Rainforest, a startup that embeds payment processing into other software platforms, has raised $20 million in Series A funding — less than a year after announcing the close of its seed financing. Raising back-to-back rounds was more common in 2021 but we don’t see it...
Artificial intelligence startups continue to dominate the headlines when it comes to VC mega-rounds, but there’s also an interesting opportunity out there for those building tools that enable working with data-heavy apps like AI in the first place – especially for organizations that may still...
Creatio CEO Katherine Kostereva argues that what sets her company apart is that it was always architected to work at an enterprise scale. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
In a push to bolster profits, more airlines are turning to controversial dynamic pricing tech, which prices fares and amenities variably based on a traveler's willingness to pay for them. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
In a push to bolster profits, more airlines are turning to controversial dynamic pricing tech, which prices fares and amenities variably based on a traveler's willingness to pay for them. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Older adults increasingly want to age in their homes rather than nursing facilities. A study by the American Association of Retired People (AARP) found that nearly 90% of people over 65 want to stay in their homes as they grow older. That means there is...
The group's new autonomous ride-hailing service has a 43-inch widescreen, 17-speaker audio system, and five-position reclining seats. But will it beat Tesla's rival coming in August?...
EasyTranslate is headed in a new direction with a new, generative AI-driven platform that it calls HumanAI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Microsoft's AI CEO has a cozy relationship with the man who used to be his rival, he said on Tuesday. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
In the post-COVID world, VCs say it’s not as easy to get excited about investing in digital health. Deal activity in healthcare IT was relatively flat in Q1 2024 at 74 total deals, valued at about $1 billion total, up only 3% from the year-ago...
In May, when OpenAI first demoed a far more realistic, nearly-real-time conversational experience for its chatbot platform ChatGPT, called Voice Mode, the company said that the capability would roll out to paying ChatGPT users within a few weeks. Months later, OpenAI says that it needs...
You can now more easily use ChatGPT on your Mac computer. OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot is available to all macOS users, the company announced on Tuesday. The app was first announced ahead of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June, where the companies jointly announced...
Fearless Fund’s co-founder and COO Ayana Parsons has announced that she was stepping down. The firm is being sued by a politically conservative group. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Reddit says the update shouldn't affect the majority of users or good faith actors, like researchers and organizations, such as the Internet Archive. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Unfortunately for Udio and Suno, the RIAA has a few thousand smoking guns in the lawsuit: songs it owns that are clearly being regurgitated by the music models. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
As browsers continue to add AI features into their products, Mozilla is looking give users some choice in the matter. The company announced on Tuesday that it’s launching an opt-in experiment offering access to different AI services in Nightly, the experimental version of Firefox. The...
Stability AI, the beleaguered generative AI startup behind Stable Diffusion, has raised new cash. But it won’t reveal how much. Greycroft, Coatue Management, Sound Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, O’Shaughnessy Ventures and angel investors Prem Akkaraju, Napster founder Sean Parker, Eric Schmidt and Robert Nelsen have...
Stability AI, the beleaguered generative AI startup behind Stable Diffusion, has raised new cash. But it won’t reveal how much. Greycroft, Coatue Management, Sound Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, O’Shaughnessy Ventures and angel investors Prem Akkaraju, Napster founder Sean Parker, Eric Schmidt and Robert Nelsen have...
Popular productivity tool Notion has long allowed its users to make any of their pages public. Now, the company is expanding on this with the launch of Notion Sites, which adds several new features to its existing publishing tools. For the most part, these are...
Payabli builds the infrastructure that allows companies, specifically software companies, to embed and facilitate payments through APIs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Google is rolling out a new Gemini AI side panel in Gmail that can help you write emails and summarize email threads. The company is also adding the Gemini side panel to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. The launch of the new features comes shortly...
Tengo uses AI to find, evaluate and respond to public tenders. It’s a software-as-service tool that helps companies handle public tenders at scale — a bit like Govly in the U.S. Originally created within the startup studio Hexa, the startup has raised a €3 million...
Smashing is an AI and community-powered content recommendation app, now launching into an invite-only beta. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Smashing is an AI and community-powered content recommendation app, now launching into an invite-only beta. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
The European Union has issued competition charges against Microsoft, accusing it of illegally linking Teams with Office....
Wisk Aero, a subsidiary of Boeing, has acquired Verocel, a software verification and validation company that's served the aerospace industry for 25 years. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Leveraging large languge models, Jobright created an AI agent that acts as a headhunter tailored to individual job seekers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
In 2024, it seems like no week goes by without a media organization, author group, or artist suing generative AI companies for using their work to train models without permission. The issue is, of course, that there’s still no clear framework on what constitutes copyright...
Coder's open-source software has around 1.2 million monthly active users, and Dropbox, Discord and Skydio are among the company's paying customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....