Hydrow, the at-home rowing machine, announced Thursday that it has acquired a majority stake in Speede Fitness, the company behind the AI-enabled strength training machine. The rowing startup […]
Retell AI lets companies build ‘voice agents’ to answer phone calls
Call centers are embracing automation. There’s debate as to whether that’s a good thing, but it’s happening — and quite possibly accelerating. According to research firm TechSci Research, […]
Thai food delivery app Line Man Wongnai weighs IPO in Thailand, US in 2025
Line Man Wongnai, an on-demand food delivery service in Thailand, is considering an initial public offering on a Thai exchange or the U.S. in 2025, the company’s CEO […]
Bye-bye bots: Altera’s game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt
Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents. […]
$450M for Noname, two billion-dollar rounds, and good news for crypto startups
Good news, crypto founders: Venture capital activity is picking up in your sector after falling to multi-year lows in late 2023. Put another way, venture folks appear more […]
Checkfirst raises $1.5M pre-seed, applying AI to remote inspections and audits
We’ve all seen them. The inspector with a clipboard, walking around a building, ticking off the last time the fire extinguishers were checked, or if all the lights […]
Controversial drone company Xtend leans into defense with new $40M round
Close to a decade ago, brothers Aviv and Matteo Shapira co-founded Replay, a company that created a video format for 360-degree replays — the sorts of replays that […]
Mycocycle uses mushrooms to upcycle old tires and construction waste
Usually, when something starts to rot, it gets pitched in the trash. But Joanne Rodriguez wants to turn the concept of rot on its head by growing fungus […]
UK challenger bank Monzo nabs another $190M as US expansion beckons
Monzo has raised another £150 million ($190 million), as the challenger bank looks to expand its presence internationally — particularly in the U.S. The new round comes just […]