IT総合 Ingrid receives $23M to expand an e-commerce delivery platform that snubs ‘free shipping’
Ingrid — a startup out of Stockholm, Sweden, not this writer (unfortunately) — has raised €21 million, or ju...
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IT総合 IT総合 LinkedIn wants to add gaming to its platform
LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social platform, has made a name for itself primarily as a platform for people looking to ...
IT総合 Lago, a Paris-based open source billing platform, banks $22M
A startup out of Paris that began life building marketing tools has raised $22 million after making a successful pivot i...
IT総合 UK chips in $44M for a piece of Europe’s $1.4B pot for semiconductors
The UK has exited the European Union, but semiconductor development is emerging as one of the areas where it hopes to pa...
IT総合 Empathy closes $47M for AI to help with the practical and emotional bereavement process
Death, as the famous saying goes, is one of the inevitable certainties of life. But that doesn’t make coping with ...
IT総合 Alphabet spin-off SIP launches Verrus, a data center concept built around battery ‘microgrids’
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners — the Alphabet spinout that focuses on building and backing new approaches to com...
IT総合 Zama’s homomorphic encryption tech lands it $73M on a valuation of nearly $400M
Homomorphic encryption, a complex technique that uses cryptographic algorithms to keep data secure as it travels around ...
IT総合 Ema, a ‘Universal AI employee’, emerges from stealth with $25M
Generative AI well and truly has a grip on public technology discourse these days. A new startup called Ema out of San F...
IT総合 Axonius, a specialist in cyber asset managment, secures $200M at a flat $2.6B valuation
Axonius, one of the bigger players in the world of enterprise asset management — understanding and monitoring the ...
IT総合 Multiverse raises $27M for quantum software targeting LLM leviathans
We’re still years away from seeing physical quantum computers break into the market with any scale and reliability...
IT総合 Razor and Perch merge, raise $100M on a $1.7B valuation as more roll-ups consolidate
Just days after the bankruptcy of Thrasio, two other significant players in the world of e-commerce aggregators are merg...
IT総合 Mews, the hotel SaaS startup, books $110M at a $1.2B valuation
Tourism continues to bounce back in the wake of Covid-19, with 2023 raking in $2.23 trillion globally, surpassing pre-pa...
IT総合 Deel, the $12B HR startup, acquires Zavvy to step up consolidation play
Consolidation is afoot in the world of HR services, with larger players snapping up interesting, smaller startups en rou...
IT総合 Thrasio, once king of e-commerce aggregation, files for Ch.11
Thrasio, the U.S. start-up that raised billions of dollars and popularized the concept of e-commerce aggregation —...
IT総合 Confirmed: Photoroom, the AI image editor, raised $43M at a $500M valuation
Photoroom, the AI-based photo editing app out of Paris that has been growing like a weed targeting people doing business...
IT総合 Lapse, the app turning your phone into an old-school camera, snaps up $30M
It can cost a fortune in 2024 to find an analogue camera, buy film (and maybe special batteries) for it, and take pictur...
IT総合 Inkitt, a self-publishing platform using AI to develop bestsellers, books $37M led by Khosla
Everyone has a story in them, as someone famous once said. A startup called Inkitt believes that it can use AI to turn t...
IT総合 Microsoft announces ‘AI access principles’ to offset OpenAI competition concerns
On the heels of Microsoft’s investment and partnership with French Large Language Model startup Mistral AI, the co...
IT総合 China’s Moonshot AI zooms to $2.5B valuation, raising $1B for an LLM focused on long context
The race to build the next big large language model is on, and now a contender out of China has reportedly banked a majo...
IT総合 Bugcrowd snaps up $102M for a ‘bug bounty’ security platform that taps 500K+ hackers
Bugcrowd — the startup that taps into a database of half a million hackers to help organizations like OpenAI and t...
IT総合 Bootstrapped for 8 years, Xensam has now snapped up $40M for AI that manages software assets
Software asset management — an area of enterprise IT designed, in part, to help companies save money — conti...
IT総合 Confirmed: Entrust is buying AI-based ID verification startup Onfido, sources say for more than $400M
Onfido, an early mover in the world of identity verification using computer vision and other AI tools, is getting acquir...
IT総合 Ambience Healthcare raises $70M for its AI assistant led by OpenAI and Kleiner Perkins
Artificial intelligence has an increasing role in the world of healthcare, and startups that bring the two worlds closer...
IT総合 Starship Technologies raises $90M as its sidewalk robots pass 6M deliveries
Sidewalk delivery robot services appear to be stalling left and right, but a pioneer in the concept says it is profitabl...
IT総合 Jua raises $16M to build a foundational AI model for the natural world, starting with the weather
Large AI models — the big troves of language, vision and audio data that power generative artificial intelligence ...
IT総合 Ofcom report finds 1 in 5 harmful content search results were ‘one-click gateways’ to more toxicity
Move over, TikTok. Ofcom, the U.K. regulator enforcing the now official Online Safety Act, is gearing up to size up an e...
IT総合 Ofcom report finds 1 in 5 harmful content search results were ‘one-click gateways’ to more toxicity
Move over, TikTok. Ofcom, the U.K. regulator enforcing the now official Online Safety Act, is gearing up to size up an e...
IT総合 Ofcom report finds 1 in 5 harmful content search results were ‘one-click gateways’ to more toxicity
Move over, TikTok, Ofcom, the U.K. regulator enforcing the now official Online Safety Act, is gearing up to size up an e...
IT総合 Silverfort now valued at $1B after raising $116M for its holistic approach to identity security
Silverfort, the Israeli/U.S. startup, takes an all-in view when it comes to identity security in an organization. When i...
IT総合 Bluewhite rakes in $39M for robots-as-a-service that can be retrofitted to drive any tractor
Agriculture has a long heritage of being constantly disrupted by technology, an evolution that has continued to play out...