Topic: startup founding
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Flai's AI Revolutionizes Car Dealership Operations
Flai is an AI startup that developed an omni-channel software platform for car dealerships, managing customer interactions via phone, email, and text to address the issue of lost leads from busy communication lines. The company secured $4.5 million in seed funding to scale its technology, emphasi...
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First Ocean Robot Survives Category 5 Hurricane for Data
Anahita Laverack co-founded Oshen after a failed robotics competition revealed a critical lack of affordable, real-time ocean data, identifying a clear market need. Oshen developed fleets of low-cost, autonomous micro-robots designed for mass deployment, successfully balancing durability, afforda...
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Ex-Googlers Build Tools to Unlock Video Data Insights
InfiniMind, a startup founded by former Google engineers, addresses the untapped potential of vast corporate video archives by converting them into structured, queryable data for business intelligence. The company leverages advanced vision-language models to move beyond simple object recognition,...
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Cut Your Utility Bills: HomeBoost Shows You How
Selina Tobaccowala founded HomeBoost after her consumer research revealed homeowners felt stuck despite receiving high energy bill alerts, leveraging her survey expertise from SurveyMonkey to identify this need. HomeBoost sends customers a kit with an infrared camera and blacklight to conduct DIY...
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AI Startup Negotiates Your Calendar for You
Blockit, a startup founded by former Sequoia Capital partner Kais Khimji, has launched with $5 million in seed funding to replace manual meeting scheduling with AI agents that negotiate directly on a user's behalf. The core product is an AI agent network that allows calendars to communicate, hand...
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Motion raises $38M to build the Microsoft Office of AI agents
Harry Qi co-founded Motion, an AI-powered calendaring and task management app, after leaving a lucrative finance career to pursue meaningful impact. Motion's AI agent bundle for small and midsized businesses rapidly attracted over 10,000 B2B customers and reached $10 million in annual recurring r...
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Doorstep Secures $8M to Solve Missing Food Deliveries
Doorstep, a startup tackling the problem of undelivered food orders, has secured $8 million in seed funding to scale its technology that provides clarity in the final delivery stage. The company's software integrates with delivery apps like Uber Eats and uses smartphone sensors to track a driver'...
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AI Startup Outtake Secures $40M from Tech Titans
Outtake, a cybersecurity startup, raised $40 million in Series B funding led by ICONIQ, with notable backing from tech leaders like Satya Nadella and Nikesh Arora, signaling strong confidence in its potential. The company's automated platform detects and dismantles digital impersonation fraud, su...
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Legal AI Startup Harvey Hits $8 Billion Valuation
Harvey, an AI legal tech startup, has achieved an $8 billion valuation after a $160 million funding round, reflecting rapid growth and strong investor confidence in AI's potential to transform legal services. The company has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue and secured contracts...
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OpenAI Buys AI Startup From Ex-Apple Engineers
OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Inc., a startup that develops AI-driven interfaces for Mac desktops, to enhance AI's role in everyday computing tasks. The acquisition includes integrating the startup's technology into ChatGPT and bringing on its entire team of around twelve employees, a...
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