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AI is coming to your Bing and Google searches, Apple’s M2 chip and Super Bowl streaming

TechCrunch

And on Found , Darrell and Becca talked to Keta Burke-Williams, the founder and CEO of direct-to-consumer fragrance company Ourside, about what got her interested in disrupting the behemoth — and outdated — fragrance industry. Africa’s startup ecosystem: Last year saw record investments in African startups. Get all the details here.

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Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in

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Sure, plenty of money is spent on ocean-based industries, but most of today’s marine investments are into either extractive industries like fishing or oil and gas, or activities like shipping, which aren’t extractive but don’t exactly benefit marine ecosystems. “Our That doesn’t mean that investors aren’t bullish, though.

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Emulate Inc. closes $82M Series E to fund expansion of ‘organ-on-a-chip’ products

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This latest round is intended to formulate a massive investment in a “roadmap” for developing model organ systems created to fit drugmakers’ needs and bring the idea of an organ-on-a-chip into use in the lab. . And that itself depends a lot on how the FDA views data collected on that platform. . Emulate Inc.,

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Credit Suisse leads $20M Series A in data extraction startup Daloopa

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Then in 2019, the state of technology was such that Li and co-founders Daniel Chen and Jeremy Huang could create data extraction capabilities through the use of artificial intelligence-driven software. Customers can request data sets with a couple of clicks of a button and have it delivered the next day.

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Satellite constellation operator Spire Global to go public via $1.6 billion SPAC

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Spire’s network of satellites is designed to provide customers with a “space-as-a-service” model, allowing them to operate their own payloads, and access data collected via an API their developers can integrate into their own software. To Disrupt The Aerospace Industry With Small, Affordable Satellites.

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How AI Will Shift Customer Experience to the Next Level

Startup Grind

Its disrupting nature has given it an enormous potential with countless applications. Tesla’s autonomous cars, Google’s personal digital assistant “Siri” and Amazon Alexa/Echo are examples showing how AI can disrupt every aspect of our modern lifestyle.

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InstaDeep’s acquisition is a classic case of an African startup gone global 

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This January, Germany’s largest vaccine maker BioNTech announced that it had agreed to acquire Tunisian-born and London-headquartered AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million, including a performance-tied £200 million tranche investment. First, when completed (at $682 million, adjusted in U.S. In 2019, InstaDeep raised an $8.5

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