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Kolet makes travel eSIM cards easier to navigate 14.03.2024 4:31

Kolet is a new French startup created by four experienced co-founders in the French tech ecosystem that wants to make it easier to stay connected when you travel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pint-size pickup startup Telo Trucks finds unexpected niche in fleet customers 14.03.2024 4:34

The young automotive company raised $5.4 million and added a Tesla co-founder to its board. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Generative AI video startup Tavus raises $18M to bring face and voice cloning to any app 13.03.2024 9:45

Tavus, a four-year-old generative AI startup that helps companies create digital “replicas” of individuals for automated personalized video campaigns, has confirmed a fresh $18 million in funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Backed by Leonardo DiCaprio, YC alum SolarMente wants to help democratize solar power in Spain 13.03.2024 7:12

Barcelona-based cleantech startup SolarMente recently added Leonardo DiCaprio to its cap table, hence becoming the actor's and activist's first investment in the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Profitable car rental service Turo is still ready for an IPO, but its growth cratered in 2023 12.03.2024 6:59

Turo, the venture-backed, peer-to-peer car rental service reported its fourth-quarter and full-year financial performance this week in an updated IPO filing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AI fraud detection software maker Inscribe.ai lays off 40% of staff 12.03.2024 3:07

Yet another AI-powered fraud detection software provider is laying off staff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Baron values Swiggy at $12.16B, above prior private market valuation 11.03.2024 3:04

Baron Capital, an investor in Indian food delivery startup Swiggy, has increased the value of its stake in the Indian firm, implying a valuation of $12.16 billion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Lensrentals acquires BorrowLenses 11.03.2024 5:03

Lensrentals, a titan in the online rental service for photo, video, audio and lighting equipment, has announced its acquisition of BorrowLenses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Babylon Micro-Farms is bringing vertical farming to K-12 classes 08.03.2024 3:41

In an e-mail exchange, Babylon Micro-Farms CEO Alexander Oleson tells me “we’ll have these in every school and apartment one day.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Satellite servicing tech startup, led by former head of Ukraine’s space agency, lands $4M 08.03.2024 4:35

Kurs Orbital, a startup founded by Ukrainian space industry veterans, has closed a new tranche of funding to accelerate the commercialization of its satellite servicing technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New geospatial data startup streamlines satellite imagery visualization 07.03.2024 4:39

These days we have a ton of geospatial data coming off the increasing numbers of satellites circling in our atmosphere, but it takes some serious processing power and engineering prowess to turn that data into something useful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Harness Wealth wants to bring sophisticated tax planning to the masses 07.03.2024 4:06

Harness Wealth, which started in 2018 primarily offering financial advice to startup founders and employees, has expanded into the tax advisory space and raised a $17 million extension to its Series A round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

LLMs are poised to make lumbering business intelligence tools easier and faster to use 06.03.2024 4:49

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Backed by $10M Series A, TravelJoy is riding the post-COVID demand for expert travel planning 06.03.2024 5:30

A travel-focused startup that the COVID pandemic could have killed has instead thrived. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AI chip startup Groq forms new business unit, acquires Definitive Intelligence 05.03.2024 4:04

Groq, a startup developing chips to run GenAI models faster than conventional hardware, has an eye toward the enterprise — and public sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

MyHeritage launches OldNews.com, a website with access to millions of historical newspaper pages 05.03.2024 4:16

MyHeritage announced today that it’s launching OldNews.com, a new website that offers access to thousands of historical newspapers, mainly from the 1800s and 1900s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Syrenna’s WaterDrone is the ocean-monitoring ‘underwater weather station’ of the future 04.03.2024 6:55

As crucial as the ocean is to countless industries, we lack the kind of systematic knowledge of it that we have of the surface. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rec emerges from stealth to modernize Parks & Rec management and booking 04.03.2024 5:00

Park and recreation organizations help communities thrive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

OpenCTI maker Filigran raises $16 million for its cybersecurity threat management suite 01.03.2024 4:20

Paris-based cybersecurity startup Filigran is capitalizing on the success of OpenCTI to build a suite of open-source threat management products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Inspired Capital secures $330M fund to take venture capital ‘back to the studs’ 01.03.2024 3:34

As part of the new fund, Inspired Capital wrote a manifesto that highlights how the venture capital firm thinks, what it believes in and what it is looking for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Black Tech Nation Ventures’ diversity thesis undeterred by growing DEI backlash 29.02.2024 5:16

Black Tech Nation Ventures launched in 2021 to address the funding gap for Black founders amid a wave of venture diversity initiatives after the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Microsoft made a $16 million investment in Mistral AI 29.02.2024 3:43

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Writer’s latest models can generate text from images including charts and graphs 28.02.2024 3:47

As generative AI continues to dominate the headlines, it’s hard sometimes to find actual working business use cases among the hype. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Glean wants to beat ChatGPT at its own game — in the enterprise 28.02.2024 8:10

GenAI has its issues. But if there’s one thing it excels at, it’s surfacing answers from vast pools of data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Shadowfax speeds ahead with $100M funding as instant delivery boom fuels growth 27.02.2024 3:59

Shadowfax, one of the largest logistics service providers to hyper-local and on-demand delivery businesses in India, has raised $100 million in a new funding round as it clocks an yearly growth of over 35%. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices