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    Father and son duo take on global logistics with Optimal Dynamics’ sequential decision AI platform – TechCrunch

    Like “innovation,” machine learning and artificial intelligence are commonplace terms that provide very little context for what they actually signify. AI/ML spans dozens of...

    Inside Marqeta’s fascinating fintech IPO – TechCrunch

    The IPO market is gearing up for a hot close to the second quarter and a hotter Q3. That’s The Exchange’s takeaway from recent IPO...

    Settle raises $15M from Kleiner Perkins to give e-commerce companies more working capital – TechCrunch

    Alek Koenig spent four years at Affirm, where he was head of credit. There he saw firsthand just how powerful the alternative lending model could...

    How Expensify got to $100M in revenue by hiring “stem cells” and not “cogs in a wheel” – TechCrunch

    Expensify EC-1 Part 2: Culture The influence of a founder on their company’s culture cannot be overstated. Everything from their views on the product and...

    Discovery’s new reality show ‘Who Wants to Be an Astronaut?’ will pick one winner to go to space – TechCrunch

    Discovery has ordered a new reality show, to air in 2022, which will be an eight episode competition series where competitors will vie for...

    Lamborghini is kicking off its electrification plan with two gas-powered super sports cars – TechCrunch

    Lamborghini will pay homage to combustion engines with the introduction of two new V12 luxury sports cars this year before it makes a push...

    Growth expert Susan Su shares insights for marketing in 2021 at TC Early Stage – TechCrunch

    It’s 2021. Contact importers are old history, and everyone’s a creator, building for their own audience. How can early-stage startups find meaningful traction at...

    Sidewalk Labs launches Pebble, a sensor that uses real-time data to manage city parking – TechCrunch

    Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s urban innovation organization, has announced the launch of Pebble, a vehicle sensor that’s designed to help manage parking in cities by...

    For companies that use ML, labeled data is the key differentiator – TechCrunch

    Sylvain Kalache Contributor Sylvain Kalache is the co-founder of Holberton, an edtech company training digital talent in more than 10 countries. An entrepreneur and software engineer,...

    Fintech startup Vise raises $65 million in Series C led by Ribbit Capital – TechCrunch

    Vise today announced a $65 million Series C financing round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from existing investors including Sequoia. The startup launched on the...

    Extend raises $260M on a $1.6B valuation to expand its warranty and protection plan services – TechCrunch

    A company that has built a new approach to the business of extended warranties — providing a cost-effective and efficient way for retailers or...

    Explorium scores $75M Series C just 10 months after B round – TechCrunch

    Without good data, it’s impossible to build an accurate predictive machine learning model. Explorium, a company that has been building a solution over the...

    Klaviyo’s next-gen email marketing platform engorges on $320M at a $9.5B valuation – TechCrunch

    Email marketing is decades old, but it’s a category that has surprising life in it. Multiple generations of email marketing companies have come through...

    Styra, the startup behind Open Policy Agent, nabs $40M to expand its cloud-native authorization tools – TechCrunch

    As cloud-native apps continue to become increasingly central to how organizations operate, a startup founded by the creators of a popular open-source tool to...

    Apple 24-inch M1 iMac review – TechCrunch

    Last September we concluded our 27-inch iMac review thusly, “The big open question mark here is what the future looks like for the iMac —...

    Pizza robot-maker Picnic raises another $16.3M – TechCrunch

    The events of the past year and a half could well mark the beginning of a sea change for the world of restaurant robotics....