VAMA Raises $500,000 In Top-Up Seed Round
With this latest infusion, the startup has closed its Seed round at $1.25 million
Producing tangible business benefits from modern iPaaS solutions
When a historic UK-based retailer set out to modernize its IT environment, it was wrestling with systems that had grown organically for more than 175 years. Prior digital transformation efforts had resulted in a patchwork of hundreds of integration flows spanning cloud, on-premises systems, and third-party vendors, all communicating across multiple protocols. The company needed…
One Rare: Bringing Food To the Metaverse
OneRare, Co-Founded by Supreet Raju in January 2021, is a company excelling in the Metaverse space. Food has a magical language of its own and OneRare aims to bring this love to the OneRare Foodverse.
Foundamental closes $85M fund for early-stage construction tech startups
The trillion-dollar construction industry is often tarred with the inefficiency brush, accused of failing to move with the times and ignoring digitization in favor of legacy tools. But there is plenty of evidence that things are changing, with countless startups raising large sums of cash to help the construction industry modernize. Venture capital (VC) funding in […]
Foundamental closes $85M fund for early-stage construction tech startups by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
Poppi raises a can to fresh capital to support its functional beverage growth
Now with an executive team in place, Poppi co-founder Allison Ellsworth says the company has now “invested in the right people so we are a well-oiled machine.”
Poppi raises a can to fresh capital to support its functional beverage growth by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Magazine app Flipboard adds support for original content with new notes feature
Magazine reading app Flipboard is becoming the latest contender in the battle to relocate some of the online conversations taking place on Twitter onto its own platform instead. The company today announced that Flipboard’s curators will be able to publish original content into their magazine in order to engage with their readers in a conversation. […]
Magazine app Flipboard adds support for original content with new notes feature by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Ngrok, a service to help devs deploy sites, services and apps, raises $50M
Ask Alan Shreve why he founded Ngrok, a service that helps developers share sites and apps running on their local machines or servers, and he’ll tell you it was to solve a tough-to-grok (pun fully intended) infrastructure problem he encountered while at Twilio. As an engineer there, Shreve was developing on webhooks — automated messages […]
Ngrok, a service to help devs deploy sites, services and apps, raises $50M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Amazon’s Echo Show adds more accessibility features, including ‘Gestures’ and text-to-speech
Amazon today is introducing a small handful of new features for its digital assistant Alexa that aim to make the device more accessible. The company is launching two new ways to interact with Alexa without speaking including support for Gestures on Echo Show devices that will users to interact with the device by raising their […]
Amazon’s Echo Show adds more accessibility features, including ‘Gestures’ and text-to-speech by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Beni is creating an ‘easy button’ for secondhand shopping
Beni created a free browser extension, initially for Chrome and Safari, to assist shoppers in finding resale listings for items they are looking for.
Beni is creating an ‘easy button’ for secondhand shopping by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Decentralized discourse: How open source is shaping Twitter’s future
Six weeks on from Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover, few words can fully encapsulate events as they have unfolded in the period since. “Chaotic” or “farcical” come pretty close, though, with mass layoffs, u-turns, ultimatums, resignations, crowdsourced ban-reversals, advertiser standoffs, picking fights with Apple, and a revamped verification system that has everyone and their uncle […]
Decentralized discourse: How open source is shaping Twitter’s future by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
The Download: AI objectification, and SBF charged
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. The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me—without my consent When Melissa Heikkilä, our senior AI reporter, tried the new viral AI avatar app Lensa, she was hoping to get results similar to…