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Dinii, a cloud-based restaurant management platform, raises $45M Series B

2024-09-2706:42

Japan has always been a strong market for bringing technology into the experience of consuming food, and now one of the startups leading on this idea is attracting investors from across the ocean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WhatFix raises a whopping $125M for its in-app user guides

2024-09-2605:42

Digital transformation — upgrading a company’s legacy apps and processes with new tech — has long been a buzzy and lucrative business. But the pandemic supercharged the market. Covid pandemic lockdowns and the widespread move to work-from-home spurred brands relying on old technology to modernize their organizations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Radian Aerospace completes ground tests of prototype space plane

2024-09-2604:43

Radian Aerospace has moved one step closer to achieving the “holy grail” of spaceflight: a reusable space plane that can take-off from an airfield and land on a runway like a conventional airplane. The startup just announced completion of a series of ground tests in Abu Dhabi earlier this summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fintech Mesa promises 1% cash back on mortgages, up to 3x on other home needs

2024-09-2504:41

Mortgage fintech Mesa has emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $9.2 million in seed capital and a novel idea for homeowners. It’s offering cash back and rewards on all spending done on the home, including the mortgage itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Torq, which automates cybersecurity workflows, raises $70M in new capital

2024-09-2505:06

As the volume of cyberattacks grows, there’s increasing interest from the corporate sector in tech to help automate responses to breaches. Per a 2023 survey from analytics firm Devo, 80% of security leaders expected expanded investments in security automation technology this year; most cited the tech’s potential to support cyber threat mitigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jump raises $12M to help freelancers get benefits just like employees

2024-09-2403:26

Jump offers full-time contracts to freelancers looking for some stability and the benefits involved with a full-time job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

David Energy is going up against Goliath energy incumbents

2024-09-2405:17

James McGinniss has been obsessed with decarbonization and the energy grid since he was a high schooler over a decade ago. Now, his startup David Energy has a lofty goal: getting the energy grid to run entirely on clean energy in the next 10 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

FTC report on predatory social media data hoarding hints at future regulations

2024-09-2305:57

A new FTC report on how social media and streaming sites collect and monetize their hoards of user data doesn’t really feature a lot of surprises for anyone who’s followed the space Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Health insurance startup Alan reaches $4.5B valuation with new $193M funding round

2024-09-2303:45

Belfius is leading Alan’s Series F funding round of €173 million (around $193 million at current exchange rates). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tidal Metals sees seawater as the solution to a critical mineral shortage

2024-09-2004:55

The startup, previously known as GreenBlu, was working on desalination when it realized there was more value in the minerals that were left behind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brightband sees a bright (and open-source) future for AI-powered weather forecasting

2024-09-2005:27

With an explosion of weather and climate data that the last generation of tools can’t handle, is AI the future of forecasting? Research certainly suggests so, and a newly funded startup called Brightband is taking a shot at turning machine learning forecast models into both a business and open source standard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nurture wants to teach kids important life skills through interactive gameplay and entertainment

2024-09-1905:20

Parents understand the challenge of keeping young kids engaged in online learning. Nurture is a new app designed for children aged 4 to 7 that features interactive content and games to capture their interest. The company’s mission is to equip children with critical life skills such as socializing, basic financial understanding, mindfulness, fitness, nutrition, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Neuralink’s ‘breakthrough device’ clearance from FDA does not mean they have cured blindness

2024-09-1904:46

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-owned brain-computer interface company, has received “breakthrough device” clearance from the FDA. But this does not mean they have developed a cure for blindness, whatever Musk might say. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Quick-commerce startup Flink raises another $150M at a valuation of nearly $1B

2024-09-1804:08

Flink, a quick-commerce startup out of Berlin that was an acquisition target of Gorillas, Getir, Amazon, and Gopuff, is spelling out how it plans to go forth on its own. TechCrunch has exclusively learned that the company has raised $150 million, which it will use to double down on business in Germany and the Netherlands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Greenlite, founded by an ex-Gopuff exec, automates construction permitting

2024-09-1804:00

Construction permitting often involves drafting lengthy applications, leading to unpredictable timelines for developers and businesses. There are tens of thousands of jurisdictions — each with their own different forms and application processes for building permits. Ben Allen knows a thing or two about permitting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AI coding assistant Supermaven raises cash from OpenAI and Perplexity co-founders

2024-09-1705:54

Supermaven, an AI coding assistant, has raised $12 million in a funding round that had participation from OpenAI and Perplexity co-founders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Life360’s Tile introduces its first new Bluetooth trackers since its acquisition

2024-09-1703:46

It’s been three years since Life360’s $205 million acquisition of AirTag competitor Tile. The company announced Monday its new lineup of lost-item Bluetooth trackers, featuring a sleeker redesign in new colors—aqua blue, green, navy blue, and pink Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

OffDeal wants to help small businesses find big exits with AI agents

2024-09-1604:33

Small businesses are the unsung heroes of the American economy, employing nearly half of America’s workforce and making up 44% of the country’s GDP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Humanz brings its influencer marketing platform to the U.S.

2024-09-1604:38

Humanz, a marketing platform for content creators and brands, has entered the U.S. market, the company announced on Thursday. Having launched in Israel in 2017, Humanz has gained strong traction in global markets, including Europe, Latin America, South Africa, and the Middle East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nuro pivots to license self-driving tech to carmakers, mobility companies

2024-09-1305:12

After multiple rounds of layoffs in 2022 and 2023, Nuro is pivoting its business strategy to focus more on the startup’s core autonomous driving technology instead of owning and operating a fleet of low-speed, on-road delivery bots Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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