[[{“value”:” Mike Krieger, one of the co-founders of Instagram and, more recently, the co-founder of personalized news app Artifact (which TechCrunch corporate parent Yahoo recently acquired), is joining Anthropic as the company’s first chief product officer. As CPO, Krieger will oversee Anthropic’s product engineering, management and design efforts, Anthropic says, as the company works to expand […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Alkira connects with $100M for a solution that connects your clouds
[[{“value”:” As cloud adoption continues to surge toward the $1 trillion mark in annual spend, we’re seeing a wave of enterprise startups gaining traction with customers and investors for tools to help manage that usage. In the latest development, a startup called Alkira has raised $100 million for “network infrastructure as a service,” which lets users […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers
[[{“value”:” Charging has long been the Achilles’ heel of electric vehicles. One startup thinks it has a better way for apartment dwelling EV drivers to charge overnight. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Weka raises $140M as the AI boom bolsters data platforms
[[{“value”:” While an increasing number of companies are investing in AI, many are struggling to get AI-powered projects into production — much less delivering meaningful ROI. The challenges are many. But a commonly recurring one is data management. The data that companies need to train, run and fine-tune AI models is disorganized, siloed, and otherwise unoptimized. […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Embedded accounting startup Layer secures $2.3M toward goal of replacing QuickBooks
[[{“value”:” So did investors laugh them out of the room when they explained how they wanted to replace Quickbooks? Kind of. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
What can Arctic rocks teach us about life on Mars?
[[{“value”:” What can Arctic rocks teach us about life on Mars? Published: On top of snow-capped mountains high in the Canadian Arctic, giant slabs of rock may hold the answers to an age-old question: is there life on Mars? Éloïse Brassard, a PhD student at the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada, studies a type of rock formation known as gossans….
Meet PayHOA, a profitable and once-bootstrapped SaaS startup that just landed a $27.5M Series A
[[{“value”:” PayHOA, a previously bootstrapped Kentucky-based startup that offers software for self-managed homeowner associations (HOAs), is an example of how real-world problems can translate into opportunity. It just raised a $27.5 million Series A round in an environment where nearly $30 million Series A rounds are no longer common. PayHOA founder and CEO Mike Bollinger has […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Restaurant365 orders in $175M at $1B+ valuation to supersize its food service software stack
[[{“value”:” Restaurant365, which offers a restaurant management suite, has raised a hot $175M from ICONIQ Growth, KKR and L Catterton. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Portuguese VC firm Shilling launches €50M opportunity fund to back growth-stage startups
[[{“value”:” Venture firm Shilling has launched a €50M fund to support growth-stage startups in its own portfolio and to invest in startups everywhere else. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
LanceDB, which counts Midjourney as a customer, is building databases for multimodal AI
[[{“value”:” Chang She, previously the VP of engineering at Tubi and a Cloudera veteran, has years of experience building data tooling and infrastructure. But when She began working in the AI space, he quickly ran into problems with traditional data infrastructure — problems that prevented him from bringing AI models into production. “Machine learning engineers and […] © 2024 TechCrunch….