Startups

Speak, an English language learning platform backed by OpenAI’s startup investment fund, the OpenAI Startup Fund, today announced that it raised $16 million in a Series B-2 funding round led by angel investor Lachy Groom. The co-founders of Dropbox, Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, also parti

Storied venture firm Y Combinator has removed an Indian startup from its batch after discovering “irregularities” at the firm, several people familiar with the matter told technewss. Medobed, an Indian startup that promises medicine delivery in 10 minutes, was initially selected in Y C

French startup Teale has secured a funding round of $11 million earlier this summer (€10 million). The company provides a mental health platform for employees and helps HR managers when it comes to preventing burnout or quiet quitting. Alter Equity and Bpifrance's Digital Venture fund are lea

There's been a distinct trend in pitch decks recently, and I should know as I review tons of them for technewss+. Pitch decks include fewer slides with less information, but getting across the right message is the name of the game. Reading between the lines of DocSend's most recent report

Betaworks is no stranger to investing in artificial intelligence and machine learning, but the latest cohort of their Camp “thematic accelerator” indicates a confidence in the field beyond the present fascination with chatbots. Founder and CEO John Borthwick described the firm as being

As you'll have noted from our coverage, as far as startup land is concerned, AI is hot, hot, hot. Meanwhile, the lean methodology — think of a hypothesis, test it, iterate on it — has been canon for entrepreneurs and founders the world over for the past decade. But AI w

Dunzo informed its employees on Wednesday that it would not be able to meet the postponed deadline for their monthly wages as trouble mounts at the hyperlocal delivery startup that expended over $150 million in the last 18 months trying, unsuccessfully, to emulate the model of its younger competito

Since the release of ChatGPT at the end of last year, we've seen companies developing generative AI tooling to help customers interact with their products and services in a more natural way. Yet in many cases, these vendors have no idea how well the underlying large language models are performi

A lot of the most popular construction software was developed 20 to 40 years ago and many systems don't talk to each other. As a result, the information stored in them is fragmented, adding extra work for building teams. Agave, a member of Y Combinator's winter 2022 batch, is helping with a

Biotech, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies all hope AI will streamline drug development and make it more efficient, and 38% have already adopted the technology, according to Deloitte. QuantHealth aims to take part with a model that predicts risks and outcomes for clinical trials. The compa

The International Labour Organization estimates that there are 340 million workplace incidents every year. Voxel was created to increase workplace safety through computer vision. The startup announced today it has raised $12 million in strategic funding led by manufacturer Rite-Hite, with participa

The fashion industry is sitting on a heaping pile of a problem. Over 14 million tons of clothing is either landfilled or incinerated every year, according to the EPA. It represents almost 6% of all solid waste in the U.S. “It's crazy when you think about volumes here,” Sarika Bajaj, co-foun

Deskless workers make up about 70% to 80% of the global workforce. Because they spend most of their time away from a computer, many deskless workers often find it challenging to keep in touch with their employers. TeamSense is an app-free platform designed specifically for hourly employees in the m

Whether you're building a chip or an airplane, you need to measure the effectiveness of the product at each step of the manufacturing process, much like you do with developing software. Flojoy, an early-stage startup, wants to help with a new open source tool that lets companies typically left