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Travelsist hopes its air travel concierge will take off from Atlanta
Founded by a former flight attendant, Atlanta-based startup Travelsist and its Travelsistants provides assistance to travelers on behalf of airports and airlines.
Accessercise’s app makes it easier for people with disabilities to exercise
Accessercise, which developed a fitness app for people who want to exercise despite their disabilities, was one of the Startup Battlefield 200 finalists at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023.
Beams helps product teams shine a light on the work that matters most
Beams’ co-founders Jana Schellong and Mihri Minaz see a fundamental problem with how product teams work. While they have productivity tools that are supposed to help them work smarter, too…
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A tale of two research institutes
If you’re lucky, once a year you get to put together a panel built on pure kismet. Pairing Gill Pratt with Marc Raibert was exactly that for me. The two go back several decades, to the salad days of MIT’s Leg Lab. [A version of this story originally appeared in TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe…
Pilot is a social travel hub that uses AI to help you plan, book and share trips
Pilot, a Vancouver-based startup, wants to become “the hub of global travel experience” and connect people via travel.
Being is an app that wants to help users map out and address mental health concerns
Being, a Delaware-based startup, is on a mission to scale its mental health app, which aims to help users create a map of their concerns to better navigate their everyday…
Blend uses generative AI to give you a personalized clothing guide
Shopping for clothing online has liberated us from the need to brave the endless aisles, fluorescent lights and sale-hungry crowds of the brick-and-mortar retail inferno. But anyone who has found…
KSOC says it’s tackling cloud-native security in a way that is Kubernetes-first
The take-up of Kubernetes, a tool for managing containerized workloads, is only expected to increase as demand for cloud-native architectures and containerization continues. In terms of security, this can mean…
This startup wants to verify your ID without storing your personal data
As government and banking services move away from verifying identities in the real world, moving toward online ID verification, several companies have entered the market to solve this problem. A…
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Travel wheelchair Revolve Air launches on Kickstarter
Revolve Air, a travel wheelchair that can fold to cabin luggage size, is now available for pre-orders on Kickstarter at a cost of $4,999.
Atlassian CTO: We were late moving to the cloud, on the ball with AI
The goal of Atlassian’s CTO, Rajeev Rajan, and that of the two CEOs is to create one of the top tech companies at the world.
Open Robotics’ ROS is safe despite Alphabet buying OSRC, says Intrinsic
The acquisition of Open Robotics received a mixed reception across the industry. “The aim of Intrinsic is to democratize the access to robotics,” says Wendy Tan White, CEO of Intrinsic.
Agility Robotics: Our robot won’t be armed or take your jobs
Agility Robotics will soon be able to make 10,000 bipedal humanoid robots per year and claims it is creating jobs rather than taking them from humans.
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Why the public sector is an easy target for ransomware
We’re on track for 2023 to be a record-breaking year for ransomware attacks targeting the U.S. public sector. These attacks, which include both traditional encrypt-and-extort and newer data theft-only attacks, know the public sector is an easy target: It’s no secret that local governments have small IT budgets and limited cybersecurity resources. At the same…
Rick Fox wants his concrete startup’s carbon credits to subsidize down payments for homeowners
Plenty of companies sell carbon credits, but Rick Fox wants to use them to help lower the cost of acquiring a home made of Partanna’s concrete blocks.
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker: AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’
Why is it that so many companies that rely on monetizing the data of their users seem to be extremely hot on AI? If you ask Signal president Meredith Whittaker…
‘Nobody has lost their job because of what we do,’ says CEO of film industry AI tool
“Honestly, and I really can say this with a straight face, we create jobs. Because there’s so much shit to do to actually put these use cases into production, that…
A conversation with Cruise’s Kyle Vogt, Bird scoops up Spin and self-driving trucks live to see another day in Cali
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Building an equitable cap table puts more tools in a startup’s toolbox
Building an equitable cap table allows startups to bring on experts they wouldn’t be able to hire while making VC more diverse.
Despite the ups and downs of the fintech space, people still really care about it
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every…
LimeLoop’s sleek reusable mailers seek to replace cardboard boxes
The startup’s smart mailers are reusable dozens of times, reducing the carbon footprint by 90% compared with cardboard boxes.
AquaLith might have an answer to the US battery material shortage problem
AquaLith looks to make new types of battery cell components that don’t rely on the scarce metals normally used in lithium-ion battery packs.
Akowe wants to fix Africa’s broken certificate system with blockchain
The crypto industry has long been criticized for its disconnection with the real world, but there are players who try to show that the underlying blockchain technology can solve some…
Google’s Parisa Tabriz on how the company stays ahead of hackers
Google is constantly under attack. But while hackers have compromised gaming giants, casinos and other technology giants in recent months, Google has so far remained largely unscathed. Parisa Tabriz, who…
Power amplifier startup Falcomm to close $4M, taking on Qualcomm and Broadcom
Smartphones are equipped with a range of chips that perform various functions. Among them, there’s a semiconductor chip called the power amplifier that is responsible for conditioning and amplifying the…
Niura’s EEG-implemented earbuds scan your brain health and recommend music to your mood
Niura has developed a pair of earbuds that monitor brain activity and, it claims, can both watch for potential health issues and match music to a user’s mood. The founders,…
South Africa’s FinanceGPT simplifies financial analysis, set to interface in local languages
FinanceGPT is a generative AI startup built to help companies in their financial analysis tasks. Initially built for startups without in-house finance teams, and VCs looking to run financial health…
Plantiga Technologies’ AI-powered footwear sensor pod aims to reduce injury risks
Plantiga Technologies, a Vancouver-based movement analytics company, wants to help people improve rehabilitation and reduce injury risks through an artificial intelligence-powered monitoring sensor pod that can be embedded into shoes,…
HME Square aims to measure glucose painlessly with photoacoustics
People with diabetes have to monitor their blood sugar levels regularly by pricking their skin. Many glucose-monitoring device makers worldwide are pursuing needle-free approaches to make this painful process more…
Olivia Deramus’ company Communia competes in TechCrunch’s Battlefield 200, with the mission to create a safe digital space for women.
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