Статьи по тегу «Стартап»

There are a number of companies in the U.S. that offer revenue-based financing to SaaS companies including Capchase, Pipe, Founderpath and Arc. But the options for South Asian companies are far more limited. A new startup, Efficient Capital Labs (ECL), has emerged to give B2B SaaS companies operating in the South Asia-US corridor more financing […] QED leads $7M round into startup that offers financing to SaaS businesses across US-South Asia corridor by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →

Artificial intelligence has been a big theme in the world of health and medical research, and specifically in the area of drug discovery. Today, another hopeful in the space is announcing a funding round to expand its own contribution to the field. Causaly, a London startup that has built an AI platform to help researchers […] Causaly, an AI platform for drug discovery and biomedical research, raises $60M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Skill-Lync, an Indian startup offering upskilling programs, has laid off 20% of its workforce — around 225 employees — to reduce operational costs amid the ongoing, global funding crunch for startups. The five-year-old Chennai-based company, which has its headquarters in Palo Alto, started its most job cutting drive on June 27, TechCrunch learned, but they […] Indian upskilling platform Skill-Lync cuts 20% jobs to ‘streamline operations’ by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Stability AI, the startup behind the image-generating model Stable Diffusion, is launching a new service that turns sketches into images. The sketch-to-image service, Stable Doodle, leverages the latest Stable Diffusion model to analyze the outline of a sketch and generate a “visually pleasing” artistic rendition of it. It’s available starting today through ClipDrop, a platform […] Stability AI releases Stable Doodle, a sketch-to-image tool by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Swiggy has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire LYNK, a retail logistics startup with a network of over 100,000 stores, the latest in a series of purchases by the Indian food delivery giant in the past two years. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which counts Prosus, Accel and Invesco among its backers, said the acquisition of […] Indian food delivery giant Swiggy acquires retail logistics startup LYNK by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Lucid’s future was already cloudy, but lately the EV startup’s name is practically a misnomer.  On Wednesday, Lucid told investors that it delivered 1,404 of its Air sedans during the second quarter, missing Wall Street analysts’ expectations by nearly 600 vehicle deliveries. The startup also said it built 2,173 vehicles during Q2, down from 2,314 […] Lucid stock falls as sales miss expectations by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch... →

Is VanMoof about to go poof? Earlier this week, we reported on how the Amsterdam-based e-bike startup, backed by hundreds of millions of dollars in venture funding, was facing a major crisis: a prolonged pause in sales; a barrage of angry customers demanding refunds for their bikes, or complaining about the lack of service on […] Report: e-bike startup VanMoof, unable to pay its bills, files for payment deferment in Holland by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

CapStack, a startup formed by Pipe co-founder Michal Cieplinski, has raised $6 million toward its effort to build an integrated operating system for banks. In simpler terms, Cieplinski described CapStack as the “first bank-to-bank marketplace,” giving the institutions the ability to share and have visibility into one another’s portfolios. Cieplinski started CapStack in March with […] Pipe co-founder raises $6M for CapStack, a bank-to-bank marketplace aimed at ‘de-riskifying portfolios’ by Mary Ann Azevedo o... →

French startup Swile shared some revenue metrics just a year after merging with Bimpli, the employee benefits division of BPCE. Swile’s main product is a payment card for employee benefits, such as meal vouchers. In 2022, Swile generated €138 million in revenue ($153 million at today’s exchange rate) — that includes Bimpli’s revenue. And yet, […] Employee benefits startup Swile expects to become profitable next quarter by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

We’ve seen the rise of the customer data platform (CDP) in recent years as a central repository for collecting data about customers to better understand their needs. It’s worth noting that Twilio spent $3.2 billion to buy CDP Segment in 2020 with the goal of building data-fueled apps. Today, Lantern, an early stage startup is […] Lantern is building a B2B platform that combines a CDP and customer success tools by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch... →

Inngest, an open-source startup that helps developers build and manage serverless queues, background jobs and workflows, today announced that it has raised a $3 million seed round led by GGV. Co-founded in 2021 by former Buffer CTO Dan Farrelly and Tony Holdstock-Brown, a former Docker engineer and the former head of engineering at healthcare company […] Inngest helps developers build their backend workflows, raises $3M by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

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Abhijit Gupta and Ram Sahasranam have plenty of experience in the healthtech space, having sold their first startup, health app maker Praxify, to Athenahealth. Now the duo are focused on value-based care. Fold Health is their operating system for cutting down on the amount of admin work performed by value-based providers. Today, the startup announced […] Fold Health streamlines admin work for value-based care providers by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch... →

Resemble AI, a platform that uses generative AI to clone realistic-sounding voices, today announced that it raised $8 million in a Series A round led by Javelin Venture Partners, with participation from Craft Ventures and Ubiquity Ventures. The tranche, which brings the startup’s total raised to $12 million, will be put toward further developing Resemble’s […] Voice cloning platform Resemble AI lands $8M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

UK femtech Daye has a new string to its bow: It’s opened what it’s billing as the world’s first virtual period pain clinic. The new service, which extends the startup’s direct-to-consumer business selling female health products — such as its signature CBD-infused cramp-fighting tampon — is intended to support women to get a faster diagnosis […] UK femtech Daye launches virtual clinic for period pain by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch... →

San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup Coalition is acquiring Jumbo, a mobile app that lets you control your privacy on the web. I have covered Jumbo several times over the past few years, so it’s time to close the loop on this one. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, but Jumbo says that its app is no […] Cyber insurance startup Coalition acquires privacy assistant Jumbo by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

French startup Defacto has closed a new securitization fund that will be used to provide short-term loans to small and medium enterprises via an embedded, API-first approach. This is a new fund of up to €167 million ($183 million) with Citi and Viola Credit acting as the lenders. This is significant news for the startup […] Defacto gets new credit facility to provide instant financing to small companies by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

AI, when it works well, can feel like magic, but all too often AI-based systems don’t work as they should: if the data used to train models is not deep, wide and reliable enough, any kind of curve ball can send that AI in the wrong direction. A London startup called Prolific has built a […] Prolific raises $32M to train and stress-test AI models using its network of 120K people by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

PasarPolis, one of Indonesia’s first full-stack insurtechs, has brought on Peter Van Zyl as its president. Van Zyl is former director and CEO of Allianz Indonesia, one of the country’s biggest insurers. Through a strategic partnership with Tap Insure, PasarPolis is able to underwrite and distribute its own insurance products to clients like Tokopedia, Gojek […] Full-stack insurtech startup PasarPolis hires former CEO of Allianz Indonesia by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch... →

Space-based internet startup Astranis inked a new deal to launch and operate a dedicated satellite for the Philippines, which will provide enough bandwidth to connect up to two million people. Astranis is partnering with satellite services provider Orbits Corp, which will buy the capacity with its sister company HTechCorp., a Philippine internet service provider (ISP). […] Astranis will launch a dedicated internet satellites for the Philippines next year by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrun... →