Google launches a suite of tech-powered tools for reporters, Journalist Studio
Google is putting AI and machine learning technologies into the hands of journalists. The company this morning announced a suite of new tools, Journalist Studio, that will allow reporters to do their work more easily. At launch, the suite includes a host of existing tools as well as two new product
Turbo Systems becomes Appify and launches app marketplace
When Jen Grant joined Turbo Systems, the no-code mobile application platform, as CEO in March, she came on board just as COVID was shutting down businesses. But she went straight to work, and over the last six months she has led two major initiatives that the company announced today: a name change
Playbook, a fitness platform that puts creators first, raises $9.3 million
Playbook, aiming to be the Patreon of fitness content, has raised an additional $9.3 million in Series A funding from E.ventures, Michael Ovitz, Abstract, Algae Ventures, Porsche Ventures and FJ Labs.
The pandemic has hit the personal trainer and fitness industry incredibly hard. With gyms closed,
Twentyeight Health is a telemedicine company expanding access to women’s health and reproductive care
New York’s Twentyeight Health is taking the telemedicine services for women’s health popularized by companies like Nurx and bringing them to a patient population that previously hadn’t had access.
The mission to provide women who are Medicaid or underinsured should not be depri
Dataloop raises $11M Series A round for its AI data management platform
Dataloop, a Tel Aviv-based startup that specializes in helping businesses manage the entire data life cycle for their AI projects, including helping them annotate their data sets, today announced that it has now raised a total of $16 million. This includes a $5 seed round that was previously unrepo
Getaround raises a $140 million Series E amid rebound in short-distance travel
Amid a rebound in short-distance travel, Getaround, a Silicon Valley car rental startup, has raised some new money to meet demand. The startup, which allows customers to instantly rent cars near them in more than 100 cities, announced today that it has raised $140 million in a Series E deal, bringi
Vivun announces $18M Series A to keep growing pre-sales platform
Vivun’s co-founder and CEO, Matt Darrow used to run pre-sales at Zuora and he saw that pre-sales team members had a lot of insight into customers. He believed if he could capture that insight, it would turn into valuable data to be shared across the company. He launched Vivun to build upon th
Frontegg raises $5M to help SaaS companies build SaaS faster
Frontegg, a Tel Aviv-based startup that helps SaaS companies build their products faster by giving them access to a set of enterprise-ready building blocks for often-used features like authentication and notifications, today announced that it has raised a $5 million seed round. The round was led by
Lab-grown meat project gets first taste of EU public funds
A cultured meat research program led by a Spanish biotech firm has been awarded a €2.7 million grant under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 R&D funding framework. The consortium project, called “Meat4All”, says it’s the first lab-grown meat research effort to get publ
Pitching tech to optimize building design for sustainability, Atlanta-based Cove.tool raises $5.7 million
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Patrick Chopson and Sandeep Ahuja started cove.tool, an Atlanta-based company developing software to optimize building design for sustainability and cost, because of problems they’d faced in their careers as architects.
Along with Patrick’s brother, Daniel Chopson, the two Georgia
Merging Airbnb and the traditional hotel model, Mexico City’s Casai raises $23 million to grow in Latin America
With travel and tourism rising across Latin America, Casai, a startup combining Airbnb single unit rentals with hotel room amenities, has raised $23 million to expand its business across Latin America.
The company, which initially was hit as hard by regional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic as ot
Augury taps $55M for tech that predicts machine faults from vibration, sound and temperature
On the heels of Amazon about to launch a new enterprise service to detect whether a machine is working well or not based on external physical changes in sound, vibration and temperature, a startup that has already built a big business in the space is announcing a big growth round of funding.
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Lead Edge Capital just closed on $950 million from a whopping 500 investors
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Coa wants to bring an emotional workout into your fitness regimen
When's the last time you worked out your soul?
A mid-spin pep talk at SoulCycle might make you shed a tear, but not in the way that the co-founders of Coa, Alexa Meyer and Dr. Emily Anhalt, want. The founders, instead, want people to ask themselves: When was the last time you worked out (just)