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Simbian brings AI to existing security tools
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
Voltpost wants to bring curbside charging to a lamppost near you
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
Cambium is building a recycled wood supply chain
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
Guesty snaps up $130M at $900M valuation to help property managers list on Airbnb and beyond
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 apprenticeship unicorn, acquires Searchlight to put a focus on AI
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 raises $20M to bring automation to security compliance management
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 raises more cash to transform data for Snowflake customers
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 acquires the startup behind low-code AI builder Langflow
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
Belgian computer vision startup Robovision eyes U.S. expansion to address labor shortages
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’s orbital drug factory success fuels $90M in new funding
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
Retro, an actually good photo-sharing app for BFFs, launches collaborative journals
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
Jobs for the Future’s new $50M fund looks to invest in underrepresented founders
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
Hailo lands $120 million to keep battling Nvidia as most AI chip startups struggle
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 raises $14M to continue acquiring DTC wine marketplaces, buys Bright Cellars
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
Modal raises $25M to train corporate workers on data and AI
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
Quadratic is reimagining the spreadsheet with a focus on data
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
Skyflow raises $30M more as AI spikes demand for its privacy business
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
This startup believes mobile apps for businesses should work more like consumer apps
Have you noticed the massive gap between consumer and business apps on your phone? While consumer apps are both beautifully designed and easy to use, business apps are simply painful to use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Kids’ clothing and gear is more expensive than ever. Kidsy has a sustainable solution for discounts
All parents know that raising kids is expensive. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Skyflow raises $30M more as AI spikes demand for its privacy business
This morning Skyflow announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B extension led by Khosla Ventures. The deal is interesting on a number of fronts including the round’s structure and how Skyflow has been impacted by growth of AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Climate tech VC Satgana closes first fund that targets early-stage startups in Africa, Europe
Climate-tech VC Satgana has reached a final close of its first fund, which targets to back up to 30 early-stage startups in Africa and Europe. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
StealthMole raises $7M Series A for its AI-powered dark web intelligence platform
StealthMole, an AI-powered dark web intelligence startup that specializes in monitoring cyber threats and detecting cybercrime, announced Thursday that it has raised a $7 million Series A funding round. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Marissa Mayer’s startup just rolled out apps for group photo sharing and event planning, and the internet isn’t sure what to think
When Marissa Mayer co-founded a startup six years ago in Palo Alto, Ca., expectations were sky high for the former Yahoo CEO and early Google employee. When that startup, Sunshine, revealed that its first app centered around subscription software for contact management, people wondered if something more ambitious might be around the corner. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Wase zaps microbes to squeeze more biogas from wastewater sludge
Harvesting methane from organic waste and using it to produce electricity or heat is nothing new, but the startup isn't building another anaerobic digester. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
900.care sells waterless personal care products and lets you add tap water at home
Here’s the harsh truth behind personal care products: you’re mostly buying water and plastics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Liquid Death is just one of many VC-backed beverage startups ready to disrupt Coke and Pepsi
Some of the new venture-backed beverage startups are hoping to upend the industry by creating new drink categories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Meet Uzbekistan’s first unicorn: e-commerce startup Uzum
Uzum, an e-commerce startup offering online shopping, fintech and food deliveries to millions of customers in Uzbekistan, has raised $114 million in funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Farm to Feed is cutting food loss and creating data platform to better farm outcomes
Globally, a third of the food produced is lost or wasted, and in Kenya, that figure stands at between 20% to 40%. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
World Fund closes first €300M ClimateTech fund, seeking to follow-on and backing hardware
World Fund closes first €300M ClimateTech fund, seeking to follow-on and backing hardware Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
US cyber investors pledge spyware is off limits — with a catch
Biden administration announced that six new countries had joined an international coalition to fight the proliferation of commercial spyware, sold by companies such as NSO Group or Intellexa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Budgeting app Copilot is booming now that Mint is dead, leading to $6M Series A
The company reached profitability in 2023, however, more customers began asking for web and Android capabilities so they could share Copilot with family and friends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Silence is an early stage climate tech VC fund with $35 million; Greenly lands $52M to help smaller companies track CO2 emissions
Silence wants to shake things up when it comes to climate tech investment; The carbon accounting startup targets SMBs to help them assess the carbon footprint of their operations and products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pocket FM bags $103M in funding as it eyes global expansion
India-based audio platform Pocket FM has secured $103 million in Series D funding led by Lightspeed Ventures with participation from Stepstone Group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
PocketHealth eases doctor-patient communications with easy image exchange
Have you ever needed a copy of your medical imaging to take to your doctor or another healthcare provider and received the images on a CD? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Telegram raises $330 million fresh capital through bond sales
Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov said on his channel today that the company secured $330 million in investment through bond sales last week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Poseidona is removing invasive algae from oceans and turning it into food
Poseidona is a Barcelona-based developer of sustainable food technology. It takes invasive seaweed and algal side-streams to make proteins. In this case, it's a soy protein alternative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apple acquires AI startup specializing in overlooking manufacturing components
Apple has added another AI startup to its acquisition list with Canada-based DarwinAI, which specializes in vision-based tech to observe components during manufacturing to improve efficiency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
ShopMy lands $18.5M to help influencers earn more money from promoting products
ShopMy, a marketing platform for content creators to connect with brands and monetize their content, announced today that it raised $18.5 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aethero wants to become the space industry’s Intel or Nvidia
Satellite sensors collect an incredible amount of raw data, but on-orbit compute limitations mean that operators have little way to process this data in space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
WarpStream is building a cheaper, cloud-native data streaming service
When the open source streaming service Apache Kafka was created in 2011 at LinkedIn, it was a different world. Most companies were still on prem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AliExpress is first online marketplace to face DSA investigation by EU
The European Union has opened its third formal investigation of a very large platform under the Digital Services Act (DSA), with China’s AliExpress earning itself the dubious honor of being the first online marketplace to face formal probe by the Commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Luminary Cloud’s simulator taps GPUs to help speed up product design
Simulations are an essential step in physical product engineering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Kolet makes travel eSIM cards easier to navigate
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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