Anthropic hires Instagram co-founder as head of product

December 20, 2024

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May 15, 2024

Mike Krieger, one of the co-founders of Instagram and, more recently, the co-founder of personalized news app Artifact (which TechCrunch corporate parent Yahoo! recently acquired), is joining Anthropic as the company’s first chief product officer. As CPO, Krieger will oversee Anthropic’s product engineering, management and design efforts, Anthropic says, as the company works to expand […]

Venture firms form alliance to standardize data collection

May 15, 2024

Seven firms so far have signed on to standardize the way data is collected and shared.

Alkira connects with $100M for a solution that connects your clouds

May 15, 2024

As cloud adoption continues to surge towards the $1 trillion mark in annual spend, we’re seeing a wave of enterprise startups gaining traction with customers and investors for tools to help manage that usage. In the latest development, a startup called Alkira has raised $100 million for “network infrastructure as a service”, which lets users […]

For 9 Days Only, This Grade-A Refurbished iPad Is Just $155

May 15, 2024

Get a mobile workstation with 32GB of storage space and a nearly 10″ screen.

Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers

May 15, 2024

Charging has long been the Achilles’ heel of electric vehicles. One startup thinks it has a better way for apartment dwelling EV drivers to charge overnight.

Embedded accounting startup Layer secures $2.3M toward goal of replacing Quickbooks

May 15, 2024

So did investors laugh them out of the room when they explained how they wanted to replace Quickbooks? Kind of.

Weka raises $140M as the AI boom bolsters data platforms

May 15, 2024

While an increasing number of companies are investing in AI, many are struggling to get AI-powered projects into production — much less delivering meaningful ROI. The challenges are many. But a commonly recurring one is data management. The data that companies need to train, run and fine-tune AI models is disorganized, siloed, and otherwise unoptimized. […]

The Download: Google’s new AI agent, and our tech pessimism bias

May 15, 2024

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. Google’s Astra is its first AI-for-everything agent What’s happening: Google is set to launch a new system called Astra later this year. It promises that it will be the most powerful, advanced type…

If You Want Funding, These Are the Financial Reports VCs Need to See

May 15, 2024

When you’re trying to attract new investors, there are several financial reports and metrics you’ll need to have ready before you have a chance at potential funding. As the CEO of a venture capital firm and investment group, here’s what you need for the best pitch.

Meet PayHOA, a profitable and once-bootstrapped SaaS startup that just landed a $27.5M Series A

May 15, 2024

PayHOA, a previously bootstrapped Kentucky-based startup that offers software for self-managed homeowner associations (HOAs), is an example of how real-world problems can translate into opportunity. It just raised a $27.5 million Series A round in an environment where nearly $30 million Series A rounds are no longer common. PayHOA founder and CEO Mike Bollinger has […]

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