Dappier is building a marketplace for publishers to sell their content to LLM builders

June 26, 2024

When Napster emerged in the late 1990s, it made it easy for people to grab music files without compensating the content owners.The iPod and the iTunes music store changed that by allowing artists or publishers to get paid for reusing their content in a digital context. Fast forward to today, and there are companies scraping […]

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Nubank acquires AI-for-banks startup Hyperplane

June 26, 2024

Hyperplane focused on allowing banks to train their own models to power tools across their risk, collections and marketing departments.

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Temasek, Main Sequence back enzymatic recycling tech startup Samsara Eco in $65M

June 26, 2024

As consumers increasingly demand environmentally friendly and sustainable products, companies strive to seek alternative solutions, which creates a market ripe for growth for some environmental tech companies’ offerings. One example is Samsara Eco, an Australia-based startup that makes and sells fossil-free polymer resins to its customers. These resins can be integrated into supply chains and […]

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Video editing app Captions releases AI edit feature that automatically adds effects to your video

June 26, 2024

Video editing app Captions, which is backed by a16z, Kleiner Perkins, and Sequoia Captial, has launched a new feature that takes an existing unedited video and adds custom graphics, zooms, music, sound effects, transitions, and motion backgrounds based on the content. There are a few restrictions for AI edit — it should be a vertical […]

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Rainforest lands $20M to challenge Stripe with embedded payments for SaaS providers

June 26, 2024

Rainforest, a startup that embeds payment processing into other software platforms, has raised $20 million in Series A funding — less than a year after announcing the close of its seed financing. Raising back-to-back rounds was more common in 2021 but we don’t see it happening as often in this new environment. Rainforest’s traction is […]

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