Year: 2023
Veteran life sciences firm RA Capital spins up ‘planetary health’ team to ride climate tech wave
Partners at RA Capital realized that if they didn’t try to address climate change and its health effects, their life science investments wouldn’t be as impactful. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Veteran life sciences firm RA Capital spins up ‘planetary health’ team to ride climate tech wave
Partners at RA Capital realized that if they didn’t try to address climate change and its health effects, their life science investments wouldn’t be as impactful. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Kyron Learning secures $14.6M to expand its conversational AI technology
Kyron Learning, an AI-based learning startup, announced today its $14.6 million Series A funding round plus a $850,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The new capital will further develop the platform’s generative AI capabilities an…
Setting AI Projects Up for Success
A conversation with HBS professor Iavor Bojinov on what leaders need to know.
EnCharge raises $22.6M to commercialize its AI-accerating chips
Around a year ago, TechCrunch wrote about a little-known company developing AI-accelerating chips to face off against hardware from titans of industry — e.g. Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft, Meta, AWS and Intel. Its mission at the time sounded a little am…
Vancouver’s Fantuan raises $40M to deliver real Chinese food at your doorstep
For those who move abroad from China, one thing they miss dearly is the convenience of food delivery apps. Fantuan, a Vancouver-based company, has been working on replicating the experience of Chinese food delivery platforms in the West for the past ni…
Foretellix raises $85M to build and test scenarios for self-driving systems
On their way to building fully-autonomous vehicles, self-driving car makers are facing a tall task: training their AIs to be able to respond reliably to any and all scenarios that a car, truck or bus might encounter as well as, or hopefully better, tha…
Elon’s cunning plan
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We’ve been questioning the myth of Elon Musk for about a decade now, starting back when only a handful of other commoners were taking that position, and one of the things we’ve learned is that explaining his actions is always going to be far more c…