Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

tied) Insider , $500M, digital marketing: Marketing tech platform Insider raised a $500 million Series E led by General Atlantic to fund its expansion in the U.S. The latest startup in the space to get a big chunk of cash is Beta Technologies, maker of electric vertical take-off and landing planes. billion, per Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Resistant AI , which uses artificial intelligence to help financial services companies combat fraud and financial crime — selling tools to protect credit risk scoring models, payment systems, customer onboarding and more — has closed $16.6 ” Index and Credo lead a $2.75M seed in anti-fraud tech, Resistant AI.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 4, 2025

In fact, it took $200 million or more to make the list last month, as defense tech and cybersecurity led the way. Lambda , $480M, artificial intelligence: Lambda, which offers cloud computing services and hardware for training artificial intelligence software, raised a $480 million Series D co-led by Andra Capital and SGW.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

The combination of AI and search enables new levels of enterprise intelligence, with technologies such as natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML)-based relevancy, vector/semantic search, and large language models (LLMs) helping organizations finally unlock the value of unanalyzed data.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series in which Crunchbase News interviews active investors in artificial intelligence. The firm incubated Vannevar Labs in 2019, before defense tech and AI were as popular as they are today. Pick things that matter — both technologies that matter and problems that matter.”

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Fine-tuning is a powerful approach in natural language processing (NLP) and generative AI , allowing businesses to tailor pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for specific tasks. This process involves updating the model’s weights to improve its performance on targeted applications.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Global venture investment in 2024 was above the pre-pandemic year of 2019, but below 2018 and 2020 amounts at $346 billion and $350 billion, respectively. Close to a third of all global venture funding went to companies in AI-related fields, making artificial intelligence the leading sector for funding.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Venture money wasnt concentrated in just one sector, as VCs invested in everything from artificial intelligence to biotech to energy. The Norwalk, Connecticut-based firm did not disclose investor names, instead saying it came from a private investor whose portfolio focuses on global technology and real estate investments.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

Nerdy will merge with TPG Pace Tech Opportunities (NYSE: PACE), a publicly traded SPAC since 2015. Nerdy’s flagship business, Varsity Tutors, is a two-sided marketplace that matches tutors to students in large, small or 1:1 group environments. The learning platform covers more than 3,000 subjects. Teachers are leaving schools.

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Netflix Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

By Ko-Jen Hsiao , Yesu Feng and Sudarshan Lamkhede Motivation Netflixs personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including Continue Watching and Todays Top Picks for You. Refer to our recent overview for more details).

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

In 2019, Geifman co-founded Deci alongside Ran El-Yaniv and entrepreneur Jonathan Elial. “This means that AI applications that previously could only be deployed on large and expensive GPUs can now be deployed on CPUs.” But Geifman argues that Deci’s platform offers access to NAS capabilities at a lower cost.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Editor’s note: In 2023, Crunchbase News interviewed active startup investors in artificial intelligence. For many, the foundation-level models — unless you are an early investor — are challenging for venture funding due to the vast sums of capital required. Below, we publish highlights from those interviews.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

” Founded in 2015, LinkSquares was inspired by Sunak’s and Chris Combs’ work with contracts and due diligence over the course of a company acquisition. The idea to review each contract, read the provision related to data transfer, and store the answer seemed straightforward — at first. ”

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 8, 2019

Experts explore the future of hiring, AI breakthroughs, embedded machine learning, and more. Experts from across the AI world came together for the O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference in Beijing. The future of machine learning is tiny. Watch " The future of machine learning is tiny.".

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Sarah writes that the social media giant is seeing a spike in one-star reviews, which include calling for its removal. In essence, Auto-GPT uses the versatility of OpenAI’s latest AI models to interact with software and services online, allowing it to “autonomously” perform tasks like X and Y. Big Tech Inc. You can sign up here.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Today Juniper Networks announced it was acquiring smart wide area networking startup 128 Technology for $450 million. This marks the second AI-fueled networking company Juniper has acquired in the last year and a half after purchasing Mist Systems in March 2019 for $405 million.

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CIO

JULY 23, 2024

Mounting technical debt from mission-critical systems CIOs have good reason to stress out over rising technical debt and the impact of supporting legacy systems past their end-of-life dates. Neglecting to address technical debt in a timely manner can lead to catastrophic consequences.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Byteboard , a service designed to replace the pre-onsite technical interview part of a company’s hiring process with a web-based alternative, will be spinning out of Google, TechCrunch learned and Google confirmed. A group of experienced engineers review and rate the interviews.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

The pair say they started Unit21 based on the belief that the existing model of “black box” machine learning used for fraud prevention and detection was flawed. The company declined to reveal hard revenue figures, saying only revenue grew by “12x” in 2020 compared to 2019.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Nearly one in three American households have delayed medical care due to its cost, per a 2019 Gallup poll. . The artificial intelligence technology underlying the platform allows hospitals to leverage patient data to determine payment plans specific to each patient while keeping administrative costs low.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JULY 3, 2024

Generative AI and transformer-based large language models (LLMs) have been in the top headlines recently. These models demonstrate impressive performance in question answering, text summarization, code, and text generation. Marketing content is a key component in the communication strategy of HCLS companies.

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John Snow Labs

JULY 19, 2023

Exploring the Innovators and Challengers in the Commercial LLM Landscape beyond OpenAI: Anthropic, Cohere, Mosaic ML, Cerebras, Aleph Alpha, AI21 Labs and John Snow Labs. While OpenAI is well-known, these companies bring fresh ideas and tools to the LLM world. billion in funding by June 2023. billion in funding by June 2023.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MAY 21, 2019

Companies successfully adopt machine learning either by building on existing data products and services, or by modernizing existing models and algorithms. I will highlight the results of a recent survey on machine learning adoption, and along the way describe recent trends in data and machine learning (ML) within companies.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The advent of new technologies has accelerated the rate of innovation and disrupted the business landscape as we know it. As the pace of innovation speeds up, tomorrow’s front runners are those who readily embrace disruptive technologies to spearhead new business models and capture new avenues of growth.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company also offers due diligence and acquisition financing from Thrasio-owned Yardline Capital and a new service called Flippa Legal. in 2019, driven largely by the global pandemic as sales shifted online while brick-and-mortar stores closed. Our strategy is verification at the source, i.e. data,” Hutchison said.

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The Crazy Programmer

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Undoubtedly, Silicon Valley has always been top-notch in leading the cutting-edge tech startups with escalating growth rates. The Southern Bay area of California is the Hubspot for large companies, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook. Best Silicon Valley Startups of 2019. billion so far this year. .”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It had produced, and was poised to produce, an enormous number of technology startups, given its relatively small size. million on average, the largest payout to employees in Israeli high tech at the time, and the exit created a pool of new entrepreneurs and angel investors. And in 2019, Bay Area investors put $1.4

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BrainStation Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2019

We’ve talked about the growth of New York’s tech scene, but 2019 might prove to be a pivotal year in the city’s emerging status as a global tech leader. . Here are some of the things we learned from the biggest New York tech industry stories and developments from 2019. metro area. . “As

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Altexsoft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

In 2019, insurers spent nearly $225 billion on IT, in 2020 the pandemic slightly slowed down the investments. As a result, the large industry – which in the US accounts for $1.3 It’s clear that the make-insurance-great-again mission heavily depends today on technology adoption. It’s estimated that the firm will save about $1.25

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Preply , a tutoring marketplace for language learning, has raised a $35 million Series B co-led by Full In Partners and Owl Ventures, an edtech fund that has backed Byju’s and Newsela. Investors in Preply include Point Nine Capital, Hoxton Ventures, EduCapital, All Iron, Diligent Capital and Evli Growth Partners.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Altos Ventures led its Series B in 2019. ” Flores founded the company in 2012, technically before “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) was cool. We were able to update our AI and machine learning models on a daily basis, when banks typically update theirs every six months.”. Image Credits: Kueski.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

They eventually left Peixe Urbano and started Tuna in 2019 to make their own payment product which enables merchants to use A/B testing of credit card processors and anti-fraud providers to optimize their payments processing with one integration and a no-code interface. “In In the U.S.,

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Altexsoft

JANUARY 11, 2019

So, let’s analyze the data science and artificial intelligence accomplishments and events of the past year. Machine learning and data science advisor Oleksandr Khryplyvenko notes that 2018 wasn’t as full of memorable breakthroughs for the industry, unlike previous years. But it’s a great time for a retrospective.

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OTS Solutions

MAY 2, 2019

Top 10 RPA Predictions For 2019. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a growing type of process automation technology within the world of business. Here are the top 10 predictions for RPA and RPA Solutions in 2019. Thus far, RPA have been solely integrated into large-scale organizations.

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OpenCredo

APRIL 20, 2021

Machine learning has great potential for many businesses, but the path from a Data Scientist creating an amazing algorithm on their laptop, to that code running and adding value in production, can be arduous. This typically requires retraining or otherwise updating the model with the fresh data. Monitoring. Why this blog post?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

SmarterTravel has 7 million email newsletter subscribers and uses proprietary artificial intelligence fixes to give customers travel information and discounts. Before, you might have combed through reviews, but now you just want an expert to tell you, and that is what we are.”. billion in 2019. The deal closed in 2020.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

The year 2021 saw more and bigger deals closed in Africa, as tech startups across the continent raised close to $5 billion. billion investment that fintechs in Africa raised in 2020, and triple the amount in 2019. This amount was also more than double the $1.35

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