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Following rumors that it was exploring the sale of its weather business as part of a move to streamline operations, IBM says that it’s found a buyer for The Weather Company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Despite the abundant venture capital available for startups in the current wave of generative AI breakthroughs, Relume has turned down investments and instead relied on bootstrapping since its launch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Before founding dipp, Jennifer Chen and Mikhail Abramov spent 15 years working as art directors in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What happens when a maker of tiny electric vehicles dips its wheels into the military industrial complex? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the past year, the company grew its membership base to over 1,000 brands and retailers and saw its year over year gross merchandise value run rate grow over 10 times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Twiga will conduct another round of layoffs to keep its business afloat amid macroeconomic headwinds that have made capital harder to raise, and forced venture-backed companies to scale down their operations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wonder Brands has since launched over 15 brands in the past 12 months and over 2,000 SKUs in the categories of home and garden, sports and fitness and beauty and personal care categories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Defense-focused space technology startup True Anomaly has received key permits from regulators that will allow it to demonstrate imaging and rendezvous capabilities on-orbit for the first time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company brings the entire product testing process under one umbrella and automates it so customers can set up their testing and get the product results they need quickly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

DynamoFL, which offers software to bring large language models (LLMs) to enterprises and fine-tune those models on sensitive data, today announced that it raised $15.1 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Canapi Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The demand for conversational AI — mostly chatbots — has arguably never been higher, riding the publicity wave of systems like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Traditionally, companies looking to extract data from websites have had to create custom code to get at the data, an expensive and time-consuming process that is often out of reach of smaller businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the spend management space continues to get more competitive, the various players seem to be constantly iterating to add new features to their products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The new investment, an extension of a previous Series A round, enabled the company to open a third location in the Miami area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company builds automated digital workers that can be used in lieu of human employees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We didn’t think we’d see the day. Digital mortgage lender Better.com’s proposal to combine with Aurora Acquisition Corp. via a SPAC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Many companies grapple with data challenges. In a 2019 survey, Deloitte reports that 67% of executives aren’t comfortable accessing or using the data at their organizations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Osano, an Austin, Texas-based startup developing a platform to help companies manage their data privacy, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series B funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The architecture, engineering and construction industries involve giant concrete molds that are expensive, slow to manufacture and often only used a few times before being disposed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Microplastics are everywhere — quite literall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As organizations embrace cloud services — and are forced to confront changing regulations and data use standards — their ability to maintain control of data security frequently becomes strained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Atmosfy, an app that helps you discover restaurants and local businesses through short-form videos, has raised $12 million in seed funding led by Redpoint Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The new funding will help Meatable scale its processes and accelerate the launch of its first products — sausages and pork dumplings — in Singapore starting in 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In its continued attempt to diversify its product offerings, Zoom today launched a new asynchronous video tool, Zoom Clips, that lets users record, edit and share video clips without having to hop on a meeting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One Model, a platform that uses AI to help employers make decisions about recruiting, hiring, promotions, layoffs and general workplace planning, today announced that it’s raised $41 million in a funding round led by Riverwood Capital.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices