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AI big shot Andrew Ng’s AI Fund, a startup incubator that backs small teams of experts looking to solve key problems using AI, plans to raise upwards of $120 million for its second tranche. A filing with the SEC shows that the AI Fund’s second fund, AI Venture Fund II, has so far amassed $69.75 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Climate tech startups especially those building hardware, face a particular challenge when trying to move beyond the prototype or pilot phase and start selling finished products to customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

TechCrunch is joining forces with Google Cloud as its lead partner for Startup Battlefield 200. This event will highlight and support the most promising startups from around the globe at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, which will take place in San Francisco from October 28-30. At the heart of this collaboration is a shared vision of fostering […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

a16z-backed Character.AI said today that it is now allowing users to talk to AI characters over calls. The feature currently supports multiple languages, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. The startup tested the calling feature ahead of today’s public launch. During that time, it said that more than 3 million users had […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

While startup valuations have plummeted since the bull run of 2021-2022, a factor that’s hit the European startup ecosystem particularly hard, there’s one region of Europe where the correction has slightly worked in its favor: the South. Evidence for this was apparent during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, as time and time […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

A travel hack that went viral on TikTok teaches users how to save money on hotels and Airbnbs by booking directly with the properties themselves. Now, a new startup, Directo, will help travelers find those same deals with the help of a Chrome extension that points you to the property’s website, where you’ll often find […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

By now we know how crucial it is to have quality data for use by large language models (LLMs), but getting data ready for the models has been an early challenge for companies, an opening that represents an opportunity for an enterprising entrepreneur. Enter Illumex, a two year old Israeli startup from the former VP […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Sometimes the most successful startup ideas come from people building tools to solve their own needs. Such was the case with Dafydd Stuttard, a security expert who goes by Daf. Nearly two decades ago, living in the small market town of Knutsford in Cheshire in the northwest of England, Daf was working as a security […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

French startup Dust has raised a $16 million Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. With Dust, companies can create custom AI assistants and share them with their employees so that they can work more efficiently. But what’s interesting with Dust is the differences with other companies working on enterprise agents or AI assistants […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

What is AI good for? Automating repetitive tasks for the very busy people running small businesses, reckons Berlin-based startup Synthflow, which is announcing a $7.4 million seed round for its SME-focused no code platform for AI voice assistance. Since being founded, around spring last year, the startup has banked a total of $9.1 million (including […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Formation Bio, a startup focused on applying AI to drug discovery with backing from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has raised over a quarter-billion dollars to support its ambitious product roadmap. Formation today announced that it raised $372 million in a Series D funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from drugmaker Sanofi, Sequoia, Thrive, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Hyperplane focused on allowing banks to train their own models to power tools across their risk, collections and marketing departments. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Rainforest, a startup that embeds payment processing into other software platforms, has raised $20 million in Series A funding — less than a year after announcing the close of its seed financing. Raising back-to-back rounds was more common in 2021 but we don’t see it happening as often in this new environment. Rainforest’s traction is […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

As consumers increasingly demand environmentally friendly and sustainable products, companies strive to seek alternative solutions, which creates a market ripe for growth for some environmental tech companies’ offerings. One example is Samsara Eco, an Australia-based startup that makes and sells fossil-free polymer resins to its customers. These resins can be integrated into supply chains and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

VW Group invest $1 billion into EV startup Rivian as part of a software development deal that could expand to as much as $5 billion. The deal, which was announced Tuesday afternoon, sent Rivian’s shares up more than 36% in after-hours trading. The two companies will create a joint venture focused on next-generation electrical architecture […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Stability AI, the beleaguered generative AI startup behind Stable Diffusion, has raised new cash. But it won’t reveal how much. Greycroft, Coatue Management, Sound Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, O’Shaughnessy Ventures and angel investors Prem Akkaraju, Napster founder Sean Parker, Eric Schmidt and Robert Nelsen have injected fresh capital into Stability, the company revealed Tuesday morning […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Tengo uses AI to find, evaluate and respond to public tenders. It is a software-as-service tool that helps companies handle public tenders at scale — a bit like Govly in the U.S. Originally created within the startup studio Hexa, the startup raised a €3 million funding round led by Point Nine ($3.2 million at today’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

A relatively new startup called EvolutionaryScale has secured a massive tranche of cash to build AI models to generate novel proteins for scientific research. EvolutionaryScale today announced that it raised $142 million in a seed round led by ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and Lux Capital with participation from Amazon and NVentures, Nvidia’s corporate […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Don't call this company a "ghost kitchen." Since its Series A in 2021, Local Kitchens grew 5x and achieved unit-level profitability. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Less than a year after closing its seed round, software-for-hardware startup Sift announced a $17.5 million Series A led by Google’s venture capital arm GV to scale their platform for analyzing real-time data from hardware systems. The company is developing a platform that provides a single source of truth for telemetry data. Such data is […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →