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Rally bags $12M to build the future of e-commerce checkout 19.04.2023 4:29

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

Remote working means this startup can use brains in emerging markets to disrupt management consultants 19.04.2023 3:14

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

B Capital leads Odeko’s $53M Series D to help small coffee shops scale 18.04.2023 3:51

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

LLMs come to workplace morale monitoring, as Loopin raises $1.9M for its platform 18.04.2023 5:56

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

Device-as-a-service startup Fleet expands beyond laptop leasing 17.04.2023 4:10

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’s new model is slightly better at generating hands 17.04.2023 5:32

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 acquires Ireland-based employee communications platform Workvivo 14.04.2023 5:01

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

Thynk wants to upgrade hotel stays with a vertical software platform 14.04.2023 5:34

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

Otterize raises $11.5M to help developers securely connect software services 13.04.2023 4:57

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 invests another $100 million in PhonePe 13.04.2023 4:10

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

Fintech startup Clear Street raises $270M at a $2B valuation 12.04.2023 5:17

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

Graneet raises $8.7 million for its vertical SaaS for construction companies 12.04.2023 3:36

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

In edtech, history matters: Reach Capital just closed its largest fund to date 11.04.2023 4:30

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

Gradient Ventures backs Axle’s ‘Plaid for insurance’ approach to data verification 11.04.2023 3:38

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 scores $50M investment as observability platform thrives 10.04.2023 4:49

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

Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI 10.04.2023 6:33

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

Alternative seafood startup Aqua Cultured Foods reels in $5.5M 07.04.2023 6:26

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 adds ChatGPT questioning capabilities on top of sales data 07.04.2023 3:44

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

Alga Biosciences wants to help climate change, one bovine burp at a time 06.04.2023 3:58

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

Ensemble raises $100M debut fund to bet on startup teams — but not in the way you think 06.04.2023 4:36

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

New funding helps CarmaCare accelerate its ‘healthcare-for-your-car’ service 05.04.2023 4:23

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

AirTree backs generative AI content creation and management platform Narrato 05.04.2023 3:54

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 wants to boost ten generative AI startups around the globe 04.04.2023 3:54

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

Tencent backs Singapore’s Horizon Quantum Computing in $18M round 04.04.2023 4:48

Quantum computers have the potential to carry out highly complicated calculations in minutes that would have taken classical computers thousands of years to work out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Artie sidesteps the app stores by putting high-quality games in your browser 03.04.2023 4:01

When you play a game, how do you play it? Monopoly or Settlers of Catan around the dining table? Mario Kart on your Nintendo Switch? Assassin’s Creed on your Xbox? Among Us on your phone? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices