Y Combinator-backed Automat turns videos into workflow automations
Lucas Ochoa and Gautam Bose were hired together out of college at Google Creative Lab, Google’s tech and culture incubator, and spent three and a half years launching products like the AI Test Kitchen, Teachable Machine and Google Pixel Buds Pro. In early 2020, their team was tasked with find
Intuit launches generative AI-powered digital assistant for small businesses and consumers
Intuit, the U.S. financial and accounting software giant, has unveiled its first customer-facing generative AI-powered solution: a digital assistant to assist small businesses and consumers.
Called Intuit Assist, the digital assistant is embedded across Intuit’s platform and products, namely
E-commerce loan startup Wayflyer secures $1B deal from Neuberger Berman
Wayflyer, which provides financing to e-commerce startups in exchange for a portion of their future revenue, today announced that it secured $1 blion in capital from investment management firm Neuberger Berman.
In a press release, Wayflyer describes the funding as an “off-balance sheet progra
Zoom rebrands existing — and intros new — generative AI features
To stay competitive in the crowded market for videoconferencing, Zoom is updating and rebranding several of its AI-powered features, including the generative AI assistant formerly known as Zoom IQ.
The news comes after controversy over changes to Zoom’s terms of service, which implied that Zo
Harmonya bags $20M to decipher product data for CPG brands
Like other companies, retailers and consumer packaged goods companies have a lot of data accumulated about their products and consumers. However, legacy data models aren't always cutting it when it comes to understanding that data down to the individual product level. And that is leaving compan
Gleen’s tech-savvy chatbot for Discord and Slack attracts Solana founder in oversubscribed round
There’s no shortage of chatbot services trying to earn a place in the myriad channels on Discord and Slack. California-based Gleen, founded by Microsoft and LinkedIn veterans, is offering its enterprise-grade chatbot to the most demanding segment of the market — technical communities, l
Create a 'permissionless' pilot program that drives sales and delights customers
I've noticed a new pattern that's enabling startups to close big contracts, fast.
These founders and early employees are successfully inverting the entire traditional, notoriously slow enterprise sales cycle by shifting the customer's “wow moment” from the end of the sales cycle to
Atomicwork connects workers and their companies
Sometimes the work of having a job takes time away from work. Tasks like asking for leave, filing tech requests and checking company policy also result in a lot of administrative work for HR and IT departments, especially companies with remote or hybrid work models. Atomicwork wants to help with an
Lowering costs nets Salesforce a profitable quarter, but can it keep it up?
For a long time, just about every company was focused on growth over everything. Then, as the economy began to turn last year, that focus shifted pretty dramatically to profitability and being more financially sound. Salesforce was no different.
Salesforce had been spending big over the prior years
Embrace these FinOps best practices to ace your cloud strategy
Cloud technology, which forms a considerable and ever-growing part of global IT efforts, plays a pivotal role in shaping an organization's cost-reduction opportunities, efficiency initiatives, and future market-focused competitive efforts.
However, significantly transforming your operations to
Microsoft unbundles Teams from Microsoft Office in Europe to appease regulators
Microsoft has announced that it will unbundle its Teams business collaboration software from its broader Office suite, following growing regulatory scrutiny and a complaint filed by rival Slack.
The changes are effective from October 1 (a month from now), and come in various forms depending on the
Martian Lawyers Club raises $2.2M for AI-based game personalization tech
The Martian Lawyers Club (MLC) wants to take game personalization to the next level with the help of generative AI. While there are plenty of companies that focus on using AI to generate game assets, MLC is taking a decidedly different approach by focusing less on content and more on the systems th
Generative AI startup AI21 Labs lands $155M at a $1.4B valuation
AI21 Labs, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing a range of text-generating AI tools, has raised $155 million in a Series C funding round led by Walden Catalyst, Pitango, SCB10X, b2venture, Samsung Next and Amnon Shashua, the founder of Intel-owned Mobileye and an AI21 Labs co-founder. Google and Nvi
Screenly makes it easier to build interactive apps for its digital signage platform
Screenly has long offered developers ways to bud applications for the kiosks and checkout systems that use its Screenly Box hardware (or a Raspberry Pi, for the DIY crowd). Its customers include the likes of Amazon, NASA and Lowe’s. Today, it’s taking a next step in making it easier for