With the new fund, Positive Ventures intends to invest in between 20 and 25 companies at the pre-seed and seed levels.
Positive Ventures’ new impact fund will be triple its flagship fund by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and the main contributor to the open-source WordPress project, launched an AI assistant for the popular content management system on Tuesday. The company said that the assistant easily integrates with WordPress.com and all Jetpack-powered sites. When you’re writing a post or a page, you can add an ‘AI Assistant’ block […]
Automattic launches an AI writing assistant for WordPress by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
Twitter has increased the time limit to edit tweets from 30 minutes to one hour for Blue subscribers. This gives people a bigger window to change their tweets and correct any typos. The company made the announcement by editing a tweet, but just within a minute of posting the original one. Blue subscribers now have […]
Twitter increases window to edit tweets to one hour for Blue subscribers by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
At the end of 2020, Miles Grimshaw became — and remains — the most recent addition to the storied venture firm Benchmark, which has stubbornly refused to change how it fundamentally operates, despite the many changes the rest of the venture world has embraced — particularly regarding team size and assets under management. With just […]
Benchmark’s view on the AI race: talking with Miles Grimshaw by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch
Enterprises and marketplaces that need to take and make payments across multiple geographies and products have typically relied on mix-and-match bags of third party services patched together by teams of engineers with some of their own code. But at best, these Dr Frankenstein creations can be buggy and still missing functionality — and at worst, […]
Payrails banks $14.4M for its OS for complex payments flows by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
COVID-19 has upended many aspects of busienss, including the way enterprises sell software. As the pandemic kept people at home, SaaS sales teams were forced to adjust their strategies. In the past, they relied mostly on in-person meetings to close deals, but with social distancing measures in place during the pandemic, they turned to the […]
How SaaS sales platform Minoa meets growing need for remote collaboration by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
TuSimple, a publicly traded company developing self-driving trucks, is doing regular test runs on an expressway in Japan, marking its entrance into the island nation, the company said Tuesday. The testing on Japan’s Tomei Expressway, which connects Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, suggests TuSimple is doubling down on its Asia-focused business. Back in December, the company […]
TuSimple has started testing its self-driving truck tech in Japan by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
Byju’s unveiled three transformer models intended to enhance the quality of its services as well as streamline learning and personalization experience for its students as the edtech giant places large bets on AI to transform many aspects of its business. Badri, a predictive AI model, is engineered to identify when learners may begin to falter […]
Edtech giant Byju’s launches transformer models in AI push by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch