[[{“value”:” Eva Ho plans to step away from her position as general partner at Fika Ventures, the Los Angeles-based seed firm she co-founded in 2016. Fika told LPs of Ho’s intention to step back after Fund III, the firm’s current fund, in an email, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Fika confirmed the transition […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Amazon’s CTO built a meeting-summarizing app for some reason
[[{“value”:” In a post on Werner Vogels’ personal blog, he details Distill, an open-source app he built to transcribe and summarize conference calls. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Sources: Mistral AI raising at a $6B valuation, SoftBank ‘not in’ but DST is
[[{“value”:” Paris-based Mistral AI, a startup working on open source large language models — the building block for generative AI services — has been raising money at a $6 billion valuation, three times its valuation in December, to compete more keenly against the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic, TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources. We understand […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Google I/O 2024: What to expect
[[{“value”:” You can expect plenty of AI, but probably not a lot of hardware. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Bumble says it’s looking to M&A to drive growth
[[{“value”:” Dating apps and other social friend-finders are being put on notice: Dating app giant Bumble is looking to make more acquisitions. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Blackboard founder transforms Zoom add-on designed for teachers into business tool
[[{“value”:” When Class founder Michael Chasen was in college, he and a buddy came up with the idea for Blackboard, an online classroom organizational tool. His original company was acquired for $1.64 billion in 2011. Chasen later developed Class, a Zoom add-on, during the pandemic to help teachers make better use of Zoom in a classroom […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Groww joins the first wave of Indian startups moving domiciles back home from US
[[{“value”:” Groww, an Indian investment app, has become one of the first startups from the country to shift its domicile back home. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Dell discloses data breach of customers’ physical addresses
[[{“value”:” Technology giant Dell notified customers on Thursday that it experienced a data breach involving customers’ names and physical addresses. In an email seen by TechCrunch and shared by several people on social media, the computer maker wrote that it was investigating “an incident involving a Dell portal, which contains a database with limited types of […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Fairgen ‘boosts’ survey results using synthetic data and AI-generated responses
[[{“value”:” The Israeli startup has raised $5.5M for its platform that uses “statistical AI” to generate synthetic data that it says is as good as the real thing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Braving the Baltics
[[{“value”:” Everyone told me when I decided to study abroad that it would be amazing — I would develop new skills, learn more about myself, and cultivate a more global perspective. Now facing the end of my semester, I can confidently say that all those things came to fruition, though not in the way I anticipated. Three weeks ago, I…