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In 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. Fellow Cisco veteran Hasan Alayli joined Kagan…
AI
Bolster, creator of the CheckPhish phishing tracker, raises $14M led by Microsoft’s M12
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A dodgy email containing a link that looks “legit” but is actually malicious remains one of the most dangerous, yet successful, tricks in a cyber criminal’s handbook. Now, an AI…
If you’ve been looking forward to seeing Boeing’s Starliner capsule carry two astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. The…
For this episode of Equity, we spoke to two Aussie VCs: Dan Krasnostein of Square Peg and Gabrielle Munzer of Main Sequence.
TikTok is the latest tech company to incorporate generative AI into its ads business, as the company announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a new “TikTok Symphony” AI suite for…
Gone are the days when space and defense were considered fundamentally antithetical to venture investment. Now, the country’s largest venture capital firms are throwing larger portions of their money behind…
These 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. If you’re…
Apps
Linktree surpasses 50M users, rolls out its social commerce program to more creators
2 hours ago
Link-in-bio startup Linktree has crossed 50 million users and is rolling out the beta of its social commerce program.
For a $5.99 per month, immigrants have a bank account and debit card with fee-free international money transfers and discounted international calling.
Response time is Aerodome’s immediate value prop for potential clients.
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When developers have a particular job that AI can solve, it’s not typically as simple as just pointing an LLM at the data. There are other considerations such as cost,…
Granola takes a more collaborative approach to working with AI.
AI
AI language translation startup DeepL nabs $300M on a $2B valuation to focus on B2B growth
2 hours ago
DeepL, which builds automated text translation and writing tools, has raised a $300 million round led by Index Ventures.
Apps
Praktika raises $35.5M to use AI avatars to make learning languages feel more natural
3 hours ago
Praktika has secured a $35.5M Series A round to apply AI-powered avatars to language-learning apps.
Humane, the company behind the hyped Ai Pin that launched to less-than-glowing reviews last month, is reportedly on the hunt for a buyer.
India’s Oyo, once valued at $10 billion, has withdrawn its IPO application from the market regulator for the second time.
Climate
Ore Energy emerges from stealth to build utility-scale batteries that last days, not hours
7 hours ago
Where Aytac Yilmaz lives in the Netherlands, the sun might not appear for days on end, which can really crimp the output of the country’s solar panels. Wind turbines might…
Paytm, a leading financial services firm in India, said its net loss widened in the fourth quarter as it grappled with a regulatory clampdown.
Government officials and AI industry executives agreed on Tuesday to apply elementary safety measures in the fast-moving field and establish an international safety research network. Nearly six months after the…
Copilot, Microsoft’s brand of generative AI, will soon be far more deeply integrated into the Windows 11 experience.
