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Plus One raises $50M for its parcel robotics vision systems

March 7, 2023

Another industrial automation firm is bucking VC slowdown, as Plus One Robotics this morning announces a $50 million raise. The Series C brings the San Antonio-based firm’s total funding up to $94 million to date (including a $33 million Series B back in 2021). Scale Venture Partners led the round, which also features participation from […]

Plus One raises $50M for its parcel robotics vision systems by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft’s computer vision model will generate alt text for Reddit images

March 7, 2023

Two years ago, Microsoft announced Florence, an AI system that it pitched as a “complete rethinking” of modern computer vision models. Unlike most vision models at the time, Florence was both “unified” and “multimodal,” meaning it could (1) understand language as well as images and (2) handle a range of tasks rather than being limited […]

Microsoft’s computer vision model will generate alt text for Reddit images by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Threecolts raises $90M to build out its toolkit for third parties selling on marketplaces like Amazon

March 7, 2023

Amazon rules the roost when it comes to e-commerce, with its marketplace outpacing everyone else when it comes to gross merchandise value, reach and market capitalization. That fact inevitably makes it a big part of how millions of brands and retailers sell goods online. Threecolts, a London startup founded by an ex-Amazon exec that builds […]

Threecolts raises $90M to build out its toolkit for third parties selling on marketplaces like Amazon by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

4 Stocks to Buy in Any Market Climate

March 7, 2023
The stock market is expected to remain volatile in the near term as investors remain anxious about the Fed’s actions. Amid high recession worries, fundamentally strong healthcare stocks, Pfizer (PFE),…

Droit, a regulatory compliance platform used by major banks, raises $23M

March 7, 2023

Droit, a regulatory compliance platform used by finance heavyweights such as Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and UBS, has raised $23 million in a Series B round of funding. Founded out of New York in 2012, Droit serves to bolster financial institutions’ trading decision-making by integrating regulatory knowledge into the pre-trade process, highlighting key information on […]

Droit, a regulatory compliance platform used by major banks, raises $23M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

reMarkable powers up its e-paper tablet with a keyboard case for distraction-free writing

March 7, 2023

The reMarkable 2 is a great tablet for reading long documents on, annotating them, taking notes, sketching… but not for full-on writing. At least, it wasn’t until they put out this great keyboard folio that converts this tablet into a pretty compelling minimalist writing station — if you don’t mind a slightly premium price. The […]

reMarkable powers up its e-paper tablet with a keyboard case for distraction-free writing by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Upway launches online marketplace for refurbished e-bikes in US

March 7, 2023

Upway, the French startup that refurbishes and resells electric bikes across a range of brands, launched in the U.S. Tuesday. The company will focus its efforts on the Northeast region of the country, but its bikes will be available for shipping across the continental U.S. Upway has already made a name for itself in Europe, […]

Upway launches online marketplace for refurbished e-bikes in US by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Tensor raises $3M for Solana-focused NFT trading platform

March 7, 2023

Tensor, a Solana-centric NFT trading platform, has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Placeholder, the team exclusively shared with TechCrunch. The startup was co-founded by Ilja Moisejevs and Richard Wu, bringing a collective 10 years of experience in working on trading infrastructure and data-intensive systems. Until this point, Tensor was bootstrapped off […]

Tensor raises $3M for Solana-focused NFT trading platform by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch