The Entrepreneurial Way with A.I.: Ingrid Lunden
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Saturday, October 19, 2024

After selling his last AI startup to Meta, Beyond Presence’s founder nabs $3.1M to build lifelike avatars #Ecommerce

10:05 AM

#SeoTips Computer vision applications are getting a huge boost from advances in smartphones combined with AI that helps fill in the gaps of what everyday devices cannot see. Using these tools, a startup out of Munich called Beyond Presence believes...

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Monday, October 14, 2024

Omnea raises $25M to tackle the painfully annoying procurement market #Ecommerce

1:34 PM

#SeoTips Procurement — the process of requesting, vetting and eventually buying IT and other supplies in an organization — is typically one of the more frustrating, dry, yet inevitable aspects of a workplace.  When you are in need of a new app or d...

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Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Air Doctor raised $20M to plug a gap in how people find doctors when they’re travelling #Ecommerce

9:05 AM

#SeoTips Travelling abroad comes with its unique set of stresses, and one of the biggest is what to do if you find yourself unwell. Can you find a doctor who speaks your language, will accept your insurance, and let you avoid the costs and stress o...

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Vsim, founded by Nvidia alums, raises $21.5M for robotics simulation tech   #Ecommerce

5:39 AM

#SeoTips Manchester-based Vsim is developing a new physics simulation framework, and has raised $21.5 million from EQT Ventures and a number of backers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com I...

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Food delivery is seeing more consolidation: GrubMarket snaps up FreshGoGo #Ecommerce

9:19 AM

#SeoTips GrubMarket, the $3.6-billion, food delivery and supply chain startup backed by Tiger Global, BlackRock and nearly 100 other investors, has snapped up another food delivery startup on its consolidation march: It is acquiring FreshGoGo, a Ne...

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Saturday, August 24, 2024

The top AI deals in Europe this year #Ecommerce

10:14 AM

#SeoTips Cumulatively, there have been more than 1,700 funding rounds for AI startups in Europe so far in 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Ingrid Lunden, Khareem Sudlow ...

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Monday, August 19, 2024

AMD to acquire infrastructure player ZT Systems for $4.9B to amp up its AI ecosystem play #Ecommerce

9:19 AM

#SeoTips AMD is acquiring ZT Systems, which provides compute design and infrastructure for AI, cloud and general purpose computing, for $4.9 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Ingr...

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Wednesday, August 7, 2024

EQT takes a majority stake in cybersecurity firm Acronis at $3.5B+ valuation #Ecommerce

7:59 AM

#SeoTips Cybersecurity remains a white-hot space for investors. In the latest example of that demand, EQT has bought a majority stake in Acronis, a security company that specializes in data protection, cloud and integrated security solutions for ma...

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Tuesday, August 6, 2024

GrubMarket has acquired Good Eggs #Ecommerce

7:09 AM

#SeoTips Sources with knowledge of the deal said it was an all-stock transaction that valued Good Eggs slightly above its previous valuation of $22 million. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.co...

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Monday, August 5, 2024

Placer.ai boosts valuation to $1.5B after quietly raising another $75M #Ecommerce

1:34 PM

#SeoTips A startup developing AI market research based on location data, and backed by a who's who, has quietly raised, TechCrunch has learned. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Ingrid Lun...

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Fertility tracking app Flo Health raises $200M at a $1B+ valuation #Ecommerce

9:24 AM

#SeoTips Femtech, or tech that leverages innovations in AI, smartphones and connected wearables to give women more insights into reproductive and menstrual health, continues to gain momentum with users, and investors are following.  London-based Fl...

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Thursday, June 27, 2024

PortSwigger, the company behind the Burp Suite of security testing tools, swallows $112M #Ecommerce

10:59 AM

#SeoTips Sometimes the most successful startup ideas come from people building tools to solve their own needs. Such was the case with Dafydd Stuttard, a security expert who goes by Daf.  Nearly two decades ago, living in the small market town of Kn...

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Thursday, June 20, 2024

Semperis, a specialist in Active Directory security now worth more than $1B, raises $125M #Ecommerce

10:49 AM

#SeoTips Active Directory, the Microsoft directory service for connecting users with network resources, is used by more than 90% of all Fortune 1000 companies and many more besides. So it’s no surprise that it’s a giant target for malicious hackers...

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Monday, June 17, 2024

From sperm freezing to accounting tools: Finaloop’s founder scores $35M to solve e-commerce retailers’ bookkeeping headaches #Ecommerce

12:45 PM

#SeoTips Finaloop’s solution is a platform that uses automation in the background to track transactions covering three different functions in one. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupnow.com Ingrid ...

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Thursday, May 30, 2024

Filing shows Salesforce paid $419M to buy Spiff in February #Ecommerce

8:44 AM

#SeoTips Salespeople live and die by commissions. It's no surprise, then, that Salesforce paid a premium to buy a platform that simplifies managing commissions. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www.aiupno...

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Thursday, May 23, 2024

Bugcrowd, the crowdsourced white-hat hacker platform, acquires Informer to ramp up its security chops #Ecommerce

8:34 AM

#SeoTips On the heels of raising $102 million earlier this year, Bugcrowd is making good on its promise to use some of that funding to make acquisitions to strengthen its security chops. The company — which crowdsources skills from more than half a...

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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

DeepL, the AI language translation startup, nabs $300M on a $2B valuation to focus on B2B growth #Ecommerce

9:29 AM

#SeoTips Yet more major funding is being poured into a startup focused on AI. Today, DeepL – the company that builds automated text translation and writing tools that compete against the likes of Google Translate and Grammarly – announced that it’s...

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Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Akamai confirms acquisition of Noname for $450M #Ecommerce

10:04 AM

#SeoTips Akamai will integrate Noname into its API Security business, and expects the acquisition deliver approximately $20 million of revenue in its fiscal year 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. via https://www...

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Beehiiv attracts $33M to make its newsletter publishing platform more sticky #Ecommerce

11:44 AM

#SeoTips With the number of people using e-mail globally approaching 5 billion, newsletters delivered regularly into people’s inboxes continue to look like a sticky way of getting attention for whatever it is that you’re writing. Now, in a signal o...

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Monday, April 29, 2024

Getir pulls out of US, UK, Europe to focus on Turkey; 6,000+ jobs impacted #Ecommerce

11:14 AM

#SeoTips True to its business concept, Turkey’s “instant delivery” juggernaut Getir rose quickly. Now, with the quick commerce industry in free fall, it is nosediving just as fast. On Monday, the company — once valued close to $12 billion — announc...

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