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This week, Google is in discussions to pay $23 billion for cloud security startup Wiz, SoftBank acquires Graphcore, and more.
When Jaclyn Rice Nelson and Noah Gale launched AI talent and services company Tribe AI in 2019, they had to convince companies that having an AI strategy mattered. After the…
Pindrop builds deepfake-combatting and multi-factor authentication products targeting businesses in banking, finance and related industries.
Community colleges aren’t immune from the current reckoning higher education is facing. Student enrollment is declining while institutions keep raising tuition prices, which can prevent…
Adaptive is a platform that provides tools designed to simplify payments and accounting for general construction contractors.
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Valuations of startups have quietly rebounded to all-time highs. Some investors say the slump is over.
Generative AI businesses aside, the last couple of years have been relatively difficult for venture-backed companies. Very few startups were able to raise funding at prices that exceeded their previous valuations. Now, approximately two years after the venture slump began in early 2022, some investors, like IVP general partner Tom…
One of the vendors to benefit from the database boom is Tembo, a startup creating a platform that lets developers deploy different flavors of Postgres.
As the AI boom gobbles up power, Phaidra is helping companies manage datacenter power more efficiently
Electricity demand is booming on account of AI. In a May 2024 report, Goldman Sachs predicted that data centers will use 8% of the U.S.’s total power supply by 2030, up from…
Adept, a startup developing AI-powered “agents” to complete various software-based tasks, has agreed to license its tech to Amazon, and the startup’s co-founders and portions of its team have joined…
Axelera designs AI-running chips and systems for applications like security, retail, automotive and robotics.
Formation builds tech-forward solutions for clinical trials and drug development.
In a push to bolster profits, more airlines are turning to controversial dynamic pricing tech, which prices fares and amenities variably based on a traveler’s willingness to pay for them.
It’s unclear where Stability goes from here.
Payabli builds the infrastructure that allows companies, specifically software companies, to embed and facilitate payments through APIs.
Coder’s open-source software has around 1.2 million monthly active users, and Dropbox, Discord and Skydio are among the company’s paying customers.
A startup called EvolutionaryScale, founded by ex-Meta researchers, has raised $142 million for its AI-powered protein-generating tech.
Etched, founded by Harvard dropouts, is building an AI chip that can only run one type of model: transformer-based models.
Emergence on Monday emerged from stealth with $97.2 million in funding.
OmniAI is a set of tools that transform unstructured enterprise data into a something that data analytics apps and AI can understand.
The Rockset buy fits into OpenAI’s broader recent strategy of investing heavily in its enterprise sales and tech orgs.
Venture firms raised $9.3 billion in Q1 according to PitchBook data, which means this year likely won’t match or surpass 2023’s $81.8 billion total. While emerging managers are feeling the…
Speak, the AI-powered language learning app, has raised new money from investors at double its previous valuation.
Genspark taps generative AI to write custom summaries in response to search queries.
SurrealDB, a startup developing a database architecture of the same name, has closed a new round of funding as it readies a managed service.
AI systems and large language models (LLMs) need to be trained on massive amounts of data to be accurate but they shouldn’t train on data that they don’t have the…
The buy will benefit ChromeOS, Google’s lightweight Linux-based operating system, by giving ChromeOS users greater access to Windows apps “without the hassle of complex installations or updates.”
Databricks, the analytics and AI giant, has acquired data management company Tabular for an undisclosed sum. (CNBC reports that Databricks paid over $1 billion.) According to Tabular co-founder Ryan Blue,…
Deal Dive: How (Re)vive grew 10x last year by helping retailers recycle and sell returned items
The fashion industry has a huge problem: Despite many returned items being unworn or undamaged, a lot, if not the majority, end up in the trash. An estimated 9.5 billion…
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