Evinced’s $55M C round will help bring its accessibility dev tools (and AI) to Europe
Making sure your software is accessible is fast becoming a must rather than a nice-to-have, and Evinced is one of a wave of startups helping make that happen. The company is about to expand to Europe, where new accessibility regulations are about to take effect, and has raised $55 million to fuel t
TwelveLabs is building AI that can analyze and search through videos
AI models that understand videos as well as text can unlock powerful new applications. At least, that’s what Jae Lee, the co-founder of TwelveLabs, believes.
Granted, Lee’s a little biased. TwelveLabs trains video-analyzing models for a range of use cases. But there may just be somethi
Cartesia claims its AI is efficient enough to run pretty much anywhere
It’s becoming increasingly costly to develop and run AI. OpenAI’s AI operations costs could reach $7 billion this year, while Anthropic’s CEO recently suggested that models costing over $10 billion could arrive soon.
So the hunt is on for ways to make AI cheaper.
Embedded data analytics startup Embeddable is still handpicking its customers despite strong demand
Tom Gardiner and Harry Marshall founded Trevor.io in 2016 as a no-code business intelligence platform to help non-data people run analysis on their internal data. That business was solid, but customers increasingly started asking the company for access to the same tools for their customer-facing da
Microsoft's M12 invests another $22.5M into NeuBird, months after its $22M seed round
Late last year, Gou Rao and Vinod Jayaraman founded NeuBird to automate IT site reliability operations tasks with generative AI.
Having sold their previous cloud-native storage startup, Portworx, to PureStorage for $370 million, the pair was well-versed in the IT challenges faced by today’s
Founder who built Snap’s AI launches a snappy new take on video chatbots
A deep learning scientist whose last startup was acquired by Snap to build its My AI chatbot has raised seed funding for his latest venture: a platform for building and operating real-time, video-based conversational AI agents.
eSelf, as the startup is known, is today coming out of stealth w
Stigg makes it easy to change your SaaS pricing
Stigg (not The Stig, just Stigg) describes itself as “the first scalable monetization platform for the modern billing stack.” There’s a lot going on in that sentence, but what it comes down to is that the startup, which on Wednesday announced a $17.5 million Series A round, helps
MariaDB spinout SkySQL secures seed funding to ‘bring conversational AI to databases’
Anyone who’s followed the fortunes of MySQL and MariaDB these past 15 years will probably remember SkySQL, another brand that once existed within that same database ecosystem and, a year ago, became a stand-alone company once more.
That company today announced it has raised its first outside
Linux Foundation sets up India entity to boost open source collaboration
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization promoting open source adoption, has announced the launch of its India entity. The organization is looking to promote open source contributions across the South Asian nation’s ecosystem of enterprises, startups, and the government.
India alread
Gemini 2.0, Google’s newest flagship AI, can generate text, images, and speech
Google’s next major AI model has arrived to combat a slew of new offerings from OpenAI.
On Wednesday, Google announced Gemini 2.0 Flash, which the company says can natively generate images and audio in addition to text. 2.0 Flash can also use third-party apps and services, allowing it to tap
Numia’s software brings offline and online customer interaction data into one place
In the U.S. it’s common for companies that have both physical branches and online services to use customer relationship management (CRM) software that tracks all of their interactions with customers in one place. In LatAm that isn’t the case, though, as many enterprises and banks keep t
Mynt raises a cool $23M at $210M valuation to build a smarter expense card for SMEs
Small and medium businesses are getting more love from fintechs these days, and one example of that is the fast growth of a startup out of Sweden. Mynt, which has built an AI-based platform for corporate cards and spend management catering to SMEs, has closed a round of €22 million ($23 million)
Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist
Google on Monday announced Willow, its latest, greatest quantum computing chip. The speed and reliability performance claims Google’s made about this chip were newsworthy in themselves, but what really caught the tech industry’s attention was an even wilder claim tucked into the blog po
Google kicks off $20B renewable energy building spree to power AI
Nuclear power may have received the lion's share of attention from energy hungry tech companies over the past few months, with Google among them. But it appears that those new reactors won't be enough for their AI ambitions: Google is now working with partners to build gigawatts of renewabl