Manufacturing platform Keychain announced an $18 million Seed round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners this morning. Keychain seeks to use artificial intelligence to help brands find manufacturing partners. […]
Humane’s Ai Pin up close
A few hours after this morning’s big unveil, Humane opened its doors to a handful of press. Located in a nondescript building in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood, the […]
Lightspeed Faction launches $285M early-stage crypto fund
As the crypto market continues to slog through a fundraising winter, Lightspeed Faction, a blockchain-focused venture capital firm, is betting big on the space. The firm has launched […]
Why Flip AI built a custom large language model to run its observability platform
Observability is a bit of a buzz word in IT circles these days, but it basically involves monitoring a company’s systems, looking for issues, or trying to find […]
There’s A New Subscriber-Funded Game Website Called Aftermath
So many great video game websites have died, it’s nice to finally see some new ones being born. The latest is called Aftermath, a subscriber-funded venture by former Kotaku staffers. Full disclosure: I worked with all of these people for years and they are amazing.
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Dreamfarm, a startup out of Italy’s Food Valley, is setting its sights on the perfect vegan mozzarella
Vegan cheese isn’t usually anything to write home about, in terms of taste and texture. Dreamfarm, a startup based in Parma, in the Food Valley of Italy, is […]
Musk says Twitter subscribers will get early access to xAI’s chatbot, Grok
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is creating its own version of ChatGPT. That appears to be the case, at least, from Musk’s tweets on X late Friday evening […]
If your startup doesn’t seem impossible at first, it’s not hard enough
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Startups exist to solve complex problems, not to be a quick moneymaking scheme, […]
TC+ Roundup: Breaking up is hard to do
Good morning, everyone! It’s Friday! Today I’m thinking about planning for the future. We plan for rain, we plan our meals for the week, and we even make […]
Deft is building e-commerce search to help you find the right product quickly
E-commerce search startup Deft is releasing a multimodal search function for users to get better results. The company, which opened up its service to beta users in May, […]