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Of the professions in danger of being replaced by AI, language teacher is certainly up there. That’s not necessarily because it’s a good idea. AI, some employers have decided — including Duolingo, recently — is a reasonable enough stand-in for human experts when it comes to

Byju’s says its recently launched $200 million rights issue has been fully subscribed, but the startup’s founder urged some of its major investors to participate amid a rift between the edtech group and some of its largest shareholders. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, valued at $22

The potential sale of MariaDB to K1 Investment Management for $37 million is a capstone on the failed era of SPAC mergers that gained prominence for a brief time in venture circles during the last startup boom. Remember SPACs? Special purpose acquisition companies, also known as blank-check compani

There's a new generative AI startup based in Paris. But what makes Bioptimus interesting is that it plans to apply everything we've collectively learned about AI models over the past few years with a narrow, exclusive focus on biology. The reason it makes sense to create a startup focused e

As winter continues to grip much of the world, here’s some hot news for entrepreneurs to thaw the chill: technewss Disrupt will be back in San Francisco from October 28–30. Even better, tickets are now available at a special 2-for-1 rate, offering a ray of financial sunshine in these cold

Whenever you go to a conference, whether as a sales and marketing exercise, or an executive is speaking, there is a cost associated with that. For the former, it involves the cost of space and a booth plus hotels, travel and meals for employees staffing the booth. For executives, it is time away fr

After naming Phil Graves the chief financial officer of alternative protein maker Meati Foods at the beginning of February, he is now the company's new chief executive officer. Co-founder Tyler Huggins will transition into the role of chief innovation officer, where he will oversee the company&

Sometimes, to move fast you don't need to break things — you just need to acquire them. So it is with Nuview, a startup aiming to map the world from space using lidar, which announced today its acquisition of analytics platform Astraea. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a recent in

Richard Hong found that while expanding his e-commerce brand of men's personal care brands, gaining international customers was easy to do. The challenges came when trying to get the merchandise to them. “We found that logistics pack compliance, product compliance and marketing had no localiz

If you've ever traveled in rural areas in France, you may have realized a French peculiarity. Even in the seemingly less-populated towns, there's a hair salon. French startup Planity has been taking advantage of France's love affair with hair salons to launch a SaaS product for these bu

In a role reversal, Xalts, a Singapore fintech startup founded 18 months ago, has acquired Contour Network, a digital trade platform set up by eight major banks including HSBC, Standard Chartered and BNP. Terms of the deal were undisclosed, but the acquisition price was in the high single millions

Techtaka, a South Korean online shopping fulfillment startup that provides third-party logistics services for e-commerce sellers, has raised $9.5 million (12.6 billion KRW) in a Series B round of funding from a sole investor, Altos Ventures.  The outfit helps e-commerce sellers manage the supply c

Imagine, if you will, a contractor who approaches you with a gleam in their eye and a plan so vague it might as well be written in invisible ink. “Trust me,” they say, “I’ll work on your house for three months. I’ll spend 30% of the money on plumbing, 30% on framing an