IT総合 Alexa Fund’s Paul Bernard talks OpenAI, what’s catching his eye and remaining relevant as Amazon restructures Amazon made headlines this month when the company began to work through its long-rumored 18,000 job cuts. Going, too, ar... 2023.01.25 IT総合
IT総合 SoundHound, the voice AI company, raises $25M after laying off 40% of staff earlier this month AI may be getting hyped as the next billion dollar (or, much bigger) opportunity these days after that mega round for Op... 2023.01.25 IT総合
IT総合 Forward Networks raises $50M for digital twin technology to help model, manage and secure complex enterprise networks Digital twins — virtual representations of actual systems — have become an important component in how engine... 2023.01.24 IT総合
IT総合 Amazon launches RxPass, a $5/month Prime add-on for all-you-need generic drugs covering 80 conditions More than two years since announcing Amazon Pharmacy to take some of the prescription drugs business away from big (and ... 2023.01.24 IT総合
IT総合 Wallapop, the circular marketplace out of Spain, raised $87M more at a $832M valuation led by Korea’s Naver Wallapop, a peer-to-peer marketplace based out of Barcelona that made a splash at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic with... 2023.01.19 IT総合
IT総合 Twitter rival ‘T2’ raises its first outside funding, $1.1M from a group of high profile angels It hasn’t decided on a name, it’s still on the hunt to fill some important roles, and its early alpha has le... 2023.01.13 IT総合
IT総合 DeepL, the AI-based language translator, raises over $100M at a $1B+ valuation Artificial intelligence startups, and (thanks to GPT and Open AI) specifically those helping humans communicate with eac... 2023.01.11 IT総合
IT総合 Hack the Box, a gamified cybersecurity training platform with 1.7M users, raises $55M There’s long existed a divide in the world of computer hacking between those who are taking a malicious approach t... 2023.01.11 IT総合
IT総合 Oxbotica raises $140M more as its B2B autonomous vehicle platform gains ground Activity in the self-driving car industry, frenetic for years, has somewhat stalled in more recent times; but a handful ... 2023.01.11 IT総合
IT総合 John Deere at CES? Yes, with a robotics-based fertilizer system and a new electric excavator Consumer tech is at an inflection point right now, with slowing growth in developed markets and economic depressions pul... 2023.01.06 IT総合
IT総合 Seen at CES: Nuralogix uses AI and a selfie to measure your heart rate, BP, body mass, skin age, stress level, and more A picture is worth 1,000 words, as the saying goes, and now a startup called Nuralogix is taking this idea to the next l... 2023.01.05 IT総合
IT総合 Intel unveils high-end 13th-gen 24-core processors plus N-series workhorse to fill the the Pentium and Celeron gap Intel is taking a more subdued approach to CES these days — forgoing a splashy event staged in a big hotel showroo... 2023.01.04 IT総合
IT総合 How Mastodon is scaling amid the Twitter exodus Twitter is in crisis these days. Under new owner Elon Musk, the service has lost more than half its staff through layoff... 2022.12.24 IT総合
IT総合 Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko talks funding and how to build the anti-Twitter Eugen Rochko came up with the idea for and built Mastodon some six years ago during another one of Twitter’s dips.... 2022.12.24 IT総合
IT総合 Should Elon step down as head of Twitter? Users vote Yes by a margin of 15% Elon Musk’s reign over Twitter — marked by chaos from his snap decisions, massive layoffs, and endless produ... 2022.12.19 IT総合
IT総合 Mews books $185M for its SaaS-based hotel management platform The Covid-19 pandemic grounded travel and tourism to a halt, but as those sectors pick up speed again, so too are the mo... 2022.12.15 IT総合
IT総合 Shield AI raises another $60M at a $2.3B valuation for its military autonomous flying tech Defense technology continues to get a lot of attention from investors, and today, one of the bigger startups in the spac... 2022.12.14 IT総合
IT総合 Zappi raises $170M for its AI-based market research platform Fundraising may be drying up for some segments of the tech industry at the moment, but one area that continues to get a ... 2022.12.13 IT総合
IT総合 Sana raises $34M for its AI-based knowledge management and learning platform for workplaces Artificial intelligence is touching every aspect of how we engage with information (and much more) these days. Today, a ... 2022.12.13 IT総合
IT総合 Playtika lays off 610 workers, shuts down three online gaming titles amid broader restructure Playtika, the Israeli tech company that made its name with through a series of wildly successful online gambling and gam... 2022.12.12 IT総合
IT総合 Robco links up with $14M led by Sequoia to bring modular robotics to industrial SMBs After years of outsourcing and offshoring manufacturing to countries with cheaper labour and bigger production ecosystem... 2022.12.12 IT総合
IT総合 Primer, the UK e-commerce tech startup, has laid off one-third of its staff Primer, a U.K. startup founded by alums of Braintree and PayPal that provides a drag-and-drop framework for merchants to... 2022.12.09 IT総合
IT総合 Banzai, a marketing tech startup, acquires Hyros for $110M, raises $100M and goes public via a $580M Spac The IPO window is all but closed right now, but a few things appear still to be getting through the cracks and there are... 2022.12.08 IT総合
IT総合 Maergo raises $20M to provide Amazon-style fast and cheap air and ‘middle mile’ services to online retailers With the holiday shopping season well underway and showing signs that it might not be as sluggish as some predicted, a s... 2022.12.07 IT総合
IT総合 Atomico report: European startups on track to raise $85B this year, down from $100B+ in 2021 Startups across Europe are on track to raise $85 billion in funding this year — a drop of $15 billion on 2021 leve... 2022.12.07 IT総合
IT総合 One Peak scales up and closes $1B fund aimed at European and Israeli growth rounds There’s a prevailing logic (or you might say hope) in tech that says there is no better time to invent and invest ... 2022.12.06 IT総合
IT総合 LinkedIn rolls out focused inbox and messaging safety tools as it gets to grip with spam and scams LinkedIn, the social platform for the working world for networking and recruitment, hasn’t been the biggest name i... 2022.12.01 IT総合
IT総合 Zoe, which went viral with its Covid-reporting app, raises $30M to track nutrition and health Zoe, a startup founded by doctors and researchers out of London and Boston, made its name during the pandemic with a pop... 2022.12.01 IT総合
IT総合 Cyber Monday online sales hit a record $11.3B, driven by demand, not just inflation, says Adobe Expectations for this year’s holiday spend online were lukewarm, but initial activity — driven by deep disco... 2022.11.29 IT総合
IT総合 Lyst, the UK fashion marketplace, is laying off 25% of staff Lyst, the UK fashion e-commerce site that last year raised funding at a $700 million valuation, is the latest tech start... 2022.11.29 IT総合