Podcast Episodes

YC-backed Oway raises $4M to build a decentralized ‘Uber for freight’

The thousands of trucks zipping along U.S. highways are often only about half full -- something Oway wants to change with its 'ride-share for freight…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it’s not a bad idea.

Berlin-based non-profit search engine Ecosia has asked a U.S. judge to turn Chrome into a foundation it controls, funding billions in climate project…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Group14 lands $463M to make silicon anodes for EVs, also, SRE.ai raises $7.2M for DevOps AI agents

The battery materials startup raised significant Series D funding to expand its manufacturing capability. At the same time, it bought out partner SK'…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

New zero-day startup offers $20 million for tools that can hack any smartphone

Prices for hacking tools that allow governments to break into mobile phones keep going up, thanks to efforts by tech firms shoring up their cybersecu…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

FieldAI raises $405M to build universal robot brains, plus Garage raises $13.5M to help firefighters buy equipment

FieldAI builds foundational AI models that help all kinds of robots learn and adapt to new environments using physics.

Also, YC backed Garage is a ma…

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Dex is an AI-powered camera device that helps children learn new languages

A new gadget called Dex allows kids to take pictures of objects and the AI translates the word into different languages.

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M and is still looking to hire agents as employees, also, Databricks CEO says fresh $1B will help him attack a new AI database market

Firecrawl nabbed Shopify’s CEO Tobias Lütke as an investor from a gutsy email after they discovered he was using the product. Also, The round, which …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

Eight Sleep raises $100M to expand it AI-powered sleep tech

The sleep tech company raised from HSG, Valor Equity Partners, Founders Fund, Y Combinator and big F1 names like Charles Leclerc and Zak Brown.

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

Google vet raises $8M for Continua to bring AI agents to group chats

David Petrou, founding member of Google Goggles and Google Glass, wants to enhance group chats with AI.

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7 months, 4 weeks ago

Les Amis, the app helping women form friendships, launches in New York ... and more

Les Amis is an app designed to make it easy for women to form friendships and attend local events. Also, why did Paradigm built a spreadsheet with an…

7 months, 4 weeks ago