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Application programming interfaces, or APIs as they’re commonly known, are the bedrock of everything we do online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tim Goltser and Curtis Mason have been building things together since high school, when the two were the co-captains of their school’s robotics team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

finmid is building an embedded finance product that targets that relationship between marketplaces and sellers, and raised a Series A round to further build out its product and enter new markets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Quilt promises its heat pump will be a sleeker design that can be installed in more places around a room than competitors’ offerings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

UK-based legaltech company Lawhive, which offers an AI-based in-house ‘lawyer’ through a software-as-a-service platform targeted at small law firms, has raised £9.5 million ($11.9M) in a seed round to expand the reach of AI-driven services for ‘main street’ law firms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Layoffs usually drive attention and sympathy towards affected employees, but rarely does anyone talk about what happens to the recruiters who are sometimes also asked to leave when companies decide to cut headcount. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

India is getting an electric three-wheeler passenger vehicle that charges from 0 to 100% in 15 minutes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The startup has raised $28 million to help fund a nationwide expansion of its cardboard-based cellulose building insulation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Simbian is a cybersecurity platform that effectively controls other cybersecurity platforms as well as security apps and tooling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The New York City-based startup has been working on a product that retrofits existing street lampposts to enable EV charging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The global demand for wood could grow by 54% between 2010 and 2050, according to a study by the World Resources Institute. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Travel and tourism are very much back on the map for consumers and the business world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Multiverse, the U.K. unicorn that builds apprenticeship programs for people to learn technology skills while on the job, has made an acquisition as it aims to skill up itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sprinto, a startup offering a security compliance and risk platform, has raised $20 million in new investment led by Accel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Coalesce offers a platform that standardizes data while automating the more repetitive, mundane data transformation processes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

DataStax made a name for itself by commercializing the open source Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, but these days, the company’s focus is squarely on using its database chops to build a “one-stop GenAI stack.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Robovision has raised $42M to industrialize deep learning tools and make them more accessible to businesses that are not tech companies at their core. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Varda Space Industries has closed a massive tranche of funding just weeks after its first drug manufacturing capsule returned from orbit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As big social apps are optimizing for maximum engagement using algorithmic feeds and personalized content recommendations, Retro wants to go in the opposite direction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two years ago, Jobs for the Future, a non-profit dedicated to helping low-wage workers attain upward mobility, established a venture arm, JFFVentures, to back innovative employment tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The funding climate for AI chip startups, once as sunny as a mid-July day, is beginning to cloud over as Nvidia asserts its dominance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Full Glass Wine, a brand acquisition management startup that specializes in acquiring wine marketplaces, has raised $14 million in a Series A round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A few years ago, Darren Shimkus, ex-president of Udemy, had a conversation with Dennis Yang about skills building. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Using Quadratic, users can bring in hundreds of thousands of rows of data, write analyses in their preferred programming language and share the results with outside stakeholders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This morning Skyflow announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B extension led by Khosla Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices