After selling Anchor to Spotify, co-founders reunite to build AI educational startup Oboe
The co-founders who sold their last startup to Spotify are working on a new project: an AI-powered educational startup called Oboe backed by a $4 million seed investment. The new company, hailing from Nir Zicherman and Michael Mignano, aims to democratize access to learning the way that their prior
UK revives plan to reform data protection rules with an eye on boosting the economy
A new data bill from the U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) aims to revive several measures that failed to pass under the prior government, while rowing back on some controversial post-Brexit reforms proposed by conservative ministers.
The government reckons the “D
Finix raises $75M to take on Stripe as a payment processor
For years, Finix has been slowly chipping away at Stripe – which handles payments for millions of businesses. But after previously helping companies set up internal payment systems of their own, the startup officially became a payment processor in 2023, just like Stripe. Now Finix is gearing up f
AI networking startup Boardy raises $3M pre-seed
Boardy, a professional networking startup driven by AI voice technology, announced Thursday the closing of a $3 million pre-seed round.
The company was co-founded by its CEO Andrew D'Souza, Matt Stein, Shen Sivananthan, and brothers Ankur Boyed and Abhinav Boyed. They came up with this i
Supply chain startup Interos lands new customers, cash
Each year, supply chain disruptions cost the global economy trillions of dollars. In a recent McKinsey poll, nine in ten businesses said they had encountered logistics challenges over the past 12 months.
Headwinds have only grown stronger as chaos reigns in key shipping corridors. Attacks on freig
General Catalyst raises $8B in fresh funds to back startups globally
U.S. venture capital giant General Catalyst has announced a fresh $8 billion in funds as it looks to ramp up its investments in multi-sector early-stage startups globally, with a specific focus on the U.S., Europe, and India.
The capital constitutes around $4.5 billion for its “core VC funds
LinkedIn fined $335 million in EU for tracking ads privacy breaches
Bad news for LinkedIn in Europe, where the Microsoft-owned social network has been reprimanded and fined €310 million for privacy violations related to its tracking ads business.
The administrative penalties, which are worth around $335 million at current exchange rates, have been issued by Irel
Perplexity launches a native Mac app
AI-focused search startup Perplexity launched its native Mac app today to compete with other AI apps like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Quora’s Poe app — the latter aggregates different large language models.
Perplexity had teased the app earlier this month and asked users to sign up for preo
Spotify adds auto-moderation tool to help podcasters manage comments
Spotify in July started letting listeners comment on podcast episodes on the app, and the company is now rolling out a new set of controls to help podcasters manage and moderate comments.
When comments were first launched, podcasters initially had to review comments and publish them. Now, the plat
Raspberry Pi releases more AI-focused add-ons
Raspberry Pi has been shipping new products at a rapid pace lately. This week, the company is adding several new products to its lineup to extend the functionalities of the Raspberry Pi 5.
Raspberry Pi is mostly known for its tiny, cheap, single-board computers that are widely used by hobbyists an
Nvidia signs a slew of AI-related deals in India
Nvidia is embarking on a series of partnerships with Indian firms to deploy its AI chips and technology, deepening its push into a key growth market.
The U.S. chip designer’s CEO, Jensen Huang (pictured above), said the company has partnered with Reliance, India’s most valuable company
Cash collection startup Upflow also wants to handle B2B payments
Upflow, a French startup we've been covering for quite a while, originally focused on managing outstanding invoices. The company is now announcing a shift in its strategy to become a B2B payment platform with its own payment gateway to complement its accounts receivable automation solution.
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Pinterest faces EU privacy complaint over tracking ads
When it comes to privacy nightmares, Pinterest is unlikely to be the first social app that springs to mind. But the visual discovery engine’s use of tracking ads is the target of the latest complaint from European privacy rights nonprofit noyb, which accuses it of breaching the bloc’s G
Tesla is testing a robotaxi service that Elon Musk claims will launch next year
Elon Musk said he hopes to launch a service that will let people hail self-driving Tesla vehicles in California and Texas sometime in 2025 — and claims his company has already been testing the service in the Bay Area with employees.
The comments, made Wednesday on Tesla’s third-quarter