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  1. Procurement software startup Pivot raises $21.6 million just a few months after its creation

    13 december 2023 · 5 min

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    French startup Pivot is an interesting startup story as it is scaling at a rapid pace even though startup investments are down in Europe.
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  2. Tribe Capital eyes leading $75M-plus funding in India’s Shiprocket

    13 december 2023 · 3 min

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    Tribe Capital is in talks to lead a $75 million to $100 million funding into the logistics aggregator Shiprocket, according to a person familiar with the matter, a notable financing deliberation at a time when Indian startups are struggling to raise capital.
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  3. Docker acquires AtomicJar, a testing startup that raised $25M in January

    12 december 2023 · 5 min

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    AtomicJar was seemingly a high flying early stage startup with a hefty (by today’s standards) $25 million Series A last January.
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  4. Mistral AI, a Paris-based OpenAI rival, closed its $415 million funding round

    12 december 2023 · 5 min

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    French startup Mistral AI has officially closed its much anticipated Series A funding round.
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  5. Is the Texas boom town of Austin losing its luster?

    11 december 2023 · 9 min

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    Texas has been historically known for its oil booms. Today the state is perhaps better known as a magnet for tech companies and tech talent, especially in its capital city of Austin.
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  6. Simply Homes nabs $22M, leverages AI to tackle affordable housing crisis

    11 december 2023 · 7 min

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    The United States has long had an affordable housing crisis, but it’s been exacerbated as of late by a surge in mortgage interest rates and low inventory.
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  7. Mammoth, an X and Threads competitor, embraces news, curation, and more in latest release

    8 december 2023 · 7 min

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    Mammoth, an app from the Mozilla-backed startup focused on building a more consumer-friendly entry point to the world of decentralized social media, is out today with its next big upgrade: Mammoth 2.
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  8. Pimento turns creative briefs into visual mood boards using generative AI

    8 december 2023 · 5 min

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    Pimento is a new French startup that is using generative AI in an interesting way as the company focuses on the first step of creative processes — ideation, brainstorming and moodboarding.
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  9. OurSky lands $9.5M seed to build out developer platform for space data

    7 december 2023 · 6 min

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    A developer platform for the…sky? That’s the vision of OurSky, a startup founded last year that’s aiming to make space observational data more accessible via a software platform and global telescope network.
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  10. Discord reimagines its mobile app to showcase its best social features

    7 december 2023 · 4 min

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    Discord launched a major refresh of its mobile app on Tuesday, putting messaging front-and-center while making a host of small improvements that users have been asking for.
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  11. Twitch to shut down in Korea over ‘prohibitively expensive’ network fees

    6 december 2023 · 3 min

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    Twitch plans to shut down its business in South Korea on February 27, it said, after finding that operating in one of the world’s largest esports markets is “prohibitively expensive.”
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  12. EnCharge raises $22.6M to commercialize its AI-accerating chips

    6 december 2023 · 5 min

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    Around a year ago, TechCrunch wrote about a little-known company developing AI-accelerating chips to face off against hardware from titans of industry.
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  13. Carbon Maps, a carbon accounting startup for the food industry, gets new backers

    5 december 2023 · 4 min

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    Carbon Maps is a relatively new entrant in the carbon accounting space as it is less than one year old.
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  14. India’s MoveinSync eyes $50–60M in fresh funding

    5 december 2023 · 3 min

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    MoveinSync, an Indian startup offering mobility solutions to blue-chip companies for workplace commute, is engaging with investors to raise a growth round, according to people familiar with the deliberations.
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  15. Gravel gets funding from NEA to support Indonesia’s booming construction industry

    4 december 2023 · 5 min

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    Indonesia’s construction industry is growing quickly, driven by residential and industrial building, alongside infrastructure development plans by the government.
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  16. Clayful, a startup that helps students connect to mental health experts within 60 seconds, raises $7M

    4 december 2023 · 5 min

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    Clayful is a platform that enables students aged eight to 18 to connect with a mental health expert within 60 seconds when they need it.
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  17. Yieldstreet to acquire real estate investment platform Cadre

    1 december 2023 · 3 min

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    Alternative investment platform Yieldstreet announced today that it has agreed to acquire Cadre, an online real-estate-focused investment platform aimed at institutional and high net worth investors.
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  18. DuploCloud lands $32M infusion to make provisioning cloud apps easier

    1 december 2023 · 4 min

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    It’s only appropriate that, during AWS’ biggest week of the year, a cloud-based software-as-a-service startup closed a sizeable funding round.
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  19. Kognitos raises $35M to help businesses automate back-office processes

    30 november 2023 · 6 min

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    Businesses will never not (forgive the double negative) push to improve efficiency. It’s their commercial imperative. Sometimes, that takes the form of budget cuts.
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  20. Layla taps into AI and creator content to build a travel recommendation app

    29 november 2023 · 5 min

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    Many companies are trying to use AI chatbots (beyond ChatGPT) in different industries
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  21. Inflow connects small fashion brands with manufacturers in Vietnam

    29 november 2023 · 5 min

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    Textiles and garments contribute 16% of Vietnam’s total GPD, but it’s challenging for small garment brands to take advantage of the country’s manufacturing prowess.
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  22. Cradle’s AI-powered protein programming platform levels up with $24M in new funding

    28 november 2023 · 6 min

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    Biotech and AI startup Cradle is finding success with its generative approach to protein design, landing big customers and a hefty $24 million of new investment.
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  23. Stability AI gets into the video generating game

    28 november 2023 · 6 min

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    AI startups that aren’t OpenAI are plugging away this week, it’d seem — sticking to their product roadmaps even as coverage of the chaos at OpenAI dominates the airwaves.
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  24. US chip export ban is hurting China’s AI startups, not so much the giants yet

    27 november 2023 · 4 min

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    Well before Washington banned Nvidia’s exports of high-performance graphic processing units to China, the country’s tech giants had been hoarding them in anticipation of an escalating tech war between the two nations.
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  25. Birdseye’s AI-powered chief marketing officer drives personalized email campaigns for retailers

    23 november 2023 · 4 min

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    The company offers hyper-personalization email and SMS campaigns and retail transaction data insights from one dashboard. Lees meer

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  26. Lightspeed finalizing leading $80M-plus funding in Pocket FM

    22 november 2023 · 3 min

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    Audio series platform Pocket FM has topped $160 million in annual recurring revenue and is inching closer to raising over $80 million in a new funding round, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Lightspeed, an existing investor in Pocket FM, is in advanced stages of talks to lead the funding round into the […] Lees meer

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  27. Vendelux grabs new capital for B2B event marketing amid in-person resurgence

    22 november 2023 · 5 min

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    Vendelux offers 65 million data points on over 160,000 global events, tradeshows and conferences so event marketers can make better decisions about what to attend or sponsor.
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  28. Generative AI startup AI21 Labs raises cash in the midst of OpenAI chaos

    21 november 2023 · 5 min

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    One AI startup’s undoing is another’s opportunity. Case in point: today, AI21 Labs, a company developing generative AI products along the lines of OpenAI’s GPT-4 and ChatGPT, closed a $53 million extension to its previously-announced Series C funding round.
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  29. SEVA, a new growth equity fund, secures $85M for debut fund in four months

    21 november 2023 · 4 min

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    SEVA intends to invest in New York-based customer-centric founders of fast-growing, bootstrapped companies to scale via profitable growth.
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  30. LucidLink lands $75M for its on-demand file streaming tech

    20 november 2023 · 5 min

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    LucidLink, a startup offering a platform that enables teams to work on files without having to download or sync them, today announced that it raised $75 million in a Series C round led by Brighton Park Capital
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  31. Toku’s AI platform predicts heart conditions by scanning inside your eye

    20 november 2023 · 6 min

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    Ehsan Vaghefi, CEO and co-founder of Toku, grew up with a blind father who lost eyesight at the age of four due to congenital glaucoma.
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  32. Candela’s electric hydrofoiling ferry takes flight

    17 november 2023 · 6 min

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    The future is going to be electric, but in the air and on the water that transition is proving more difficult than on land.
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  33. Ida uses AI to prevent grocery food waste

    17 november 2023 · 5 min

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    Ida is a relatively new French startup that wants to work with supermarkets and grocery stores to optimize new orders of fresh products, such as fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry and fish.
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  34. Refilled wants to save 100 million plastic bottles from the landfill

    16 november 2023 · 5 min

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    The Australian government recently set new packaging regulations after an official review found just 18% of plastic packaging is recycled, falling far short of a 70% target by 2025.
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  35. Remote connects talent and employers with a new job board

    16 november 2023 · 4 min

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    Remote, the HR tech company that allows companies to hire, manage and pay remote workers, is launching a remote job marketplace called Remote
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  36. 3D generative AI platform Atlas emerges from stealth with $6M to accelerate virtual worldbuilding

    15 november 2023 · 5 min

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    Atlas, a 3D generative AI platform, is launching today after two years in stealth with $6 million in seed funding.
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  37. Interplay secures $45M for third fund focused on B2B marketplaces, vertical software

    15 november 2023 · 5 min

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    Mark Peter Davis, Interplay founder and managing partner, says the firm stands out with its outsized value proposition relative to its check size.
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  38. Etaily is a “one stop solution” for consumer brands that want to enter Southeast Asia

    14 november 2023 · 6 min

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    E-commerce in Southeast Asia grew rapidly during the pandemic, and that momentum is continuing.
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  39. Upciti helps cities level up their data strategy

    14 november 2023 · 7 min

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    Upciti is a French startup that has been working on a hardware sensor for city centers that is easy to install and maintain.
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  40. Picsart launches a suite of AI-powered tools that let you generate videos, backgrounds, GIFs and more

    13 november 2023 · 4 min

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    Picsart, a photo-editing startup backed by SoftBank, is launching a new suite of AI-powered tools for businesses and individuals.
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  41. Chptr, a memorialization app for gathering and sharing memories of loved ones, raises $1.5M

    13 november 2023 · 5 min

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    Chptr, an app for sharing and holding onto memories of lost loved ones, has raised $1.5 million in seed funding.
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  42. Ozone raises $7.1M to scale its AI-powered collaborative video editor in the cloud

    10 november 2023 · 5 min

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    Ozone, the maker of an AI-powered collaborative video editor in the cloud, has raised $7.1 million in seed funding and is launching in open beta.
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  43. mogul club raises $3.6M toward its effort to make real estate investing more accessible

    10 november 2023 · 6 min

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    While the idea of owning rental properties is appealing to many Americans, the ability to vet and afford such investments in single-family homes is out of reach for a large part of the population.
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  44. Popular video chat service Omegle shuts down

    9 november 2023 · 3 min

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    Omegle, an online service that allowed individuals to connect and chat with strangers, has shut down after 15 years citing growing misuse of the platform, including in committing “unspeakably heinous crimes.”
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  45. Vanguard slashes Ola valuation by 60%-plus; NB reduces Pharmeasy’s by over 90%

    9 november 2023 · 3 min

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    Written by Manish Singh - The U.S. index fund pioneer Vanguard has cut the worth of its holding in the Indian ride-hailing startup Ola by nearly two thirds since original investment.
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  46. Meta taps Hugging Face for startup accelerator to spur adoption of open source AI models

    8 november 2023 · 5 min

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    Written by Pete Sawers - Facebook parent Meta is teaming up with Hugging Face and European cloud infrastructure company Scaleway to launch a new AI-focused startup program at the Station F startup megacampus in Paris.
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  47. Lidl owner and Bosch Ventures co-lead $500M Series B into German AI startup Aleph Alpha

    8 november 2023 · 3 min

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    German AI startup Aleph Alpha has raised a Series B funding round of $500 million from a consortium of seven new investors, as well as existing investors from previous rounds.
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  48. Enable, a platform for managing B2B rebates, is now worth $1B

    7 november 2023 · 6 min

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    There’s a new unicorn in town, and its name is Enable.
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  49. Appetite wants to help you and your friends discover, plan and book a meal out

    7 november 2023 · 5 min

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    Appetite, an app for discovering and booking restaurants, is aiming to streamline the process of planning nights out with friends and family.
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  50. Revel ends moped sharing, focuses on EV charging and ride-hail

    6 november 2023 · 3 min

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    Electric mobility startup Revel is officially shutting down its shared moped business in New York City and San Francisco, according to a company-wide email that CEO and co-founder Frank Reig sent Friday.
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