Almost a year ago, Alphabet’s growth stage venture arm, CapitalG, named partner Laela Sturdy as its new head, just as the unit’s founder, David Lawee, stepped down. Few […]
AI pushes quarterly cloud infrastructure revenue to $74B globally
For the last several quarters we’ve seen a lull in the expansion of the cloud infrastructure market, with lower growth numbers than we’ve been accustomed to seeing in […]
Google launches an AI-powered image generator
Taylor Swift deepfakes be damned, Google is releasing a new AI-powered tool, ImageFX, for image creation. Underpinned by Imagen 2, a GenAI image model developed by Google’s DeepMind […]
Google’s first Africa cloud region now operational
Google has today said its cloud region in South Africa is operational, coming a year after the tech giant picked Johannesburg as its first site in Africa. Cloud […]
Kore.ai, a startup building conversational AI for enterprises, raises $150M
In the midst of a wave of tech industry layoffs, it’s heartening to see some startups succeeding despite the dour market outlook. Kore.ai, a company developing enterprise-focused conversational […]
Open source vector database startup Qdrant raises $28M
Qdrant, the company behind the eponymous open source vector database, has raised $28 million in a Series A round of funding led by Spark Capital. Founded in 2021, […]
Vertice raises $25M for AI-based tools to help companies tackle software spend
When you say the phrase “expense management” in a business context, people might think of software like Concur that tracks what you spend on travel, entertainment and other […]
Startups should use this co-selling technique for successful partnerships with cloud hyperscalers
Chaitra Vedullapalli Contributor Chaitra Vedullapalli is the co-founder and CMO of Meylah and the president of Women in Cloud. With tech and leadership experience spanning over 26 years, […]
Google says it’ll stop charging fees to transfer data out of Google Cloud
Google today announced that it’ll stop charging Google Cloud customers a fee to migrate their data to another cloud provider or on-premise datacenter, effective immediately. Customers using Google […]