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Friends & Family Capital, a fund founded by ex-Palantir CFO and son of IVP’s founder, unveils third $118M fund
June 14, 2024 20:00 - 4 minutesSmall VC firms require deep trust, mutual support, and long-term commitment among the partners —a kinship that, in many ways, resembles a family dynamic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
AccountsIQ takes in $65M to boost its bookkeeping tools with AI
June 14, 2024 10:00 - 4 minutesAccountsIQ, a Dublin-founded accounting technology company, has raised $65 million to build “the finance function of the future” for mid-sized companies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Let there be Light! Danish startup exits stealth with $13M seed funding to bring AI to general ledgers
June 13, 2024 20:00 - 7 minutesIt’s not the sexiest of subject matters, but someone needs to talk about it: The CFO tech stack — software used by the chief financial officers of the world — is ripe for disruption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Civic Renewables is rolling up residential solar installers to improve quality and grow the market
June 13, 2024 10:00 - 4 minutesWith most residential solar panels installed by smaller companies, customer experience can be a mixed bag. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Kelvin wants to help save the planet by applying AI to home energy audits
June 12, 2024 20:00 - 4 minutesFrench startup Kelvin, which uses computer vision and machine learning to make it easier to audit homes for energy efficiency, has raised $5.1M. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Raspberry Pi is now a public company as its shares pop after IPO pricing
June 12, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesWho would have thought that Raspberry Pi, the maker of cheap, single-board computers, would become a public company? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Anterior grabs $20M from NEA to expedite health insurance approvals with AI
June 11, 2024 20:00 - 3 minutesAnterior, a company that uses AI to expedite health insurance approval for medical procedures Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Autonomy’s Mike Lynch acquitted after US fraud trial brought by HP
June 11, 2024 10:00 - 4 minutesFormer Autonomy chief executive Mike Lynch issued a statement Thursday following his acquittal of criminal charges, ending a 13-year legal battle with Hewlett-Packard that became one of Silicon Valley’s biggest fraud cases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Novel battery manufacturer EnerVenue is raising $515M, per filing
June 10, 2024 20:00 - 3 minutesThe company is in the process of building a gigawatt-scale factory in Kentucky to produce its nickel-hydrogen batteries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Carta’s valuation to be cut by billions in an upcoming secondary sale
June 10, 2024 10:00 - 5 minutesCarta, a once-high-flying Silicon Valley startup that loudly backed away from one of its businesses earlier this year, is working on a secondary sale that would value the company at $2 billion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Eyebot raised $6M for AI-powered kiosks that provide 90-second eye exams without optometrist
June 07, 2024 20:00 - 3 minutes"Over half of Americans wear corrective glasses or contact lenses. While there isn’t a shortage of low-cost and luxury frames available online or in stores, consumers can only buy them with a current eyeglass prescription. That means that they first need an eye exam from an optometrist to receive that prescription. But, due to a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Whizz wants to own the delivery e-bike subscription space, starting with NYC
June 07, 2024 10:00 - 8 minutesNew York City, home to over 60,000 gig delivery workers, has been cracking down on cheap, uncertified e-bikes that have resulted in battery fires across the city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Insurance provider Understory gets into renewable energy following $15M Series A
June 06, 2024 20:00 - 4 minutesAfter growing 500% year-over-year in the past year, Understory is now launching a product focused on the renewable energy sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Eko Health scores $41M to detect heart disease earlier and more accurately
June 06, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesIn 1816, French physician René Laennec invented an instrument that allowed doctors to listen to human hearts and lungs. That device — a stethoscope — eventually evolved from a simple wooden tube to a lightweight two-earpiece version most doctors today wear on their necks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
‘Star Wars’ lasers and waterfalls of molten salt: How Xcimer plans to make fusion power happen
June 05, 2024 20:00 - 5 minutesThe startup has been pursuing a ground-up redesign of a well-understood technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Raspberry Pi partners with Hailo for its AI extension kit
June 05, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesThe Raspberry Pi 5, the small-but-mighty computer that has become quite popular with tech hobbyists and industrial companies, is now also an AI computer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Iyris makes fresh produce easier to grow in difficult climates, raises $16M
June 04, 2024 20:00 - 7 minutes2023 was the hottest year on record, it doesn’t look like we’re cooling down anytime soon. Rising temperatures have made farming increasingly difficult in areas that were once prime agricultural resources where heat and drought have severely impacted crops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ashby injects recruiting with a dose of AI
June 04, 2024 10:00 - 5 minutesAshby consolidates existing talent acquisition tools and leans heavily on AI to automate the more repetitive steps in the recruitment pipeline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Former teen model co-created app Frich to help Gen Z be more realistic about finances
June 03, 2024 20:00 - 6 minutesAs a teen model, Katrin Kaurov became financially independent at a young age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
YoLa Fresh, a GrubMarket for Morocco, digs up $7M to connect farmers with food sellers
June 03, 2024 10:00 - 7 minutesYoLa Fresh works with over a thousand retailers across Morocco and records up to $1 million in gross merchandise volume. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
OneScreen.ai brings startup ads to billboards and NYC’s subway
June 01, 2024 13:00 - 4 minutesWhen Alex Ewing was a kid growing up in Purcell, Oklahoma, he knew how close he was to home based on which billboards he could see out the car window. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Exactly.ai secures $4M to help artists use AI to scale up their output
May 31, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesExactly.ai says it uses generative AI to help artists retain legal ownership of their art while being able to reproduce their designs faster and at scale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tech startup Odyssey goes on journey to help states implement school choice programs
May 30, 2024 20:00 - 6 minutesThe company's public fund disbursement and e-commerce platform makes accepting school tuition and enabling educational enrichment more accessible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Kinnect’s new app aims to help families record and store generational memories
May 30, 2024 10:00 - 5 minutesA new startup called Kinnect aims to help people privately save generational memories, traditions, recipes, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ledger starts shipping its high-end hardware crypto wallet
May 29, 2024 20:00 - 3 minutesLedger, a French startup mostly known for its secure crypto hardware wallets, has started shipping new wallets nearly 18 months after announcing the latest Ledger Stax devices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cloover wants to speed solar adoption by helping installers finance new sales
May 29, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesSmall operations can lose customers by not offering financing, something the Berlin-based startup wants to change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Doly lets you generate 3D product videos from your iPhone
May 28, 2024 20:00 - 4 minutesAniML, the French startup behind a new 3D capture app called Doly, wants to create the PhotoRoom of product videos, sort of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Indian EV startup Zypp Electric secures ENEOS backing to fund expansion to Southeast Asia
May 28, 2024 10:00 - 4 minutesIndian startup Zypp Electric plans to use fresh investment from Japanese oil and energy conglomerate ENEOS to take its EV rental service into Southeast Asia early next year, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Auggie’s new app helps parents find community and shop
May 27, 2024 20:00 - 4 minutesA new startup called Auggie is aiming to give parents a single platform where they can shop for products and connect with each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bugcrowd, the crowdsourced white-hat hacker platform, acquires Informer to ramp up its security chops
May 27, 2024 10:00 - 4 minutesOn the heels of raising $102 million earlier this year, Bugcrowd is making good on its promise to use some of that funding to make acquisitions to strengthen its security chops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Autonomous shipping startup Orca AI tops up with $23M led by OCV Partners and MizMaa Ventures
May 24, 2024 20:00 - 4 minutesIf you thought autonomous driving was just for cars, think again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Unify helps developers find the best LLM for the job
May 24, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesWhen developers have a particular job that AI can solve, it’s not typically as simple as just pointing an LLM at the data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hydrolix seeks to make storing log data faster and cheaper
May 23, 2024 20:00 - 4 minutesIn 2008, Marty Kagan, who’d previously worked at Cisco and Akamai, co-founded Cedexis, a (now-Cisco-owned) firm developing observability tech for content delivery networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Patronus AI is off to a magical start as LLM governance tool gains traction
May 23, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesThese days every company is trying to figure out if their large language models are compliant with whatever rules they deem important, and with legal or regulatory requirements Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rollup wants to be the hardware engineer’s workhorse
May 22, 2024 20:00 - 3 minutesHard tech startups generate a lot of buzz, but there’s a growing cohort of companies building digital tools squarely focused on making hard tech development faster, more efficient, and — well, a whole lot more like software development. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Zen Educate raises $37M and acquires Aquinas Education as it tries to address the teacher shortage
May 22, 2024 10:00 - 4 minutesZen Educate, an online marketplace that connects schools with teachers, has raised $37 million in a Series B round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
CyberArk snaps up Venafi for $1.54B to ramp up in machine-to-machine security
May 21, 2024 20:00 - 4 minutesCyberArk — one of the army of larger security companies founded out of Israel — is acquiring Venafi, a specialist in machine identity, for $1.54 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Agora raises $34B Series B to keep building the Carta for real estate
May 21, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesSince he was very young, Bar Mor knew that he would inevitably do something with real estate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Thoma Bravo’s LogRhythm merges with Exabeam in more cybersecurity consolidation
May 20, 2024 20:00 - 3 minutesPrivate equity giant Thoma Bravo has announced that its security information and event management (SIEM) company LogRhythm will be merging with Exabeam, a rival cybersecurity company backed by the likes of Cisco and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Spoor uses AI to save birds from wind turbines
May 20, 2024 10:00 - 4 minutesWind is the largest source of renewable energy in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, but wind farms come with an environmental cost as wind turbines can wreak havoc on bird populations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Embedded accounting startup Layer secures $2.3M toward goal of replacing Quickbooks
May 17, 2024 10:00 - 6 minutesSo did investors laugh them out of the room when they explained how they wanted to replace Quickbooks? Kind of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Meet PayHOA, a profitable and once-bootstrapped SaaS startup that just landed a $27.5M Series A
May 16, 2024 20:00 - 4 minutesPayHOA, a previously bootstrapped Kentucky-based startup that offers software for self-managed homeowner associations is an example of how real-world problems can translate into opportunity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers
May 16, 2024 10:00 - 5 minutesCharging has long been the Achilles’ heel of electric vehicles. One startup thinks it has a better way for apartment dwelling EV drivers to charge overnight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aplazo is using buy-now-pay-later as a stepping stone to financial ubiquity in Mexico
May 15, 2024 20:00 - 4 minutesFour-year-old Mexican BNPL startup Aplazo facilitates fractionated payments to offline and online merchants even when the buyer doesn't have a credit card. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sona, a frontline workforce management platform, raises $27.5M with eyes on US expansion
May 15, 2024 10:00 - 5 minutesSona, a workforce management platform for frontline employees, has raised $27.5 million in a Series A round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Retell AI lets companies build ‘voice agents’ to answer phone calls
May 14, 2024 20:00 - 4 minutesCall centers are embracing automation. There’s debate as to whether that’s a good thing, but it’s happening — and quite possibly accelerating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bluesky now lets you personalize its main Discover feed using new controls
May 14, 2024 10:00 - 3 minutesThe social network has announced an updated version of its app that lets you offer feedback about its algorithmic feed so you can better customize it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Blackboard founder transforms Zoom add-on designed for teachers into business tool
May 13, 2024 20:00 - 3 minutesWhen Class founder Michael Chasen was in college, he and a buddy came up with the idea for Blackboard, an online classroom organizational tool. His original company was acquired for $1.64 billion in 2011. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Triomics raises $15M Series A to automate cancer clinical trials matching
May 13, 2024 10:30 - 4 minutesFor cancer patients, medicines administered in clinical trials can help save or extend lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lucid Bots secures $9M for drones to clean more than your windows
May 11, 2024 10:00 - 5 minutesCleaning the outside of buildings is a dirty job, and it’s also dangerous Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices