IT総合 OpenAI’s head of trust and safety Dave Willner steps down
A significant personnel change is afoot at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence juggernaut that has nearly single-handedl...
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IT総合 IT総合 Preply, the language app known for its live tutors, closes out Series C at $120M and doubles down on AI
Language learning platform Preply made a name for itself for connecting students with a selection of some 35,000 tutors ...
IT総合 Neura Robotics picks up $55M to ramp up in cognitive robotics
Neura Robotics, a German startup that since 2019 has been building cognitive robots — machines that possess memory...
IT総合 Cognaize raises $18M to build a better LLM for the finance sector, one that keeps humans in the loop
Artificial intelligence has had a major impact over the years in the finance sector, helping neobanks personalize servic...
IT総合 Hammerspace ingests $56M for a new approach to work with vast amounts of unstructured data
Data may be “the new oil,” but only when it can be extracted and put to use. Today, a five year-old startup ...
IT総合 Tractable snaps up $65M led by SoftBank for car and property damage appraisals using AI
When it comes to transforming business operations, artificial intelligence holds a lot of promise across many industries...
IT総合 VanMoof, the e-bike startup, officially declared bankrupt in The Netherlands
Another grim stage for VanMoof, the e-bike startup backed by venture capitalists to the tune of hundreds of millions of ...
IT総合 Isometric taps $25M to build a registry and science platform focused on carbon removal
Carbon removal — technology that aims to remove carbon emissions from the environment by breaking it down and turn...
IT総合 Thunes pockets $72M at a $900M+ valuation to expand its cross-border, B2B payment platform
Thunes, a Singapore and London-based fintech that has built a payments platform for businesses to send money to each oth...
IT総合 Gamified e-learning platform Kahoot gets acquired in a $1.7B deal led by Goldman Sachs, Lego and more
Big moves ahead for Kahoot, the Oslo startup that’s built a popular platform for users to create, share and play e...
IT総合 Causaly, an AI platform for drug discovery and biomedical research, raises $60M
Artificial intelligence has been a big theme in the world of health and medical research, and specifically in the area o...
IT総合 Report: e-bike startup VanMoof, unable to pay its bills, files for payment deferment in Holland
Is VanMoof about to go poof? Earlier this week, we reported on how the Amsterdam-based e-bike startup, backed by hundred...
IT総合 Oritain raises $57M for its forensic, big-data science approach to tracking the origin of goods
Global supply chains have made the world smaller by enabling us to have virtually anything we want at the tap of a finge...
IT総合 Prolific raises $32M to train and stress-test AI models using its network of 120K people
AI, when it works well, can feel like magic, but all too often AI-based systems don’t work as they should: If the ...
IT総合 Solaris raises $42M at a flat $1.6B valuation to expand in embedded finance after a rough 2022
Solaris — the German fintech that, when it was known as Solarisbank, raised hundreds of millions of dollars to bui...
IT総合 EGYM, the Munich-based smart fitness startup, raises $225M from Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners
The technology industry at large might not be in the best of health at the moment, but health and fitness startups appea...
IT総合 Tiny acquires HappyFunCorp, the prolific firm that’s built apps for Twitter, Amazon and more, for $30M
M&A and consolidation continue to be major themes in the tech world as companies look for their next steps in a tigh...
IT総合 Voice.ai raises $6M as its real-time voice changer approaches 500k users
Services like Midjourney and ChatGPT have pushed the boundaries of how AI can create images and text out of basic text p...
IT総合 Carl Pei’s Nothing raises something – $96M – ahead of the launch of its Phone (2)
Smartphone sales are in decline as handset makers grapple with saturated markets and a tough consumer economic climate. ...
IT総合 Augmedics snaps up $82.5M to advance spinal surgery using AR and AI
Spinal is one of the fastest-growing categories of surgery, with the number of operations taking place annually now appr...
IT総合 Loora, a generative AI app that uses an audio interface to help users learn English, raises $9.25M
The jury is still out on whether AI adoption really will spell the end of humanity as we know it, but in the meantime, w...
IT総合 Databricks picks up MosaicML, an OpenAI competitor, for $1.3B
Investors aren’t the only ones who want to get their hands on hot tech companies in the field of AI: it’s al...
IT総合 IBM acquires Apptio from Vista for $4.6B in cash to double down on hybrid cloud services
As cloud architecture continues to more ubiquitous among organizations, increasingly what is more apparent is that many ...
IT総合 TreasurySpring raises $29M to expand its investment platform aimed at businesses with excess cash
Of the many issues highlighted by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, one big one was the liability of having too much ...
IT総合 beehiiv, a newsletter platform, gets $12.5M in its inbox
The world took a double take at the potential of newsletters after Substack started to blow up a few years ago. Now, ano...
IT総合 Volt, an open banking fintech for payments and more, raises $60M at a $350M+ valuation
Open banking — where traditional banks enable payments and other new services by way of APIs that give access to f...
IT総合 Consumer group calls on EU to urgently investigate ‘the risks of generative AI’
European regulators are at a crossroads over how AI will be regulated — and ultimately used commercially and non-c...
IT総合 Musk woos ad giants in Paris to fix Twitter’s woes
In a steaming-hot, packed, VivaTech hall in Paris today, Twitter owner Elon Musk waxed lyrical on his various accomplish...
IT総合 Wargraphs, a gaming startup with only one employee and no outside funding, sells for $54M
While the U.K. and U.S. try to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision over concerns it will kill competition ...
IT総合 Informatica acquires Privitar, once valued at $400M, to expand its data management stack
One of the recurring themes in the area of enterprise IT these days is consolidation, and today we’re getting anot...