Technology

Ahead of TC City Spotlight: Boston, we gathered insights from five investors active in the area about startup trends and the resilience of the city.

5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch

The startup economy has grown and shifted since the turn of the century, and universities — stocked with a never-ending supply smart, ambitious young people — have increasingly taken part. Boston has always had a robust university-to-startup pipeline, but the last decade has supercharged it, as well as student aspirations to found the next unicorn, […]

Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Spade’s technology “cleans” credit card data and enriches it with actual merchant identities, logos, business hours and spending history.

Spade turns credit card transaction gibberish into clear, actionable data by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Anthropic, a buzzy AI startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI employees, has begun offering partners access to its AI text-generating models. The first commercial venture to announce that it’s integrating Anthropic models is Robin AI, a legal tech startup that’s raised over $13 million from investors including Plural, Episode 1 and the Google Black Founders Fund. Quora’s […]

Anthropic begins supplying its text-generating AI models to select startups by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Card collectors often dispute how much their cards are worth. New Jersey-based CollX provides a free iOS and Android app to card enthusiasts that allows them to scan their trading cards and get value in return. Launched in January last year, the app has now more than 600,000 users who have scanned more than 100 […]

CollX raises $5.5M to scan and evaluate value of trading cards by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch