Category: Enterprise
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Bonus: An extra week to apply to Startup Battlefield 200
A big shoutout to the early-stage founders who missed the application window for the Startup Battlefield 200 (SB 200) at TechCrunch Disrupt. We have exciting news just for you! You procrastinators can thank your lucky stars — we’re giving you (a little) more time to get your application together. Pro tip: Applying to and participating…
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Databricks launches LakeFlow to help its customers build their data pipelines
Since its launch in 2013, Databricks has relied on its ecosystem of partners, such as Fievtran, Rudderstack, and dbt, to provide tools for data preparation and loading. But now, at its annual Data + AI Summit, the company announced LakeFlow, its own data engineering solution that can handle data ingestion, transformation and orchestration and eliminates…
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YC grad, RetailReady raises $3.3M for an AI warehouse app that hopes to save brands billions
RetailReady targets the $40 billion compliance market to help reduce the number of retail compliance losses that shippers incur annually due to incorrectly shipped packages. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. The founders of 6-month-old RetailReady, recent grads of the YC winter 2024 cohort, have found an overlooked area of…
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Databricks expands Mosaic AI to help enterprises build with LLMs
A year ago, Databricks acquired MosaicML for $1.3 billion. Now rebranded as Mosaic AI, the platform has become integral to Databricks’ AI solutions. Today, at the company’s Data + AI Summit, it is launching a number of new features for the service. Ahead of the announcements, I spoke to Databricks co-founders CEO Ali Ghodsi and…
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Foresite Capital raises $900M sixth fund for investing in healthcare and life sciences companies
Venture fundraising has been a slog over the last few years, even for firms with a strong track record. That’s Foresite Capital’s experience. Despite having 47 IPOs, 28 M&As and 58 FDA-approved drugs under its belt, the 13-year-old multi-stage healthcare and life sciences firm took two years to raise its sixth fund. “Almost all of…
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Here’s everything Apple announced at the WWDC 2024 keynote, including Apple Intelligence, Siri makeover
The TechCrunch team runs down all of the biggest news from the Apple WWDC 2024 keynote in an easy-to-skim digest. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. It’s WWDC 2024 keynote time! Each year Apple kicks off its Worldwide Developers Conference with a few hours of just straight announcements, like the…
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VC Sheel Mohnot leads $4.3M seed in automated financial reporting fintech InScope
InScope leverages machine learning and large language models to provide financial reporting and auditing processes for mid-market and enterprises. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. The financial reporting and auditing process is not often on the list of sexy topics that technology startups want to go after. And yet, when…
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Insight Partners backs Canary Technologies’ mission to elevate hotel guest experiences
The hotel guest management technology company’s platform digitizes the hotel guest journey from post-booking through checkout. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. The hospitality industry is back, baby. And with it comes a chance for technology startups to not only help hotels streamline their operations, but also focus on how…
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Waymo issues second recall after robotaxi hit telephone pole
Waymo has voluntarily issued a software recall to all 672 of its Jaguar I-Pace robotaxis after one of them collided with a telephone pole. This is Waymo’s second recall. The Alphabet-owned company recalled previous software in February after two of its robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck that was being towed by a tow…
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Spawning wants to build more ethical AI training datasets
Jordan Meyer and Mathew Dryhurst founded Spawning AI to create tools that help artists exert more control over how their works are used online. Their latest project, called Source.Plus, is intended to curate “non-infringing” media for AI model training. The Source.Plus project’s first initiative is a dataset seeded with nearly 40 million public domain images…