Decagon claims its customers service bots are smarter than average
Decagon is a generative AI platform that automates various aspects of customer support channels. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
18 junho, 2024
Decagon claims its customers service bots are smarter than average
Decagon is a generative AI platform that automates various aspects of customer support channels. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
18 junho, 2024
Series A to B startups scale up at Disrupt 2024
Series A to B startups — check out the ScaleUp Startups Exhibitor Program at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024! Why Join the ScaleUp Startups Exhibitor Program? Amplify Your ReachShowcase your groundbreaking innovation on the Disrupt Expo Floor, where you’ll catch the eye of 10,000 tech leaders and...
18 junho, 2024
Now a Series A startup, kids app and ‘digital toy’ Pok Pok is coming to Android
Pok Pok, a kids app maker focused on building play-based learning experiences for the preschool set, has made a name for itself in the iOS developer community after winning both an App Store award for cultural impact and an Apple Design Award. But now the...
18 junho, 2024
SurrealDB is helping developers consolidate their databases
Brothers Tobie Morgan Hitchcock and Jaime Hitchcock spent years building cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems together, ranging from tools to let golf courses measure “golfer engagement” to online platforms designed to assess job candidates. While the systems they built had wildly different functions, the unifying thread...
18 junho, 2024
Zal Bilimoria just raised a $50M fourth Refactor Capital fund, and still relishes his solo GP status
Being a solo GP hasn’t slowed Bilimoria a bit. He went on to raise three additional funds and has now closed a new fund to invest in biotech, climate and hard tech startups. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
18 junho, 2024
Loop Golf looks to take the stress out of booking a tee time
Golf has exploded in popularity in recent years thanks to the pandemic and the popularity of Netflix’s Full Swing documentary series. More than 531 million rounds of golf were played in the U.S. in 2023 alone, according to the National Golf Foundation. Because of this...
18 junho, 2024
Bitsensing raises $25M for its high-resolution radar in autonomous driving
Self-driving vehicles rely on many sensors to detect objects and the world around them. The conventional approach is to work with cameras and lidars. But some tech companies and startups have built advanced high-resolution radar technology for autonomous vehicles, also known as 4D imaging radar. ...
18 junho, 2024
SewerAI uses AI to spot defects in sewer pipes
SewerAI sells cloud-based, AI-powered subscription products designed to streamline field inspections and data management of sewer infrastructure. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
18 junho, 2024
Dandelion co-founder is back to help you electrify your home for less
Balto Energy hopes to speed the electrification by helping homeowners choose and finance the projects that make the most sense for them. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
18 junho, 2024
SewerAI uses AI to spot defects in sewer pipes
SewerAI sells cloud-based, AI-powered subscription products designed to streamline field inspections and data management of sewer infrastructure. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
18 junho, 2024
Airbnb’s Olympics Push Could Help it Win Over Paris
Paris officials have placed tough new restrictions on Airbnb rentals in recent years. The company is using the Olympics to try and win over locals and broaden its footprint in the iconic city....
18 junho, 2024
Waabi’s genAI promises to do so much more than power self-driving trucks
For the last two decades, Raquel Urtasun, founder and CEO of autonomous trucking startup Waabi, has been developing AI systems that can reason as a human would. The AI pioneer had previously served as the chief scientist at Uber ATG before launching Waabi in 2021....
18 junho, 2024
EV startup Fisker files for bankruptcy
Fisker Inc., the EV startup founded by famed designer Henrik Fisker, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — a capstone to months of problems with its Ocean SUV that included recalls and dozens of lemon law lawsuits. The California-based company, which filed for bankruptcy in...
18 junho, 2024
SUSE wants a piece of the AI cake, too
Suse on Tuesday is announcing its AI strategy and SUSE AI solutions, a new vendor- and LLM-agnostic generative AI platform. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
18 junho, 2024
CuspAI raises $30M to create a Gen-AI-driven search engine for new materials
The company says its platform functions like a search engine for materials, enabling the fast evaluation of a “vast number of novel structures.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
18 junho, 2024
Google brings Gemini mobile app to India with nine Indian language support
Google has released its dedicated AI mobile app Gemini in India — over four months after its debut in the U.S. — with support for nine Indian languages alongside English. The Gemini mobile app in India supports nine Indian languages: Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi,...
18 junho, 2024
Finbourne taps $70M for tech that turns financial data dust into AI gold
Finbourne, founded out of London’s financial center, has built a platform to help financial companies organize and use more of their data in AI and other models. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
18 junho, 2024
After 20 months of trying to raise funds, insurance startup Loop cuts staff
Loop, the car insurance company co-founded by Harlem Capital co-founder John Henry, has laid off staff as the company struggles with fundraising. Henry took to Instagram to post the email his co-founder Carey Nadeau sent to impacted staff on June 16th. Nadeu also posted the...
17 junho, 2024
DeepMind’s new AI generates soundtracks and dialogue for videos
DeepMind says that it sees the tech, V2A (short for "video-to-audio"), as an essential piece of the AI-generated media puzzle. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
17 junho, 2024
Perplexity now displays results for temperature, currency conversion and simple math, so you don’t have to use Google
Perplexity could already fetch this data from the web and display results in a descriptive way, but the company is adding some visual flair to these results to make them more prominent and quick. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
17 junho, 2024
Runway’s new video-generating AI, Gen-3, offers improved controls
The race to high-quality, AI-generated videos is heating up. On Monday, Runway, a company building generative AI tools geared toward film and image content creators, unveiled Gen-3 Alpha. The company’s latest AI model generates video clips from text descriptions and still images. Runway says the model...
17 junho, 2024
Today’s your last chance to apply for the Startup Battlefield 200
Today’s the day, startup founders. It’s your final opportunity to join Startup Battlefield 200, the world’s preeminent startup competition, at TechCrunch Disrupt in October. It’s your last chance to launch on a global stage like 900+ other Startup Battlefield companies have, including Vurb, Trello, Mint,...
17 junho, 2024
Plant-based ‘meat’ startup Tender has already nabbed a fast-food chain contract, and another $11M
Its technology involves spinning plant protein fibers, including soy proteins, similar to the way cotton candy is made, to create structured cuts of meat. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
17 junho, 2024
TikTok ads will now include AI avatars of creators and stock actors
TikTok announced on Monday that it’s introducing generative AI avatars of creators and stock actors for branded content and ads on its platform. The company is also launching an “AI Dubbing” tool for creators and brands to expand the reach of their ads and branded...
17 junho, 2024
Autify launches Zenes, an AI agent for software quality assurance
With the advent of generative AI, AI applications are transforming and reshaping various industries and changing how people work. Software development is no exception. San Francisco- and Tokyo-based startup Autify has built an autonomous AI agent for software quality assurance to help software engineers complete...
17 junho, 2024
SoftBank ties up with Perplexity
After announcing a strategic partnership with SoftBank in April, Perplexity — the AI search engine that has ambitions to take on Google — is now using the deal to expand its user base, and data touchpoints, in SoftBank’s home market. SoftBank and two of its...
17 junho, 2024
YC-backed Hona looks to reduce the communication friction between law firms and their consumer clients
When Manny Griffiths worked with a personal injury lawyer after his wife’s car accident, he was surprised by the lack of information and communication from their lawyer regarding their claim. The couple sometimes wouldn’t hear from their lawyer for months and found the entire process...
17 junho, 2024
YC-backed Hona looks to reduce the communication friction between law firms and their consumer clients
When Manny Griffiths worked with a personal injury lawyer after his wife’s car accident, he was surprised by the lack of information and communication from their lawyer regarding their claim. The couple sometimes wouldn’t hear from their lawyer for months and found the entire process...
17 junho, 2024
Orkut’s Founder Is Still Dreaming of a Social Media Utopia
In the mid-2000s, Google engineer Orkut Büyükkökten’s self-titled social network briefly took the world by storm before disappearing. Now he’s back, with a plan for a happier social media....
17 junho, 2024
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