TechCrunch Startup News

Latest Episodes:

One AI raises $8M to curate business-specific NLP models Jun 01, 2022

Show notes

Whether to power translation to document summarization, enterprises are increasing their investments in natural language processing (NLP) technologies.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Strong Compute raises $7.8M seed round to speed up ML training pipelines May 31, 2022

Show notes

Strong Compute, a Sydney, Australia-based startup that helps developers remove the bottlenecks in their machine learning training pipelines, today announced that it has raised a $7.8 million seed round.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meta and Google’s Gradient back LatAm startup OlaClick May 31, 2022

Show notes

More than 80% of food delivery orders in Latin America are still made over phone calls and settled with cash.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Betastore gets $2.5M to solve stock-outs, financing challenges for informal retailers in West and Central Africa May 31, 2022

Show notes

About 80% of household retail in sub-Saharan Africa is delivered through informal channels, which perennially face several challenges like stockouts, leading to an instability in earnings, and a lack of attractiveness to financiers.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mintlify taps AI to automatically generate documentation from code May 31, 2022

Show notes

Mintlify, a startup developing software to automate software documentation tasks, today announced that it raised $2.8 million in a seed round led by by Bain Capital Ventures with participation from TwentyTwo Ventures and Quinn Slack, Sourcegraph’s co-founder.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Foursquare founder banks funding for mystery 3D social network startup May 27, 2022

Show notes

The excitement around web3 and the metaverse have pulled plenty of entrepreneurs who defined the first generation of native mobile apps to begin questioning what’s next.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SoftBank leads $150M round for Firework’s shoppable video May 27, 2022

Show notes

Firework provides tools for retailers and consumer brands to tap into their own customer data to build engaging video experiences across their own digital properties and social channels.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hugging Face collaborates with Microsoft for new AI-powered Azure service May 27, 2022

Show notes

Fresh off a $100 million funding round, Hugging Face, which provides hosted AI services and a community-driven portal for AI tools and data sets, today announced a new product in collaboration with Microsoft.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Astroforge raises $13M seed round for asteroid mining ambitions May 27, 2022

Show notes

Although we’ve long understood that asteroids are not simply the rubble of the universe, but potentially profitable stores of precious minerals, humanity has never been able to unlock this value.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bowery opens a new vertical farm in Pennsylvania May 27, 2022

Show notes

When I wrote my big TC1 on Bowery Farming late last year, there was a lot of talk of the company’s third commercial farming site in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices