Y Combinator alum Matterport is being bought by real estate juggernaut Costar at a 212% premium The transaction represents a premium of a whopping 212% over Matterport’s last closing share price before the deal was announced on April 22. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use ...
With Easel, ex-Snap researchers are building the next-generation Bitmoji thanks to AI Easel is a new startup that sits at the intersection of the generative AI and social trends, founded by two former employees at Snap. The company has been working on an app that lets you create images...
Texture makes a bid to become the world’s go-to platform of the energy transition The startup, founded by an Arcadia alumnus, seeks to become a common data collection and sharing platform for renewable power sources like wind, solar, and batteries. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights re...
Fintech Fundid was shut down over interest rates and a strained cap table To keep going, Fundid “needed to put up a lot more collateral because of the changing environment,” Stefanie Sample said. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Two widow founders launch DayNew, a social platform for people dealing with grief and trauma After losing their husbands in devastating and unexpected ways, Karine Nissim and Eloise Bune D’Agostino discovered there were no suitable places where people could go to face all the challenges that ...
Bump raises $3 million seed to help creators manage finances Bump allows creators to track income and market value, which can help them negotiate better deals and see how much money they are owed from partners. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For perso...
Amazon wants to host companies’ custom generative AI models AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing business, wants to be the go-to place companies host and fine-tune their custom generative AI models. Today, AWS announced the launch of Custom Model Import (in preview),...
Amazon launches a new grocery delivery subscription in the U.S Amazon said today that it has launched a new grocery delivery subscription for Prime Members and customers with an EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) in the U.S. across 3,500 cities and towns. The comp...
Mozilla finds that most dating apps are not great guardians of user data Dating apps are not following great privacy practices and are collecting more data than ever in order to woo GenZ users, a new study by Mozilla pointed out. Researchers reviewed dating apps in terms o...
Adobe claims its new image generation model is its best yet Firefly, Adobe’s family of generative AI models, doesn’t have the best reputation among creatives. The Firefly image generation model in particular has been derided as underwhelming and flawed compare...