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16:00 29.02.2024

Figure rides the humanoid robot hype wave to $2.6B valuation and OpenAI/Microsoft partnerships

Today Figure confirmed long-standing rumors that it’s raising more money than God. The Bay Area–based robotics firm has announced a $675 million Series B on a $2.6 billion valuation. The lineup of investors is equally impressive, including Microsoft, OpenAI Startup Fund, Nvidia, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions), Parkway Venture Capital, Intel […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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11:35 29.02.2024

Silence Laboratories, a cryptographic security startup, secures funding

Silence Laboratories, a startup that builds infrastructure using multiparty computation (MPC) to help enterprises keep data private and safe, said it has raised a $4.1 million funding round. Pi Ventures and Kira Studio co-led the recent funding, which brings its total raised to $6 million, along with angel investors. The startup will use the funding to scale […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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09:54 29.02.2024

Bfree, a Nigerian startup enabling lenders recover debt ethically, gets $3M backing

Bfree, a tech-enabled debt collection startup based in Nigeria, was founded to automate and introduce ethical debt recovery processes after its founders witnessed the use and adverse effects of aggressive retrieval techniques, such as incessant calling and debt-shaming, by predatory digital lenders. After its launch in 2020, the startup introduced a number of scalable debt […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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08:00 29.02.2024

OpenCTI maker Filigran raises $16 million for its cybersecurity threat management suite

Paris-based cybersecurity startup Filigran is capitalizing on the success of OpenCTI to build a suite of open-source threat management products. The company has already found some early traction with OpenCTI, its open-source threat intelligence platform. That’s why the company recently raised €15 million (around $16 million at today’s exchange rate) in a funding round led […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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21:00 28.02.2024

Former Snap design lead debuts Shader, an AR creation tool that uses AI to generate custom effects

Shader aims to challenge industry heavyweights like Snap’s AR development platform Lens Studio and TikTok’s Effect House, with its no-code AR creation tool that generates custom effects, 2D masks, and lenses in minutes — rather than spending hours to create a single AR filter, which requires engineering and design skills. The startup built its platform […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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20:39 28.02.2024

Anamorph’s generative technology reorders scenes to create unlimited versions of one film

Anamorph, a new filmmaking and technology company, announced its launch today. The startup, founded by filmmaker Gary Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes, wants to reshape the cinematic experience with its proprietary generative technology that can create films that are different every time they’re shown. Anamorph revealed its innovative technology at the 2024 Sundance Film […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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18:55 28.02.2024

Sweanty’s wearable patch for athletes tracks salt loss to help them hydrate

Wearables are coming in an increasing array of shapes, form factors and guises these days as health and fitness tracking proliferates. Here at 4YFN at the MWC tradeshow we spotted a new one: A stick-on patch for tracking athletes’ sweat to monitor salt loss and help them tailor their rehydration strategy. The Spanish startup behind […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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18:15 28.02.2024

Microsoft invests in yet another AI company

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, focused on startup and venture capital news that matters. We pull the top stories from the week thus far, and give […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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17:12 28.02.2024

The five finalists to emerge from the Four Years From Now 2024 pitch competition

Long ago Mobile World Congress, which we’ve been covering all week, absorbed a side event for startups, the idiosyncratically named “Four Years From Now”. The event is now well and truly inside the Borg Starship that is MWC, and every year runs a startup competition aimed at finding the ‘best startups’ around the globe. Thus, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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17:12 28.02.2024

The five finalists to emerge from the Four Years From Now 20204 pitch competition

Long ago Mobile World Congress, which we’ve been covering all week, absorbed a side event for startups, the idiosyncratically named “Four Years From Now”. The event is now well and truly inside the Borg Starship that is MWC, and every year runs a startup competition aimed at finding the ‘best startups’ around the globe. Thus, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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17:00 28.02.2024

SambaNova now offers a bundle of generative AI models

SambaNova, an AI chip startup that’s raised over $1.1 billion in VC money to date, is gunning for OpenAI — and rivals — with a new generative AI product geared toward enterprise customers. SambaNova today announced Samba-1, an AI-powered system designed for tasks like text rewriting, coding, language translation and more. The company’s calling the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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15:14 28.02.2024

Deel, the $12B HR startup, acquires Zavvy to step up consolidation play

Consolidation is afoot in the world of HR services, with larger players snapping up interesting, smaller startups en route to more robust unit economics and providing one-stop shops for customers looking to cut down on suppliers. In the latest development, Deel — the $12 billion HR business out of Paris — is scooping up Zavvy, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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05:56 28.02.2024

Dailyhunt in talks to acquire social network startup Koo

Media startup DailyHunt is in advanced stages of talks to acquire the Bengaluru-headquartered social network Koo, two sources familiar with the matter told me. The potential deal under discussion involves a share-swap agreement and could be finalized within weeks, the sources added, requesting anonymity as the matter is private. The deliberation follows Koo, which has […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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01:00 28.02.2024

Why VCs are investing in startups that help other startups shut down

In one of the VC world’s greatest ironies, investors have lately been clamoring to back startups that are helping other startups shut down. So whether a VC-backed startup is succeeding or shuttering, investors themselves are finding ways to make returns for their limited partners while also helping founders move on more quickly. And with an […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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22:13 27.02.2024

MWC: Ethiopian fintech eQub digitizes peer-to-peer credit

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21:17 27.02.2024

SynFlora is working on bioengineering a skincare revolution

Biotech startup SynFlora brought an enticing pitch for a new type of skin treatment technology to 4YFN at the MWC tradeshow in Barcelona this week. The Spanish startup, whose three co-founders all have PhDs, is working to improve understanding of the skin’s microbiome and engineer skin microbes with the goal of enabling more targeted and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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20:21 27.02.2024

Lizcore’s sport tracking system is minimalist enough for indoor climbers to actually use

Lizcore, a sport tracking startup out of Barcelona, caught our eye on the 4YFN show floor at MWC this week. It’s done what this climber — frankly — thought impossible: Come up with a way to digitize and upgrade the indoor climbing experience that bouldering addicts might actually get on board with. Bouldering gyms that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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17:00 27.02.2024

Writer’s latest models can generate text from images including charts and graphs

As generative AI continues to dominate the headlines, it’s hard sometimes to find actual working business use cases among the hype. Writer is a San Francisco startup that is working to create generative AI writing products with the enterprise in mind. Today, the company announced a new capability for its Palmyra model that generates text […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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17:00 27.02.2024

Text-to-speech app Speechify launches Gmail integration and voice cloning

Text-to-speech startup Speechify is launching a new version of its iOS app (v3.0) with features like a redesigned home page, the ability to scan documents, Gmail and learning platform Canvas integration, and an explore page for in-app content. Speechify is revamping its homepage to provide shortcuts to import files with options like iOS Files, Google […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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16:17 27.02.2024

Lapse, the app turning your phone into an old-school camera, snaps up $30M

It can cost a fortune in 2024 to find an analogue camera, buy film (and maybe special batteries) for it, and take pictures that then need to be developed. For those who long for those old days, a startup called Lapse has been giving smartphone users an alternative — you take pictures that you have to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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