Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSilicon 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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2 years, 2 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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2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 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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2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 months ago
Daydream rakes in $50M seed funding to build an AI-powered search engine suited for e-commerce
For retailers, e-commerce is a bit of a puzzle at the moment. Online shopping trends are expected to stay strong this year, so companies can’t afford…
2 years, 2 months ago
Seen is a new app for friends to record reactions to TikToks and other content
We all know the feeling when we send a funny TikTok video, anticipating a response from a friend, only to receive a basic laughing emoji or, worse, n…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bitsening raises $25M for its high-resolution radar in autonomous driving
Self-driving vehicles rely on many sensors to detect objects and the world around them. The conventional approach is to work with cameras and lidars.…
2 years, 2 months ago
Kilimo helps farmers save water and get paid for it
Cheap irrigation has transformed many regions around the world into breadbaskets, but it also means that there can be little left for other uses.
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2 years, 2 months ago