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Sep 17, 2020 • 5min
Jefa is a challenger bank for women without a bank account
Meet Jefa, a startup that is building a challenger bank specifically designed for women in Latin America. The company is building a product that focuses on solving the problems that women face when opening a bank account and managing it. It is participating in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt. “There are 1.4 billion people […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 16, 2020 • 5min
Quantum startup CEO suggests we are only five years away from a quantum desktop computer
Today at TechCrunch Disrupt 2020, leaders from three quantum computing startups joined TechCrunch editor Frederic Lardinois to discuss the future of the technology. IonQ CEO and president Peter Chapman suggested we could be as little as five years away from a desktop quantum computer, but not everyone agreed on that optimistic timeline. “I think within […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 16, 2020 • 6min
Data virtualization service Varada raises $12M
Varada, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on making it easier for businesses to query data across services, today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series A round led by Israeli early-stage fund MizMaa Ventures, with participation by Gefen Capital. “If you look at the storage aspect for big data, there’s always innovation, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 15, 2020 • 4min
Bank-as-a-service startup Swan helps other companies issue cards, accounts and IBANs
Meet Swan, a new French startup that wants to let other companies offer financial services by issuing cards, bank accounts and IBANs with just a few lines of codes. The company could be considered as a bank-as-a-service platform, like Treezor or solarisBank. Originally founded by startup studio eFounders, the startup just raised a $5.9M million […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 15, 2020 • 4min
DaVinci Kitchen is building a robotic pasta-making kiosk
The robotics industry is having a major moment amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s true that category has been an exciting target for investments for a number of years now, but labor issues and concerns over transmission have led many sectors to take a good, long look at automation. Meal preparation is a […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 14, 2020 • 7min
Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features
The spreadsheet-centric database and no-code platform Airtable today announced that it has raised a $185 million Series D funding round, putting the company at a $2.585 billion post-money valuation. Thrive Capital led the round, with additional funding by existing investors Benchmark, Coatue, Caffeinated Capital and CRV, as well as new investor D1 Capital. With this, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 14, 2020 • 5min
Toucan raises $3M to teach you new languages as you browse the web
Toucan has developed a Chrome browser extension designed for anyone who wants to learn a new language but hasn’t found the motivation or the time. Once installed, the extension scans the text of any (English-language) website you’re visiting and will automatically translate some of the words into the language that you’re trying to learn. If […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 11, 2020 • 7min
Carbon Health to launch 100 pop-up COVID-19 testing clinics across the U.S.
Primary care health tech startup Carbon Health has added a new element to its “omnichannel” healthcare approach with the launch of a new pop-up clinic model that is already live in San Francisco, LA, Seattle, Brooklyn and Manhattan, with Detroit to follow soon – and that will be rolling out over the next weeks and […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 11, 2020 • 6min
Diffblue launches a free community edition of its automated Java unit testing tool
Diffblue, a spin-out from Oxford University, uses machine learning to help developers automatically create unit tests for their Java code. Since few developers enjoy writing unit tests to ensure that their code works as expected, increased automation doesn’t just help developers focus on writing the code that actually makes a difference but also lead to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 10, 2020 • 5min
Sprinklr raises $200M on $2.7B valuation three years after last investment
Sprinklr has been busy the last few years acquiring a dozen companies, then rewriting their code base and incorporating them into the company’s customer experience platform. Today, the late-stage startup went back to the fund raising well for the first time in three years, and it was a doozy, raising $200 million on a $2.7 […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
