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Emergency services, long run on legacy platforms, are now getting a big boost of technology, and today one of the bigger players in that space is announcing a round of funding to better target the opportunity. Carbyne, a startup that designs systems used by emergency services to handle calls for me

Remento, a company focused on capturing and preserving family stories, has raised $3 million in seed funding led by Upfront Ventures. The Los Angeles-based company is also launching its iOS app today after beta testing it for a year. The company's new iOS app is designed to give users conversat

Earlier today, Kapor Capital announced that it has closed its largest fund to date, a $126 million investment vehicle set to back early-stage founders of color and social impact ventures. The new fund, which has been in the works since February 2021, was raised by managing partners Uriridiakoghene

French startup Sorare originally launched a fantasy football (soccer) game. This year, the company is expanding to new sports. After partnering with Major League Baseball earlier this year, the company is announcing a new partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Baske

Is it possible to build a voice assistant for the call center that can pick up on indirect questions to figure out the best time to hand calls over to a human? That depends on how high the bar’s set. Generally speaking, customers don't look forward to any automated experiences over the ph

Anyone who has worked in a role even tangentially connected to the public markets will at least have heard of Bloomberg Terminal, an industry standard platform used by professionals to gain real-time data and insights into the financial markets. Indeed, Bloomberg Terminal is an incredibly useful &#

"attachment_2386777" aria-describedby="" style="width: 680px">A kiryana owner with one of SnappRetail’s point-of-sale devices. Image Credits: SnappRetail The number of global retailers, department stores and supermarkets operating in Pakistan is increasing, which spells convenience for consume

Hamburg-based Localyze is gearing up to launch in North America in the coming months — powered by a fresh raise of $35 million in Series B funding that’s being announced today, a little over a year after it disclosed a $12 million Series A. The Series B is led by U.S. VC fund, General C

A lot of important data gets lost along the sales pipeline because sales teams use multiple tools, including email, Zoom and WhatsApp, to talk with buyers. Nektar.ai wants to solve the problem of data leakage with its sales productivity platform, which helps SaaS revenue teams manage information ac

To get a roundup of technewss's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hey, hey, hey! It's going to be a busy week for the TC crew this week. We're excited about the Apple event, and Y Combinator has its demo day. Alex welcom

Startups and their investors love to talk about big markets and how they are going to go about tackling them. Total addressable market, or TAM, refers to the dollar value of what a startup wants to sell to a certain population. If you make a widget that plugs into a browser, your TAM might be the t

Whether you're building a product at an early-stage startup or fine-tuning an already built-out product at a larger company, there is a straightforward process that can help you improve your onboarding experience. We decreased customer churn at Heyday from 8.5% to 3.3% just by changing our onbo

The DevOps methodology is becoming mainstream for good reason: 99% of practitioners say it has ??positively affected their organization. While DevOps is foremost a way of collaborating, a lot of it is shaped by tools. And it turns out that many popular DevOps tools, such as Prometheus, Argo, Gr

Software company JusticeText today announced the closing of a $2.2 million seed round, with participation from Bloomberg Beta, True Ventures, Reid Hoffman, John Legend and Michael Tubbs. The company, launched in 2019 by Devshi Mehrotra and Leslie Jones-Dove, stores, catalogs, analyzes and then shar