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Collect and leverage zero-party data to personalize marketing and drive growth
2:21 pm PST • November 10, 2021
Implemented correctly, zero-party data marketing allows you to treat every customer as an individual, personalize their experience with your brand and build real relationships.
Startups
Blackshark.ai’s digital twin of Earth attracts $20M in funding
1:14 pm PST • November 10, 2021
Blackshark.ai, the Austrian startup behind the digital globe you fly over in Microsoft’s Flight Simulator, has raised a $20 million round A to develop and scale its replica-Earth tech. The…
Startups
Ample raises $30M to take battery swapping business to Europe
1:10 pm PST • November 10, 2021
Ample, a startup developing battery swapping technology for electric vehicles, has scored another $30 million from The Blackstone Group and Spanish multinational financial services company Banco Santander. The San Francisco-based…
Sight Tech Global agenda announced
12:50 pm PST • November 10, 2021
The second annual Sight Tech Global conference, a virtual, free event on December 1-2, will convene the world’s top experts on advanced technologies, notably AI, addressing accessibility and assistive tech for…
Fintech
Expensify CEO David Barrett discusses going public and why expense management is a $1T opportunity
12:40 pm PST • November 10, 2021
“I think what is really driving this, honestly, is just liquidity for our early shareholders. We haven’t raised money in so long that our VCs basically just need liquidity.”
Transportation
Congress mandates anti-drunk driving technology for cars
12:33 pm PST • November 10, 2021
Congress is making its biggest push ever to stop drunk driving with President Biden’s huge infrastructure bill: One of the provisions included a mandate for anti-drunk driving technology in new…
Transportation
The DOJ is suing Uber over claims its ‘wait time’ fee policy discriminates against people with disabilities
11:47 am PST • November 10, 2021
The Department of Justice is suing ride-hailing giant Uber over claims that the company discriminates against passengers with disabilities, in violation of the U.S. Americans with Disabilities Act. The suit,…
Just two days after SpaceX safely returned four astronauts from the International Space Station, it’s sending another quartet to orbit. Check out the launch live on the video above —…
Space
An early-stage founder shares the benefits of attending TC Sessions: Space 2021
10:57 am PST • November 10, 2021
It takes such a galactic amount of time, effort and expense to build a successful space startup, that you might find it difficult to justify carving out two days to…
Remember when Twitter dropped NFTs and enabled Bitcoin tips? Given that founder and CEO Jack Dorsey’s Twitter bio is literally just “#bitcoin,” it’s not surprising that Twitter is interested in…
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Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents. The company announced…
Biotech & Health
Google DeepMind debuts huge AlphaFold update and free proteomics-as-a-service web app
9 hours ago
Google DeepMind has taken the wraps off a new version AlphaFold, their transformative machine learning model that predicts the shape and behavior of proteins. AlphaFold 3 is not only more…
Startups
$450M for Noname, two billion-dollar rounds, and good news for crypto startups
8:00 AM PDT • May 8, 2024
Good news, crypto founders! Venture capital activity is picking up in the sector, recovering from the multi-year lows investments fell to in late 2023. Put…
Uber plans to deliver more perks to Uber One members, like member-exclusive events, in a bid to gain more revenue through subscriptions. “You will see more member-exclusives coming up where…
We’ve all seen them. The inspector with a clipboard, walking around a building, ticking off the last time the fire extinguishers were checked, or if all the lights are working.…
Startups
Controversial drone company Xtend leans into defense with new $40 million round
11 hours ago
Close to a decade ago, brothers Aviv and Matteo Shapira co-founded a company, Replay, that created a video format for 360-degree replays — the sorts of replays that have become…
Usually, when something starts to rot, it gets pitched in the trash. But Joanne Rodriguez wants to turn the concept of rot on its head by growing fungus on trash…
Monzo has raised another £150 million ($190 million), as the challenger bank looks to expand its presence internationally — particularly in the U.S. The new round comes just two months…
iRobot has announced the successor to longtime CEO, Colin Angle. Gary Cohen, who previous held chief executive role at Timex and Qualitor Automotive, will be heading up the company, marking a major…
Reddit — now a publicly-traded company with more scrutiny on revenue growth — is putting a big focus on boosting its international audience, starting with francophones. In their first-ever earnings…
