Category: Enterprise
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US pharma giant Cencora says Americans’ health information stolen in data breach
About half a million patients have been notified so far, but the number of affected individuals is likely far higher. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. U.S. pharmaceutical giant Cencora says it is notifying affected individuals that their personal and highly sensitive medical information was stolen during a cyberattack and…
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Harlem Capital is raising a $150 million fund
If raised, this new fund, the firm’s third, would be its largest to date. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Harlem Capital is raising a $150 million fund, according to documents filed with the SEC. If raised, this new fund, the firm’s third, would be its largest to date. In…
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Big tech companies are plowing money into AI startups, which could help them dodge antitrust concerns
Another week, and another round of crazy cash injections and valuations emerged from the AI realm. DeepL, an AI language translation startup, raised $300 million on a $2 billion valuation; Scale AI, a data-labeling platform for machine learning models, secured $1 billion as its valuation nearly doubled to $13.8 billion; and H, a fledgling French…
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Disrupt 2024 early-bird tickets fly away next Friday
TechCrunch Disrupt takes place on October 28–30 in San Francisco. While the event is a few months away, the deadline to secure your early-bird tickets and save up to $800 is fast approaching. You have until May 31 at 11:59 p.m. PT to take advantage of this great deal! The countdown is on. With only…
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Terra One’s $7.5M Seed deck
Terra One’s pitch deck has a few wins, but also a few misses. Here’s how to fix that. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Terra One aims to reduce the quantity of clean energy created significantly and then lost from the German grid owing to a lack of storage capacity.…
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Women in AI: Chinasa T. Okolo researches AI’s impact on the Global South
Chinasa T. Okolo researches AI policy and governance in the Global South. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI…
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Feds add nine more incidents to Waymo robotaxi investigation
Federal safety regulators have discovered nine more incidents that raise questions about the safety of Waymo’s self-driving vehicles operating in Phoenix and San Francisco. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened an investigation earlier this month into Waymo’s autonomous vehicle software after receiving 22 reports of robotaxis making unexpected moves…
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From Plaid to Figma, here are the startups that are likely — or definitely — not having IPOs this year
Last year’s investor dreams of a strong 2024 IPO pipeline have faded, if not fully disappeared, as we approach the halfway point of the year. 2024 delivered four venture-backed tech IPOs, Reddit, Astera Labs, Ibotta and Rubrik, in March and April, which made it seem like this year could spur the momentum investors had hoped…
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Startups Weekly: Drama at Techstars. Drama in AI. Drama everywhere.
Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Well, folks, it looks like Techstars’ drama just got a new plot twist. CEO Maëlle Gavet is making her exit, leaving co-founder David Cohen to swoop…
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Expressable brings speech therapy into the home
Expressable is a platform that offers one-on-one virtual sessions with speech language pathologists. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Leanne Sherred, a pediatric speech therapist, has long encountered challenges putting caregiver-led therapy into practice in traditional care settings. Research suggests that caregiver-led speech therapy, which involves training the caregivers of…