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Ambar Bhattacharyya (Maverick Ventures) + Iyah Romm (Cityblock Health)
10:03 PM PDT • June 30, 2021
Recorded on June 30, 2021. Maverick Ventures managing partner Ambar Bhattacharyya can boast 11 IPOs and acquisitions across his investment career, which includes stints at…
Startups
Rohlik raises $119M at a $1.2B valuation to grow its 2-hour grocery delivery service in Europe
9:59 pm PDT • June 30, 2021
“Instant” grocery delivery has been a big theme among food startups in Europe, where customers can order from a limited assortment of items and get their purchases packed from “dark…
Lotti Siniscalco (Emergence) + Melissa Wong (Retail Zipline)
9:52 PM PDT • June 30, 2021
Recorded on June 30, 2021. Lotti Siniscalco has experience across the fintech landscape as both an operator and investor. She’d held positions at NerdWallet, Goldman…
City Spotlight Pittsburgh: Building in Pittsburgh
9:21 PM PDT • June 30, 2021
Recorded on June 30, 2021. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto on building startups and finding venture capital in the Steel City
City Spotlight Pittsburgh: Pitch-off
9:21 PM PDT • June 30, 2021
Recorded on June 30, 2021. Startups will have two minutes to deliver their pitch, and our speakers will have four minutes to give their feedback.…
City Spotlight Pittsburgh: From Student to Startup
9:21 PM PDT • June 30, 2021
Recorded on June 30, 2021. CMU President Farnam Jahanian to speak on the school’s cutting edge robotics and automation research and how it’s keeping innovative…
Venture
Uber’s first head of data science just raised a new venture fund to back nascent AI startups
5:21 pm PDT • June 30, 2021
Kevin Novak joined Uber as its seventh engineer in 2011, and by 2014, he was the company’s head of data science. He talks proudly of that time, but like all…
Nodes & Links raises $11M to — maybe — save billions on the big projects the world needs now
4:05 pm PDT • June 30, 2021
Nodes & Links is a scheduling platform for large-scale infrastructure projects which works out when the nuts and bolts for the bridge (for example) should be delivered, and in what…
VividQ, which has raised $15M, says it can turn normal screens into holographic displays
4:00 pm PDT • June 30, 2021
VividQ, a UK-based deeptech startup with technology for rendering holograms on legacy screens, has raised $15 million to develop its technology for next-generation digital displays and devices. And it’s already…
Daily Crunch: Insecure server exposes Byju’s students’ names, phone numbers, emails and more
3:10 pm PDT • June 30, 2021
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Lego has worked extremely closely with Apple over the years, experimenting with unreleased iOS tech and demoing it onstage at launch events like WWDC; this has included some pretty heavy…
City Spotlight Pittsburgh: Developing Duolingo
2:02 PM PDT • June 30, 2021
Recorded on June 30, 2021. Karin Tsai, head of engineering, is set to speak on the tradeoffs between engagement and edtech, scale and satisfaction, and…
Pragmatic customers are being forced to adopt because they are under duress. It is not that they buy into the vision of software eating the world. It is because their very own…
Space
SpaceX delivers 88 satellites to orbit, lands first stage onshore for first time in 2021
12:42 pm PDT • June 30, 2021
SpaceX launched 85 satellites for external customers, as well as three Starlink satellites, to orbit on Tuesday, marking the second successful launch of the company’s dedicated rideshare missions. While the…
Transportation
BMW i Ventures announces new $300 million fund to invest in sustainable technology
12:38 pm PDT • June 30, 2021
BMW i Ventures, the venture capital arm of BMW Group, has announced a new $300 million fund to further its investment in technologies that make transportation, manufacturing and supply chains…
Startups
Women’s social network Peanut launches microfund StartHER to invest in pre-seed stage startups
12:31 pm PDT • June 30, 2021
Peanut, the maker of a social networking app for women, is entering into the investing space with today’s launch of a microfund called StartHER. As the name implies, the new fund…
Transportation
Volvo Cars sets the tone for its next-gen vehicles with ‘Concept Recharge’ EV
12:28 pm PDT • June 30, 2021
Volvo Cars wants to completely electrify its lineup by 2030 and on Wednesday offered a glimpse into how it plans to get there and what its next generation of vehicles…
Enterprise
How to cut through the promotional haze and select a digital building platform
12:20 pm PDT • June 30, 2021
Most buildings are beginning their digital transformation and are looking for ways to bring people back, keep people healthy and create environments where people want to spend time.
Look out language teachers, a synthetic human could be about to take your job
12:05 pm PDT • June 30, 2021
Hour One, a startup that allows businesses to create ‘photoreal’ presenters that can speak pre-set any text or any language in a highly realistic manner, has signed a deal with…
Enterprise
Slack’s new voice, video tools should fit nicely on Salesforce platform after deal closes
12:02 pm PDT • June 30, 2021
It’s easy to forget, but Salesforce bought Slack at the end of last year for almost $28 billion, a deal that has yet to close. We don’t know exactly when…
