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Support automation firm Capacity grows with new cash and acquisitions Oct 17, 2024

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David Karandish has been busy. Capacity, his support automation company, was planning a $5 million “bridge round” to help the company reach the break-even point. But TVC Capital, Toloka.vc, and the venture’s other backers had something grander in mind.

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Storio is helping other businesses unlock more value from solar energy Oct 17, 2024

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Meet Storio, a French startup that’s focused on providing smart energy storage for commercial and industrial customers. Founded in 2023, the startup raised a €5 million seed round earlier this year (around $5.5 million at current exchange rates) and has signed its first client. Storio believes solar panels have a bright future.

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Data center tech is exploding but adoption won’t be easy for startups Oct 16, 2024

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The data center industry is expanding rapidly to keep up with the flywheel growth of AI. While these data centers are necessary AI infrastructure, they store an AI company’s compute, they are expensive to build, seemingly more so to run, and they are a huge energy suck.

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Table Space eyes $2.5B valuation in India IPO Oct 16, 2024

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Table Space is targeting a valuation of $2.5 billion or higher for an India IPO planned planned for 2025.

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Peanut, a social network for women, adds a pregnancy tracking tool Oct 15, 2024

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Peanut, a social networking app for women, is launching a new feature to help users track their pregnancies. The new Peanut Track tool leverages seven years of data from questions asked on the social network and uses AI to anticipate questions that women have during different stages of their pregnancy.

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This three-person robotics startup is working with designer Yves Béhar to bring humanoids home Oct 15, 2024

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It’s hard to know where to focus when speaking to Christoph Kohstall. The contents of his packed Palo Alto garage compete for attention. To his immediate right stands a tower of electrical components, dotted with flashing lights. To his left is a workbench and the tops of machining tools.

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MiLaboratories gets $10M for a platform play to accelerate genomic research Oct 14, 2024

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Advances in DNA sequencing and the vast amounts of genomic data being produced by next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology have created a startup opportunity to build software for biologists so they can more easily analyze this big data and take the next leap.

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UK neobank Monzo hits $5.9B valuation with secondary market sale Oct 14, 2024

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Monzo is now valued at $5.9 billion after the U.K.-based challenger bank announced a secondary market share sale to provide liquidity for its employees. The transaction saw existing investors such as Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund (GIC) and StepStone Group procuring additional shares in the London-based fintech.

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Streamer Plex rolls out movie and TV show reviews Oct 11, 2024

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Following its $40 million fundraise at the beginning of this year, streaming media company Plex announced on Wednesday it’s rolling out a new TV show and movie reviews feature, putting its app in more direct competition with other apps, like Letterboxd and TV Time.

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Health insurtech startup Qantev raises €30 million to outperform LLMs with small AI models Oct 11, 2024

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Health and life insurance providers face a rising volume of claims due to chronic disease and aging populations, but their processes lack scalability. AI automation can help, but it takes more tailoring than for other insurance types.

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