TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Will I be able to express myself clearly enough? Will I be understood? Will I be as impactful?” My accent pronunciation made me feel like I really wasn’t my full self — and I lost a little of my personality.”. Lakra remembers questioning herself. “My Hollywood, meet edtech.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Angling to cash in on the gold rush, LexCheck, an AI-powered contract analysis platform, closed a $17 million Series A funding round today led by Mayfield Fund, the startup announced. “I founded LexCheck to increase revenue by simplifying and accelerating commercial contracting processes across an entire organization.”

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In the hands of creatives, it is almost a wonder as to what can now be done once AI is incorporated into a platform. My Co-Founder and I are creatives at heart. Guo and her co-founder & CTO Chenlin Meng are former students of Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. Pika just announced Pika 1.0,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Between Q1 and Q3 2021, healthcare startups landed $21.3 Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Artificial intelligence, IoT and data analytics are the primary drivers of innovation, says Taranto, “especially with data becoming the central currency of healthcare.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Carmack said Friday his new artificial general intelligence startup, called Keen Technologies, has raised $20 million in a financing round from former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Cue founder Daniel Gross. I had talked about that as a possibility for a while, and I am glad Nat pushed me on it,” he said in a tweet.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 10, 2017

He’s been previously featured in Octane , writing about the value of mentorship and apps that can make life easier. How did your GSEA experience impact you? My GSEA experience provided the opportunity to refine my pitch and really understand what problems and cultural challenges people face when exploring cities.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Google has selected 30 startups to receive a share of its $2 million Black Founders Fund in Europe, providing these companies with a spot of cash, some valuable cloud services and a bit of good old-fashioned networking among the Google crew. I’ll update if I hear back.). We buy ideals of life more than the actual features.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. Sounds like a useful feature, no? I’m not going to make the case that Amazon reviews are a form of high art.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Artificial intelligence is a on everyone’s lips at the moment, “and at the FTC, one thing we know about hot marketing terms is that some advertisers won’t be able to stop themselves from overusing and abusing them.” Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

This is the story of how we invested in Fiddler Labs. At the beginning of 2018, we almost invested in a startup with two strong founders. To make a long and private story short, on the morning I was about to call the founders to let them know I was in, they decided to amicably part ways. I’m glad we did.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Priyanka Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Live Green Co , a Chilean food tech startup that uses artificial intelligence to suggest plant-based alternatives for meat and artificial additives in food. Here are the key questions that we need to ask — and how we can go about resolving them.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Artificial intelligence is touching every aspect of how we engage with information (and much more ) these days. But alongside that, the data is used as the basis of e-learning modules for onboarding, training or professional development — modules created/conceived of either by people in the organization, or by Sana itself.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

It’s too early to determine whether SVB’s downfall heralds a new era for venture capital, but based on anecdotal evidence, off-the-record discussions and chats with co-workers, it seems like we’re back to business as usual as far as pre-revenue startup fundraising is concerned. Más o menos.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2023

W elcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. It took me a while, but I’m realizing that my startup love language is discussing any attempts to standardize the opaque and often informal world of venture capital.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

At a16z’s recent Connect/Fintech event, a16z Partner Alex Immerman sat down for a broad conversation with Immad Akhund , co-founder and CEO of banking startup Mercury , and René Lacerte, founder and CEO of financial services company BILL. My general view is that every part of AI will be way better next year. It’s still not GenAI.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

My recent tweet underscored the chord community strikes even in sectors such as edtech, which often have to sell to fragmented customer bases. That piqued my interest, especially because I had just talked to Commsor founder Mac Reddin about his recent funding, a $16 million Series A led by Felicis and Seven Seven Six Ventures.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) However, there are many other ways you can work with and earn money from the industry. You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. .

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Automation is extending into every aspect of how organizations get work done, and today comes news of a startup that is building tools for one industry in particular: life sciences. He believes the process of bringing in more AI into labs to improve how they work is long overdue.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

Today a startup called Redacted is coming out of stealth with a different approach to tackling that malicious activity: It applies threat intelligence, and then proactively goes after the hackers to recover data loss and disrupt their activities. There is nothing you can do to prevent a breach. Cyber Command. Marine Corps, U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

It’s hard to believe it but TechCrunch Disrupt — only one of the most engaging, fun, well-attended startup events in the world — is around the corner, taking place September 19–21! Here’s a sneak peek at how it all comes about. Outsiders may not realize just how much work goes into planning Disrupt. This is a first.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

Last July, I launched a business. so I wanted to be as prepared as I possibly could. In all the podcasts I listened to and blogs I read, there was a consistent refrain: "You need to set aside time to think big." Get the Zapier blog in your inbox Subscribe So, I crowdsourced the answers.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

289 days ago, 3 of us created a no-code custom chatbot building platform in 4 days — and launched it on ProductHunt. Now, this is the first time in nine months that I’ve had the chance to come up for air, and I thought I’d share some of my lessons from the front lines. I had to make a conscious effort in my old age (LOL!)

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Hunter Walk

MARCH 11, 2023

Riffing Off VC Charles Hudson’s Blog Post, Here’s What I’m Trying to Answer a group of different robots running a race, digital art [DALL-E] If startup founders sometimes ‘Build in Public,’ is the analogou sventure capitalist motto to ‘Think in Public?’ And then I read Charles Hudson’s post, which prompted me [AI PUN] to just write this down.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Former Yahoo CEO and early Google employee Marissa Mayer’s startup Lumi Labs is today rebranding to Sunshine and releasing its first official product. Founded in 2018 by Mayer and fellow Yahoo and Google vet Enrique Muñoz Torres, Lumi Labs has been focused on using sophisticated technologies, like A.I., Image Credits: Sunshine.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Copy.ai , a startup building AI-powered copywriting tools for business customers, announced a $2.9 The startup is notable for a few reasons. I initially heard of the company through its monthly updates that it posts on Twitter. Thanks to that, I can tell you that Copy.ai Let’s get into how Copy.ai

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In preparation of speaking at the Michigan Tech Week (MTW) on October 12 and 13, I discovered so many connections to the University of Michigan (U-M) that I decided to dig into what powers U-M’s entrepreneurial success. Kate Ryder , CEO and Founder of Maven Clinic – A unicorn-valued startup transforming digital healthcare.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 7, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Faye Sahai, Founding Managing Partner at Telosity Ventures. Prior, she has 20+ years experience in healthcare, financial institutions, and insurance innovation and investment as an executive at Kaiser Permanente, Schwab, AIG, Blue Shield and Deloitte Consulting She has also founded 3 of her own startups.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Almost half of all Americans play mobile games, so Alex reviewed Jam City’s investor deck, a transcript of the investor presentation call and a press release to see how it stacks up against Zynga, which “has done great in recent quarters, including posting record revenue and bookings in the first three months of 2021.”

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In response to these changes, Snippod entered the market in August 2023 as a new search service that collects and displays popular links using hashtags. Please tell us why you started your company. I have long thought that the most important field in Internet services is search engine. but these categories are limited.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

publicly listed software and services company that targets engineering and design industries, has acquired Norway’s Spacemaker , a startup that has developed AI-supported software for urban development. And we understood that this can put our vision on steroids and we can really reach that vision much faster.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

This Twitter account can be difficult to pin down as some tweets are purposely audacious, while others are serious and reflect actual beliefs. I don’t have much to say about this since anyone who follows the most basic tenets of society and uses logic understands it is wrong and ridiculous. It has sat vacant since 2017.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

It makes for some great end-of-week wait-what-did-I-just-watch silliness. Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 The ABCs of AI : Kyle reports about how, with DeepFloyd, artificial intelligence finally learns to draw text on images. Discovery’s CTO and CPO to get the scoop on how they made Max less buggy.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Welcome to my weekly fintech-focused column. I’ll be publishing this every Sunday, so in between posts, be sure to listen to the Equity podcast and hear Alex Wilhelm , Natasha Mascarenhas and me riff on all things startups! Humility goes a long way in life, and especially in the startup world. The takeaway here?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

Earlier this week, the New York Times shone a light on some of the desperation that founders are experiencing as they try and fail to secure compute power for their nascent artificial intelligence startups, thanks to the big companies (and even rich nations ) racing to snatch them up. How did the deal come together?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2019

Kate was talking with Steve and her designer, and they told her how much easier it would be to automate that process. Now, Kate uses artificial intelligence to turn one piece of content in to dozens of amazing social posts. . Startup Funding. Kate looks at how her own staff is writing and how they can do better.

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propel(x)

MARCH 7, 2017

By artificially replicating a body’s internal environment, cancer drugs can be effectively tested before entering a human body, allowing drug developers and physicians to predict how a patient will respond to the treatment. From there, they can make any needed adjustments before a patient ever receives a dose?

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

OurCrowd is joining some top investors raising a $24M investment round for Diagnostic Robotics , a company at the forefront of the digital health revolution that uses artificial intelligence to reduce hospital waiting times and guide patients to faster, more efficient medical care. Joining the AI healthcare revolution.

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