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Jun 6, 2024 • 5min

Insurance provider Understory gets into renewable energy following $15M Series A

After growing 500% year-over-year in the past year, Understory is now launching a product focused on the renewable energy sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jun 6, 2024 • 4min

Eko Health scores $41M to detect heart disease earlier and more accurately

In 1816, French physician René Laennec invented an instrument that allowed doctors to listen to human hearts and lungs. That device — a stethoscope — eventually evolved from a simple wooden tube to a lightweight two-earpiece version most doctors today wear on their necks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jun 5, 2024 • 5min

‘Star Wars’ lasers and waterfalls of molten salt: How Xcimer plans to make fusion power happen

The startup has been pursuing a ground-up redesign of a well-understood technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jun 5, 2024 • 3min

Raspberry Pi partners with Hailo for its AI extension kit

The Raspberry Pi 5, the small-but-mighty computer that has become quite popular with tech hobbyists and industrial companies, is now also an AI computer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jun 4, 2024 • 8min

Iyris makes fresh produce easier to grow in difficult climates, raises $16M

2023 was the hottest year on record, it doesn’t look like we’re cooling down anytime soon. Rising temperatures have made farming increasingly difficult in areas that were once prime agricultural resources where heat and drought have severely impacted crops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jun 4, 2024 • 5min

Ashby injects recruiting with a dose of AI

Ashby consolidates existing talent acquisition tools and leans heavily on AI to automate the more repetitive steps in the recruitment pipeline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jun 3, 2024 • 6min

Former teen model co-created app Frich to help Gen Z be more realistic about finances

As a teen model, Katrin Kaurov became financially independent at a young age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jun 3, 2024 • 8min

YoLa Fresh, a GrubMarket for Morocco, digs up $7M to connect farmers with food sellers

YoLa Fresh works with over a thousand retailers across Morocco and records up to $1 million in gross merchandise volume. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Jun 1, 2024 • 5min

OneScreen.ai brings startup ads to billboards and NYC’s subway

When Alex Ewing was a kid growing up in Purcell, Oklahoma, he knew how close he was to home based on which billboards he could see out the car window. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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May 31, 2024 • 4min

Exactly.ai secures $4M to help artists use AI to scale up their output

Exactly.ai says it uses generative AI to help artists retain legal ownership of their art while being able to reproduce their designs faster and at scale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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