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AI Squared raises $6M to help companies integrate AI into existing applications
AI Squared integrates AI it into existing applications in a timely and straightforward manner.
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A quick trip to MARS
Greetings from Las Vegas, where it’s 105 degrees outside, but it mostly doesn’t matter because you can’t figure out how to get outside. I’m...
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Daily Crunch: Raba Partnership leads $2.1M seed round for African fintech startup Thepeer
Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
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Appsmith, a low-code platform for building business apps, lands $41M
For the last several years, Appsmith has been quietly building an open source platform for internal development teams to build the custom apps they...
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Software DevOps platform Gearset raises $55M
Gearset, a company creating a DevOps platform for Salesforce software, today announced that it raised $55 million in its first-ever growth round.
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Project A Ventures closes its fourth fund, hitting $375M, the largest to date
Project A Ventures launched 10 years ago in Berlin when a handful of a ex-Rocket Internet players decided they’d try their own hand at this startup...
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Cereal maker Magic Spoon scoops up $85M as it lands spot on Target shelves
Gaining a place on retail shelves is just the start to Magic Spoon's plan to evolve into an omnichannel brand that eventually goes beyond the...
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MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips
Apple’s M1 chips have an “unpatchable” hardware vulnerability that could allow attackers to break through its last line of security...
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Announcing the full agenda for TC Sessions: Robotics happening this July
We’re extremely excited we can finally unveil the agenda for this year’s TC Sessions: Robotics.
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For remittances, crypto is still a problem looking for a solution
Are remittance payments really ripe for crypto disruption? And can DeFi help what a16z's state of crypto report calls the "huge part of the...
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Europe’s deep tech depends on university spinouts
Deep tech has become a hot topic in Europe. One of the key arguments: European countries have great universities and talent. But how can academic...
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Warehouse robotics firm GreyOrange raises $110M via growth financing
Atlanta-based GreyOrange specializes in warehouse/logistics robotics. It just raised $110M. Much of the funding will go toward hiringand ramping up...
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Interswitch receives $110M investment from LeapFrog and Tana Africa Capital
African payments company Interswitch has secured a $110 million joint investment from LeapFrog Investments and Tana Africa Capital to scale its...
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Synergies raises $12M to give factory managers an AI analytics assistant
There’s no lack of startups around the world trying to make industrial activities more efficient with artificial intelligence. Some invent...
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Daily Crunch: Peloton CEO to shareholders: ‘Turnarounds are hard work’
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Freada and Mitch Kapor are ‘stepping back’ from Kapor Capital
Kapor Capital co-founders Freada and Mitch Kapor are stepping back from the venture capital firm they launched over a decade ago. In a blog post...
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Rodney Brooks and Clara Vu will discuss human-robot interaction at TC Sessions: Robotics 2022
Robots have transformed automation across industries such as agtech, automotive, logistics, manufacturing and warehousing. Yet even the most advanced...
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UK parliament invites Twitter-lovin’ Musk to talk ‘authenticating all humans’
The British parliament has invited Elon Musk to “discuss the future of Twitter” because we live in deeply wild times. If Musk agrees to...
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Edge Delta rakes in $63M for its distributed approach to data observability
Databases are growing at an exponential rate these days, and so when it comes to real-time data observability, organizations are often fighting a...
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MIT used autonomous knitting to create these soft robotic banana fingers
Get a grip with MIT CSAIL's wearable soft robotics created using an autonomous machine knitting system.
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Perceptron: AI mixes concrete, designs molecules, and thinks with space lasers
Welcome to Perceptron, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup of AI news and research from around the world. Machine learning is a key technology in...
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Charged with billions in capital, meet the 9 startups developing tomorrow’s batteries today
Today’s batteries are better in every respect than those made five years ago, but they still leave much to be desired. What’s needed are some...
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MIT develops a speaker thinner than sheet music
If you’re into cars, you may have heard of vinyl wrapping, which can change the appearance of a car. Engineers from MIT have taken a similarly...
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Optimus Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time?
Another installment of TechCrunch's robotics newsletter, Actuator: Daniela Rus and Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Miso Robotics, Zippedi, Agility...
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Snap announces a mini drone called Pixy
Meet Pixy, Snap’s little flying companion. Pixy is a mini drone that can act as a camera sidekick when you can’t ask someone to take a video of...
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With Lens Cloud, Snap offers backend services for its developer platform
Snap isn’t just the company behind popular social app Snapchat. It has also built a powerful augmented reality developer platform called Snap AR...
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CMU’s Matt Johnson-Roberson and MIT’s Daniela Rus will talk higher-education at TC Sessions: Robotics 2022
Robotics technology, currently a $45.5 billion global market, has had an enormous impact on countless industries, including agtech, automotive,...
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