First Resonance Raises New Round To Make Hardware Manufacturing Easier

Los Angeles-based First Resonance closed a new funding round led by Blue Bear Capital as the company looks to help customers with their Industry 4.0 evolution.

No amount was given for the new round, but the company now has raised $5.3 million to date since being founded in 2018.

First Resonance has grown from zero customers at the beginning of last year to 17 now, and expects to at least double that number by the end of the year, said founder and CEO Karan Talati.

The company plans to use the new money to continue developing its ion manufacturing platform, which helps engineers through the design, manufacturing and product stages of hardware development. However, whereas the previous era of manufacturing focused on robotics and automation, First Resonance’s platform allows for the continuous innovation and updating now expected in the Industry 4.0 era, Talati said.

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Buy a new Chevy Bolt and GM will install Level 2 charging in your house

Chevy's Bolt EV has always offered pretty decent bang for your buck. With a sticker price under $40,000 and almost 300 miles of range, it's been a relatively popular model for General Motors, but now there's a refreshed Bolt EV version coming out for 2022, and to help get people excited about it, GM is offering something pretty cool.

Specifically, according to a report published Wednesday by Inside EVs, GM will pay to install a Level 2 EV charger at your house, including an appropriate NEMA 14-50 outlet and labor. If that sounds like a solid deal, it is. The catch is that it's only for what GM is calling a "standard installation," likely meaning that if there's any weirdness with your garage's wiring, you could be on the hook for the difference.

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Lucid Sight acquires Colyseus open-source multiplayer game engine

Lucid Sight, a maker of blockchain games, has acquired the open-source multiplayer engine Colyseus for an undisclosed price. Colyseus projects have seen millions of monthly active users and have processed billions of monthly requests.

The Los Angeles-baed Lucid Sight makes blockchain games such as MLB Champions and CSC featuring Star Trek, and now it will be taking over the Colyseus brand, GitHub, and all social and support channels.

Lucid Sight will also be launching a cloud-hosted service to further support Colyseus developers. The creator of Colyseus, Endel Dreyer, will be joining the Lucid Sight team.

Lucid Sight will continue to add to the Colyseus open-source library of features in conjunction with the open-source community. Fazri Zubair, chief technology officer at Lucid Sight, said in a statement that the engine has been downloaded by more than 250,000 developers and studios. They use it to create multiplayer game servers. Its main feature is that you can deploy it without the need for a network engineer.

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BRZRKR #1 Is the Best Selling Comic Since Marvel's Star Wars #1 in 2015

BOOM! Studios' BRZRKR has reached a new record, as the first issue has sold over 600,000 copies -- a record eclipsed only by Marvel Comics' relaunch of the Star Wars comic series.

BRZRKR artist Ron Garney posted the news on his official Facebook page, extending his gratitude to the rest of the creative team. Garney wrote, "Brzrkr #1 has surpassed over 600,000 copies -- thank you to everyone for the amazing enthusiasm and support for this project on behalf of myself, Keanu, Matt K, Ross, Eric, Bill, Filip, Stephen, Matt G and all of the stellar people at Boom!"

The highest-selling comic of the last decade was Star Wars #1 by Jason Aaron and John Cassaday, which debuted following Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012. Star Wars #1 exceeded one million copies sold on the direct market in 2014, which made it the top-selling single issue of the past 20 years.

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Coterie Closes $11.5M in Series A-1 Financing, Bringing Total Funds Raised to $25M to Make Small Business Insurance Faster & Easier

CINCINNATI, Feb. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Coterie, the technology company that simplifies small business insurance, today announced they have raised $11.5M in Series A-1 financing. Coterie secured the additional funding through an oversubscribed Series A-1 led by Intact Ventures and with participation from Alpha Edison, Lackawanna Insurance Group, a subsidiary of Group1001, and previous investors, RPM Ventures, Allos Ventures, and several others. This announcement follows strong company growth fueled by an oversubscribed Series A financing of $8.5M in March 2020. 

"There is a growing need in the industry for fast and easy solutions and we're excited to provide that in the small business insurance space," said David McFarland, CEO and co-founder of Coterie. "We've been extremely fortunate over the last year to bring on great people, partners, and investors who believe in what we're building."

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