InCloudCounsel raises $200M, rebrands as Ontra to expand its automation tools for contract management
A typical enterprise grapples with hundreds or thousands of agreements, contracts and other legal documents every year, and it usually engages costly legal counsel either inside or outside the company to assess those documents on their behalf. Now, a startup called InCloudCounsel that is part RPA a
Speechmatics pushes forward recognition of accented English
Speech recognition has gone from convenient to crucial over the last few years as smart speakers and driving assist modes have taken off — but not everyone’s voice is recognized equally well. Speechmatics claims to have the most inclusive and accurate model out there, beating Amazon, Google
UserGems raises $20M to take on ZoomInfo to help with prospecting and sales intelligence
Finding a way to connect with people who might buy from you, whe spending less time pursuing those who wl never be interested, is something akin to a holy gra of the world of sales and marketing. Now, a startup called UserGems, which has but a platform that combines AI with data mapping to help ide
Adobe continues its AI push in Creative Cloud
Over the course of the last few years, Adobe has gone all-in on AI. At its MAX conference this year, that’s once again on full display across updates for virtually all of its products, powered by its Sensei AI platform. Those range from smarter masking tools and preset recommendations in Ligh
Fabric raises $200M at a $1B+ valuation for robotics-based fulfillment tech to help e-commerce players compete with Amazon
Amazon continues to be the 800-pound gorilla in the room for companies in the retail sector. Today, a startup called Fabric, which is building technology to help those other retailers — big and small — compete more squarely against that muscle specifically in fulfillment with robotics t
Audit Sight takes on new capital to eliminate all of the back and forth between auditors, companies
Financial statement audits are an essential part of doing business, but often are complex and can require documentation gathering, most times requiring email correspondence back and forth between the auditor and the company for files and information to complete the task.
T.C. Whittaker, co-founder
More talk about attaching sniper rifles to robots
The whole gun on a robot thing was a question we've been barreling toward since the first practical quadrupedal robots arrived. Last week, that came to an inevitable head when a Ghost Robotics system was spotted at a tradeshow sporting a remote-controlled sniper rifle designed by a company call
Facebook Messenger is adding new AR experiences for group video calls
Facebook Messenger is rolling out new augmented reality (AR) experiences to video calls and Messenger Rooms, the platform's videoconferencing feature. The company notes that the new “Group Effects” feature will be coming to Instagram soon.
Group Effects work for everyone on the video call,
Tesla has 150,000 cars using its safety score tool
Nearly 150,000 Tesla cars are using the company’s new “safety score,” a tool rolled out last month to determine whether owners can access the beta version of its “Full Self-Driving” software, executives said during its third quarter earnings call.
While 150,000 cars are now pa
Hex snags $16M Series A to keep building collaborative data workspace
Data is everywhere inside organizations, and employees are increasingly trying to find ways to put it to work to improve business outcomes. Hex, a startup that wants to simplify how data scientists and other employees gather and share data, announced a $16 million Series A today. The round comes ju
Google makes calling businesses less painful with features for seeing wait times, phone tree options and more
Alongside today’s release of the new Pixel 6 smartphones, Google has again upgraded one of the device’s most basic — but often overlooked — functions: the ability to make phone calls. In previous years, Google Assistant learned to screen your calls and make your reservations
Snap is launching a global studio to develop branded AR experiences
Snap announced on Tuesday that it's launching a global creative studio to help brands develop augmented reality (AR) advertising and experiences. The new studio is called Arcadia and aims to help companies develop experiences that can be used across web platforms and app-based AR environments.
Crossing Minds brings in new capital to provide recommendations that don't require identifiable information
Most of our media and shopping worlds involve the little boxes below what we are looking at that offer up other shows to watch or items to buy that are either similar or that other people also bought.
Consumers also have expectations that websites will be more personalized, which means that website
Quris combines AI with ‘patient on a chip’ to speed drug development and reduce animal testing
The necessity of animal testing is a sad one for the process of drug discovery, but there’s seemingly no good alternative to mice, even though they’re not particularly accurate human analogues. Quris claims to have the first real option in its combination of AI with data from a “p