Monthly Archives: May 2018

Here are some of the prominent startups that announced shutdown in May of 2018 Northwestern Mutual shutting down LearnVest – After paying $250 million for the startup three years ago, the insurance company is shutting it down June 5. In a statement posted to the Northwestern Mutual website, the company […]

RIP: Startup shutdown in May 2018

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The Trump Administration issued its formal proposal to rescind the International Entrepreneur Rule, a regulation designed to allow entrepreneurs to grow and scale their businesses in the U.S. This rule allowed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to use clear and careful criteria to identify, on a case-by-case basis, entrepreneurs […]

Trump Moves to Dump the U.S.’s Startup Visa

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StumbleUpon co-founder, Garrett Camp, has announced that the project is coming to an end 16 and half years after its launch in 2001. Camp is now recommending that StumbleUpon users migrate their accounts over to another of his projects, Mix.com, which he says incorporates the lessons learned from StumbleUpon “to […]

Social media ‘startup’ StumbleUpon closing after 16 years

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Roundup of news and ideas from the world of startups – Week ending 29th April 2018 News you can use Google Holding $11 Billion in Its Startup Investments – Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. has shared a result from its years of sizeable startup investing for the first time on […]

Digital Startup news roundup – Week ending 27th May

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