Slang taps AI to answer phone calls for brick-and-mortar businesses
For business owners, phone calls can be an enormous time waster. Take the restaurant industry, for example. Calls can lead to more important tasks being...
Gleamer, which provides AI software for radiologists, raises $29.5M
Gleamer, a five-year-old French startup that has developed AI software to help radiologists diagnose and detect bone trauma lesions in scans among other conditions, has...
Bitpanda’s crypto exchange separates from Bitpanda and secures $33 million
Fintech startup Bitpanda is splitting into two companies as Bitpanda Pro — the company’s cryptocurrency exchange — is going to become its own independent company...
Fairphone CEO Eva Gouwens to step down
Fairphone CEO Eva Gouwens has announced that she’s stepping down, some five years after landing in the hotseat. Founded out of the Netherlands back in 2010,...
Ask Sophie: How do we relocate Ukrainian and Russian team members to the U.S.?
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the...
China’s AI firms might further lose chip access in new US ban
The U.S. is weighing additional restrictions on AI chip export to China amid rising concerns over the use of advanced semiconductors for military modernization. The...
Bluu Seafood reels in $17.5M to bring cultivated fish products to market
Bluu Seafood, a German company creating cultivated (i.e. “lab-grown”) fish products, today announced it has raised €16 million ($17.5 million) in a Series A round...
TechCrunch+ roundup: Building growth funnels, HR tech bonanza, secondary market signals
Building a durable growth funnel doesn’t just scale your business: it also signals to investors that a team can move directionally, which is a major...
Flowie wants to make invoices flow freely
Meet Flowie, a new French startup that wants to facilitate money movements between companies. The company centralizes everything related to accounts receivable and accounts payable...
The quest for better AI recommendation engines
Switch on your streaming service of choice or open up the website for your preferred department store and a recommendation system is sure to kick...