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Jun 2, 2022 • 5min
Chick-fil-A taps Refraction AI for autonomous delivery pilot
When Refraction AI was founded in 2019, its goal was to use robotics to bring down the cost of last-mile delivery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 1, 2022 • 3min
Car-sharing startup Turo expands to New York and France
Peer-to-peer car sharing company Turo is expanding to New York State and France in June, the company said on Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 1, 2022 • 6min
One AI raises $8M to curate business-specific NLP models
Whether to power translation to document summarization, enterprises are increasing their investments in natural language processing (NLP) technologies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 31, 2022 • 5min
Strong Compute raises $7.8M seed round to speed up ML training pipelines
Strong Compute, a Sydney, Australia-based startup that helps developers remove the bottlenecks in their machine learning training pipelines, today announced that it has raised a $7.8 million seed round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 31, 2022 • 4min
Meta and Google’s Gradient back LatAm startup OlaClick
More than 80% of food delivery orders in Latin America are still made over phone calls and settled with cash. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 31, 2022 • 6min
Betastore gets $2.5M to solve stock-outs, financing challenges for informal retailers in West and Central Africa
About 80% of household retail in sub-Saharan Africa is delivered through informal channels, which perennially face several challenges like stockouts, leading to an instability in earnings, and a lack of attractiveness to financiers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 31, 2022 • 5min
Mintlify taps AI to automatically generate documentation from code
Mintlify, a startup developing software to automate software documentation tasks, today announced that it raised $2.8 million in a seed round led by by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from TwentyTwo Ventures and Quinn Slack, Sourcegraph’s co-founder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 27, 2022 • 4min
Foursquare founder banks funding for mystery 3D social network startup
The excitement around web3 and the metaverse have pulled plenty of entrepreneurs who defined the first generation of native mobile apps to begin questioning what’s next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 27, 2022 • 4min
SoftBank leads $150M round for Firework’s shoppable video
Firework provides tools for retailers and consumer brands to tap into their own customer data to build engaging video experiences across their own digital properties and social channels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 27, 2022 • 4min
Hugging Face collaborates with Microsoft for new AI-powered Azure service
Fresh off a $100 million funding round, Hugging Face, which provides hosted AI services and a community-driven portal for AI tools and data sets, today announced a new product in collaboration with Microsoft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
