SoundCloud on the blockchain? Audius raises $5.5M to decentralize music
By Josh Constine From TechCrunch Audius wants to cut the middlemen out of music streaming so artists get paid their fair share. Coming out of stealth today led by serial entrepreneur and DJ Ranidu Lankage, Audius is building a blockchain-based…
A startup raised $40 million to catapult rockets into space — an idea Jeff Bezos once said had ‘all sorts of practical problems’
By Jeremy Berke From Business Insider Spinlaunch has raised $40 million to develop a catapult to launch small and medium-sized payloads into orbit. The company wants to use kinetic energy, sourced from ground-based electricity, for its launch system. It’s an…