How This College Dropout Raised $29 Million for His Online Education Platform and Landed the Biggest Investor of All — Shaq
Campus founder Tade Oyerinde and investor Shaquille O’Neal discuss the debt-free mission of the online community college.
Federal Judge Rules It’s Legal to Train AI on Copyrighted Books, Marking Major Win for AI Companies
This precedent-setting case is the first time a federal judge has sided with tech companies in an AI copyright lawsuit.
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Simplify looks to AI to help with job searches and applications
Job searching is a drag by any measure. Entering the same information into applications over and over even more so. It feels like a process that is ripe for a digital update, and Simplify, an early stage startup is trying to do that by combining questionnaires, job scraping, job matching, auto filling applications and help […]
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Streamer Plex launches its long-promised movie rentals store
Fresh on the heels of its $40 million fundraise, streaming media company Plex is today announcing its expansion into a new business: a movie rentals storefront. The addition, which will initially be offered to U.S. customers, will give the streamer another means of generating revenue beyond its subscription products and ad-supported streaming — a diversification […]
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Dead Weight Expenses Are Costing Your Small Business. Here’s What to Watch for — And How to Cut Them
Small businesses in particular can’t afford to be poorly investing limited cash.
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3D scanning app Polycam gets backing from YouTube co-founder
Polycam, an app that uses a smartphone’s sensors to capture 3D scans of objects, is raising cash from prominent investors including Adobe and YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley. Polycam today announced that it closed an $18 million Series A round led by Left Lane Capital with participation from Adobe Ventures, Hurley and others. Chris Heinrich, Polycam’s […]
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Endpoint security startup NinjaOne lands $231.5M at $1.9B valuation
Just two years ago, VC funding to cybersecurity startups was on fire. $23 billion flooded the sector, per Crunchbase. But in 2023, cybersecurity upstarts only saw a third of that — the result of the exceptional surge in 2021, bloated valuations and investors wary of market instability. But there’s always some winners during down times. Yesterday, […]
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Beamer buys Userflow to build a consolidated user experience platform
It’s M&A season in a tough tech jobs market. This morning, Beamer, a Boulder, Colorado-based company developing tools for businesses to reach users through their apps (e.g. via push notifications), announced that it’s acquiring Userflow, a user onboarding software startup, for $60 million. Beamer CEO Satya Ganni says that the purchase, which is being financially […]
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4 Wall Street Darling Gold Stocks Worth Buying
Escalating geopolitical tensions, economic uncertainty, and expectations of interest rate cuts would be positive drivers for gold this year, which is widely seen as a safe-haven asset. Amid this backdrop,…
Goodshuffle dances into 2024 with $5M for event rental management software
The Goodshuffle Pro includes a single dashboard for rental and event production companies to track inventory, automate sales and streamline growth from one place.
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