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Chatbots have come a long way. For years, they were limited to responding with predetermined replies that followed a simple logic structure. But customers can have complex problems, and no tree-diagram of possible replies can have enough branches to account for all the edge cases that arise. Thankfully, the advent of large language models has […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

A few years ago, Darren Shimkus, ex-president of Udemy, had a conversation with Dennis Yang about skills building. Shimkus was of the belief that building skills in the corporate sector was a difficult, but not intractable, challenge — one that could perhaps be solved with the right technology. He brought it up to Yang, who […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

It’s rare that I come across a pitch deck that ticks almost all the boxes. It’s so good, in fact, that I fed Plantee’s deck into an AI tool I built, and it determined there was a 97.7% chance that Plantee would raise money. This tool generally determines that only about 7.5% of all pitch […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

On Tuesday, the BBC reported that Uber Eats courier Pa Edrissa Manjang, who is Black, had received a payout from Uber after “racially discriminatory” facial recognition checks prevented him from accessing the app, which he had been using since November 2019 to pick up jobs delivering food on Uber’s platform. The news raises questions about […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

This morning Skyflow announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B extension led by Khosla Ventures. The deal is interesting on a number of fronts including the round’s structure and how Skyflow has been impacted by growth of AI. The new capital comes after Skyflow expanded its data privacy business to support new […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Matter Venture Partners will invest in between 15 and 20 companies with the new fund in the area of "hard tech." © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Pelago Health,  Y Combinator-backed telehealth company that uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help treat people with tobacco, alcohol and opioid addictions, said Thursday it had raised a $58 million Series C round.  The recent funding, which brings its total raised to $151 million since being founded in 2017, comes two and a half years […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Blueground, which operates a global network of furnished apartment rentals for stays of a month or more, has raised $45 million, on sales of $560 million. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

StealthMole, an AI-powered dark web intelligence startup that specializes in monitoring cyber threats and detecting cybercrime, announced Thursday that it has raised a $7 million Series A funding round. The Singapore-headquartered startup with an R&D office in South Korea will use the fresh capital to establish additional R&D centers and support more commercial uses of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Enterprises today store and use data across an ever-growing number of applications and locations — making it challenging — if not impossible — to manage and query that data in a holistic way. That spells opportunity for startups building tools to stitch together that fragmentation, and today one of them — Observe — is announcing […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

If you wanted to raise the profile of your major tech company and had $10 million to spend, how would you spend it? On a Super Bowl ad? An F1 sponsorship? You could spend it training a generative AI model. While not marketing in the traditional sense, generative models are attention grabbers — and increasingly […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Not many startups can claim Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta as paying customers, but Confetti can. And the list doesn’t stop at a quintet with a collective market value of $10 trillion — the New York-based company says it works with Zoom, Netflix, Stripe, TikTok, Shopify, Adobe, LinkedIn, HubSpot, and 30% of the Fortune […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Dan Laufer swore off ever founding a startup again after he sold apartment rental platform RentLingo in 2021, but Laufer also couldn’t ignore the potential to solve a problem he saw unfolding as the head of product and marketing at Nextdoor. “The top use of Nextdoor is people looking for providers, HVAC especially,” Laufer told […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Global Screening Services (GSS), a London-based regulatory compliance platform that helps financial institutions meet their global sanctions obligations, has raised $47 million in a round of funding. The raise comes amid a spike in economic sanctions, with the U.S. issuing trade-restrictions and asset-blocking against states including Russia, China, Iran, and more. Enforcement GSS co-founder and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Lucid Motors is raising another $1 billion from its biggest financial backer, Saudi Arabia, as it looks to blunt the high costs associated with building and selling its luxury electric sedan. The company announced in a Monday morning regulatory filing that Ayar Third Investment, an affiliate of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, has agreed to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

After a three-year fund-raise, World Fund has finally closed a €300 million first fund, €50 million short of it’s target in 2021, but still a considerable number given a background of war and economic uncertainty. The VC originally emerged from the founders of the Ecosia independent search engine, where search enquires funded the planting of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The Browser Company, which makes the Arc browser, has raised $50 million in a round led by Pace Capital at a $550 million valuation, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. The company’s head of storytelling Nashilu Mouen confirmed the investment to TechCrunch. “Now, more than ever, we continue to believe that the successor to the personal computer […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The sum will be split roughly evenly between two funds, Frontline Growth and Frontline Seed. The seed fund will favor European ventures, while the growth fund is focused on American ones. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Mermaid, the open-source diagramming and charting tool, has long been popular with developers for its ability to create diagrams using a Markdown-like language. As is often the case, Mermaid founder Knut Sveidqvist created the project because he saw a need for it in his own job as a software architect and then open-sourced it without […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Globally, healthcare IT systems are groaning under the weight of legacy platforms. Thankfully, there’s a new wave of startups entering the arena: UK startup Anima is a “care enablement” platform that operates almost like a combination of Slack, Salesforce and Figma, but for healthcare clinics and hospitals. The company recently raised a $12 million Series […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →