Monthly Archives: September 2024

Oura has acquired metabolic health startup Veri

Blood sugar levels are foundational to the Veri platform. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Fearless Fund is shutting down its contested Strivers Grant program

Fearless Fund has settled its case with the American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER), agreeing to shut down its Strivers Grant program. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Meet Verse, an AI-powered creative app that helps Gen Z design and publish expressive content

Verse, a new AI-powered creative app, is aiming to help Gen Z users create hyper-visual and expressive content. The iOS app allows users to design and publish multimedia content on an interactive canvas with the help of an AI assistant.  … Continue reading

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Amazon is opening Fresh supermarkets after yearlong stall — but many locations remain vacant

Amazon has opened a handful of Fresh stores in several states in recent months, and more locations are expected to open later this year.

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Create Online Forms, Surveys and Collect Customer Feedback with Formly

Enhance your business with Formly’s intuitive, no-code form builder. Create custom forms, surveys, and quizzes; automate workflows; and more.

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Atomico backs Tem to help businesses buy renewable energy directly from sources

Tem wants to do for utilities what neobanks have done for the financial sector: disrupt an industry using tech, streamline it, and cut out the middlemen. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Mistral releases Pixtral, its first multimodal model

French AI startup Mistral has released its first model that can process images as well as text. Called Pixtral 12B, the 12-billion-parameter model is roughly 24GB size. (Parameters roughly correspond to a model’s problem-solving skills, and models with more parameters generally perform better … Continue reading

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The World’s Biggest Bitcoin Mine Is Rattling This Texas Oil Town

A cash-strapped city in rural Texas will soon be home to the world’s largest bitcoin mine. Local protesters are “raising hell.”

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Paymob, started by three college friends, lands another $22 million and is profitable in Egypt

Paymob has evolved into an omnichannel gateway offering over 50 methods for offline and online payments to more than 350,000+ merchants. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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InMobi secures $100 million for AI acquisitions ahead of IPO

Adtech startup InMobi has raised $100 million in debt financing as the profitable Indian firm looks to “significantly deepen” its artificial intelligence initiatives and fund potential AI acquisitions ahead of a planned IPO next year.  Mars Growth Capital, a joint … Continue reading

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