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V7 snaps up $33M to automate training data for computer vision AI models

Artificial intelligence promises to help, and maybe even replace, humans to carry out everyday tasks and solve problems that humans…

2 years ago

3 mistakes to avoid as an emerging manager

Champ Suthipongchai Contributor Share on Twitter Champ Suthipongchai is a co-founder and general partner at Creative Ventures, a method-driven deep…

2 years ago

Bionaut Labs gets $43.2M for its tiny drug delivery robots

Founded in 2017, Bionaut Labs arrived out of stealth in March 2021, with plans to commercialize longstanding research around drug…

2 years ago

A scale story: TechCrunch’s parent company links up with Taboola

Folks often ask if Crunchbase and TechCrunch are still the same company (nope). Many express surprise that AOL was once…

2 years ago

Google, Microsoft-backed VerSe Innovation cuts 5% of workforce, reduces salaries

India’s VerSe Innovation — the $5 billion Indian startup behind news aggregator Dailyhunt, short-video platform Josh, and hyperlocal video app…

2 years ago

Yahoo gets 25% stake in Taboola as part of long-term advertising deal

Yahoo is taking a nearly 25% stake in advertising network Taboola. In exchange for this move, Taboola is becoming Yahoo’s…

2 years ago

SWVL reduces its headcount by 50% six months after axing 400+ staff

Cairo-born and Dubai-based mass transit and shared mobility services provider SWVL has carried out its second round of layoffs affecting…

2 years ago

BackingMinds raises new €50 million fund to fund normally overlooked entrepreneurs

Denmark-based venture fund BackingMinds, founded in 2016, likes to think it takes a different approach to venture in Europe. Its…

2 years ago

Meta hit with ~$275M GDPR penalty for Facebook data-scraping breach

Facebook’s parent, Meta, has been hit with another hefty penalty for breaching European data protection law. The €265 million (~$275M)…

2 years ago

Apple and Huish devise clever pricing model for divers with Oceanic+ app

Oceanic+, developed by Huish Outdoors, made a splash at this year’s Apple Fall Event in September, when Apple pulled a…

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