hits Over $12B: Binance Research | RWAs continue to experience growth led by tokenized U.S. Treasuries.
BlackRock's boasts a market value of over $500 million.
The market value of on-chain real-world assets (RWAs), excluding stablecoins, continues to rise, representing conti... |
| 05.09.2024 | The AI Gold Rush: How Giants and Startups Are Shaping the Future | The artificial intelligence landscape is evolving at breakneck speed. The recent surge in funding for AI startups highlights a gold rush mentality, with tech giants like Nvidia leading the charge. The stakes are high, and the competition is... |
| 04.09.2024 | Nvidia’s Billion-Dollar A.I. Pitch: How the Chip Giant Ramps Up Startup Bets | Jensen Huang prepares to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before the game between the San Francisco Giants and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Oracle Park on Sept. 03, 2024 in San Francisco. Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images
There’s no questi... |
| 07.08.2024 | Is Figure 02 the most powerful humanoid robot yet? | On August 6, Figure AI launched its second-generation humanoid robot, Figure 02, not through a typical press conference but via the social media accounts of the company and its CEO. Despite this unconventional approach, the announcement cap... |
| 30.07.2024 | NVIDIA unveils suite of tools to accelerate humanoid robotics | Developers in the field of humanoid robotics will now have access to a suite of new tools and services from NVIDIA, as announced at the SIGGRAPH 2024 conference. These include NVIDIA NIM Microservices for robotics simulation in Isaac Lab an... |
| 25.07.2024 | Omdia: Global humanoid robot shipments to exceed 10,000 units by 2027 and reach 38,000 units in 2030 | LONDON, July 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Omdia's latest research, Robotics Hardware Market Forecast – 2021–30, indicates that global humanoid robot shipments are expected to exceed 10,000 by 2027 and reach 38,000 units in 2030. This translates... |
| 10.07.2024 | How Tokenized Real World Assets Are Outperforming Crypto | Real world asset (RWA) tokenization has been growing in popularity among institutions with financial giants such as BlackRock entering the space with their own tokenized assets.
Leveraging blockchain technology, this allows traditional asse... |
| 18.06.2024 | Как бигтех инвестирует в ИИ | По данным Crunchbase, в этом году по объему инвестиций в стартапы в области ИИ пока лидируют Microsoft и Nvidia. Однако другие компании, например Google и Databricks, не сильно отстают и даже набирают обороты. Nvidia
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| 15.06.2024 | Figure Technology Solutions Launches Blockchain-based Marketplace of Private Credit Loans | Figure Technology Solutions, the technology platform streamlining the private credit and housing markets, announced the launch of Figure Connect, a blockchain-based multi-seller, multi-buyer marketplace of private credit loans.
Figure Conne... |
| 29.04.2024 | Роботы могут сделать работу менее значимой для людей: сотрудники начинают думать, что их труд ничего не стоит и не нужен... | Работодатели жалуются на неспособность заполнять вакансии и удерживать работников, что еще больше ускоряет внедрение роботов. Один из аспектов дискуссии, который часто игнорируется, — это отношение работников к своим роботизированным коллег... |
| 24.04.2024 | Tesla could start selling Optimus robots by the end of next year, Musk says | DisruptedTesla could start selling Optimus robots by the end of next year, Musk says
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| 11.04.2024 |
CMG acquires Norcom Mortgage’s retail assets | California-based multichannel mortgage lender CMG Financial announced on Thursday that it acquired Norcom Mortgage’s retail assets, expanding its operations in the Northeast with the addition of 25 branches from Maryland to Maine. The finan... |
| 11.04.2024 |
Figure rolls out DART processing platform to private, wholesale lending partners | Figure Technology Solutions (FTS), the parent company of Figure Lending LLC, announced on Thursday that it will begin making its Digital Asset Registration Technologies (DART) platform — which it describes as “a combined lien and eNote regi... |
| 04.04.2024 | Apple Engineers Now Working on Personal Robots After Dropping Electric Car Project | John Lopez, Tech Times 04 April 2024, 02:04 pm
Bloomberg reports that Apple has shifted its focus from electric cars to personal robots, intending to sell AI-powered assistants to households. This move follows the abandonment of Apple's ele... |
| 04.04.2024 | Agility Robotics lays off some staff amid commercialization focus | Agility Robotics on Thursday confirmed that it has laid off a “small number” of employees. The well-funded Oregon-based firm says the job loss is part of a company-wide focus on commercialization efforts.
“As part of Agility’s ongoing effor... |
| 31.03.2024 | Chinese Company's Electric-powered Humanoid Robot H1 Does a Backflip, Sets Speed Records | John Lopez, Tech Times 31 March 2024, 01:03 pm
A Chinese company's electric-powered humanoid robot, H1, has accomplished a major milestone by successfully performing a backflip.
Chinese tech insiders believe that this breakthrough is a wate... |
| 31.03.2024 | Robinhood’s new Gold Card, BaaS challenges and the tiny startup that caught Stripe’s eye | Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at Robinhood’s new Gold Card, challenges in the BaaS space and how a tiny startup caught Stripe’s eye.
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most impo... |
| 22.03.2024 | Nvidia's AI Innovations: A Glimpse into the Future | Nvidia, a powerhouse in the tech industry, is making waves with its latest AI advancements. From Project GR00T to the unveiling of the B200 chip, the company is pushing boundaries and shaping the future of robotics and artificial intelligen... |
| 22.03.2024 | China Might Bring Humanoid Robots into Existence Soon—Will They Replace Humans? | Joseph Henry, Tech Times 22 March 2024, 12:03 pm
A new robotics center in Beijing has announced plans to introduce a versatile humanoid robot prototype, signaling a significant stride in technological innovation and advanced manufacturing.
... |
| 20.03.2024 | Figure Markets Revolutionizes Financial Markets with $60M Series A Funding | Figure Technologies Inc. has made waves in the financial world with the launch of Figure Markets Inc., backed by a whopping $60 million in Series A funding. This new venture aims to create an all-encompassing marketplace for investors to tr... |
| 20.03.2024 | Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form | Enlarge / An illustration of a humanoid robot created by Nvidia.
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In sci-fi films, the rise of humanlike artificial intelligence often comes hand in hand with a physical platform, such as an android or robot. While... |
| 18.03.2024 | Figure Markets raises $60M to build crypto ‘everything marketplace’
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One click below supports our mission to provide free,... | Blockchain-based lending firm Figure Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of Figure Markets Inc. with $60 million in new funding to build what the company called an “everything marketplace,” a single platform for investors to trade ... |
| 18.03.2024 | Nvidia shows off Project GR00T, a multimodal AI to power humanoids of the future | Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here.
Nvidia is pushing the bar on robotics with the introduction of Project GR00T, a multimodal AI to power humanoids of... |
| 15.03.2024 | Mercedes begins piloting Apptronik humanoid robots | Pilot season has officially begun for the world of humanoid robotics. Last year, Amazon began testing Agility’s Digit robots in select fulfillment centers, while this January, Figure announced a deal with BMW. Now Apptronik is getting in on... |
| 15.03.2024 | Humanoid robots are joining Mercedes' assembly line | The newest Mercedes-Benz production worker is 5-foot-8, 160 pounds, can lift 55 pounds, and plugs itself in when it needs to take a break.
Apptronik, a humanoid robot manufacturer based in Austin, has won a contract to supply its Apollo hum... |
| 05.03.2024 | Aided by the democratization of generative AI, the robotics AI chipset market is expected to reach US$866m globally by 2028 finds Omdia | LONDON, March 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Since the democratization of machine learning (ML) in robotics, ML-powered workloads have become highly diverse. As generative AI (GenAI) technology continues to proliferate, foundation models are poise... |
| 05.03.2024 | The 10 Biggest Rounds Of February: Epic Games Leads The List Thanks To House Of Mouse Investment | 6 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
This is a monthly feature that runs down the month’s top 10 funding rounds in the U.S. Check out the biggest rounds of last month here.
February was a big month for big rounds. Companies needed to ra... |
| 12.07.2023 |
Figure partners with four IMBs on HELOCs | Mike Cagney’s Figure Technologies announced a collaboration with CMG Financial, CrossCountry Mortgage, Fairway Independent Mortgage and The Loan Store as private-label partners.
The collaboration with several of the country’s top independen... |
| 31.05.2023 | Какие инновационные решения внедряют мировые финтех-гиганты | Инвестиции в финтех упали, но рынок продолжает развиваться и задавать тренды. Что сейчас внедряют гиганты индустрии и какие стартапы выстреливают?
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| 27.04.2023 | Figure Technologies, which Enhances Financial Services by Leveraging Blockchain Tech, Closes HELOC Securitization | Figure Technologies Inc., a firm focused on transforming financial services through the power of blockchain technology, announced “the close of a HELOC (home equity line of credit) securitization underwritten by Jefferies, Goldman Sachs, an... |
| 07.04.2023 | Make networking work for you at TC Early Stage | You might think networking is about flattering other people. It’s not. Networking is about you, your future, and everything you need to get your business connected at the next level. That’s why we’ve made sure that TechCrunch Early Stage in... |
| 06.04.2023 | Level up with our partners at TC Early Stage | Boston! Are you ready for some green on 4/20? No, not that green. It’s TechCrunch Early Stage 2023! Soon enough, we’ll be coming straight atcha with a host of speakers, workshops, roundtables, and networking opportunities that are sure to a... |
| 17.02.2023 | Figure partners with NovaWulf on proposed reorg of crypto lender Celsius | Fintech Figure Technologies will partner with NovaWulf Digital Management to provide blockchain technology solutions for a proposed reorganization of troubled crypto lender Celsius.
The partnership was made public by Figure on Thursday and ... |
| 16.12.2022 | Figure Acquisition Corp. I Announces Results of Special Stockholder Meeting and Redemption of Class A Common Stock | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Figure Acquisition Corp. I (the "Company") today announced that its stockholders approved an amendment to its certificate of incorporation to permit the Company to wind up early. The Co... |
| 12.12.2022 | Figure Acquisition Corp. I plans merger with mortgage bank | Figure Acquisition Corp. I, a blank check company affiliated with fintech Figure Technologies, plans to merge with a warehouse lender and bank holding company to potentially bring blockchain technology to the financial institution.
The spec... |
| 06.06.2022 | Figure and Homebridge cancel planned merger | Figure Technologies co-founder and CEO Mike Cagney
Fintech lender Figure Technologies and multichannel originator Homebridge Financial Services last August announced a merger that they claimed would usher in monumental change to the mortgag... |
| 23.05.2022 |
Crypto Mortgages: How You Can Buy a House Using a Crypto-Backed Loan | The latest crypto boom has created fortunes for many, and some of them are looking to buy real estate with their new riches.
There are plenty of examples of real estate developers who are keen to accept cryptocurrencies as payment, but for ... |
| 29.03.2022 | Inside Figure’s bold plan for crypto mortgages | Figure Technologies co-founder and CEO Mike Cagney
Mike Cagney didn’t expect to be releasing a cryptocurrency-backed 30-year fixed-rate mortgage product so soon. The plan was for Figure Technologies to launch such a product only after compl... |
| 17.03.2022 | Why aren’t VCs funding more startups focused on menopause? | In recent years, “femtech” has attracted increasing attention and venture funding, with dozens of startups springing into existence, from digital health apps to, more newly, regenerative medicine companies.
Most of those deals tie to infert... |
| 16.08.2021 | Why fintechs are buying up legacy financial services companies | Oh, how the tables have turned.
It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry.
It used to... |
| 16.08.2021 | New York Community Bancorp, Inc. And Figure Technologies, Inc. Enter Into Strategic Relationship | Companies To Collaborate On Blockchain Initiatives Using Provenance Blockchain New York Community Bancorp, Inc. to Become an Investor In Figure Technologies, Inc. Companies To Also Become Investors In JAM FINTOP Blockchain, LP
New York Comm... |
| 03.08.2021 | Figure merges with mortgage lender Homebridge | The blockchain revolution may soon be coming to mortgage lending. And it could take the form of a very old-school lender – Homebridge Financial Services. The Mike Cagney-led fintech lender Figure Technologies, most recently valued at $3.2 b... |
| 03.08.2021 | Figure Technologies closes $200m Series D funding round | Blockchain technology firm Figure has closed a $200 million Series D funding round led by 10T Holdings and Morgan Creek Digital.
Mike Cagney, founder and CEO of Figure Technologies
The round, which values Figure at $3.2 billion, also featur... |
| 03.08.2021 | Figure to merge with mortgage lender Homebridge | The blockchain revolution may soon be coming to mortgage lending. And it could take the form of a very old-school lender – Homebridge Financial Services. The Mike Cagney-led fintech lender Figure Technologies, most recently valued at $3.2 b... |
| 28.07.2021 | Figure Completes $200M Series D | Blockchain-based financial services provider Figure officially closed its $200 million Series D, leaving it with a $3.2 billion valuation. New investors including entities and funds associated with affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Bl... |
| 28.07.2021 | Figure Technologies Closes $200M Series D Funding | Figure Technologies, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based provider of blockchain technology powered financial services, closed a $200m Series D funding at a $3.2 billion valuation.
Backers included new investors including entities and funds mana... |
| 26.07.2021 | Who in Crypto Met With Brian Brooks When He Ran OCC? Here's His Calendar | Of the more than 1,200 meetings Brian Brooks took as acting U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, around 40 were about cryptocurrency or involved someone from the crypto industry.
Those meetings involved a wide range of participants in the cryp... |
| 02.06.2021 | Even Financial Partners with Figure to Add Blockchain-Enabled Personal Loan Products to its Financial Services Marketplace | |
| 26.05.2021 | Video: pick of the week – “smishing” tech scam arrests; Figure Technologies raises $200m | FinTech Futures and Dukascopy TV have teamed up to bring you a top pick of news from the world of finance and tech in bitesize video format, twice a week.
In this week’s instalment:
Arrests made over UK “smishing” texts scam (click here to ... |
| 25.05.2021 | Blockchain tech provider Figure raises $200M amid banking license row | The Series D round gives US-based Figure Technologies a $3.2 billion valuation, up from $1.2 billion after its last mega-round in December, per Business Wire. Launched in 2018, Figure offers a host of blockchain-based financial services, in... |
| 24.05.2021 | Figure Technologies raises $200 million to reach $3.2 billion valuation | US-based blockchain fintech provider Figure Technologies is closing a $200 million Series D funding round at a $3.2 billion valuation.
10T Holdings and Morgan Creek Digital are co-leading the round. Sachin Jaitly, general partner at Morgan ... |
| 20.05.2021 | Mike Cagney’s Blockchain Firm Figure Technologies Acquires $200M via Series D at $3.2B Valuation | Figure Technologies, Inc., which aims to transform financial services by leveraging the power of blockchain tech, has finalized a $200 million Series D round at a $3.2 billion valuation.
10T Holdings and Morgan Creek Digital have reportedly... |
| 20.05.2021 | FactSet Research : Banking on Fintech | Banking on Fintech Companies and Markets
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The financial crisis of a decade ago catalyzed many secular changes in the U.S. banking system, but few are starker than the collapse in new bank charters. According to dat... |
| 12.05.2021 | Mike Cagney’s Figure Technologies Receives Regulatory Approval to Operate Alternative Trading System | Figure Technologies, a lending platform that uses blockchain technology, announced on Wednesday its subsidiary, Figure Securities, Inc. has become a FINRA-approved broker-dealer and an SEC-registered Alternative Trading System (ATS) for dig... |
| 12.05.2021 | Figure Receives Regulatory Approval to Operate Alternative Trading System | Figure Technologies, Inc. (Figure™), a leader in transforming financial services through the power of blockchain, today announced that its subsidiary, Figure Securities, Inc. has become a FINRA-approved broker-dealer and an SEC-registered A... |
| 19.01.2021 | JPMorgan is investing $ 100 million in blockchain project Figure | - |
| 15.01.2021 | JPMorgan Provides $100M Financing Facility for Blockchain Mortgage Platform Figure | Blockchain mortgage platform Figure says it has closed a $100 million financing facility for its mortgage products from investment bank JPMorgan.
Platform owner Figure Technologies said Wednesday this is the fifth financing facility for its... |
| 04.12.2020 | Mike Cagney is right now testing the boundaries of the US banking system | Founder Mike Cagney is always pushing the envelope, and investors love him for it. Not long after sexual harassment allegations prompted him to leave SoFi, the personal finance company that he co-founded in 2011, he raised $50 million for a... |
| 22.07.2020 | UK’s Selina Finance raises $53M for its SMB loans platform based on home equity | When you need a loan, the cost and speed of getting it can be as critical to get right as the financing itself, a principle that might be even more relevant today in our shaky pandemic-hit economy than ever before. Today, a company that pro... |
| 02.03.2020 | 2020 HW Tech100 Mortgage winner: Figure | Figure is transforming the lending experience for consumers through the power of blockchain. Through its proprietary blockchain, Provenance, Figure takes loans from application to funding in days, not the typical weeks-long process. Figure ... |
| 06.12.2019 | Blockchain-based lending startup Figure secures $103M in new funding
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| 05.12.2019 | Figure raises $103M Series C to reinvent lending experience using blockchain technology | Figure Technologies, a FinTech startup transforming the lending experience for consumers through the power of blockchain technology, has closed has closed a $103 million Series C funding to expand its lending products and executive hires. T... |
| 05.12.2019 | Top tech startup news for today, Thursday, December 5, 2019 – Oculus, Blue Ocean Robotics, Infinitum Electric, Figure.com, Salv.com | Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Thursday, December 5, 2019.
Facebook Oculus quietly acquires Prague-based Beat Games to bolster VR gaming. Oculus, a company Facebook acquired in 2014 for $2 billion, has... |
| 05.12.2019 | Figure Raises $103M in Series C Funding | Figure Technologies, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based blockchain technology consumer lending company, closed a $103m Series C funding round.
The round – which brought total funding raised to date to more than $225m and the valuation to $1.2 ... |
| 04.12.2019 | Mike Cagney’s Figure Technologies set to raise $103m in Series C | Figure Technologies, the US start-up created by SoFi founder Mike Cagney, is about to close $103 million in Series C funding according to papers filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
This fundraising, which has already se... |
| 01.12.2019 | SoFi founder Mike Cagney’s already well-funded new startup is raising another $100 million | Figure Technologies, a nearly two-year-old, San Francisco-based fintech cofounded by Mike Cagney, the founder of the more established fintech company SoFi, is raising a whole lot of money — again.
By February of this year, Figure had alread... |
| 12.07.2019 | Top tech startup news for today, Friday, July 12, 2019 | Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Friday, July 12, 2019.
AppLovin acquires the Tel Aviv, Israel-based SafeDK to improve brand safety. AppLovin, the mobile marketing company, has announced the acquisition ... |
| 29.05.2019 | Online lender SoFi has quietly raised $500 million in funding, led by Qatar | Usually when it comes to big sums of funding, companies like to boast. Online lending startup Social Finance, better known as SoFi, took another tack this morning, quietly announcing in a press release that it has closed half a billion doll... |
| 09.05.2019 | Figure Technologies lands $1 billion blockchain investment to revolutionize HELOC lending | Blockchain lending startup Figure Technologies launched with a promise to disrupt home equity lending using cutting-edge technology, and it appears to be well on its way to achieving this mission.
The company announced Thursday that it clos... |
| 28.02.2019 | Figure Technologies Raises $65M in Series B |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Fintech company in both the home equity and blockchain space, announced today $65 million in series B equity funding.
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| 28.02.2019 | Figure Technologies raises $65M in Series B funds to expand home equity, blockchain solutions | Figure Technologies Inc., a San Francisco-based home equity and blockchain firm, said it raised $65 million in Series B funding led by RPM Ventures and partners at DST Global.
Additional participants included Ribbit Capital, DCM, DCG, Nimbl... |
| 27.02.2019 | Figure Raises $65M | Figure Technologies Figure Technologies
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| 27.02.2019 | Figure Technologies Raises $65M in Series B Funding | Figure Technologies, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based fintech company in both the home equity and blockchain space, raised $65m in series B equity funding.
The round, which brought total equity funding to date to more than $120m, was led by ... |
| 27.02.2019 | SoFi founder Mike Cagney’s new company, Figure, just raised another $65 million | Figure, a 13-month-old, San Francisco-based company that says it uses blockchain technology to provide home equity loans online in as little as five days, has raised a whole lot of money in not a lot of time: $120 million to date, including... |
| 30.04.2018 | SoFi founder Mike Cagney is back with a new startup and $50 million in funding | Mike Cagney, who was ousted last summer from the lending company he founded, is back with a new startup and a whole lot of funding from at least one of his previous investors.
According to a new report in Bloomberg, Cagney, who earlier this... |
| 21.03.2018 | Former SoFi CEO Mike Cagney founds new lending startup, pivots to blockchain | After abruptly resigning from SoFi amid a swirling controversy about the workplace culture at the online lender, Mike Cagney has resurfaced…and he’s pivoting to blockchain.
Cagney co-founded SoFi and served as its CEO before resigning last ... |
| - | Blockchain firm Figure raises $200 million, but its bank charter remains in regulatory limbo | Figure raised $200 million and is still awaiting the approval for its national bank charter.
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| - | Figure Acquisition Corp. I Announces Closing of $287.5 Million Initial Public Offering | SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 23, 2021--
Figure Acquisition Corp. I (the “Company”) announced today the closing of its initial public offering of 28,750,000 units, which included the full exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment o... |
