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Rocketlane snags $24M to bring AI-led experiences for professional services teams Jun 27, 2024

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Rocketlane initially aimed to support customer onboarding. However, it has broadened its scope and doubled down on addressing the needs of professional services teams.

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Emergence thinks it can crack the AI agent code Jun 26, 2024

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Yet another generative AI venture has raised a bundle of money. And, like the others before it, it’s promising the moon. Emergence, whose co-founders include Satya Nitta, the former head of global AI solutions at IBM’s research division, today emerged from stealth with $97.2 million in funding from Learn Capital plus credit lines totaling more

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Silicon Valley leaders are once again declaring ‘DEI’ bad and ‘meritocracy’ good — but they’re wrong Jun 26, 2024

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Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang set off another debate with an anti-DEI post. It revealed a lot about the current state of DEI in tech.

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How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI) Jun 25, 2024

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18-year-olds Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot have founded APIGen, a platform to build custom APIs from natural language prompts.

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‘Lawyer-in-the-loop’ startup Wordsmith wants to bring AI paralegals to all employees Jun 25, 2024

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Wordsmith, a fledgling Scottish legal tech startup, has somehow managed to attract the backing of two well-known venture capital firms. The startup targets in-house legal teams and law firms with an AI platform that they can configure to help other workers in the company.

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Ex-HubSpot exec builds an AI-powered CRM that learns for you, with $4M seed led by Sequoia Jun 24, 2024

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Christopher O’Donnell has hobbies. He likes music and playing guitar, but above all, he loves building software. Which is why three years after leaving HubSpot, he built Day.ai, a CRM for the age AI. Unlike modern CRMs, which are essentially giant spreadsheets that somebody needs to populate and keep updated, Day learns everything

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Language learning app Speak nets $20M, doubles valuation Jun 24, 2024

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Speak, the AI-powered language learning app, has raised new money from investors at double its previous valuation.

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Société Générale to sell its freelancer challenger bank Shine to Ageras Jun 21, 2024

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Four years after acquiring Shine, a French fintech startup that offers bank accounts to freelancers and very small companies, Société Générale has announced plans to sell Shine to Ageras.

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Daydream rakes in $50M seed funding to build an AI-powered search engine suited for e-commerce Jun 21, 2024

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For retailers, e-commerce is a bit of a puzzle at the moment. Online shopping trends are expected to stay strong this year, so companies can’t afford to curtail their e-commerce budgets, but at the same time, e-commerce is more fragmented than ever before.

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Seen is a new app for friends to record reactions to TikToks and other content Jun 20, 2024

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We all know the feeling when we send a funny TikTok video, anticipating a response from a friend, only to receive a basic laughing emoji or, worse, no reaction at all.

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