6 Things Every Brand Should Understand About PR

May 29, 2024
Public relations is an important part of business success, but brands don’t always know what they’re looking for. Here’s what your publicist won’t tell you about PR.

Creator fintech Slingshot raises $2.2 million

May 29, 2024

Sanil Chawla remembers the meetings he had with countless artists in college. Those creatives were looking for one thing: sustainable economic infrastructure that could help them scale rather than drown them in paperwork, filings and tracking down receipts.  Chawla thought he might have a solution and launched a music monetization platform in 2020. During the […]

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After co-founder’s murder at the hands of Hamas, cloud startup Firefly raises $23M

May 29, 2024

A startup called Firefly tackling the thorny and growing issue of cloud asset management with an “infrastructure as code” solution has raised $23 million in funding on the heels of strong demand for its tech and increasing revenues four-fold in 2023. The firm’s latest success comes on the heels of tragedy, as co-founder CTO Joseph […]

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Mistral releases its first generative AI model for code

May 29, 2024

Mistral, the French AI startup backed by Microsoft and reportedly valued at $6 billion, has released its first generative AI model for coding, dubbed Codestral. Codestral — which is designed to help developers write and interact with code, like the many other code-generating models out there — was trained on a data set of over […]

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Pinterest expands its Creator Fund to allow founders

May 29, 2024

Pinterest announced today that it is evolving its Creator Inclusion Fund.  Pinterest teamed up with Shopify’s Build Black & Narrative program to allow small business owners from or who serve underrepresented backgrounds to now apply for the Creator Inclusion Fund. Previously, only traditional content creators applied. This is a new iteration of the fund, which […]

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