Podcast Episodes

Rainforest lands $20M to challenge Stripe with embedded payments for SaaS providers

Rainforest, a startup that embeds payment processing into other software platforms, has raised $20 million in Series A funding — less than a year aft…

1 year, 8 months ago

Boeing’s Wisk Aero buys Verocel to boost software safety for self-flying eVTOL

Wisk Aero, a subsidiary of Boeing, has acquired Verocel, a software verification and validation company with 25 years of experience in the aerospace …

1 year, 8 months ago

Rocketlane snags $24M to bring AI-led experiences for professional services teams

Rocketlane initially aimed to support customer onboarding. However, it has broadened its scope and doubled down on addressing the needs of profession…

1 year, 8 months ago

Emergence thinks it can crack the AI agent code

Yet another generative AI venture has raised a bundle of money. And, like the others before it, it’s promising the moon. Emergence, whose co-founders…

1 year, 8 months ago

Silicon Valley leaders are once again declaring ‘DEI’ bad and ‘meritocracy’ good — but they’re wrong

Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang set off another debate with an anti-DEI post. It revealed a lot about the current state of DEI in tech.

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1 year, 8 months ago

How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI)

18-year-olds Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot have founded APIGen, a platform to build custom APIs from natural language prompts.

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1 year, 8 months ago

‘Lawyer-in-the-loop’ startup Wordsmith wants to bring AI paralegals to all employees

Wordsmith, a fledgling Scottish legal tech startup, has somehow managed to attract the backing of two well-known venture capital firms. The startup t…

1 year, 8 months ago

Ex-HubSpot exec builds an AI-powered CRM that learns for you, with $4M seed led by Sequoia

Christopher O’Donnell has hobbies. He likes music and playing guitar, but above all, he loves building software. Which is why three years after leavi…

1 year, 8 months ago

Language learning app Speak nets $20M, doubles valuation

Speak, the AI-powered language learning app, has raised new money from investors at double its previous valuation.

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1 year, 8 months ago

Société Générale to sell its freelancer challenger bank Shine to Ageras

Four years after acquiring Shine, a French fintech startup that offers bank accounts to freelancers and very small companies, Société Générale has an…

1 year, 8 months ago