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Browse AI help companies build bots to scrape website data and put it to work
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
Brex expands into group events while Mesh Payments moves into travel
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
Mixlab adds to veterinary pharmacy footprint following $10M Series A extension
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
11xAI closes $2 million pre-seed to create autonomous AI workers
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
It’s official: Better.com is going public
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
Data visualization startup Virtualitics lands $37M investment
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, a data privacy management platform, nabs $25M
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
SAEKI’s “microfactories” help large manufacturing scale up
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
Matter filters out microplastics, one washer at at time — and raises $10M to go industrial
Microplastics are everywhere — quite literall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Symmetry raises $18M to bolster organizations’ data security programs
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 local businesses through short-from video, raises $12M
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
Meatable sinks its teeth into $35M to accelerate launch of its cultivated pork products
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
Zoom launches an asynchronous video tool for the meeting-averse
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 lands $41M to bring data science-powered insights to HR
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
AI chip startup Tenstorrent lands $100M investment from Hyundai and Samsung
The appetite for hardware to train AI models is voracious. AI chips are forecast to account for up to 20% of the $450 billion total semiconductor market by 2025, according to McKinsey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Haus, which helps companies measure marketing ROI, raises $17M
Several years ago, Zach Epstein was leading marketing measurement initiatives at Google, helping large corporate customers to build out measurement infrastructure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Datasaur lets you build a model automatically from a set of labels
Long before people were talking about ChatGPT and generative AI, companies like Datasaur were dealing with the nuts and bolts of building machine learning models, helping label things to train the model. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cohart’s art marketplace makes buying and selling accessible for any kind of art lover
The platform offers tools and infrastructure so that visual artists can be discovered and sell their art. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lightup wants to shine a light on data quality with $9M Series A
We all know how important data quality is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ramp expands into procurement, lands Shopify as a customer
Ramp continues to ramp up its business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nile, which offers enterprise networks as a service, raises $175M
If you ask Pankaj Patel, there’s too much complexity in networks today — particularly enterprise networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Vanguard cuts Indian ride-hailing giant Ola’s valuation by 52%
The U.S. index fund pioneer Vanguard has cut the worth of its holding in the Indian ride-hailing startup Ola by more than half since original investment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Topline Pro grabs $12M in new capital to help home service businesses get discovered
The company added a social media hub for automated posts and ads as well as an AI-enabled “Super Assistant” to help with navigating through the application and digitizing customer interactions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pollen is a professional development platform for tech workers, by tech workers
Meet Pollen, a new French startup that wants to provide a better way to learn new skills. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
HerMD opening new women’s health clinics following $18M extension
The company offers comprehensive women’s healthcare, either in-person or virtual, and one of its differentiators is that the average appointment is between 20 and 60 minutes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pet telehealth company Airvet closes on $18.2M to embark on enterprise focus
The company has built up a base of employer clients, including Adobe, Ceridian and Rexford Industrial, eager to offer an employer-sponsored benefit for employees with pets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AutogenAI, a generative AI tool for writing bids and pitches, secures $22.3M
Business is regularly won and lost on the strength of a proposal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Helpful secures $7.5M to launch family caregiver app
Helpful's app brings insurance benefits, medical records and caregiving resources into one place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bloom Money raises £1M to digitize microcredit finance for ethnic communities
The company seeks to digitize the rotating savings and credit association (ROSCA) financial technique often used by ethnic communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dioxycle raises $17 million for its electrolyzer that turns CO2 into ethylene
Dioxycle is a carbon transformation startup that is working on a new process to produce ethylene at scale using recycled carbon emissions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dial-up a therapist like an Uber? Wangie aims at Gen-Zs and the time-poor
It would be fair to say there’s no global solution for instant 24/7 access to mental health support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Prosus questions Byju’s governance, says Indian edtech ‘regularly disregarded advice’
A key Byju’s investor has gone on record to express its disappointment in the edtech giant’s governance issue, just weeks after all the independent members quit the startup’s board. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bunq, the Dutch neobank, has raised $111M at a flat $1.8B valuation to break into the US
Remote working and digital nomads became two very prominent aspects of the world of work during the pandemic, shedding a light on the millions of people who live in one country but earn money in another. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Whop, an online marketplace for digital goods, raises $17M
Amazon might have the monopoly on physical goods sold online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cruise starts initial robotaxi testing in Miami
Cruise, the self-driving arm of General Motors, has begun initial testing and data collection in Miami, the company said in a tweet Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Collectly wants to make paying healthcare bills easier so medical providers don’t lose $200B
Collectly customers have, on average, been able to increase patient collections for medical group partners by 75% and reduce the “days sales outstanding” to 12 days from between 60 and 90 days. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
InDrive brings its ‘bid-based’ ride-hail app to the US
InDrive (formerly inDriver) is bringing a new type of ride-hailing app to South Florida. The startup operates a “bid-based” platform wherein passengers can name their own fare for a ride, and nearby drivers can accept, decline or counter the offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gushwork.ai raises $2M, led by Lightspeed, to outsource business tasks to workforces trained in AI
Gushwork.ai, a global platform that aims to advance business process outsourcing (BPO) using AI and human expertise, has raised $2.1 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Lightspeed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With $37M seed round, Maka Motors begins EV pilot on Indonesia’s streets
A recent report said that Indonesia’s electric vehicle (EV) market is projected to reach $20 billion by 2029, up from $533 million in 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
VanMoof, the e-bike startup, officially declared bankrupt in The Netherlands
Another grim stage for VanMoof, the e-bike startup backed by venture capitalists to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Wing Cloud is building an open source, unified cloud programming language
Running a multi-cloud strategy where you use different cloud vendors for different workloads, helps companies avoid vendor lock-in and lets them use the best-of-breed tools across different platforms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Polar Analytics raises $9M to scale Shopify brands
Polar Analytics gives each brand a so-called “knowledge worker,” that aggregates all of the different data sources so that users can then pose questions about the data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Herself Health, providing primary care to women 65 and over, raises $26M
Six months after raising a $7 million seed round, Herself Health is back with some additional venture capital to expand its clinic footprint. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Inngest helps developers build their backend workflows, raises $3M
Inngest, an open-source startup that helps developers build and manage serverless queues, background jobs and workflows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Spline, a no-code design tool for creating 3D assets, raises $15M
Spline, a no-code design tool for creating 3D assets, today announced that it raised $15 million in a seed round led by Gradient Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
QED leads $7M round into startup that offers financing to SaaS businesses across US-South Asia corridor
There are a number of companies in the U.S. that offer revenue-based financing to SaaS companies including Capchase, Pipe, Founderpath and Arc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Secure Code Warrior lands $50M to educate developers on best cyber practices
In 2015, Pieter Danhieux and Matias Madou, both cybersecurity analysts, came to the realization that they wanted to provide a way to make software more secure by empowering developers with the skills and tools to enhance their speed of delivery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Infant formula company Bobbie takes in $70M to acquire Nature’s One
With the Nature’s One acquisition, Bobbie becomes the third-largest fully integrated brand in the U.S. and will grow to a 15% non-WIC market share. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pearpop’s new ‘Boost Mode’ feature allows brands to turn content from creators into paid ads
Pearpop, a marketplace for social collaborations, announced today that it’s launching a new product called “Boost Mode.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cyber insurance startup Coalition acquires privacy assistant Jumbo
San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup Coalition is acquiring Jumbo, a mobile app that lets you control your privacy on the web. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices