Back in April, Mojo Vision announced a new $22.4 million Series A. Six months later, the round has nearly doubled to $43.5 million, courtesy of New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Khosla Ventures,…
Tech Crunch – Account Labs raises $7.7M as FTX’s demise leads to crypto self-custody growth
The collapse of the FTX empire didn’t just set in motion a crypto market downturn. The unraveling of FTX’s misuse of customer funds also exposed the risks of using crypto wallets controlled…
Tech Crunch – Deasie wants to rank and filter data to make generative AI more reliable
Deasie, a startup developing tools to give companies greater control over text-generating AI models, today announced that it raised $2.9 million in a seed funding round with participation from Y Combinator, General…
El Paso Matters – Grant will fund museum internships, speaker series, path for program’s future
The University of Texas at El Paso’s Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts will use a new three-year, $610,518 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to…
Tech Crunch – Lakera launches to protect large language models from malicious prompts
Large language models (LLMs) are the driving force behind the burgeoning generative AI movement, capable of interpreting and creating human-language texts from simple prompts — this could be anything from summarizing a…
Tech Crunch – Ergo’s Shopify app gives online retailers joy of bartering without the hassle
The startup is developing pricing software to give online retailers an easy way to clear out inventory and increase profits without having to put those items on sale. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Didi’s autonomous vehicle arm raises $149M from state investors
When Didi created an autonomous vehicle subsidiary in 2020, the venture was seen as a Chinese counterpart to Uber’s AV unit. The tides of change have since swept across China’s tech landscape,…
Tech Crunch – EyeEm, the photo marketplace, changes hands as Freepik picks it up out of bankruptcy
EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo marketplace that once was loftily thought of as a possible challenger to Instagram in Europe but more recently has fallen on much harder times, has a new owner….
Tech Crunch – India’s CtrlS says it will invest $2B to expand datacenter business
CtrlS Datacenters, the India-headquartered data center giant, said Thursday it plans to invest $2 billion over the next six years to scale its operations and expand business, as the demand for data…
Tech Crunch – Microsoft faces $28.9 billion tax bill in ongoing audit dispute
Microsoft says that it’s facing a hefty tax bill over historical accounting practices dating back nearly twenty years. In a filing yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company confirmed…