TechCrunch Startup News
Listen to select TechCrunch articles on startups coverage—who's raising, who's exiting, who's changing the world.
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Nov 28, 2023 • 6min
Stability AI gets into the video generating game
AI startups that aren’t OpenAI are plugging away this week, it’d seem — sticking to their product roadmaps even as coverage of the chaos at OpenAI dominates the airwaves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 27, 2023 • 4min
US chip export ban is hurting China’s AI startups, not so much the giants yet
Well before Washington banned Nvidia’s exports of high-performance graphic processing units to China, the country’s tech giants had been hoarding them in anticipation of an escalating tech war between the two nations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 23, 2023 • 4min
Birdseye’s AI-powered chief marketing officer drives personalized email campaigns for retailers
The company offers hyper-personalization email and SMS campaigns and retail transaction data insights from one dashboard.© 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 22, 2023 • 3min
Lightspeed finalizing leading $80M-plus funding in Pocket FM
Audio series platform Pocket FM has topped $160 million in annual recurring revenue and is inching closer to raising over $80 million in a new funding round, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Lightspeed, an existing investor in Pocket FM, is in advanced stages of talks to lead the funding round into the […]© 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 22, 2023 • 5min
Vendelux grabs new capital for B2B event marketing amid in-person resurgence
Vendelux offers 65 million data points on over 160,000 global events, tradeshows and conferences so event marketers can make better decisions about what to attend or sponsor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 21, 2023 • 5min
Generative AI startup AI21 Labs raises cash in the midst of OpenAI chaos
One AI startup’s undoing is another’s opportunity. Case in point: today, AI21 Labs, a company developing generative AI products along the lines of OpenAI’s GPT-4 and ChatGPT, closed a $53 million extension to its previously-announced Series C funding round. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 21, 2023 • 4min
SEVA, a new growth equity fund, secures $85M for debut fund in four months
SEVA intends to invest in New York-based customer-centric founders of fast-growing, bootstrapped companies to scale via profitable growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 20, 2023 • 5min
LucidLink lands $75M for its on-demand file streaming tech
LucidLink, a startup offering a platform that enables teams to work on files without having to download or sync them, today announced that it raised $75 million in a Series C round led by Brighton Park Capital Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 20, 2023 • 6min
Toku’s AI platform predicts heart conditions by scanning inside your eye
Ehsan Vaghefi, CEO and co-founder of Toku, grew up with a blind father who lost eyesight at the age of four due to congenital glaucoma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 17, 2023 • 6min
Candela’s electric hydrofoiling ferry takes flight
The future is going to be electric, but in the air and on the water that transition is proving more difficult than on land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
