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Disney-backed Inworld raises new cash for its AI-powered virtual characters
If software is eating the world, AI isn’t far behind. AI-powered text-, art- and audio-generating systems will soon make — and already are making — their way into the tools people us
Alphabet just spun out out its quantum tech group, launching it as an independent company
Quantum tech may be having its moment at long last. Consider that earlier this month, one of the few “pure play” quantum tech companies in the world, Rigetti Computing, went public by merg
ScienceIO leaves stealth with millions to structure health data
Years before he co-launched a stealthy business to fix the messy world of health data, Gaurav Kaushik was slowly connecting the dots on how better visualization could impact health outcomes. In 2018,
Bill Gates wants Western countries to eat ‘synthetic meat’; Meatable has raised $47 million to make it
In a recent interview discussing Bill Gates’ recent book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster“, the Microsoft and Breakthrough Energy founder (and the world’s third wealthiest man)
Newly funded Legacy, a sperm testing and freezing service, conveys a message to men: get checked
Legacy, a male fertility startup, has just raised a fresh, $3.5 million in funding from Bill Maris’s San Diego-based venture firm, Section 32, along with Y Combinator and Bain Capital Ventures,
As concerns over medical device security rise, MedCrypt raises $5.3 million
As medical devices move to networked technologies, securing those devices becomes increasingly important. Regulators, seemingly late to the threat that unsecured medical devices posed, only began requ
Music services company Kobalt is raising a big round that could exceed $100 million
Kobalt, a 19-year-old, London-based music services company that operates as both a music publisher and a service-based music company — among other things, it helps artists collect the royalties
Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong: ‘I’d love to run a public company’
Brian Armstrong, the CEO of cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase, wants to take his company public — maybe on the blockchain. Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018, Armstrong dished on his ambit
Bill Maris has closed his new fund with $150 million, to accommodate ‘strong’ investor interest
Bill Maris, the former chief executive of Alphabet's venture arm, GV, has closed on $150 million in commitments for his own, San Diego-based venture firm. The outfit, Section 32, was expected to raise