Apple’s Live Text lets you interact with text in your photos Apple has introduced a new feature to its camera system that automatically recognizes and transcribes text in your photos, from a phone number on…
Google’s Gradient Ventures leads $8.2M Series A for Vault Platform’s misconduct reporting SaaS Fixing workplace misconduct reporting is a mission that’s snagged London-based Vault Platform backing from Google’s AI focused fund, Gradient Ventures, which is the lead…
Rebranded Toyota Ventures invests $300 million in emerging tech and carbon neutrality Toyota AI Ventures, Toyota’s standalone venture capital fund, has dropped the “AI” and is reborn as, simply, Toyota Ventures. The fund is commemorating its…
Google hires former SiriusXM CPO/CTO to lead its Maps team Almost exactly a year ago, Google announced a couple of leadership changes that saw Prabhakar Raghavan, who joined the company back in 2012, take…
How Expensify hacked its way to a robust, scalable tech stack Take a close look at any ambitious startup and you’ll find pugnacity nestled in its core. Stubbornness and a bullheaded belief in the worth…
Cognigy raises $44M to scale its enterprise-focused conversational AI platform Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly common part of how customer service works — a trend that was accelerated in this past year as…
Molecule.one grows its drug synthesis AI platform with a $4.6M seed round Polish computational chemistry outfit Molecule.one has raised $4.6M to expand its quest to bring theoretical drug molecules to reality. Its machine learning systems predict…
Goldman Sachs leads $202M investment in project44, doubling its valuation to $1.2B in a matter of months The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted a lot in the world, and supply chains are no exception. A number of applications that aim to solve workflow…
Brazil’s idwall raises $38M for identity validation platform Online fraud and identity theft is a global problem that has only been exacerbated with increased online transactions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular,…
6 investors and founders forecast hockey-stick growth for Edinburgh’s startup scene Scotland is slowly but surely drawing attention in the UK’s startup space. In 2020, Scottish startups collectively raised £345 million, according to Tech Nation,…
Meet Justos, the new Brazilian insurtech that just got backing from the CEOs of 7 unicorns Here in the U.S. the concept of using driver’s data to decide the cost of auto insurance premiums is not a new one. But…
Anthropic is the new AI research outfit from OpenAI’s Dario Amodei, and it has $124M to burn As AI has grown from a menagerie of research projects to include a handful of titanic, industry-powering models like GPT-3, there is a need…
Ada Health closes $90M Series B led by Leaps by Bayer The digital health space continues cooking on gas: Berlin-based Ada Health has closed a $90M Series B round of funding led by Leaps by…
OpenAI’s $100M startup fund will make ‘big early bets’ with Microsoft as partner OpenAI is launching a $100 million startup fund, which it calls the OpenAI Startup Fund, though which it and its partners will invest in…
Microsoft Azure launches enterprise support for PyTorch Microsoft today announced PyTorch Enterprise, a new Azure service that provides developers with additional support when using PyTorch on Azure. It’s basically Microsoft’s commercial…
Microsoft uses GPT-3 to let you code in natural language Unlike in other years, this year’s Microsoft Build developer conference is not packed with huge surprises — but there’s one announcement that will surely…
Canvas lands $20M so tech’s biggest companies can find diverse talent Ben Herman and Adam Gefkovicz launched Jumpstart in 2017 with a clear mission: to make the world more equitable via a more fair and…
Interactio, a remote interpretation platform, grabs $30M after seeing 12x growth during COVID-19 Interactio, a remote interpretation platform whose customers include massive institutions like the United Nations, European Commission and Parliament along with corporates like BMW, JP…
Light is the key to long-range, fully autonomous EVs Nick Harris Contributor Share on Twitter Nick Harris is a scientist, engineer, and the founder and CEO of Lightmatter, which manufactures photonic processors. Advanced…
Flush with $42M, hot AI startup Faculty plans to hoover-up more PhDs… and steer clear of politics In the wake of the news that UK-based AI startup Faculty has raised $42.5 million in a growth funding round, I teased out more…