Microsoft’s new Power Apps feature turns sketches into apps
Showcasing its investments in AI, Microsoft today announced Power Apps Express Design, a new feature in the company’s no-code/low-code Power Apps service that can convert an uploaded PDF, PowerPoint, Figma design files, screenshots or hand-drawn sketch into a working app (after some fiddling)
Microsoft expands Azure OpenAI Service with fine-tuning features and more
Late last year, Microsoft announced the launch of Azure OpenAI Service, a fully managed, enterprise-focused product designed to give businesses access to AI lab OpenAI's technologies with added governance features. Initially invite-only as a part of Azure Cognitive Services, the service allows
Preql wants to put business users in charge of their data
Preql founders Gabi Steele and Leah Weiss were data engineers in the early days at WeWork. They later opened their own consultancy to help customers build data stacks, and they saw a stubborn consistency in the types of information their clients needed.
They knew from experience that there were sev
Zeitworks wants to help businesses measure and improve their productivity
Seattle-basedZeitworks,whichislaunchingitsprivatebetatodayafterraisinga$4.5millionseedroundin2020,wantstogiveenterprisesdata-driventoolsforimprovingtheproductivityoftheirteamsandstreamliningtheirbusinessoperations.That’samarketthat’sseeingquiteabitofgrowthrightnow,especiallygivenhowthep
Pandas wants to give Latin American businesses buying power in Asia
Access to global supply chains can be difficult for small businesses in Latin America, but companies like Meru, which raised funding in March to source and import goods between Mexico and China, and now more recently Pandas, are tapping into overseas relationships and technology to make this easier
Actiondesk is a spreadsheet tool that works with live data
Actiondesk is a new spreadsheet solution for the software-as-a-service era. It connects with the databases, CRMs and SaaS tools that you already use so that you can build dashboards and generate reports without having to manually import data.
The startup co-founded by Jonathan Parisot and Valentin
Cisco’s latest results indicate a reckoning may soon be at hand
For more than a decade, Cisco has used its substantial financial resources to keep disruption at bay. While its bread-and-butter business has always been, and remains, networking equipment, for much of the last 15 years, it has tried to morph into a software and services company by buying up smalle
Galley Solutions turns kitchen chaos into recipe for streamlined operations
Galley Solutions, a food data company providing food operators with technology to make more profitable decisions around their culinary operations, raised $14.2 million in Series A funding.
Ian Christopher, COO, started the company with his brother-in-law, Benji Koltai, CEO, in 2017. The food enterp
FloorFound grabs more capital to grow its oversized recommerce business
While we had the chance to be at home more over the past few years, you may have spruced up a home office or replaced a couch. However, once the new item was in your home, you may have had some buyer's remorse or the item didn't live up to its website photo.
In any case, that oversized item
ChargeLab’s software layer to power ABB’s EV chargers in North America
ChargeLab, a Toronto-based startup that builds software to operate and optimize electric vehicle charging equipment for fleets and commercial customers, has raised a $15 million Series A round. The round was led by King River Capital and notably includes participation from strategic investor ABB E-
Block rival SpotOn lands $300M at $3.6B valuation after doubling ARR last year
Payments and software startup SpotOn has closed on $300 million in a Series F financing that values the company at $3.6 billion.
Dragoneer Investment Group led the latest round, which included participation from existing backers Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), DST Global, Franklin Templeton and Mubadal
Stripe expands its infrastructure play with Data Pipeline to sync financial data with Amazon and Snowflake
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Stripe — the payments giant valued at $95 blion — is on a product sprint to expand its services and functionality beyond the basic payments that form the core of its business today. Today the company took the wraps off Data Pipeline, an infrastructure product that wl let its users
CipherMode Labs launches open source solution to protect data without encryption expertise
CipherMode Labs CEO and co-founder Sadegh Riazi has been working with encryption his entire career. He studied it as part of his PhD. He was part of the Microsoft SEAL team that worked on improving homomorphic encryption and making it more efficient.
What he found was that while homomorphic encrypt
Heartex raises $25M for its AI-focused, open source data labeling platform
Heartex, a startup that bills itself as an “open source” platform for data labeling, today announced that it landed $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. Unusual Ventures, Bow Capital and Swift Ventures also participated, bringing Heartex’s total capita