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Oct 30, 2025 • 8min
Bevel raises $10M Series A from General Catalyst for its AI health companion; plus, IntrCity SmartBus lands $30M to deepen its grip on India’s intercity travel market
A New York startup aims to revolutionize health tracking by uniting data from wearables and apps into a proactive AI companion. Recently securing $10M in funding, they focus on treating health as a continuous journey through small habits. Meanwhile, in India, the SmartBus service raises $30M to enhance intercity travel, capitalizing on increasing demand and modernizing infrastructure. Their asset-light model ensures a seamless customer experience with comfortable amenities and efficient booking.
Oct 30, 2025 • 11min
The Prompting Company snags $6.5M to help products get mentioned in ChatGPT and other AI apps, plus India’s Snabbit valuation doubled to $180M in 5 months
Discover how AI is reshaping holiday shopping, with Americans turning to large language models instead of Google for gift ideas. The Prompting Company just secured $6.5M to enhance product visibility in AI apps. In India, Snabbit's valuation skyrocketed to $180M, fueled by a surge in daily bookings thanks to its women-led service model. Learn how this startup is expanding rapidly by prioritizing local services and plans to branch into new areas like childcare and elderly care.
Oct 29, 2025 • 7min
Phia’s founders on how AI is changing online shopping, plus, Grammarly rebrands to ‘Superhuman,’ launches a new AI assistant
Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni discuss their innovative AI shopping assistant that helps users compare prices across new and secondhand items. They highlight the sustainability benefits of buying secondhand and how their app predicts resale value. Meanwhile, Grammarly rebrands as Superhuman after acquiring the Superhuman email client, unveiling a new AI assistant that offers writing suggestions and connects to various apps. Superhuman's features are poised to revolutionize email and productivity tools.
Oct 28, 2025 • 11min
AccessGrid raises $4.4M to help turn phones into key fobs; also, Mem0 raises $24M to build the memory layer for AI apps
Discover how Access Grid is revolutionizing digital key fobs with their API for Apple and Google Wallet, ensuring maximum security through advanced encryption methods. Meanwhile, Taranjeet Singh's latest venture, Mem0, seeks to solve AI's memory issues, proposing a 'memory passport' that lets machines remember past interactions. With significant funding behind it, Mem0 aims to become a key player in adding persistence to AI, making it adaptable for various applications. Explore the intersection of security and AI memory in this enlightening discussion!
Oct 28, 2025 • 6min
Oxford spinout RADiCAIT uses AI to make diagnostic imaging more affordable and accessible
“What we really do is we took the most constrained, complex, and costly medical imaging solution in radiology, and we supplanted it with what is the most accessible, simple and affordable, which is CT,” Sean Walsh, RADiCAIT’s CEO told TechCrunch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 27, 2025 • 9min
Israeli intelligence vets raise $20M to track developer buying signals; plus, Mercor quintuples valuation to $10B with $350M Series C
Onfire, a vertical AI platform for IT revenue teams, is coming out of stealth with $20 million in funding, including a $14 million Series A co-led by Grove Ventures and TLV Partners.
Also, Mercor, which connects AI labs with domain experts for training their foundational AI models, is close to raising $350 million at a $10 billion valuation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 27, 2025 • 10min
India, the market BlaBlaCar once walked away from, is now its biggest
BlaBlaCar is seeing rapid growth in India, with 20 million passengers expected this year — up 50% from last year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 24, 2025 • 7min
Tensormesh raises $4.5M to squeeze more inference out of AI server loads; also, Palantir enters $200M partnership with telco Lumen
Tensormesh uses an expanded form of KV Caching to make inference loads as much as ten times more efficient.
Plus, Palantir said on Thursday it had struck a partnership with Lumen Technologies that will see the telecommunications company using the data management company's AI software to build capabilities to support enterprise AI services. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 23, 2025 • 7min
Redwood Materials raises another $350M to power up its energy storage business, also, Wonder raised $12M to bring AI content to Hollywood
The round was led by Eclipse and saw participation from Nvidia's venture capital arm, NVentures.
Also, Wonder will use the fresh funds to double its engineering team and accelerate its push into IP ownership and original content production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 23, 2025 • 6min
Why Cohere’s ex-AI research lead is betting against the scaling race
Cohere's former VP of AI research, Sara Hooker, is launching a new startup to build AI models that can adapt to their environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
