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Temasek and SBI pour $384 million into India’s Ola Electric
Ola Electric said on Thursday that it has raised $384.43 million in a funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Triple-A gets funding from Peak XV to help more businesses use crypto
Created by the founder of Thunes, global digital currency payments institution Triple-A wants to close the gap between traditional finance and blockchain-based payments with its white-label solutions for businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lab-grown leather scales up as Gozen raises $3.3M from Happiness Capital, SoSV and others
Whether we like it or not, the leather industry significantly contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global waste generation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oxolo bags €13M for Gen AI-driven video platform which can optimise engagement on the fly
Much has been made of AI-powered videos which can either make a real person speak different words or other languages, or generate a synthetic person which can speak on-demand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smart upcycling machine dissects batteries to save them
Circu Li-ion cofounder and CEO Antoine Welter says his startup’s upcycling machine can diagnose batteries in seconds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ternary, a cloud spend management startup, raises $12M
Ternary, a platform that helps companies manage how much they’re spending on cloud resources across multiple public cloud providers, today announced that it raised $12 million in a Series A funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
‘Household restocking’ startup The Rounds uses tech and AI to make sustainable e-commerce profitable
The Rounds, a sustainable “household restocking” service, wants to prove that last-mile logistics can be done both efficiently and profitably. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Citi inks deal with fintech Navan, says ‘not having to file an expense report is like nirvana’
Expense management startup Navan has inked an exclusive deal with Citi that executives say will open its addressable market significantly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Warmly pivots from Zoom tool to directing warm leads to sales
When Warmly started a couple of years ago, people were meeting regularly in Zoom and the company provided a custom background and information about the participants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Statement, a cash flow management platform for enterprises, raises $12M
Statement, a startup developing a platform for enterprise cash flow management, today announced that it raised $12 million in seed funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Passwordless authentication startup SecureW2 raises $80M from Insight Partners
Passwordless authentication offers a host of advantages over traditional pins, passphrases and passcodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Stack Overflow cuts 28% of its staff
Developer community site Stack Overflow has laid off 28% of its staff, the Prosus-owned company announced Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Flanks grabs additional capital to automate wealth services in Europe
Flanks gathers global wealth data under one API so that clients can have a complete view of their investment portfolio in real time and make more intelligent investment decisions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding
Nearly a year ago, developers Seth Forsgren and Hayk Martiros released a hobby project called Riffusion that could generate music using not audio but images of audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Reality Defender raises $15M to detect text, video and image deepfakes
Reality Defender, one of several startups developing tools to attempt to detect deepfakes and other AI-generated content, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by DCVC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Accessercise’s app makes it easier for people with disabilities to exercise
Accessercise, which developed a fitness app for people who want to exercise despite their disabilities, was one of the Startup Battlefield 200 finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Creative Force, now with $8.9M, gives e-commerce workflows an AI treatment
Creative Force helps retailers and brands create content at scale for marketing campaigns and online merchandising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lanch, which creates food delivery brands for influencers, gobbles up $6.9M
Two of the biggest drivers of growth on social and e-commerce platforms have been food and influencers, so it should come as no surprise that startups are now getting in on the act in trying to combine how these two work together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Israeli biotech startup mana.bio launches AI-fueled programmable drug therapy
Israeli biotech startup Mana.bio has been planning to launch its programmable drug treatment solution for months, and decided to forge ahead in spite of the attacks that happened this past weekend in the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
KIT Plugins, an audio software startup that help producers and musicians enhance their sound, raises $1 million
KIT Plugins, a music software development startup, has raised $1 million in Series A funding led by Copycat Holdings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
10 Minute School aims to democratize education for Bangladeshi students
Access to education in Bangladesh is filled with inequalities, say the founders of edtech 10 Minute School. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AI revolutionizing MRI scans — A Munich startup banked $32M to scan eggs, and says humans are next
Germany, France, and Italy are among the countries which last year enacted laws to stop the practice of culling male day-old chicks, because, as they do not lay eggs, are considered surplus to requirements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zest Equity, a UAE-based startup digitizing private market deals, raises $3.8M seed funding
UAE-based Zest Equity, a startup digitizing private market dealings, has raised $3.8 million seed funding to build more tools for enabling fast and transparent transactions by ecosystem players while increasing their liquidity through secondary deals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Orus offers business insurance products to restaurant owners and other small companies
French startup Orus has raised an $11.6 million Series A funding round (€11 million). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Heura adds ‘York ham style slices’ to its 100%-plant-based vegan mix
Barcelona-based Heura, a disrupter in the plant-based protein space since 2017, has a product hitting shelves shortly in Spain and France that it reckons will have the most committed meat eaters sitting up in disbelief. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Wanda Fish navigates VC waters to catch $7M for production of cultivated bluefin tuna
The company aims to create whole-cut cultivated fish filets, starting with bluefin tuna, using muscle and fat cells. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Singapore’s tech subscription service Circular wants to keep devices out of the landfill
Circular, backed by Y Combinator, is a service that offers consumers in Singapore and Australia subscriptions to high-end electronics, like iPhones, Samsung Galaxy, iPad Pros and MacBook Pros. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Consumer brand accelerator SuperOrdinary gets $58M Series B at $800M valuation
The average shopper probably hasn’t heard of SuperOrdinary, but if they are a beauty or skincare fan, they’ve definitely heard of some of the brands the startup works with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ohm’s Quest is an electronic puzzle console inspired by escape rooms
Ohm’s Quest is a steampunk-inspired cubical device that acts as a sort of escape game console. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Amazon shutters its live radio app Amp
Amazon has shut down its Clubhouse competitor’s live radio app Amp almost 18 months after its launch. The app allowed users to play DJ and provide commentary alongside playing tracks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
CoPilot, a training app that matches users with remote fitness coaches, raises $6.3M
CoPilot, a digital training app that matches users with one-on-one remote fitness coaches, has raised $6.3M in Series A-1 funding led by Jackson Square Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sam Altman backs teens’ AI startup automating browser-native workflows
Sam Altman, Peak XV, and Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman’s AI grant are among backers of an AI startup, founded by two teenagers, that’s aiming to assist businesses in automating numerous workflows in previously unexplored ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Science lab automation and robotics startup Automata raises $40M
Automata, a company that combines software and hardware to automate science labs around the globe, has raised $40 million in an equity-based round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ten Key Labs wants to simplify managing equity for startups
Amar Varma, a three-time entrepreneur and VC, experienced firsthand the challenge of dealing with administering equity stakes within a startup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Greener for Business launches to help Australian SMBs move to net zero
Greener, the Australian cleantech startup that creates custom action plans to help its customers become more environmentally sustainable, is launching Greener for Business today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Being is an app that wants to help users map out and address mental health concerns
Being is an app that wants to help users map out and address mental health concerns Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nextdata is building data meshes for the enterprise
The concept of a data mesh has been around for a few years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Transfr, a VR platform for workforce training, raises $40M
Transfr, a startup creating VR tools for training and career development, today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series C round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Publisher-focused Twitter alternative Post comes to Android, adds newsletter support
Post, a publisher-focused Twitter/X alternative backed by a16z, is bringing its social news-sharing app to Android today along with new tools that will make it easier for creators to share their newsletter content on the platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cybersecurity firm Lumu raises $30M to detect network intrusions
Lumu, a startup that helps enterprises identify and isolate security compromises, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Forgepoint Capital, $6 million of which is debt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Senser launches its AI-enhanced observability platform, raises $9.5M
Senser describes itself as an AIOps platform that uses machine learning to help developers and ops teams more easily get to the root causes of outages and service degradations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rayon is a collaborative design tool for architects and designers
When you think about collaborative design tools, chances are you immediately start thinking about Figma, the popular design tool that Adobe wants to acquire for $20 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Photo-sharing app Lapse hits top of the App Store by forcing you to invite your friends
Forget invite-only social apps, Lapse is testing a new technique to acquire its users: it forces you to invite your friends in order to get in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sequoia backs PartyKit to power real-time multiplayer collaboration for any app
If a company wants to offer in-app messaging or voice calls, they don’t have to develop the infrastructure themselves when there’s something like Twilio at their disposal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AI chip company Kneron raises $49M to scale up its commercial efforts
Kneron, which is developing AI chips to power self-driving cars, among other autonomous machines, today announced that it raised $49 million in an extension to its Series B round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TeachMe.To lands $2M to connect beginner athletes with local coaches
TeachMe.To, a sports coaching platform for beginner athletes, secured $2 million in seed funding, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic
Amazon said Monday it has agreed to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Frontier Space Technologies is developing an on-orbit autonomous lab to make space science easy
Astronauts have been conducting experiments on the International Space Station for as long as the station has been in orbit, but astronaut labor is expensive: crew time costs $130,000 per hour, and companies are capped at 25 hours per year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mesh, which helps people manage their digital assets, raises $22M
Mesh (formerly Front Finance), a startup developing a service to help customers transfer and manage digital assets like crypto, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Somani’s Offline secures $2M to build community for top Indian startup founders
Utsav Somani, who helped AngelList launch in India and oversaw its local operations for five years, is gearing up to find more ways to help founders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices