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Primo is the IT tool for companies that are too small for an IT manager Apr 20, 2023

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Primo, a French startup that recently raised a $3.4 million funding round to build a software-as-a-service product that handles the IT needs of small and medium companies.

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Cortical Labs raises $10M for its Pong-playing stem cells which eventually could power AI Apr 20, 2023

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While Generative AI is buzzy right now, what OpenAI, Microsoft and Google are doing may be only part of the story.

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Rally bags $12M to build the future of e-commerce checkout Apr 19, 2023

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Rally provides one-click checkout and post-purchase offers that allow the merchant to inject offers after the checkout.

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Remote working means this startup can use brains in emerging markets to disrupt management consultants Apr 19, 2023

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The global management consulting industry is worth billions of dollars but to this day it’s been tough to disrupt with technology.

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B Capital leads Odeko’s $53M Series D to help small coffee shops scale Apr 18, 2023

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Odeko has operations software for coffee shops to manage inventory, get data insights and order equipment and supplies from over 400 vendors.

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LLMs come to workplace morale monitoring, as Loopin raises $1.9M for its platform Apr 18, 2023

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There have been several startup attempts to measure staff morale, some more halting that others. We reported on Plasticity Labs back in 2014, though their web site seems no longer functioning.

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Device-as-a-service startup Fleet expands beyond laptop leasing Apr 17, 2023

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French startup Fleet has been growing nicely over the past four years as the company has deployed nearly 10,000 devices with long-term leasing contracts.

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Stability AI’s new model is slightly better at generating hands Apr 17, 2023

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Stability AI, the startup funding a range of generative AI experiments, has released a new version of Stable Diffusion, the text-to-image AI system that was among the first to rival OpenAI’s DALL-E 2.

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Zoom acquires Ireland-based employee communications platform Workvivo Apr 14, 2023

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Zoom today announced that it has acquired Workvivo, a six-year-old Irish startup focused on improving companies’ internal communications and culture. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

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Thynk wants to upgrade hotel stays with a vertical software platform Apr 14, 2023

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Meet Thynk, a new company that wants to build the definite enterprise software solution for the hospitality industry.

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