[[{“value”:” Lance Riedel and Nigel Daley both spent decades in search discovery, but it was while working at Pinterest that they began trying to understand how to use search engines to do personalized searches for online shopping. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Stacklet sees demand grow as companies take cloud cost control more seriously
[[{“value”:” When Stacklet’s founders, Travis Stanfield and Kapil Thangavelu, came out of Capital One in 2020 to launch their startup, most companies weren’t all that concerned with constraining cloud costs. But in the ensuing years, as they experienced economic headwinds, first from the pandemic, and then rising interest rates, it became an imperative. As such, Stacklet’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Exposing environmental injustice through maps and stories
[[{“value”:” Exposing environmental injustice through maps and stories Published: Often, it is society’s poorest and most vulnerable people that are most exposed to environmental harm. This injustice is the subject of much research, but getting the evidence needed to bring about major change can be challenging. Dr Stephanie Rutherford, at Trent University, and Dr Michael Classens, at the University of…
GetWhy, a market research AI platform that extracts insights from video interviews, raises $34.5M
[[{“value”:” GetWhy helps businesses carry out market studies and extract insights from video-based interviews using AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Sword Health raises $130M and its valuation soars to $3B
[[{“value”:” AI-powered virtual physical therapy platform Sword Health has seen its valuation soar 50% to $3 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
WndrCo officially gets into venture capital with fresh $460M across two funds
[[{“value”:” Jeffrey Katzenberg and Sujay Jaswa, along with three general partners, manage $1.5 billion in assets today through their Build, Venture and Seed strategies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Storyblok raises $80M to add more AI to its ‘headless’ CMS aimed at non-technical people
[[{“value”:” The startup targets the middle ground between platforms that offer rigid templates, and those that facilitate a full-control approach. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Travel app Sékr can plan your next road trip with its new AI tool
[[{“value”:” Sékr, a startup that offers a mobile app for outdoor enthusiasts and campers, is launching a new AI tool for planning road trips. The new tool, called Copilot, is available on the startup’s updated website and app, which is used by more than 100,000 users. Sékr was founded in 2016 with the goal of helping […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
‘Star Wars’ lasers and waterfalls of molten salt: How Xcimer plans to make fusion power happen
[[{“value”:” The startup has been pursuing a ground-up redesign of a well-understood technology. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools’ use of 365 Education suite
[[{“value”:” Microsoft’s education-focused flavor of its cloud productivity suite, Microsoft 365 Education, is facing investigation in the European Union. Privacy rights non-profit noyb has just lodged two complaints with Austria’s data protection authority. The complaints examine the use of Microsoft’s cloud software by schools. The first one focuses on transparency and legal basis issues. noyb says […] © 2024 TechCrunch….