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  • 7 minutes 12 seconds
    Data center tech is exploding but adoption won’t be easy for startups

    The data center industry is expanding rapidly to keep up with the flywheel growth of AI. While these data centers are necessary AI infrastructure, they store an AI company’s compute, they are expensive to build, seemingly more so to run, and they are a huge energy suck.

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    16 October 2024, 8:00 pm
  • 3 minutes 6 seconds
    Table Space eyes $2.5B valuation in India IPO

    Table Space is targeting a valuation of $2.5 billion or higher for an India IPO planned planned for 2025.

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    16 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 3 minutes 37 seconds
    Peanut, a social network for women, adds a pregnancy tracking tool

    Peanut, a social networking app for women, is launching a new feature to help users track their pregnancies. The new Peanut Track tool leverages seven years of data from questions asked on the social network and uses AI to anticipate questions that women have during different stages of their pregnancy. 

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    15 October 2024, 8:00 pm
  • 6 minutes 40 seconds
    This three-person robotics startup is working with designer Yves BĂ©har to bring humanoids home

    It’s hard to know where to focus when speaking to Christoph Kohstall. The contents of his packed Palo Alto garage compete for attention. To his immediate right stands a tower of electrical components, dotted with flashing lights. To his left is a workbench and the tops of machining tools.

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    15 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 7 minutes 25 seconds
    MiLaboratories gets $10M for a platform play to accelerate genomic research

    Advances in DNA sequencing and the vast amounts of genomic data being produced by next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology have created a startup opportunity to build software for biologists so they can more easily analyze this big data and take the next leap.

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    14 October 2024, 8:00 pm
  • 2 minutes 45 seconds
    UK neobank Monzo hits $5.9B valuation with secondary market sale

    Monzo is now valued at $5.9 billion after the U.K.-based challenger bank announced a secondary market share sale to provide liquidity for its employees. The transaction saw existing investors such as Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund (GIC) and StepStone Group procuring additional shares in the London-based fintech.

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    14 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 2 minutes 50 seconds
    Streamer Plex rolls out movie and TV show reviews

    Following its $40 million fundraise at the beginning of this year, streaming media company Plex announced on Wednesday it’s rolling out a new TV show and movie reviews feature, putting its app in more direct competition with other apps, like Letterboxd and TV Time.

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    11 October 2024, 8:00 pm
  • 4 minutes 55 seconds
    Health insurtech startup Qantev raises €30 million to outperform LLMs with small AI models

    Health and life insurance providers face a rising volume of claims due to chronic disease and aging populations, but their processes lack scalability. AI automation can help, but it takes more tailoring than for other insurance types.

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    11 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 5 minutes 45 seconds
    Zap Energy shows off its new fusion power prototype, Century

    After keeping Century under wraps for several months, the startup gave TechCrunch a peek under the hood.

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    10 October 2024, 8:00 pm
  • 4 minutes 1 second
    Alaska Airlines’ venture lab spins out its first startup: Odysee

    Odysee CEO Steve Casley sees dollar signs in data. Or more specifically, AI-powered software that can analyze reams of data to help commercial airlines get the most out of its complex flight schedules.

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    10 October 2024, 10:00 am
  • 6 minutes 9 seconds
    Distributional raises $19M to automate AI model and app testing

    Distributional, an AI testing platform founded by Intel’s former GM of AI software, Scott Clark, has closed a $19 million Series A funding round led by Two Sigma Ventures.

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    9 October 2024, 8:00 pm
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