IT総合 UK Spring Budget: Chancellor plans £1M annual AI prize, quantum investments, and a new £900M ‘exascale’ computer
The U.K.’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget — delivered on the same day that te...
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IT総合 IT総合 Nabla, a French digital health startup, launches Copilot, using GPT-3 to turn patient conversations into actionable items
Healthcare has been pegged as a prime candidate for more AI applications — both to aid in clinical work and to lig...
IT総合 Railsr, the UK embedded fintech once valued at nearly $1B, goes into bankruptcy protection under new consortium owner
Startups are facing a moment of reckoning in the current economic climate, and today one of the more promising in the wo...
IT総合 Envisics raises $50M at a $500M valuation for its in-car holographic tech
The automotive industry is starting to show some signs of recovery after a big contraction during the Covid-19 pandemic,...
IT総合 Fynn raises $36M for a platform to finance students in vocational education
When people think of the funding crisis in further education, thoughts normally turn to the rising price of a typical fo...
IT総合 Believer, a new approach to gaming, raises $55M from Lightspeed, A16Z, and more
Gaming is at a crossroads these days: a decades-old business that has had remarkable staying power banked around classic...
IT総合 Threecolts raises $90M to build out its toolkit for third parties selling on marketplaces like Amazon
Amazon rules the roost when it comes to e-commerce, with its marketplace outpacing everyone else when it comes to gross ...
IT総合 Open banking startup Abound nabs $601M to supercharge its AI-based consumer lending platform
After a slow start in the UK and Europe, open banking is catching on with fintechs, who are using APIs to access banking...
IT総合 Mobile carriers team up with AWS, Microsoft to launch Open Gateway, a set of Twilio-like APIs to tap network services
APIs are the building blocks of how the world of technology works: used to integrate applications with each other, API c...
IT総合 Chain Reaction raises $70M, emerges from stealth to launch chips designed to compute encrypted data
As the networking industry explores homomorphic encryption, blockchains and other cryptographic techniques to take data ...
IT総合 CyberSmart raises $15M for an all-in-one cybersecurity and insurance solution targeting SMBs
Cybersecurity continues to be a major area for investment among businesses, and today a startup building solutions for s...
IT総合 Stripe expands Tap to Pay to Android, turning NFC-enabled Android devices into payment terminals
Stripe, the payments and financial services upstart, made waves in the world of mobile commerce last year when it became...
IT総合 Intel slashes divdend by nearly two-thirds to shore up cash as chip giant braces for a tough year
In January, when Intel reported one of its worst financial quarters in years, the chip giant worked to keep up investor ...
IT総合 Amazon’s AWS cozies up to carriers, launches 2 services to build and operate networks in the cloud
Amazon has been working on ramping up how it works with telecoms carriers as customers and partners — an ambition ...
IT総合 Zerocater raises $15M as demand heats up for flexible in-office food services
Zerocater — incubated at Y Combinator back in 2011 (back in the day when YC had just 45 companies in a cohort) ...
IT総合 Superplastic, a creator of ‘synthetic’ influencers, raises $20M led by Amazon in deal to make TV shows and more
Janky and Guggimon, ‘synthetic’ celebrities conceived in a studio and big on social platforms like TikTok an...
IT総合 BuzzFeed launches Infinity Quizzes, creating personalized stories powered by OpenAI
BuzzFeed — the media site that made its name (literally) spinning out viral content — landed in the middle o...
IT総合 Otonomo, the mobility data business valued at $1.4B in 2021 SPAC IPO, acquired by Urgent.ly as market cap dips to $70M
Otonomo, connected automotive company that has seen its stock price plummet since going public in 2021, has announced th...
IT総合 Lunar, the Danish neobank last year valued at $2.2B, raises $38M to shoot for the profitability moon
Lunar, a neobank out of Denmark, last year raised money at a $2.2 billion valuation from a splashy set of investors that...
IT総合 Arrcus snaps up $50M for a software-based alternative to costly network router equipment
Software may be eating the world, but it’s all still largely running across very physical, and often very expensiv...
IT総合 Dbt Labs acquires Transform, adding semantic tools to its data analytics platform
Almost exactly a year ago, dbt Labs shined a spotlight on the opportunities in the world of developer tools for data ana...
IT総合 IBM acquires GraphQL startup StepZen to step up its game in API management
GraphQL, developed internally at Facebook to help developers with API management before getting rolled out as an open-so...
IT総合 $500M in, GV gears up for more deals in Europe with a new partner in London, Luna Dai Schmid
Startups are raising less, and less often, right now, and some portfolios are buckling under the weight of write-downs f...
IT総合 Jobber fixes on $100M as its platform for home services pros hits 200K users
Jobber, a startup founded out of Canada that’s built a platform for home services professionals to book customers ...
IT総合 Penpot, the open-source platform for designers and their coders, draws up $12M as users jump to 250K
Open source projects continue to stand out as compelling alternatives to proprietary software for those who are looking ...
IT総合 Zopa, the UK neobank, raises $93M more at a $1B+ valuation
After raising $300 million in a round led by SoftBank back in 2021, UK neobank Zopa has closed a deal to put more fundin...
IT総合 Guardz emerges from stealth with $10M for SMB security and cyber insurance to protect against attack-as-a-service breaches
Small and medium businesses have become a growing target for malicious online hackers in recent years, currently account...
IT総合 Dell has acquired cloud orchestration startup Cloudify, sources tell us for around $100M
Dell is making an acquisition to beef up its cloud services business, specifically its offerings in DevOps: The company ...
IT総合 Strata, a provider of identity orchestration to bridge disparate log-in procedures, raises $26M
Many believe the key to keeping networks and data secure lies in watertight identity and log-in management, but what hap...
IT総合 After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts
When Shutterstock and OpenAI announced a partnership to help develop OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 artificial intelligence ima...