IT総合 Lighthouse, an analytics provider for the hospitality sector, lights up with $370M at a $1B valuation
Here is yet one more sign of the travel industry’s noticeable boom: a major growth round for one of the B2B startups ser...
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IT総合 IT総合 H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications
H, the Paris startup founded by Google alums, made a big splash last summer when, out of the blue, it announced a seed r...
IT総合 Venture funding in Europe in 2024 fell to $45 billion, says Atomico
Funding for European tech appears to have stabilised in 2024 after dropping precipitously in 2023, but the signs continu...
IT総合 JobGet, a ‘LinkedIn’ for hourly workers, acquires rival Snagajob
If you’re an hourly worker, the number of go-to options you have for finding new jobs is shrinking a little. JobGe...
IT総合 BitSight buys dark web security specialist Cybersixgill for $115M
More consolidation is afoot in the world of cybersecurity. BitSight, a cybersecurity startup last valued at $2.4 billion...
IT総合 Tourlane, the German travel startup, raises $26M led by Sequoia
The travel industry continues to gain ground, expected to break $11 trillion in revenues this year, and consumers are ev...
IT総合 Meta slapped with a €798M fine in Europe, its biggest yet
Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been hit with yet another huge fine in Europe, this time over ...
IT総合 Tessl raises $125M at $500M+ valuation to build AI that writes and maintains code
Many startups and larger tech companies have taken a crack at building artificial intelligence to code software. Now, an...
IT総合 Nokia acquires Rapid, the API company once valued at $1B
Nokia, the company that once was the biggest mobile phone company in the world, has made an interesting acquisition in i...
IT総合 DeepL launches DeepL Voice, real-time, text-based translations from voices and videos
DeepL has made a name for itself with online text translation it claims is more nuanced and precise than services from t...
IT総合 PointFive snaps up $20M for breakthrough tech to track usage across multiple clouds
Enterprise spend on cloud services continues to go up, up, up — to the tune of $675 billion this year — thanks to organi...
IT総合 Fleek, a marketplace for wholesale second-hand clothes, sews up $20M
Fleek, an online marketplace that connects second-hand clothing wholesalers with those who sell it at retail, has raised...
IT総合 Upwind, an Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup, is raising $100M at a $850-900M valuation, say sources
Cybersecurity continues to command a lot of attention from enterprises looking for better protection from malicious hack...
IT総合 Led by a founder who sold a video startup to Apple, Panjaya uses deepfake techniques to bite into video dubbing
There’s a big opportunity for generative AI in the world of translation, and a startup called Panjaya is taking the conc...
IT総合 Canada orders shutdown of TikTok offices over security risks (but won’t block app)
With all eyes on how a new Trump administration in the U.S. will interface with China Tech in the years ahead, its neigh...
IT総合 LinkedIn launches its first AI agent to take on the role of job recruiters
LinkedIn, the social platform used by professionals to connect with others in their field, hunt for jobs, and develop sk...
IT総合 One Zero, the AI fintech started by the founder of MobileEye, is raising $100M, say sources
Amnon Shashua, the founder and CEO of Mobileye, has an eye for complicated problems that he believes can be solved with ...
IT総合 Cyera acquires Trail Security for $162M; Cyera is now raising at a $3B valuation
Cyera, the Israel-founded, U.S.-based cybersecurity unicorn that uses artificial intelligence to build what’s known as d...
IT総合 Doctors complain of IT ‘in the stone age’
The United Kingdom’s NHS — the world’s largest public health service — is working on creaking IT infrastruct...
IT総合 20VC closes new $400M fund to ‘make Europe great again’ says Harry Stebbings
Harry Stebbings — the UK podcaster who broke into the world of tech from total obscurity by building a brand and audienc...
IT総合 Omnea raises $25M to tackle the painfully annoying procurement market
Procurement — the process of requesting, vetting and eventually buying IT and other supplies in an organization — is typ...
IT総合 After selling his last AI startup to Meta, Beyond Presence’s founder nabs $3.1M to build realistic avatars
Computer vision applications are getting a huge boost from advances in smartphones combined with AI that helps fill in t...
IT総合 LinkedIn says 10M people have signed up as freelancers on its Services Marketplace
More than 100,000 people have been laid off in the technology industry alone this year, and — either by circumstance or ...
IT総合 Basecamp Research taps $60M to build a ‘GPT for biology’
While companies like OpenAI and Anthropic continue to popularize the idea of using ordinary language to ask artificial i...
IT総合 Sonair takes a cue from dolphins to build autonomous 3D vision sans LIDAR
Ultrasound is perhaps best known as the technology that enables non-invasive body scans, underwater communication, and t...
IT総合 Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
The tech world took a major double take this year when a security startup called Wiz founded out of Israel just four yea...
IT総合 As data center usage heats up, Submer raises $55.5M to cool things down
The race is on for better chips and data center capacity to handle AI workloads, but all that activity comes with a catc...
IT総合 Eon emerges from stealth with $127M to bring a fresh approach to back up cloud infrastructure
A team of founders who sold their last company to Amazon to build a new business within AWS is setting out to reinvent t...
IT総合 Air Doctor raised $20M to plug a gap in how people find doctors when they’re travelling
Travelling abroad comes with its unique set of stresses, and one of the biggest is what to do if you find yourself unwel...
IT総合 HungryPanda, a food ordering app for the Asian diaspora, picks up $55M
Apps catering to the Chinese and wider Asian diaspora, especially urban consumers focused on food, can be big business. ...