The Tech Coalition, the group of tech companies developing approaches and policies to combat online child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), today announced the launch of a new program, Lantern, designed to…
Tech Crunch – ReturnGO, with $5M more, now powers product returns for Amazon Multi-Channel Fulfillment
ReturnGO provides a “post-purchase operating system” that aims to reduce the reverse logistics costs for online retailers while also making the whole process more sustainable. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For…
Tech Crunch – Sift raises $7.5M to build a telemetry stack for the “digital backbone to the physical world”
Excellent hardware requires an excellent software stack. Few parts of that stack more clearly illustrate this point than telemetry, which essentially refers to the collection of real-time, critical data on machine performance….
Tech Crunch – Former Myspace founders introduce a text-to-video generator that uses your selfie to personalize content
For almost two decades, Chris DeWolfe and Aber Whitcomb — the minds behind social network platform Myspace and gaming company Jam City — have made it their mission to be on top…
Tech Crunch – Cast AI, which helps companies optimize cloud spend, lands $35M
The mass move to digital during the pandemic and the embrace of generative AI accelerated cloud adoption, and trend hasn’t reversed — on the contrary. Gartner estimates that, in 2023, global end-user spending…
Tech Crunch – a16z writes first check out of UK to crypto startup Pimlico
Upon opening its first overseas office in London last Thursday, a16z announced today that its first check written from the U.K. was for Pimlico. Based out of London — as one could…
Tech Crunch – Integration.app uses LLMs to connect apps and services together
Several years ago, Daniil Bratchenko, one of the first employees at DataRobot, the AI and data science platform, observed that enterprises adopting software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps experienced a perennial challenge. Despite the abundance…
Tech Crunch – Volante raises $66M for payments tech for banks and other legacy financial businesses
“Digital transformation” among enterprises hasn’t happened with quite the gusto that people predicted it would a few years ago. But today, a startup building fintech technology — for businesses to modernize legacy…
Tech Crunch – Enable, a platform for managing B2B rebates, is now worth $1B
There’s a new unicorn in town, and its name is Enable. A rebate management platform, Enable today announced that it raised $120 million in a Series D funding round that values the…
Texas Monthly – The Great Cajun Turtle Heist
One day in the late summer or early fall, likely during the administration of Governor Pa Ferguson in the 1910s, an alligator snapping turtle hatchling poked his head out of the rubbery…