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Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short
“Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence … that would produce a high-quality product.”
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Jumia’s investors rethink their stakes — for better and worse
Baillie Gifford, the Edinburgh-based asset management firm long known to have a penchant for pre-IPO tech companies, has reduced its shares in African e-commerce giant Jumia, per the latest 13G/A filing released by the asset manager. According to the filing, Baillie Gifford disclosed ownership of 18.75 million shares in Jumia, representing 13.69% of the company. In […]
Jumia’s investors rethink their stakes — for better and worse by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch
Daily Crunch: Berlin-based design platform Kittl raises $11.6M Series A to take on Adobe and Canva
Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
Daily Crunch: Berlin-based design platform Kittl raises $11.6M Series A to take on Adobe and Canva by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Conversational AI Is a Revolution That’s Just Getting Started. Here’s How It Can Boost Your Business.
Here are five ways conversational AI can transform your business.
As activist investors target Salesforce, what’s next for the CRM giant?
With two activist investors taking significant stakes in Salesforce, Marc Benioff will be challenged in ways he probably hasn’t been before.
As activist investors target Salesforce, what’s next for the CRM giant? by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
Inscribe bags $25M to fight financial fraud with AI
Conor Burke spent much of his career in the back office of a big bank in Ireland. His team was tasked with digitizing the onboarding process — particularly document-heavy manual review workflows — that were costing the bank millions of dollars every year and not catching fraud. According to him, the biggest challenge was figuring […]
Inscribe bags $25M to fight financial fraud with AI by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Pitch Deck Teardown: Orange’s $2.5M seed deck
Orange is taking a different approach to EV charging, and it shared with us the deck it used to raise a $2.5 million seed round.
Pitch Deck Teardown: Orange’s $2.5M seed deck by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
Stripe eyes an exit over next 12 months
Fintech startup Stripe has set a 12-month deadline for itself to go public, either through a direct listing, or pursue a transaction on the private market, such as a fundraising event and a tender offer, according to sources familiar with the matter. The news, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal, comes as a […]
Stripe eyes an exit over next 12 months by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch
Substack introduces ‘private Substacks’ that readers can request to subscribe to
Newsletter platform Substack announced today that it’s introducing several new features, including private Substacks. A private Substack is a publication that you can host alone or readers can request to subscribe to read your posts. Writers can choose to approve or decline each subscription request. In a blog post, Substack explained that private Substack accounts […]
Substack introduces ‘private Substacks’ that readers can request to subscribe to by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
Mark Cuban’s bidet brand buys shower startup that wooed Tim Cook
The folks behind Nebia — the techy shower-head startup backed by Apple CEO Tim Cook and a host of other big names — have sold to Mark Cuban’s Brondell, which makes bidets, air purifiers and the like. The Nebia name and water-saving nozzles will live on following the deal, co-founders Philip Winter and Gabriel Parisi-Amon […]
Mark Cuban’s bidet brand buys shower startup that wooed Tim Cook by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch