November 5, 2020
Inside fintech startup Upstart’s IPO filing
While the world awaits the Airbnb IPO filing that could come as early as next week, Upstart dropped its own S-1 filing. The fintech startup facilitates loans between…
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November 4, 2020
Student discount passes available for TC Sessions: Space 2020
Whether space is the final frontier remains to be seen, but it’s certainly the next one as far as we’re concerned. On December 16-17, we’re hosting TC Sessions:…
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Intel has acquired Cnvrg.io, a platform to manage, build and automate machine learning
Intel continues to snap up startups to build out its machine learning and AI operations. In the latest move, TechCrunch has learned that the chip giant has acquired…
Read articleNovember 2, 2020
AWS launches its next-gen GPU instances
AWS today announced the launch of its newest GPU-equipped instances. Dubbed P4, these new instances are launching a decade after AWS launched its first set of Cluster GPU…
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Booming edtech M&A activity brings consolidation to a fragmented sector
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to force teachers, students and parents to adopt new technologies, edtech’s total addressable market has massively grown in the last several months. The…
Read articleNovember 2, 2020
Coupa Software snags Llamasoft for $1.5B to bring together spending and supply chain data
Coupa Software, a publicly traded company that helps large corporations manage spending, announced that it was buying Llamasoft, an 18-year-old Michigan company that helps large companies manage their…
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Leena AI nabs $8M Series A as it expands from chatbots to HR service platform
When we covered Leena AI as a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2018 cohort, the young startup was firmly focused on building HR chatbots, but in the…
Read articleOctober 30, 2020
iPhones can now tell blind users where and how far away people are
Apple has packed an interesting new accessibility feature into the latest beta of iOS: a system that detects the presence of and distance to people in the view…
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Passion Capital backs UK fertility workplace benefits provider, Fertifa
U.K.-based Fertifa has bagged a £1 million (~$1.3 million) seed to plug into a fertility-focused workplace benefits platform. Passion Capital is investing in the round, along with some…
Read articleOctober 29, 2020
Intel acquires SigOpt, a specialist in modeling optimization, to boost its AI business
Intel has been doubling down on building chips and related architecture for the next generation of computing, and today it announced an acquisition that will bolster its expertise…
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