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Aug 29, 2024 • 8min

Supio brings generative AI to personal injury cases

Supio uses generative AI to automate bulk data collection and aggregation for legal teams. It emerged from stealth Tuesday with a $25 million investment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Aug 28, 2024 • 5min

Food delivery is seeing more consolidation: GrubMarket snaps up FreshGoGo

GrubMarket, the $3.6 billion food delivery and supply chain startup backed by Tiger Global, BlackRock and nearly 100 other investors, has snapped up another food delivery startup on its consolidation march: It is acquiring FreshGoGo, a New York-based, B2C platform selling Asian groceries and ready-made dishes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Aug 28, 2024 • 6min

Piramidal’s foundation model for brainwaves could supercharge EEGs

AI models are being applied to every dataset under the sun, but are inconsistent in their outcomes. This is as true in the medical world as anywhere else, but a startup called Piramidal believes it has a sure thing with a foundational model for analyzing brain scan data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Aug 27, 2024 • 6min

The founder building a wealth-management product her grandmother would have loved

Mical Jeanlys-White built WealthMore out of frustration.  She spent years on Wall Street, building products at American Express and serving as a managing director at JPMorgan Chase. She realized the finance industry still had a long way to go when it came to helping consumers build and understand wealth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Aug 27, 2024 • 5min

Travly lets travelers submit videos for a chance to earn a 5% commission from hotel bookings

Travly is a new social-first discovery and hotel booking platform designed to cater to the growing number of travelers who rely on short-form video content for trip ideas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Aug 26, 2024 • 8min

Tingit is building a marketplace for ‘zero-effort’ repairs, starting with fashion

Tingit, a startup out of Lithuania, wants to help people restore their used clothing to their former glory with its newly launched repairs marketplace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Aug 23, 2024 • 5min

Openmart wants to make it easier for enterprises to sell to local businesses

In 2020, Kathryn Wu launched a side hustle while she was working as a product engineer at Pinterest. Wu started a milk tea company, Ohtea, with the hopes of connecting with local grocery stores and gift shops to get them to carry the tea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Aug 23, 2024 • 4min

Dropbox acquires Index Ventures-backed AI scheduling tool Reclaim.ai

Dropbox has acquired AI-powered scheduling tool Reclaim.ai, which counts Calendly and Index Ventures among its backers. The development was revealed in a blog post on Reclaim.ai’s website Tuesday. Dropbox hasn’t disclosed the terms of the deal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Aug 22, 2024 • 5min

The Rounds scoops up $24M to bring its ‘household restocking’ delivery service to more markets

The Rounds, the startup that delivers recurring grocery and household essentials in reusable packaging, announced on Monday its $24 million Series B funding round. The new capital will go toward product development, hiring, and expanding the service to additional markets. Alongside the funding announcement, The Rounds introduced new features for customers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Aug 22, 2024 • 6min

SleekFlow snaps up $7M to tap the conversational AI opportunity across Asia  

SleekFlow, a Singapore- and Hong Kong-headquartered social commerce platform that has built a conversational AI suite for customer engagement targeted to Asian markets, said Wednesday it had secured a further $7 million in funding. The money will be used to continue developing its AI, as well as penetrate deeper into Southeast Asia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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