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Earth AI’s algorithms found critical minerals in places everyone else ignored
Last summer, mining startup KoBold made a splash when it said it had discovered in Zambia one of the world’s…
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Plural’s platform allows enterprises to manage their Kubernetes clusters in one place
When Sam Weaver was vice president of product management at Unqork, he realized that the company needed a better way…
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a16z and Benchmark-backed 11x has been claiming customers it doesn’t have
Last year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory. However, nearly two dozen sources…
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Fair-code pioneer n8n raises $60M for AI-powered workflow automation
Developer tooling is changing rapidly with AI. So companies that are making it easier to adopt AI in their workflows…
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How a $6M bet on Wiz turned into a massive 200x return for one early backer
Wiz’s $32 billion all-cash acquisition by Google parent Alphabet promises a colossal payday for the cybersecurity startup’s early-stage investors. The…
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Data breach at stalkerware SpyX affects close to 2 million, including thousands of Apple users
A consumer-grade spyware operation called SpyX was hit by a data breach last year, TechCrunch has learned. The breach reveals…
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A key DeepMind robotics researcher left Google and Nvidia has already backed his stealth startup
A senior research scientist at DeepMind who worked on robotics and AI has left Google to create his own robotics…
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In another good sign for fintech, Ribbit Capital is raising a new $500M fund
Ribbit Capital, a venture firm known for its fintech investments, is raising $500 million for a new fund, a filing…
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Mortgage as an employee benefit? Kleiner Perkins leads $23.5M Series A for Multiply Mortgage
After hitting record lows at the start of the pandemic, mortgage rates began to climb in 2022 and haven’t come…
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Hunted Labs lands $3M to find suspicious open source contributors
Former NSA deputy director George Barnes has made his first investment as a venture capitalist for his new job at…
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Prezent raises $20M to build AI for slide decks
Prezent, a startup empowering customers to build slide decks using generative AI, has raised $20 million as it further develops…
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New $5M deep tech fund aims to lure founders from universities
Spend time at a university, and inevitably you’ll come across someone who has a plan to save the world, or at…
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Coreshell has a plan to slash the price of American made batteries
The electric vehicle transition is really a story about China. There, subsidies have helped juice not just automakers, but the…
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OpenAI to start testing ChatGPT connectors for Google Drive and Slack
OpenAI will soon begin testing a way for business customers to connect apps like Slack and Google Drive to ChatGPT.…
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YC-backed ReactWise is applying AI to speed up drug manufacturing
Artificial intelligence continues stirring things up in chemistry. To wit: YC-backed Cambridge, U.K.-based ReactWise is using AI to speed up…
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