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Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet is out
Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet announced on LinkedIn that she is leaving the company at the end of the month for health reasons. Starting today, Techstars co-founder and board chairman David Cohen will become CEO. Gavet became CEO in 2021 and wrote on LinkedIn that she “would not exchange the last 3.5 years of hard work for the world.”
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HoundDog.ai helps developers prevent personal information from leaking
HoundDog.ai, a startup that helps developers ensure their code doesn't leak personally identifiable information (PII), came out of stealth Wednesday and announced a $3.1 million seed round lead by E14, Mozilla Ventures and ex/ante, in addition to a number of angel investors. Unlike other scanning tools, HoundDog actually looks at the code a developer is writing, using both traditional pattern matching and large language models (LLMs) to find potential issues. HoundDog was founded by Amjad Afanah, who previously co-founded DCHQ, which was later acquired by Gridstore (which, to complicate things, then changed its name to HyperGrid) in 2016.
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Hydrolix seeks to make storing log data faster and cheaper
In 2008, Marty Kagan, who'd previously worked at Cisco and Akamai, co-founded Cedexis, a (now-Cisco-owned) firm developing observability tech for content delivery networks. Fellow Cisco veteran Hasan Alayli joined Kagan at Cedexis in 2012 as a technical lead, and the two worked together for a number of years. As Cedexis grew and began collaborating with larger and larger partners, both Kagan and Alayli became acutely aware of the cost of data storage — and in particular the cost of storing the data logs from services and infrastructure.
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Patronus AI is off to a magical start as LLM governance tool gains traction
Perhaps that’s why Patronus AI is finding early success in the marketplace. “A lot of what investors were excited about is we're the clear leader in the space and it's a really big market and it's a very fast growing market as well,” CEO and co-founder Anand Kannappan told TechCrunch. What’s more, Patronus was able to get in early just as companies realized they needed LLM governance tools to help them stay compliant.
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With college sports at critical juncture, private equity groups pushing for their piece
College administrators are bracing for the new reality of sharing revenue directly with athletes as part of the terms of the House settlement agreement.
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Teen fintech Copper had to abruptly discontinue its banking, debit products
Copper Banking, a digital banking service aimed at teens, notified its customers on May 12 that it would be discontinuing bank deposit accounts and debit cards on May 13. In a letter to customers, CEO and co-founder Eddie Behringer said the company had learned the previous week that the banking middleware provider they used, Synapse, was sunsetting its service “imminently.” "Despite our prior planning, this event has forced us to close banking accounts much sooner than expected,” he wrote.
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French AI startup H raises $220M seed round
It’s not often that you hear about a seed round above $10 million. H, a startup based in Paris and previously known as Holistic AI, has announced a $220 million seed round just a few months after the company’s inception. Charles Kantor, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, was a university researcher at Stanford.
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Is Martin Short on TikTok? Only when Selena Gomez shows him 'something that makes her laugh,' he says.
“A lot has changed. It's so hard to get noticed now,” Short told Yahoo Entertainment in a new interview.
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Stack AI wants to make it easier to build AI-fueled workflows
Stack AI’s co-founders, Antoni Rosinol and Bernardo Aceituno, were PhD students at MIT wrapping up their degrees in 2022 just as large language models were becoming more mainstream. After graduating, they moved to San Francisco and joined the Winter 23 cohort at Y Combinator, where they launched Stack and refined their idea. Today, the company has built a low-code workflow automation tool designed to help companies build AI-driven workflows including chatbots and AI assistants, for example.
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PGA Championship: Xander Schauffele drains dramatic birdie on 18 to win first career major
Xander Schauffele hit a six-foot putt on 18 to win the 2024 PGA Championship.
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Why companies are turning to internal hackathons
One way to do that is by running an internal hackathon around a theme and having employees attack a problem together. Brandon Kessler, CEO and co-founder at DevPost, a company that helps customers organize and manage internal and external hackathons, says that he’s seen how hackathons help companies encourage their employees to solve big problems. “Without question, innovation and collaboration are the two key value props when it comes to running internal hackathons, and almost everyone wants both,” Kessler told TechCrunch.
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With AI startups booming, nap pods and Silicon Valley hustle culture are back
When Jeffrey Wang posted to X last week asking if anyone wanted to go in on an order of fancy-but-affordable office nap pods, he didn’t expect the post to go viral. “I had way too many people than I could handle,” Wang, co-founder of AI research startup Exa Labs, told TechCrunch. Many admired the particular features of these nap pods, or applauded the whole idea of office napping.
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This Week in AI: OpenAI moves away from safety
This week in AI, OpenAI once again dominated the news cycle (despite Google's best efforts) with not only a product launch, but also with some palace intrigue. The company unveiled GPT-4o, its most capable generative model yet, and just days later effectively disbanded a team working on the problem of developing controls to prevent "superintelligent" AI systems from going rogue. Reporting -- including ours -- suggests that OpenAI deprioritized the team's safety research in favor of launching new products like the aforementioned GPT-4o, ultimately leading to the resignation of the team's two co-leads, Jan Leike and OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever.
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Las Vegas tourism arm announces $100,000 sponsorship for every Aces player
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Mitsubishi off-road Delica van, outdoorsy Outlander variant planned for US market
Mitsubishi reportedly showed its North American dealers plans for an off-road van, an outdoorsy crossover and possibly an electric pickup truck.
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Khosla Ventures, Pear VC triple down on Honey Homes, a smart way to hire a handyman
Khosla Ventures and Pear VC have just tripled down on their investment in Honey Homes, which offers up a dedicated handyman to take care of all the random tasks on a homeowner’s to-do list. Era Ventures led the startup’s latest raise, a $9.25 million extension financing that CEO and co-founder Vishwas Prabhakara described as “an up round.” While the company declined to share hard revenue figures, Prabhakara said the company expects to “do the same and get to eight figures in ARR” in 2024.
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Cannabis industry and gaming payments startup Aeropay is now offering an alternative to Mastercard and Visa
The key to taking on legacy players in the financial technology industry may be to go where they have not gone before. The provider of pay-by-bank solutions for businesses started out helping cannabis retailers and gaming companies with their payments and is now entering into Visa's and Mastercard’s territory by innovating the payment networks. Co-founder and CEO Dan Muller has a background as head of product for a company that built digital solutions for brands and retailers.
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Indian insurance startup Go Digit raises $141M from anchor investors ahead of IPO
Go Digit, an Indian insurance startup, has raised $141 million from dozens of investors as part of an initial public offering that starts on Wednesday. Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Bay Pond, Mirae Asset Management, Steadview Capital, and HSBC, as well as Indian mutual funds operated by SBI, ICICI, Axis, Tata and Edelweiss, served as anchor backers for the IPO, Go Digit disclosed in a filing to the stock exchange.
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NHTSA investigating Amazon-owned Zoox robotaxi tech after crashes
NHTSA has opened an investigation into Amazon.com's self-driving Zoox vehicles due to unexpected braking leading to two rear-end collisions that injured motorcyclists.