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Slingshot raises $2.2 million to provide financial services to artists
[[{“value”:” Sanil Chawla remembers the meetings he had with countless artists in college. Those creatives were looking for one thing: sustainable economic infrastructure that could help them scale rather than drown them in paperwork, filings and tracking down receipts. Chawla thought he might have a solution and launched a music monetization platform in 2020. During the […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Firefly forges on after co-founder murdered by Hamas
[[{“value”:” A startup called Firefly that’s tackling the thorny and growing issue of cloud asset management with an “infrastructure as code” solution has raised $23 million in funding. That comes on the heels of strong demand for its tech and increasing revenue fourfold in 2023. The firm’s latest success also comes on the heels of tragedy, […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Mistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code
[[{“value”:” Mistral, the French AI startup backed by Microsoft and valued at $6 billion, has released its first generative AI model for coding, dubbed Codestral. Like other code-generating models, Codestral is designed to help developers write and interact with code. It was trained on over 80 programming languages, including Python, Java, C++ and JavaScript, explains Mistral […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Pinterest expands its Creator Fund to allow founders
[[{“value”:” Pinterest announced today that it is evolving its Creator Inclusion Fund to now be called the Pinterest Inclusion Fund. Pinterest teamed up with Shopify’s Build Black and Build Native programs to allow small business owners who are from or who serve underrepresented backgrounds to now apply for the Creator Inclusion Fund. Previously, only traditional content […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Cadillac’s new Optiq EV is designed to hook young hipsters
[[{“value”:” Cadillac may seem a bit too traditional to hang its driving cap on EVs. And yet, that hasn’t stopped the GM brand from rolling out — or at least showing off — four all-electric vehicle models since 2022. The latest is the 2025 Optiq, a mid-size crossover that could finally snag the young, hipster customers […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
This founder says meme tech is the next big thing
[[{“value”:” Alex Taub, a longtime founder with multiple exits under his belt, believes it’s time to disrupt the meme industry. “I have this big thesis that meme tech is going to be the next big category,” Taub told TechCrunch. “Like, there’s health tech, there’s proptech, there’s adtech, there’s fintech… I think meme tech is about to […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Harness snags Split.io as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments
[[{“value”:” DevOps startup Harness has shown itself to be an ambitious company, building a broad platform of services while also dabbling in M&A when it made sense to fill in functionality. On Wednesday, the company announced it was ready for a much bigger M&A bite, acquiring feature flag startup Split.io for an undisclosed amount of money. […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Kino is a new iPhone app for videographers from the makers of Halide
[[{“value”:” Lux, the startup behind popular pro photography app Halide and others, is venturing into video with its latest app launch. On Wednesday, the company announced Kino, a new video capture app for both professional and amateur videographers. The official launch comes six months after Lux teased the release back in December 2023. Halide users have long […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
House bill would ban Chinese connected vehicles over security concerns
[[{“value”:” U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin will introduce a bill to Congress that would limit or ban the introduction of connected vehicles built by Chinese companies if found to pose a threat to national security. The bill comes as the trade war between the U.S. and China heightens in the aftermath of the Biden administration’s decision to […] © 2024 TechCrunch….