Fund III more than doubles Unshackled Ventures’ assets under management with some proceeds going toward a founder-in-residence program.
Unshackled Ventures secures another $35M to invest in immigrant founders by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Several years ago, Noah Stanford teamed up with Michael Melone to found 0pass, a startup that aims to make it easier for companies to replace usernames and passwords with biometrics, like Touch ID and Face ID. Relatively quickly, 0pass gained the attention of investors including Y Combinator, recently closing a $3.5 million seed round led […]
Y Combinator-backed 0pass seeks to replace passwords in the enterprise by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Realtime Robotics has been raising funding at a steady clip since announcing a two-pronged $31 million Series A back in 2021. This week’s $9.5 million announcement is a fast follow-up to last September’s $14.4 million raise. The new funds from Shinhan GIB and Kyobo Life Insurance push the Boston-based firm’s to date raise to north […]
Months after its last raise, Realtime Robotics drums up another $9.5 million by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Since Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, the platform has been expanding the limits of content you can post through one tweet. In its latest move, the company has increased the character count for a tweet to 25,000 for paid users. The company made the change to its Twitter Blue page today indicating the limit. […]
Twitter now allows subscribers to post 25,000-character-long tweets by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
Companies are increasingly embracing generative AI. But they’re not necessarily considering all the blockers and challenges that come along with folding the tech into their existing workflows. In one recent survey by KPMG, 90% of businesses said that they had “moderate to highly significant” concerns about the risks of using generative AI and doubts about […]
CalypsoAI raises $23M to add guardrails to generative AI models by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
The jury is still out on whether AI adoption really will spell the end of humanity as we know it, but in the meantime, we’re continue to see a boom of AI startups and AI dealmaking. In the latest development, a generative AI-based language learning startup called Loora is coming out of stealth with $9.25 […]
Loora, a generative AI app that uses an audio interface to help users learn English, raises $9.25M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Meta announced new parental control tools across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger today. This includes a new parental supervision hub in Messenger, a feature that pre-emptively blocks unwanted DMs on Messenger and Instagram, and nudges to remind teens that they should take a break. Messenger supervision controls, which will be available in Meta’s Family Center, are […]
Meta is rolling out new parental control tools for Instagram and Messenger by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch