Reddit adds a new way to post with launch of ‘Predictions’ feature
Reddit today is introducing a new way to post to its communities with the launch of the on-platform feature called “Predictions.” Spun off of the popular Reddit Polls, Predictions allow users to guess the answers to timely questions like “who will win the game tomorrow?” or
Matik raises $20M to automate the process of creating personalized customer presentations
Matik, which has created automated data-driven software for customizing Google Slides or PowerPoint presentations, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).
Menlo Ventures, BoxGroup and Oceans Ventures also participated in the financing, which brings the
ViacomCBS gets into NFTs via a partnership with NFT startup Recur
Media company ViacomCBS is getting into NFTs. Amid growing hype around the potential market for NFTs, aka non-fungible tokens — digital assets linked to ownership that’s stored on a blockchain, often used for buying and selling digital art and collectibles — ViacomCBS says it̵
HR platform Hibob raises $150M at a $1.65B valuation
"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">On the heels of Personio raising a big round yesterday, one of its competitors and another big startup in the area of HR has also picked up some funding. Hibob, a London-based company that targets the mid-market with an all-in-one platform that handles various human res
Weights & Biases raises $135M Series C to keep building MLOps software
Update: The round in question was $135 million, not $100 million as originally noted. I apologize for the mistake!
What do you call AI these days? ML in a suit.
ML, or machine learning, is a big market today. That is thanks to modern corporations accreting data like hoarders and dat
Nexla nabs $12M Series A as it builds cash flow positive data operations biz
Nexla, a company that participated in the technewss Disrupt Battlefield in New York City in 2017, has been building its data operations startup the old-fashioned way. After launching in beta and securing a $3.5 million seed at Battlefield, it has proceeded to build a cash flow positive business. T
Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network
When Visa announced plans to purchase Plaid for $5.3 billion in January 2020, the deal represented one of the largest acquisitions of a fintech upstart by an incumbent financial powerhouse.
But 12 months, one pandemic and one DOJ antitrust lawsuit later, and the credit card network provider decided
US Space Force partners with VC firm Embedded Ventures under new R&D agreement
The space industry used to be dominated by a single player: the U.S. government, which contracted out services to a handful of very large aerospace primes and put their tech to use in long-term, centrally managed programs. Things have rapidly evolved since. Due to an explosive technological acceler
Browser-based hardware design tool Flux raises $12M
Things were trending toward remote collaboration well before the world ground to a screeching halt under the heels of a pandemic, but the past year and a half have undoubtedly been a major catalyst for rethinking the way people work. It's a phenomenon Flux has been thinking about for a while no
Canadian startup Rose Rocket raises Series A to scale its transport software business
Freight transportation-focused Rose Rocket recently raised a $25 million round.
The Toronto-based startup calls the round a Series A, with Addition Capital and Shine Capital leading the deal.
Per venture data aggregated by Carta, average logistics-themed Series A rounds since the st
Karat raises $110M on a $1.1B valuation to grow its technical interviewing-as-a-service platform
In the global race for technical talent, companies are on the hunt for ways to speed up and scale the hiring process to snap up the best candidates before their competitors get to them. Today, a company that has built a solution to help with one aspect of that — the interviewing process ̵
General Catalyst, Tiger Global lead $25M investment into Blank Street's micro specialty coffee shops
Vinay Menda and Issam Freiha are two coffee-obsessed friends who came to New York from Dubai and Lebanon to study at NYU and Columbia, respectively, and started researching the New York coffee scene.
In the U.S, they saw a coffee shop on every corner, but found the experience slow and overpriced: t
Apple Watch Series 7 review
The entire smartwatch category had a good Q2, as numbers jumped 27% year over year. That, in turn, was up 20% from a year prior, in spite — or perhaps because of — COVID-19 concerns. The popularity of these devices are the proverbial rising tide, with most of the big players benefiting
Intro's app attracts Andreessen, Seven Seven Six, Kevin Durant to connect celebrity e-design experts with those seeking advice
Advice is not a new concept, but Intro is putting its spin on access to in-demand experts through personalized one-on-one video calls.
The Los Angeles company was founded in 2020 by entrepreneur Raad Mobrem, who previously founded Lettuce, an operating system for small businesses that was acquired