Kyle Wiggers
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Ushur, which aims to automate aspects of the customer experience, raises $50M
Ushur, a startup developing a platform to automate aspects of the customer experience, has raised $50 million in venture capital. → Read More
Drone imagery firm DroneBase rebrands to Zeitview, lands $55M investment
Zeitview, the drone imagery company formerly known as DroneBase, has landed a fresh VC investment north of $50 million. → Read More
Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub’s Copilot with $23M in VC backing
Magic, a company developing a service to rival code-generating tools like GitHub's Copilot, has raised $23 million in venture funding. → Read More
Breef raises $16M to match brands with marketing agencies
Breef, a startup developing a marketplace for matching brands with marketing agencies, has raised $16 million in a venture round. → Read More
Samooha launches with tech that lets companies securely share data
Samooha, a startup developing tech to help companies share data securely across computing environments, has raised over $12 million in VC funding. → Read More
Lavender lands $13.2M for its AI-powered email marketing engine
Lavender, a startup applying AI -- including generative AI -- to email marketing, has raised $13.2 million in a venture funding round. → Read More
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, starting at $20 per month
OpenAI's pro-level ChatGPT service, ChatGPT Plus, delivers a number of benefits including priority access and faster response times. → Read More
Empathy’s new tool uses AI to generate obituaries, and it’s not half bad
Startup Empathy has launched a new tool that uses AI to generate obituaries. It might sound callous, but the results aren't terrible, surprisingly. → Read More
Passthrough raises $10M to simplify the process of investor onboarding
Passthrough, a startup developing tools to help onboard investors and maintain compliance, has raised $10 million in a venture equity round. → Read More
Portside lands $50M to help manage business aviation
Portside, which develops software to help businesses run aviation operations efficiently, has raised over $50 million in a funding round. → Read More
OpenAI releases tool to detect AI-generated text, including from ChatGPT
OpenAI has released a tool to detect whether articles are AI-generated or human-written. But it's far from perfect. → Read More
Sentra raises $30M to provide a security layer for data in the cloud
Sentra, a startup creating tools to protect data across cloud environments, has raised $30 million in a venture funding round. → Read More
Select Star closes $15M round to add context to disparate data
Select Star, a startup building a system for managing and tracking data lineage, has raised $15 million in a venture funding round. → Read More
Identity management platform Saviynt secures $205M in debt, appoints new CEO
Saviynt, an identity management platform, has secured a new loan worth over $200 million, which it plans to put toward expansion. → Read More
Stripe eyes an exit, Dell bets on the cloud, and Shutterstock embraces generative AI
On this edition of Week in Review, Stripe eyes an exit, Dell bets on the cloud and Shutterstock embraces generative AI. → Read More
Google created an AI that can generate music from text descriptions, but won’t release it
Google has created an AI system that can generate songs given detailed text descriptions. But it won't release it for fear of the risks. → Read More
The current legal cases against generative AI are just the beginning
Generative AI like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 have entered the mainstream -- and attracted investors' attention. But they're prompting lawsuits. → Read More
Inscribe bags $25M to fight financial fraud with AI
Inscribe, a startup developing AI-powered tech to fight financial fraud, has raised $25 million in a venture funding round. → Read More
Method raises $16M to power loan repayment, balance transfers and more across fintech apps
Method, a company developing backend infrastructure to handle various financial tasks, has raised $16 million in a venture funding round. → Read More
Whalesync wants to simplify the process of syncing data between SaaS apps
Whalesync, which bi-directionally syncs data between SaaS apps, has raised nearly $2 million in a pre-seed funding round. → Read More