December 30, 2025

The ascent of the AI therapist

We’re in the midst of a global mental-­health crisis. More than a billion people worldwide suffer from a mental-health condition, according to the World Health Organization. The prevalence of anxiety and depression is growing in many demographics, particularly young people, and suicide is claiming hundreds of thousands of lives globally each year. Given the clear…

Lantern is building a B2B platform that combines a CDP and customer success tools

July 12, 2023

We’ve seen the rise of the customer data platform (CDP) in recent years as a central repository for collecting data about customers to better understand their needs. It’s worth noting that Twilio spent $3.2 billion to buy CDP Segment in 2020 with the goal of building data-fueled apps. Today, Lantern, an early stage startup is […]

Lantern is building a B2B platform that combines a CDP and customer success tools by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Is ChatGPT the iBeer of LLM’s?

July 12, 2023

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show where we niche down to a single topic and dig deep. This week we had a very special guest on the podcast: Matthew Lynley. Long-time listeners will recall […]

Is ChatGPT the iBeer of LLM’s? by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch

Inngest helps developers build their backend workflows, raises $3M

July 12, 2023

Inngest, an open-source startup that helps developers build and manage serverless queues, background jobs and workflows, today announced that it has raised a $3 million seed round led by GGV. Co-founded in 2021 by former Buffer CTO Dan Farrelly and Tony Holdstock-Brown, a former Docker engineer and the former head of engineering at healthcare company […]

Inngest helps developers build their backend workflows, raises $3M by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Barbie and Ken are your dating coaches in Bumble’s newest feature

July 12, 2023

Ahead of the highly anticipated “Barbie” premiere on July 21, Bumble is launching a new experience where users can get message suggestions from all the Barbies and Kens featured in the movie, including main Barbie (played by Margot Robbie), President Barbie (Issa Rae), Ken #2 (Simu Lu) and more. The message suggestions will be part […]

Barbie and Ken are your dating coaches in Bumble’s newest feature by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch