IT総合 Is your company AI-washing? Rippling founder Parker Conrad thinks it might be.
Right now, there’s a mad scramble to capitalize on AI.
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IT総合 IT総合 How VC Pippa Lamb ended up on ‘Industry’ — one of the hottest shows on TV
Season 3 of "Industry" focuses on the fictional bank Pierpoint blends the worlds — and drama — of tech, media, governmen...
IT総合 Score, the dating app for people with good to excellent credit, quietly shuts down
It racked up around 18,000 users, made 8,000 matches, and gathered a lot of insights on the current dating scene.
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IT総合 Techstars is laying off 17%, ending its J.P. Morgan-backed programs
Techstars is cutting 17% of its staff and will end its $80 million J.P. Morgan-backed AdvancingCities program once the f...
IT総合 Ex-Clubhouse employees take another swing at a social networking startup
The ex-Clubhouse, Netflix employees raised $1.65M for an app that combines social media, networking, and dating.
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IT総合 38 startups have become unicorns so far in 2024: Here’s the full list
The list includes Elon Musk’s xAI, which is already valued at a staggering $24 billion, as well as a good number of othe...
IT総合 Open-source startup FOSSA is buying StackShare, a site used by 1.5 million developers
Open-source compliance and security platform FOSSA has acquired developer community platform StackShare, the company con...
IT総合 Digital marketing startup Plaiced has acquired Precursor Ventures-backed Clutch
Madison Long and Simone May founded Clutch in 2020 to help connect people to businesses looking for marketing and conten...
IT総合 CityRock launches second fund to back founders from diverse backgrounds
The firm has numerous legs to it, ranging from a venture studio to standard funds, where it does everything from co-foun...
IT総合 After a 30-year career in IT, Protexxa founder raises $7.2M for cybersecurity employee hygiene
McGowan said she founded the company due to the rapid rise in cyber attacks these past years the increased fears people ...
IT総合 Some Black startup founders feel betrayed by Ben Horowitz’s support for Trump
Trump is an advocate for a number of policies that could be harmful to people of color.
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IT総合 Female-founded startups have raised $15.5 billion so far this year but that’s not really good news
The reality of the situation is that startups with all women founders will still probably raise 2% of venture capital fu...
IT総合 A VC told Keely Cat-Wells to get a male, able-bodied co-founder. She balked, nabbed a $2M seed round.
Cat-Wells said she started this platform because traditional hiring processes are exclusionary and often overlook skille...
IT総合 Shark Tank-backed Kudos raises another $3M for healthier, cotton-based disposable diapers
Kudos founder says her company makes a disposable diaper lined with 100% cotton, unlike the major competitors.
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IT総合 Women in AI: Sarah Bitamazire helps companies implement responsible AI
Sarah Bitamazire is the chief policy officer at the boutique advisory firm Lumiera.
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IT総合 Women in AI: Anika Collier Navaroli is working to shift the power imbalance
Anika Collier Navaroli is working to shift the power imbalance. She is known for her research and advocacy work within t...
IT総合 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 o...
IT総合 Women in AI: Charlette N’Guessan is tackling data scarcity on the African continent
Charlette N'Guessan is the Data Solutions and Ecosystem Lead at Amini, a deep tech startup leveraging space technology a...
IT総合 After 20 months of trying to raise funds, insurance startup Loop cuts staff
Loop, the car insurance company co-founded by Harlem Capital co-founder John Henry, has laid off staff as the company st...
IT総合 Black founders are creating tailored ChatGPTs for a more personalized experience
ChatGPT, one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence tools, struggles with cultural nuance.
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IT総合 Crunchbase expands its diversity tracking feature to Europe
Diversity Spotlight is a feature on Crunchbase that lets companies add tags to their profiles to label themselves.
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IT総合 An appeals court rules that VC Fearless Fund cannot issue grants to Black women, but the fight continues
The court ruling said that Fearless Fund’s Strivers Grant likely violates the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which bans the u...
IT総合 After raising $100M, AI fintech LoanSnap is being sued, fined, evicted
The company has been sued by at least seven creditors, including Wells Fargo.
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IT総合 Creator fintech Slingshot raises $2.2 million
Sanil Chawla remembers the meetings he had with countless artists in college. Those creatives were looking for one thing...
IT総合 Pinterest expands its Creator Fund to allow founders
Pinterest announced today that it is evolving its Creator Inclusion Fund to now be called the Pinterest Inclusion Fund. ...
IT総合 Women in AI: Chinasa T. Okolo researches AI’s impact on the Global South
Chinasa T. Okolo researches AI policy and governance in the Global South.
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IT総合 Harlem Capital is raising a $150 million fund
If raised, this new fund, the firm’s third, would be its largest to date.
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IT総合 App developer Crowdaa raises €1.2 million and plans a U.S. expansion
Crowdaa is an app that allows non-developers to easily create and release apps on the mobile store.
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IT総合 Meta’s new AI council is comprised entirely of white men
Meanwhile, women and people of color are disproportionately impacted by irresponsible AI.
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IT総合 Techstars CEO Mäelle Gavet is out
Gavet has had a rocky tenure at Techstars and her leadership was the subject of much controversy.
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