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MoEngage already has customers across 75 countries, with North America being its biggest business driver.
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Over the last year, certain AI markets appear to be nearly sewn up by startup market leaders.
Plus, Locket's social app is using iOS Live Activities to reach Gen Alpha via the iPhone Lock Screen.
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Andreessen Horowitz is pausing its Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund and program, according to multiple sources. Several people who spoke to TechCrunch pointed out that its hiatus comes as top names in tech eliminate, cut, reframe, or completely walk back on prior public commitments related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Trump administration has threatened legal and political ramifications for businesses supporting anything that could be seen as DEI.
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Pine Labs aims to take Indian fintech global even as it cuts valuation for IPO
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said that the company is doing “well more” than $13 billion in annual revenue — and he sounded a little testy when pressed on how it will pay for its massive spending commitments.
Also, Bluesky is looking to a new signal — "dislikes" — to personalize users' feeds.
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After generating over 10 million social media impressions with the launch of its text-to-3D model app, Adam has raised a $4.1 million seed round to power its next steps.
Plus, Cluely's Roy Lee has a message for startup founders: you should be thinking harder about how to go viral.
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Most people tracking their health today end up with scattered clues. Their smartwatch shows sleep duration. A fitness app logs steps. A nutrition app counts calories. Yet few tools help people understand how all of this fits together. Bevel, a New York–based startup, believes that’s the missing piece in the shift toward proactive health.
Also, IntrCity SmartBus, a tech-enabled intercity bus platform in India, has raised $30 million in funding to expand its network across smaller cities and towns in the South Asian nation. The all-equity Series D round, led by A91 Partners, values the Noida-based startup at $140 million post-money.
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People are increasingly asking AI, not Google, to help them discover products. A recent shopping report says Americans, this holiday season, will likely turn to large language models this season to find gifts, deals, and sales instead of traditional search.
Also, Snabbit has raised its third funding round in nine months.
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Phia founders, Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, are building an AI assistant that aims to help you shop, and save.
Also, Grammarly is renaming itself as Superhuman, after acquiring Superhuman email client in July
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Access Grid builds APIs that companies can use to manage digital key fobs directly within Apple and Google's wallet platforms.
Plus, Taranjeet Singh has launched six companies, with some failing and others seeing varying degrees of success. His seventh, Mem0, could be his defining one. The startup starts with the premise that large language models can’t remember past interactions the way humans do
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“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.
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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.
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BlaBlaCar is seeing rapid growth in India, with 20 million passengers expected this year — up 50% from last year.
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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.
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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.
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Cohere's former VP of AI research, Sara Hooker, is launching a new startup to build AI models that can adapt to their environment.
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After endless Silicon Valley takes on how generative AI would radically change scientific discovery, the founders decided that the pieces were finally in place to make this a reality. Or at least to found a startup that attempted it.
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Codi was founded in 2018, in a pre-pandemic world, with a mission to help companies find flexible office spaces.
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Abu-Ghazaleh said his two-month-old company promises to cut inefficiencies in high-stakes sectors like aviation, logistics, and oil and gas through an AI-native operating system for decision-making.
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The redesigned Oura app introduces more personalization with three main tabs.
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