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Walnut raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Eight Roads Ventures, to continue developing its sales experience platform. Founders Yoav Vilner and Danni Friedland started the company in July 2020. Vilner told technewss that while at a previous company, he was building a category called tec

As artificial intelligence continues to weave its way into more enterprise applications, a startup that has built a platform to help businesses, especially non-tech organizations, build more customized AI decision-making tools for themselves has picked up some significant growth funding. Peak AI, a

Few robotics categories are poised to benefit more from the events of the past year than construction. It's a booming field that could benefit massively from automaton, a fact that's only been amplified as the pandemic brought many nonessential businesses to a standstill. We've seen a n

I'm a native French data scientist who cut his teeth as a research engineer in computer vision in Japan and later in my home country. Yet I'm writing from an unlikely computer vision hub: Stuttgart, Germany. But I'm not working on German car technology, as one would expect. Instead, I f

Zendesk is looking to grow its customer service capabilities, and today it announced the acquisition of early-stage artificial intelligence startup Cleverly. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed at this time and Cleverly has not been entirely public about the size of its fun

AI-powered voice transcription service Otter.ai is expanding its Otter Assistant feature for Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Cisco Webex. Otter.ai first released this feature for Zoom users earlier this year (in May). With this new integration, Otter Assistant can now join and transcribe meetings

If you haven't noticed yet, the hiring market is a hot one — and getting more complicated as enterprise talent acquisition leaders face technology gaps while assessing candidates. This leads to difficulty in determining compensation. Enter Compa. The offer management platform provides “

St. Louis-based grocery chain Schnucks (one of those “With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good” situations, one imagines) announced this week that it will be deploying technology from Simbe Robotics across its 111 U.S. locations. The deal comes a year and a half into a global pandemi

One of the most fascinating aspects of Boston Dynamics' transition into a commercial organization is watching the company — and its partners — figure out real-world jobs for Spot. There's no question that the tech is impressive, but there's always been the broader subject of

Tuna is on a mission to “fine tune” the payments space in Latin America and has raised two seed rounds totaling $3 million, led by Canary and by Atlantico. Alex Tabor, Paul Ascher and Juan Pascual met each other on the engineering team of Peixe Urbano, a company Tabor co-founded and he

Level AI, an early-stage startup from a former member of the Alexa product team, wants to help companies process customer service calls faster by understanding the interactions they’re having with customers in real time. Today the company launched publicly, while announcing a $13 million Seri

Bodo.ai, a parallel compute platform for data workloads, is developing a compiler to make Python portable and efficient across multiple hardware platforms. It announced Wednesday a $14 million Series A funding round led by Dell Technologies Capital. Python is one of the top programming languages us

Israel-based AI healthtech company, DiA Imaging Analysis, which is using deep learning and machine learning to automate analysis of ultrasound scans, has closed a $14 million Series B round of funding. Backers in the growth round, which comes three years after DiA last raised, include new investors

Ken Babcock and his co-founders, Dan Giovacchini and Brian Shultz, were in the midst of Harvard Business School in March 2020 when they felt the call to start Tango, a Chrome extension that auto-captures workflow best practices so that teams can learn from their top performers. “This window of op