February 5, 2025

Supersonic planes are inching toward takeoff. That could be a problem.

Boom Supersonic broke the sound barrier in a test flight of its XB-1 jet last week, marking an early step in a potential return for supersonic commercial flight. The small aircraft reached a top speed of Mach 1.122 (roughly 750 miles per hour) in a flight over southern California and exceeded the speed of sound…

As product-led growth expands, Loops digs into the data to track key metrics

November 15, 2022

Companies are increasingly looking at product led growth, where the product helps drive market expansion. If you’re giving the people what they want, they will spend more money, or so the theory goes, but how do you actually measure progress? That’s where an early stage startup called Loops comes in. It announced a $14 million […]

As product-led growth expands, Loops digs into the data to track key metrics by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Tech gives private equity an edge

November 15, 2022
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Infosys analyzed client data and discovered five trends that suggest a big shift in the role of operating partners in the private equity space. Private equity firms now take a more hands-on and tech-centric approach to manage their portfolios as market…

Comerica Bank adopts public cloud to leapfrog its competitors

November 15, 2022
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” John Wei, CTO and senior vice president at Comerica Bank, discusses Comerica’s journey to the public cloud. The discussion covers different approaches and advantages of being a late mover. Click here to continue.

Impacked packs up $2.5M to give the packaging industry a greener tint

November 15, 2022

Packaging is a trillion-dollar-per-year industry that, by and large, has some sustainability challenges. Impacked is a B2B company that’s bringing green tech to the forefront for everything from jars, tubes and pouches to bottles. The company raised a $2.5 million seed funding round led by TenOneTen Ventures, taking its total funding raised to $3.3 million. […]

Impacked packs up $2.5M to give the packaging industry a greener tint by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

AI-powered media editing app Descript lands fresh cash from OpenAI

November 15, 2022

Descript, the audio and video editing platform founded in 2017 by former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, has raised $50 million in a Series C round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which OpenAI and its partners, including Microsoft, are investing in early-stage companies. Descript is the second startup to receive a cash […]

AI-powered media editing app Descript lands fresh cash from OpenAI by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Zest wants to make buying and sending gifts online ‘delightful’

November 15, 2022

While e-commerce was on the rise before the pandemic, the massive shift to digital supercharged the online shopping industry — bringing entirely new categories of products (and shoppers) to the web. According to Adobe, Americans have spent a record $1.7 trillion online over the last two years, a 55% uptick from two years before the […]

Zest wants to make buying and sending gifts online ‘delightful’ by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: Tencent’s palm payments, and AI’s carbon footprint

November 15, 2022
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Tencent wants you to pay with your palm. What could go wrong? Would you want a bottle of soda for just one cent? Before you say yes, there’s a catch: You have to…