Podcast Episodes

Oura launches redesigned app and 'Cumulative Stress' feature

The redesigned Oura app introduces more personalization with three main tabs.

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4 months, 1 week ago

A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world

"The platforms that won were the ones that kept people scrolling the longest, not the ones that made them feel the most connected,”  Zehra Naqvi told…

4 months, 1 week ago

Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you

Product designer Laurent Del Rey, who recently joined Meta’s Superintelligence Lab, launched a side project called Endless Summer, a photobooth app f…

4 months, 1 week ago

How a headphone site operator built loyalty startup Lantern to solve his own problems; plus, Deel hits $17.3B valuation after raising $300M from big-name VCs

After struggling to retain customers at his e-commerce site Headphones.com, founder Andrew Lissimore built his own loyalty solution — and it’s now a …

4 months, 1 week ago

General Intuition lands $134M seed to teach agents spatial reasoning using video game clips, also, Electric aircraft startup Beta Technologies seeks to raise $825M in IPO

Late last year, OpenAI reportedly tried to buy Medal and its vast trove of video game data for $500M. Today, the company spun out a frontier research…

4 months, 1 week ago

Liberate bags $50M at $300M valuation to bring AI deeper into insurance back offices; also, Eightfold raised $35M for an AI digital twin startup

Liberate’s AI agents automate tasks for P&C insurers, working across sales, service, and claims.

Viven's seed funding was led by Khosla Ventures and …

4 months, 1 week ago

Inaudible sound might be the next frontier in wildfire defense

Sonic Fire Tech has developed a device that can extinguish flames using acoustic energy below the range of human hearing. The startup is building a d…

4 months, 1 week ago

FleetWorks raises $17M to match truckers with cargo faster

Co-founded by a former Uber Freight product manager, and backed by Uber's lead seed investor, FleetWorks is quickly scooping up customers in the truc…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

Sheryl Sandberg-backed Flint wants to use AI to build and update websites, and Coco Robotics taps UCLA professor to lead new physical AI research lab

Flint raised a $5 million seed round led by Accel, with participation from Sheryl Sandberg’s fund, Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, and prior inve…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

India’s Airbound bags $8.65M to build rocket-like drones for one-cent deliveries

An Indian drone startup called Airbound raised nearly $9 million in seed funding as it begins a drone-delivery pilot with a private hospital and work…

4 months, 2 weeks ago