Podcast Episodes

Indian edtech Unacademy cuts another 250 jobs

Indian edtech giant Unacademy is laying off about 250 employees, the latest in a series of layoffs since the reopening of schools across the country …

1 year, 7 months ago

Altrove uses AI models and lab automation to create new materials

For the past couple of years, innovation has been accelerating in new materials development. And a new French startup called Altrove plans to play a …

1 year, 7 months ago

As the AI boom gobbles up power, Phaidra is helping companies manage datacenter power more efficiently

Electricity demand is booming on account of AI. In a May 2024 report, Goldman Sachs predicted that data centers will use 8% of the U.S.’s total power…

1 year, 7 months ago

Sensorita uses digital twins to help waste management companies streamline construction waste

The amount of waste produced by the construction industry adds up to more than a third of the overall waste produced each year in the European Union.…

1 year, 7 months ago

Illumex is using GenAI to ease pain of getting good data into LLMs

By now we know how crucial it is to have quality data for use by large language models (LLMs), but getting data ready for the models has been an earl…

1 year, 7 months ago

Cold shipping might be the next industry that batteries disrupt

Artyc has raised $14 million to date and has a product on the market, Medstow Micro, that helps ship temperature-sensitive specimens.

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1 year, 7 months ago

Rondo Energy funding shows a new way across the climate startup ‘valley of death’

Climate tech startups especially those building hardware, face a particular challenge when trying to move beyond the prototype or pilot phase and sta…

1 year, 8 months ago

Austin-based Ironspring Ventures raised $100m to invest in industrial revolution

When Ironspring Ventures launched in 2020 to back startups in industrial sectors like construction and manufacturing, it was one of very few early-st…

1 year, 8 months ago

Sensi.AI grabs $31M Series B from Insight, Zeev to monitor seniors 24/7

Older adults increasingly want to age in their homes rather than nursing facilities. A study by the American Association of Retired People (AARP) fou…

1 year, 8 months ago

Etched is building an AI chip that only runs one type of model

As generative AI touches a growing number of industries, the companies producing chips to run the models are benefitting enormously. Nvidia in partic…

1 year, 8 months ago