Podcast Episodes

Chestnut Carbon gets $160M to turn old farms into forests

The company buys marginal and degraded farmland, plants them with native trees, and harvests the resulting carbon credits.

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Voyantis aims to help companies figure out their customers’ worth

How much is a customer worth to a company? That’s the eternal question. To arrive at an answer, customer and sales teams are often forced to use spre…

1 year ago

Archer Aviation doubles down on defense aircraft with fresh $300M

Escalating geopolitical tensions and a new administration with a hawkish defense agenda has led many startups to embrace dual-use strategies to secur…

1 year ago

3D mood board and marketplace Mattoboard picks up $2M to launch AI visual search

Mattoboard, the makers of web-based software designed to simplify the creative process for interior designers and architects, is getting into AI. On …

1 year ago

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed

In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” ideas, to “…

1 year ago

PromptLayer is building tools to put non-techies in the driver’s seat of AI app development

The GenAI boom of the last few years has unleashed a wave of startups promising to support the process of prompt engineering — i.e., coming up with i…

1 year ago

Hiveclass, a platform for virtual PE classes for kids, raises $1.5M

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020 and schools transitioned to online learning, both Joe Titus and Paul Suhr were concerned about how to maint…

1 year ago

Fizz brings on TikTok alum to help build out its marketplace and recommendation engine

Fizz, the college social app, is looking for ways to enhance and expand its platform, and a recent new hire is poised to help drive these ambitions. …

1 year ago

Pendulum’s AI-driven platform helps enterprises better predict supply and demand

Supply chains have had a tumultuous few years, beginning in 2020, when COVID-19 upended legacy global supply chains. More recently, the “TikTok-ifica…

1 year ago

European AI startups have raised $8 billion in 2024

In just a few days, France will host the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, with heads of state flocking to Paris to meet global tech leaders. Th…

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