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  1. Blackbird invests in Carepatron’s “radically accessible” healthcare management platform

    6 november 2023 · 6 min

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    When TechCrunch covered Carepatron’s pre-seed last year, it was focused on serving solo practitioners and small health practices.
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  2. Flavrs, a shoppable video app for foodies, launches a new takeout feature and AI-powered recommendations

    3 november 2023 · 4 min

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    Flavrs, an iOS app that lets foodies discover recipes and and then shop for ingredients, is introducing a new takeout feature and AI-powered recommendation systems thanks to a custom integration with OpenAI.
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  3. Flexport acquires technology of former digital freight unicorn Convoy

    3 november 2023 · 4 min

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    Supply chain logistics platform Flexport is acquiring the assets of shuttered digital freight network Convoy, according to a memo Flexport CEO Ryan Peterson sent to staff Wednesday.
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  4. EarlyBird raises $4.5M, partially from its users, to scale its investment gifting platform for families

    2 november 2023 · 5 min

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    EarlyBird, an app that lets families and friends gift investments to children, has raised $4.5 million in a seed extension round that was partially funded by its user base.
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  5. Grant Assistant wants to apply generative AI to grant proposals

    2 november 2023 · 6 min

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    By Kyle Wiggers. Grants are the lifeblood of many organizations. But procuring them often turns out to be a time-consuming, labor-intensive process.
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  6. Charlie’s senior-focused banking puts new funding toward stopping fraud

    1 november 2023 · 5 min

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    By Mary Ann Azevedo. Less than six months after launching to the public and announcing a $7.5 million seed raise, a startup providing banking services to Americans over the age of 62 has raised additional funding.
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  7. Guidde’s AI automatically generates software documentation videos

    1 november 2023 · 7 min

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    Organizations today rely on a growing number of apps to get work done.
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  8. Yuzu wants to make health plans cheaper by letting insurers mix and match benefits

    31 oktober 2023 · 7 min

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    In the U.S., figuring out ways to pay for health insurance is a perennial problem — not just for individuals, but for the businesses employing them.
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  9. Stealthy social commerce startup taps into Meta roots to create AI-first brand messaging

    31 oktober 2023 · 4 min

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    Nectar AI will help brands find new ways to personally engage and convert consumers where they spend the most time.
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  10. Soundboks is scaling high-volume, high-energy speakers across borders and cultures

    30 oktober 2023 · 9 min

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    Norway-based Soundboks just released its latest $1,000 Bluetooth speaker.
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  11. Outset is using GPT-4 to make user surveys better

    30 oktober 2023 · 4 min

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    Getting answers to tough, qualitative questions about products from users can be costly, both in terms of time and money.
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  12. India’s bike taxi startup Rapido is getting into the cab business

    27 oktober 2023 · 4 min

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    Rapido, the eight-year-old Indian bike taxi startup, is expanding into the cab market in the South Asian nation, where Uber and its homegrown competitor Ola dominate.
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  13. Blackbird backs Heidi Health’s AI platform for overworked doctors

    27 oktober 2023 · 9 min

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    Many doctors are overwhelmed by paperwork, leaving them stretched thin, with less time to see patients.
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  14. Temasek and SBI pour $384 million into India’s Ola Electric

    26 oktober 2023 · 3 min

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    Ola Electric said on Thursday that it has raised $384.43 million in a funding round.
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  15. Triple-A gets funding from Peak XV to help more businesses use crypto

    26 oktober 2023 · 7 min

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    Created by the founder of Thunes, global digital currency payments institution Triple-A wants to close the gap between traditional finance and blockchain-based payments with its white-label solutions for businesses.
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  16. Lab-grown leather scales up as Gozen raises $3.3M from Happiness Capital, SoSV and others

    25 oktober 2023 · 4 min

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    Whether we like it or not, the leather industry significantly contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global waste generation.
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  17. Oxolo bags €13M for Gen AI-driven video platform which can optimise engagement on the fly

    25 oktober 2023 · 4 min

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    Much has been made of AI-powered videos which can either make a real person speak different words or other languages, or generate a synthetic person which can speak on-demand.
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  18. Smart upcycling machine dissects batteries to save them

    24 oktober 2023 · 3 min

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    Circu Li-ion cofounder and CEO Antoine Welter says his startup’s upcycling machine can diagnose batteries in seconds.
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  19. Ternary, a cloud spend management startup, raises $12M

    24 oktober 2023 · 5 min

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    Ternary, a platform that helps companies manage how much they’re spending on cloud resources across multiple public cloud providers, today announced that it raised $12 million in a Series A funding round.
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  20. ‘Household restocking’ startup The Rounds uses tech and AI to make sustainable e-commerce profitable

    23 oktober 2023 · 6 min

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    The Rounds, a sustainable “household restocking” service, wants to prove that last-mile logistics can be done both efficiently and profitably.
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  21. Citi inks deal with fintech Navan, says ‘not having to file an expense report is like nirvana’

    23 oktober 2023 · 3 min

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    Expense management startup Navan has inked an exclusive deal with Citi that executives say will open its addressable market significantly.
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  22. Warmly pivots from Zoom tool to directing warm leads to sales

    20 oktober 2023 · 4 min

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    When Warmly started a couple of years ago, people were meeting regularly in Zoom and the company provided a custom background and information about the participants.
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  23. Statement, a cash flow management platform for enterprises, raises $12M

    20 oktober 2023 · 4 min

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    Statement, a startup developing a platform for enterprise cash flow management, today announced that it raised $12 million in seed funding.
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  24. Passwordless authentication startup SecureW2 raises $80M from Insight Partners

    19 oktober 2023 · 5 min

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    Passwordless authentication offers a host of advantages over traditional pins, passphrases and passcodes.
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  25. Stack Overflow cuts 28% of its staff

    19 oktober 2023 · 3 min

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    Developer community site Stack Overflow has laid off 28% of its staff, the Prosus-owned company announced Monday.
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  26. Flanks grabs additional capital to automate wealth services in Europe

    18 oktober 2023 · 4 min

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    Flanks gathers global wealth data under one API so that clients can have a complete view of their investment portfolio in real time and make more intelligent investment decisions.
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  27. AI-generating music app Riffusion turns viral success into $4M in funding

    18 oktober 2023 · 7 min

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    Nearly a year ago, developers Seth Forsgren and Hayk Martiros released a hobby project called Riffusion that could generate music using not audio but images of audio.
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  28. Reality Defender raises $15M to detect text, video and image deepfakes

    17 oktober 2023 · 8 min

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    Reality Defender, one of several startups developing tools to attempt to detect deepfakes and other AI-generated content, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by DCVC.
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  29. Accessercise’s app makes it easier for people with disabilities to exercise

    17 oktober 2023 · 7 min

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    Accessercise, which developed a fitness app for people who want to exercise despite their disabilities, was one of the Startup Battlefield 200 finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023.
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  30. Creative Force, now with $8.9M, gives e-commerce workflows an AI treatment

    16 oktober 2023 · 5 min

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    Creative Force helps retailers and brands create content at scale for marketing campaigns and online merchandising.
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  31. Lanch, which creates food delivery brands for influencers, gobbles up $6.9M

    16 oktober 2023 · 6 min

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    Two of the biggest drivers of growth on social and e-commerce platforms have been food and influencers, so it should come as no surprise that startups are now getting in on the act in trying to combine how these two work together.
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  32. Israeli biotech startup mana.bio launches AI-fueled programmable drug therapy

    13 oktober 2023 · 4 min

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    Israeli biotech startup Mana.bio has been planning to launch its programmable drug treatment solution for months, and decided to forge ahead in spite of the attacks that happened this past weekend in the country.
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  33. KIT Plugins, an audio software startup that help producers and musicians enhance their sound, raises $1 million

    13 oktober 2023 · 5 min

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    KIT Plugins, a music software development startup, has raised $1 million in Series A funding led by Copycat Holdings.
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  34. 10 Minute School aims to democratize education for Bangladeshi students

    12 oktober 2023 · 6 min

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    Access to education in Bangladesh is filled with inequalities, say the founders of edtech 10 Minute School.
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  35. AI revolutionizing MRI scans — A Munich startup banked $32M to scan eggs, and says humans are next

    12 oktober 2023 · 5 min

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    Germany, France, and Italy are among the countries which last year enacted laws to stop the practice of culling male day-old chicks, because, as they do not lay eggs, are considered surplus to requirements.
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  36. Zest Equity, a UAE-based startup digitizing private market deals, raises $3.8M seed funding

    11 oktober 2023 · 4 min

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    UAE-based Zest Equity, a startup digitizing private market dealings, has raised $3.8 million seed funding to build more tools for enabling fast and transparent transactions by ecosystem players while increasing their liquidity through secondary deals.
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  37. Orus offers business insurance products to restaurant owners and other small companies

    11 oktober 2023 · 3 min

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    French startup Orus has raised an $11.6 million Series A funding round (€11 million).
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  38. Heura adds ‘York ham style slices’ to its 100%-plant-based vegan mix

    10 oktober 2023 · 8 min

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    Barcelona-based Heura, a disrupter in the plant-based protein space since 2017, has a product hitting shelves shortly in Spain and France that it reckons will have the most committed meat eaters sitting up in disbelief.
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  39. Wanda Fish navigates VC waters to catch $7M for production of cultivated bluefin tuna

    10 oktober 2023 · 4 min

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    The company aims to create whole-cut cultivated fish filets, starting with bluefin tuna, using muscle and fat cells.
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  40. Singapore’s tech subscription service Circular wants to keep devices out of the landfill

    9 oktober 2023 · 9 min

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    Circular, backed by Y Combinator, is a service that offers consumers in Singapore and Australia subscriptions to high-end electronics, like iPhones, Samsung Galaxy, iPad Pros and MacBook Pros.
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  41. Consumer brand accelerator SuperOrdinary gets $58M Series B at $800M valuation

    9 oktober 2023 · 9 min

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    The average shopper probably hasn’t heard of SuperOrdinary, but if they are a beauty or skincare fan, they’ve definitely heard of some of the brands the startup works with.
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  42. Ohm’s Quest is an electronic puzzle console inspired by escape rooms

    6 oktober 2023 · 4 min

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    Ohm’s Quest is a steampunk-inspired cubical device that acts as a sort of escape game console.
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  43. Amazon shutters its live radio app Amp

    6 oktober 2023 · 3 min

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    Amazon has shut down its Clubhouse competitor’s live radio app Amp almost 18 months after its launch. The app allowed users to play DJ and provide commentary alongside playing tracks.
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  44. CoPilot, a training app that matches users with remote fitness coaches, raises $6.3M

    5 oktober 2023 · 5 min

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    CoPilot, a digital training app that matches users with one-on-one remote fitness coaches, has raised $6.3M in Series A-1 funding led by Jackson Square Ventures.
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  45. Sam Altman backs teens’ AI startup automating browser-native workflows

    5 oktober 2023 · 5 min

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    Sam Altman, Peak XV, and Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman’s AI grant are among backers of an AI startup, founded by two teenagers, that’s aiming to assist businesses in automating numerous workflows in previously unexplored ways.
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  46. Science lab automation and robotics startup Automata raises $40M

    4 oktober 2023 · 3 min

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    Automata, a company that combines software and hardware to automate science labs around the globe, has raised $40 million in an equity-based round of funding.
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  47. Ten Key Labs wants to simplify managing equity for startups

    4 oktober 2023 · 5 min

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    Amar Varma, a three-time entrepreneur and VC, experienced firsthand the challenge of dealing with administering equity stakes within a startup.
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  48. Greener for Business launches to help Australian SMBs move to net zero

    3 oktober 2023 · 6 min

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    Greener, the Australian cleantech startup that creates custom action plans to help its customers become more environmentally sustainable, is launching Greener for Business today.
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  49. Being is an app that wants to help users map out and address mental health concerns

    3 oktober 2023 · 4 min

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    Being is an app that wants to help users map out and address mental health concerns
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  50. Nextdata is building data meshes for the enterprise

    2 oktober 2023 · 4 min

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    The concept of a data mesh has been around for a few years.
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