Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It is able to combine hardware, software and AI to help modernize manufacturing maintenance processes. ” AI dollars Of course, Traction is just the latest company using AI to solve real-world problems while also attracting big investment dollars. The round also included investment from General Catalyst , Next47 and NGP Capital.

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CIO

MARCH 18, 2025

1] But as businesses seek to realize these benefits, the technology debate is extending beyond data and algorithms to another crucial piece of the overall puzzle: the underlying hardware, particularly AI PCs. Ultimately, AI transformation needs a foundation, and part of that will be the hardware businesses use to deploy AI.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

” Long before the team had working hardware, though, the company focused on building its compiler to ensure that its solution could actually address its customers’ needs. With this, the compiler can then look at the model and figure out how to best map it on the hardware to optimize for data flow and minimize data movement.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

“One of the great advantages of satellite data is that we don’t require hardware to be installed at the infrastructure itself,” said Przywarra. ” All of this is also still a relatively new field, Przywarra added. “Prior to Google Earth, satellite maps were only used by experts,” he said.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2025

Navigator: As technology landscapes and market dynamics change, enterprise architects help businesses navigate through complexity and uncertainty, ensuring that the organization remains on course despite evolving challenges. Aggregated TCO: Evaluating the total cost across hardware, software, services and operational expenditures is key.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Quantum Machines , an Israeli startup that is building the classical hardware and software infrastructure to help run quantum machines, announced a $50 million Series B investment today. So classical hardware and the software that drives it. Now at the heart of our hardware is in fact a classical processor.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The version of their SAP ERP system was out of support and the SAP instance they chose wasn’t available as an on-premise capable, supported hardware platform. This conundrum is what motivated Tomago to migrate its ERP system to the cloud back in 2015.

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CIO

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Of course, the “customer” audience that a CIO must sell digital initiatives to varies. Education and enthusiasm about digital projects are what sell them, and when it comes to securing funding and backing for digital projects from organizational decision-makers, it’s often job No. 1 for CIOs to do the selling.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Oura wasn’t the first smart ring to market, but over the course of its life, the device has had surprisingly little competition. In general, it’s proven difficult for consumer hardware companies to find a toehold beyond the wrist. From the sound of things, consumer is the first step for a still-small hardware startup.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

CEO of Neubility Sangmin Lee told TechCrunch that it’s been focused on developing hardware and software for its latest effort, delivery robots, since late 2019. Neubility launched a handful of pilot projects to test its autonomous delivery robots in golf courses and camping sites in the last 12 months.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

SPACs are, of course, becoming an increasingly popular route for taking companies public. Hardware makers haven’t been a huge player thus far (with a few exceptions like smart lock mater, Latch ), though that looks like it may be changing.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2021

The company says that its software tools allow AI models to run anywhere, irrespective of hardware constraints, and that includes on the inexpensive chips that are typically found in edge devices. Among them are open source tools like TensorFlow, hardware vendors like Xilinx, and rival startups like OctoML and Deeplite.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Bloomberg broke news earlier this week that Apple, the consumer hardware giant with a rising services focus, is building a buy now, pay later (BNPL) service that will integrate with its Apple Pay system. It’s not fair to focus on Affirm, of course. of its value yesterday. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

I’ve tried a few different pieces of meditation hardware over the years, because who wouldn’t love to have a nice shortcut to mindfulness? Nothing is going to make you a great meditator overnight (or stick with it long-term), of course, but the product was useful in helping me establish a more regular practice.

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CIO

AUGUST 6, 2024

Tech debt can take many forms — old applications, bloated code, and aging hardware among them — and while the issue often takes a back seat to innovation and new technology, it is on the minds of a lot of CIOs. Some organizations may also have the veteran IT workers needed to deal with legacy hardware and code, adds Madan.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The other major change was beginning to rely on hardware acceleration of said codecs — your computer or GPU might have an actual chip in it with the codec baked in, ready to perform decompression tasks with far greater speed than an ordinary general-purpose CPU in a phone. Just one problem: when you get a new codec, you need new hardware.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Of course many tools have come down in price and difficulty, such as high-resolution cameras and the computing power to edit and color footage. It is focused on post-production, but it will drastically reduce the need for hardware, equipment and additional effort in production as it exists today.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Hardware-wise, the business uses Facebook’s Oculus Quest headset with Oculus for Business, not the generic customer hardware available in stores. Below is a presentation from the company highlighting the trainee experience. Transfr’s core technology is its software.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

An electric vehicle is, essentially, just “software on wheels”, and requires lots of moving parts, not physical but, of course, virtual. So, the more this embedded automotive software is de-coupled from the underlying electronic hardware, the more this optimization can take place, and the more efficient vehicles can become.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 21, 2025

And AI funding, of course, continued its skyward trajectory in Q1, with multibillion-dollar funding deals not just to OpenAI but several of its rivals. AI was the top sector for venture funding in Q1, with nearly $60 billion invested (of course, two-thirds of that was just for OpenAI). Artificial inflation? Further U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We needed the beautiful hardware piece that people will have in the yard, but a big part of it was that story of reconnecting. Of course the smart layer comes with some risks, as typified by Ring, which has attracted controversy due to acting as a police surveillance network. Is Francine the flicker coming to your yard too?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The company today announced it raised a $6 million round of seed funding, to “lead the next generation of agile hardware materials management.” “A challenge we had, and saw reflected in the processes of our clients, was that building and scaling hardware felt incredibly laborious in comparison to software.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

It’s no surprise, of course. It’s an important area, of course, but anyone entering the category these days would be well served examining other elements of the space. Somewhere along the way, ProMat turned into a robotics show. Logistics and automation go hand in hand these days. Pickle 2 and 3 are coming in consecutive years.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

But bucking the trend is Span , a hardware-focused climate tech company that’s trying to replace the home electrical panel, a device most people only think about when the hair dryer causes the lights to go out. And that’s what prompted the idea of bringing in additional capital.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

Taking advantage of advances in 5G in the millimeter spectrum as well as rapidly declining hardware costs, the startup is pioneering a mesh network of wireless base stations that can transmit high-bandwidth signals across entire neighborhoods at relatively cheap infrastructure installation costs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The idea is to take a complex 3D structure and accomplish what it does using a precisely engineered “2D” surface — not actually two-dimensional, of course, but usually a plane with features measured in microns. OpenCV AI Kit aims to do for computer vision what Raspberry Pi did for hobbyist hardware.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Tiger Global Management (because, of course) is leading the $65 million round, which also features participation from existing investors Blackhorn Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Tectonic Ventures, Drive Capital and Fontinalis Partners, plus new names like Lineage Logistics, Proficio Capital Partners and Impulse.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We don’t want to go higher in the stack — and we can’t go lower in the stack because that’s the hardware. One problem in the industry right now, of course, is that there are very few standards, something Chatrash is keenly aware of. “We don’t want to full-stack. So we are very much focused.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Over the course of the last few years, Firewalla ‘s combined firewall and router devices have made a name for themselves as the go-to hardware security tools for many enthusiasts and small businesses. From surviving to thriving as a hardware startup. Image Credits: Firewalla.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

The San Francisco-based startup’s software is hardware and business model agnostic and focuses on all the features a company might need to run their automated robot, tractor, or forklift, including path planning, hazard detection, behavior trees, human detection, controls tuning and safety. ”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Hiitide (Chicago) — A marketplace that turns books into virtual book clubs and courses. Paerpay (Boston) — A contactless payment platform that doesn’t require additional hardware or app downloads. OneVillage (Washington, D.C.) — An online wishlist, planning tool and retailer for cancer patients and their supporters.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Carbix, of course, is going to artificial sources. As with any hardware company working at industrial scales, there are a lot of upfront costs. Turning CO2 into stone is the basis of several startups in what we might call the permanent carbon sequestering market; Heimdal does it using seawater and 44.01

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

based company has validated the demand for its product by performing high-altitude flights and using the Satellite Vu imaging hardware to scan sites or entire cities. Of course they may see vehicles, crowds, and other larger features that indicate people, but this isn’t a tactical asset. (By So far the U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

If you have data that’s 15 minutes old rather than yesterday’s reading or an estimate by a passing satellite, you can simply make more informed decisions about things like shipping routes, weather predictions (even on land), and of course there are the innumerable scientific applications of such a large amount of data.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

Nor, of course, can a consumer device diagnose conditions. In addition to the standard array of wearable sensors, the startup points to a custom-built EDA (electrodermal activity) detector as the product’s hardware differentiator. The company is offering a hardware-as-a-service model, straight out of the gate.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Of course girls can play with these toys too, but some of them may prefer to play with something that is designed for them. The 18″ dolls operate via a piece of hardware embedded in each doll. The market is filled with toys that are designed and marketed for and by males.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The company has already started work on the project, recruiting some 30 people to help build and test the necessary software and hardware. “The RNIB is supporting user-testing and ensuring that our designs are human-centred,” Feghali said. “Imperial College is supporting the underlying sensing algorithms.

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