Podcast Episodes

Boop’s new app turns social recommendations into bookable itineraries

Instead of getting an AI-generated travel plan, Boop aims to give users access to itineraries from real people who went on real trips.

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Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Peec AI raises $21M to help brands adapt as consumers ditch Google for ChatGPT

With consumers increasingly asking questions to ChatGPT, not Google, product discovery is changing — and the promise to give brands visibility and control over this fast-growing search channel has ma…

Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Luminal raises $5.3 million to build a better GPU code framework; plus Sakana AI raises $135M Series B at a $2.65B valuation to continue building AI models for Japan

On Monday, Luminal announced $5.3 million in seed funding, in a round led by Felicis Ventures with angel investment from Paul Graham, Guillermo Rauch, and Ben Porterfield. 

Also, as U.S. giants like …

Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Is Jeff Bezos returning to the trenches with a new AI startup? Also, Bone AI raises $12M to challenge Asia’s defense giants with AI-powered robotics

Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos seems to be getting his hands dirty once again: the billionaire is partly backing a new AI startup called Project Prometheus that has raised $6.2 billion in funding, and w…

Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Milestone raises $10M to make sure AI rhymes with ROI

Israeli startup Milestone raised a $10 million seed funding round to correlate AI tool usage with engineering metrics, including code quality.

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Published on 3 weeks ago

Exowatt wants to power AI data centers with billions of hot rocks

The solar-thermal startup wants to deliver electricity for as little as one cent per kWh. But first it has to scale production to 1 million units per year.

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Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago

VCs abandon old rules for a ‘funky time’ of investing in AI startups

The goalposts are moving for AI startups when it comes to growth, product features and just about everything else.

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Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

AI data startup WisdomAI has raised another $50M, led by Kleiner, Nvidia

WisdomAI is offering AI-driven data analytics that can answer business questions from structured, unstructured, and even “dirty” data, meaning data not cleaned of typos or errors.

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Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar

Teradar's sensor uses the terahertz part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and combines the best traits of radar and lidar sensors without some of the drawbacks.

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Published on 3 weeks, 4 days ago

How AI startups should be thinking about product-market fit; plus Immortality startup Eternos pivots to a personal AI that sounds like you

Two experienced investors share their tips for founders and operators hoping to nail product-market fit at their AI startups.

Also, Uare.ai, formerly Eternos, raised $10.3 million in seed funding led…

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago