Episodios

  • How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI)

    How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI)
    Jun 25 2024
    18-year-olds Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot have founded APIGen, a platform to build custom APIs from natural language prompts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 m
  • ‘Lawyer-in-the-loop’ startup Wordsmith wants to bring AI paralegals to all employees

    ‘Lawyer-in-the-loop’ startup Wordsmith wants to bring AI paralegals to all employees
    Jun 25 2024
    Wordsmith, a fledgling Scottish legal tech startup, has somehow managed to attract the backing of two well-known venture capital firms. The startup targets in-house legal teams and law firms with an AI platform that they can configure to help other workers in the company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    8 m
  • Ex-HubSpot exec builds an AI-powered CRM that learns for you, with $4M seed led by Sequoia

    Ex-HubSpot exec builds an AI-powered CRM that learns for you, with $4M seed led by Sequoia
    Jun 24 2024
    Christopher O’Donnell has hobbies. He likes music and playing guitar, but above all, he loves building software. Which is why three years after leaving HubSpot, he built Day.ai, a CRM for the age AI. Unlike modern CRMs, which are essentially giant spreadsheets that somebody needs to populate and keep updated, Day learns everything Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    4 m
  • Language learning app Speak nets $20M, doubles valuation

    Language learning app Speak nets $20M, doubles valuation
    Jun 24 2024
    Speak, the AI-powered language learning app, has raised new money from investors at double its previous valuation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    3 m
  • Société Générale to sell its freelancer challenger bank Shine to Ageras

    Société Générale to sell its freelancer challenger bank Shine to Ageras
    Jun 21 2024
    Four years after acquiring Shine, a French fintech startup that offers bank accounts to freelancers and very small companies, Société Générale has announced plans to sell Shine to Ageras. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    4 m
  • Daydream rakes in $50M seed funding to build an AI-powered search engine suited for e-commerce

    Daydream rakes in $50M seed funding to build an AI-powered search engine suited for e-commerce
    Jun 21 2024
    For retailers, e-commerce is a bit of a puzzle at the moment. Online shopping trends are expected to stay strong this year, so companies can’t afford to curtail their e-commerce budgets, but at the same time, e-commerce is more fragmented than ever before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    6 m
  • Seen is a new app for friends to record reactions to TikToks and other content

    Seen is a new app for friends to record reactions to TikToks and other content
    Jun 20 2024
    We all know the feeling when we send a funny TikTok video, anticipating a response from a friend, only to receive a basic laughing emoji or, worse, no reaction at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    5 m
  • Bitsening raises $25M for its high-resolution radar in autonomous driving

    Bitsening raises $25M for its high-resolution radar in autonomous driving
    Jun 20 2024
    Self-driving vehicles rely on many sensors to detect objects and the world around them. The conventional approach is to work with cameras and lidars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    6 m