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Virtual Internships matches students with top companies around the world

TechCrunch

Remote work struck down barriers for many employees, and now Virtual Internships is doing the same for university students around the world by partnering with over 12,000 companies from 100 countries. Since its launch, Virtual Internships has increased its revenue from $100,000 in fiscal year 2019/2020 to $4.1

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Bank of America’s big bet on AI started small

CIO

Few used the term agent, let alone agentic AI , in 2018, but the bank built a team of software engineers, linguistic specialists, and banking experts to create the small language model, which has been tuned over the years using customer feedback data from the call center. Weve got multiple availability zones in our virtual private cloud.

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1 Million Engineers Can’t Be Wrong: The Top Stories You Liked in 2018

OverOps

We’re taking a walk down memory lane to see which topics, trends and posts interested you in 2018. And in order to do that, we took a deep look into the top topics and posts that interested you throughout 2018. JVM Architecture 101: Get to Know Your Virtual Machine. — OverOps (@overopshq) January 8, 2019.

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Healthie lands $16.5M to build the Stripe for virtual patient care

TechCrunch

The company provides their customers with templates they can customize to fit their needs all while allowing companies to provide users with virtual engagements. The company officially launched in 2016 and has been FCF net income profitable since 2018. Platforms with big limitations, no product user interface, very hard to use.

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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

TechCrunch

We have been raised to believe in recycling, but it has mostly been a sham — only 9% of all plastic waste produced in 2018 was recycled. Startups that deliver sustainable personalization solutions that also improve business for retailers and brands fall into three categories: AR virtual try-on with shade matching.

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Homa raises another $100 million for its data-driven mobile gaming tools

TechCrunch

Since 2018, Homa has published 80 games and attracted one billion downloads. The startup wants to build a universe of interconnected games with virtual worlds and characters owned by creators and players — a sort of Homa metaverse. The SDK gives you tools to track monetization metrics, such as the cost per install compared to the eCPM.

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Leena AI nabs $8M Series as it expands from chatbots to HR service platform

TechCrunch

When we covered Leena AI as a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 cohort, the young startup was firmly focused on building HR chatbots, but in the intervening years it has expanded the vision to a broader HR policy platform. Over the last couple of years since leaving Y Combinator, the company has moved into broader HR service delivery.

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