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Primo, a French startup that recently raised a $3.4 million funding round to build a software-as-a-service product that handles the IT needs of small and medium companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While Generative AI is buzzy right now, what OpenAI, Microsoft and Google are doing may be only part of the story.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rally provides one-click checkout and post-purchase offers that allow the merchant to inject offers after the checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The global management consulting industry is worth billions of dollars but to this day it’s been tough to disrupt with technology.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Odeko has operations software for coffee shops to manage inventory, get data insights and order equipment and supplies from over 400 vendors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There have been several startup attempts to measure staff morale, some more halting that others. We reported on Plasticity Labs back in 2014, though their web site seems no longer functioning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French startup Fleet has been growing nicely over the past four years as the company has deployed nearly 10,000 devices with long-term leasing contracts.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stability AI, the startup funding a range of generative AI experiments, has released a new version of Stable Diffusion, the text-to-image AI system that was among the first to rival OpenAI’s DALL-E 2.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Zoom today announced that it has acquired Workvivo, a six-year-old Irish startup focused on improving companies’ internal communications and culture. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meet Thynk, a new company that wants to build the definite enterprise software solution for the hospitality industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tomer Greenwald, Uri Sarid and Ori Shoshan, software developers by trade, found themselves building and configuring software authentication and authorization mechanisms repeatedly — each time with a different tech stack.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

General Atlantic has poured another $100 million in PhonePe, three months after leading a $350 million investment in the Indian fintech startup that has so far raised $750 million in an ongoing financing round.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Clear Street, which says it is building “modern infrastructure” for capital markets, has raised $270 million in the second tranche of a Series B funding round at a $2 billion valuation.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French startup Graneet is building an all-in-one software-as-a-service product focused on small construction companies.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Reach Capital, one of the first venture firms to focus exclusively on edtech, closed its last investment vehicle during an unprecedented boom within tech.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Axle allows users to connect their insurance account to trusted companies in seconds and then automates insurance verification. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Honeycomb was founded in 2016 by two former Facebook engineers to create a new way of looking at application monitoring based on the internal tooling they had seen at Facebook.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AI research startup Anthropic aims to raise as much as $5 billion over the next two years to take on rival OpenAI and enter over a dozen major industries, according to company documents obtained by TechCrunch.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Aqua Cultured Foods is using proprietary mycoprotein (fungi) fermentation processes to create whole cuts of calamari, shrimp, scallops and filets of tuna and whitefish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SetSail set out to build a new way to compensate sales people, where based on the data, companies could pay salespeople on where they were in the pipeline, not in just one big chunk when they landed the sale.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cows are a significant source of methane emissions, primarily due to their unique digestive system. Milk and beef cows are ruminants, which means they have a specialized stomach chamber (called the rumen), which houses billions of microbes that facilitate the breakdown of fibrous plant material.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The firm uses an in-house data algorithm it hopes will help it find startups that have teams designed to scale — beyond just the founders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CarmaCare take over where traditional car insurance leaves off to provide an easier way to buy extended warranties for car repairs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Generative AI is hot among venture capital firms now, with $4.5 billion invested in 2022. Narrato, a AI content creation and collaboration platform, announced today it has joined the ranks of other generative AI startups with VC funding.    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Amazon’s first foray into the world of accelerator programs, designed to help early-stage startups build and launch, was focused on conversational AI back in 2016.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices