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Carta, 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, TechCrunch has learned. Carta is working with the investment bank Jeffries on the sale and initially hoped to find demand for the offering […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

New York-based Revel has made a lot of pivots since initially launching in 2018 as a dockless e-moped sharing service. The BlackRock-backed startup briefly stepped into the e-bike subscription business. It launched and now operates a handful of electric vehicle charging stations across the five boroughs. And it started an all-Tesla, all-employee ride-hail service, in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Carlo Kobe and Scott Smith believed so strongly in the need for a debit card product designed specifically for Gen Zers that they dropped out of Harvard and Cornel at ages 19 and 21, respectively, in 2021 to build a startup called Fizz. The pair wanted to go beyond creating a debit card for the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

When you look at how generative AI is being implemented across developer tools, the focus for the most part has been on generating code, as with Github Copilot. Greptile, an early stage startup from a group of recent Georgia Tech grads, decided to take a different approach: using AI to help developers understand the code […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

French AI startup Mistral is introducing new AI model customization options, including paid plans, to let developers — and enterprises — fine-tune its generative models for particular use cases. The first is self-service. Mistral has released a software development kit (SDK), Mistral-Finetune, for fine-tuning its models on workstations, servers and small datacenter nodes. In the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Stability AI, the startup behind the AI-powered art generator Stable Diffusion, has released an open AI model for generating sounds and songs that it claims was trained exclusively on royalty-free recordings. Called Stable Audio Open, the generative model, trained using ~486,000 samples from free music libraries FreeSound and the Free Music Archive, takes a text […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

It’s not just instant-delivery startups that are struggling. Oda, the Norway-based online supermarket delivery startup, has confirmed layoffs of 150 jobs as it drastically scales back its expansion ambitions to focus on just two markets, its homebase and Sweden, the homebase of Mathem, an online grocery that Oda merged with last year. Oda, which has […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

New 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.  Some e-bike providers may see such regulations as a problem for business. But e-bike subscription startup Whizz sees it as an opportunity.  “I think the market is moving […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 in San Francisco is the must-attend event for startup founders aiming to make their mark in the tech world. This year, founders have three exciting ways to participate, each tailored to maximize exposure, networking, and growth opportunities. Here’s how founders can join us this October: Attend with a Founder Pass Investing in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Google’s newest startup program, announced on Wednesday, aims to bring AI technology to the public sector. The newly launched “Google for Startups AI Academy: American Infrastructure” will offer participants hands-on training from AI experts and other support for companies solving problems in areas like agriculture, energy, education, public safety, healthcare, telecommunications, transportation, urban development, and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

If you’re anything like me, you’ve tried every to-do list app and productivity system, only to find yourself giving up sooner than later because sooner than later, managing your productivity system becomes another drain on your productivity. Hoop, a productivity startup founded by a group of early Trello employees, wants to use AI to help […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The startup is hoping its durable filters can make metals refining and battery recycling more efficient, too. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Taloflow, an early stage startup changing the way companies evaluate and select software, has raised $1.3M in a seed round. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The number of satellites on low Earth orbit is poised to explode over the coming years as more mega-constellations come online, and it will create new opportunities for bad actors to hide weapons or spy satellites amongst their fleet. That’s according to DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which tasked space startup Slingshot Aerospace […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

In 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. Eko Health, a startup founded in 2013, is bringing this ubiquitous […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at LoanSnap’s woes, Nubank’s and Monzo’s positive milestones, a plethora of fintech fundraises and more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday at 7:00 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The big story AI mortgage startup LoanSnap is […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The early victors in the AI gold rush are selling the picks and shovels needed to develop and apply artificial intelligence. Just take a look at data-labeling startup Scale AI — and its long and diverse list of customers and investors. The San Francisco-based startup, founded in 2016, developed software that labels image, text, voice […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

When Stacklet’s founders, Travis Stanfield and Kapil Thangavelu, came out of Capital One in 2020 to launch their startup, most companies weren’t all that concerned with constraining cloud costs. But in the ensuing years, as they experienced economic headwinds, first from the pandemic, and then rising interest rates, it became an imperative. As such, Stacklet’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Sékr, a startup that offers a mobile app for outdoor enthusiasts and campers, is launching a new AI tool for planning road trips. The new tool, called Copilot, is available on the startup’s updated website and app, which is used by more than 100,000 users. Sékr was founded in 2016 with the goal of helping […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The startup has been pursuing a ground-up redesign of a well-understood technology. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →