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Sep 15, 2020 • 4min
DaVinci Kitchen is building a robotic pasta-making kiosk
The robotics industry is having a major moment amid the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s true that category has been an exciting target for investments for a number of years now, but labor issues and concerns over transmission have led many sectors to take a good, long look at automation. Meal preparation is a […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 14, 2020 • 7min
Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features
The spreadsheet-centric database and no-code platform Airtable today announced that it has raised a $185 million Series D funding round, putting the company at a $2.585 billion post-money valuation. Thrive Capital led the round, with additional funding by existing investors Benchmark, Coatue, Caffeinated Capital and CRV, as well as new investor D1 Capital. With this, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 14, 2020 • 5min
Toucan raises $3M to teach you new languages as you browse the web
Toucan has developed a Chrome browser extension designed for anyone who wants to learn a new language but hasn’t found the motivation or the time. Once installed, the extension scans the text of any (English-language) website you’re visiting and will automatically translate some of the words into the language that you’re trying to learn. If […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 11, 2020 • 7min
Carbon Health to launch 100 pop-up COVID-19 testing clinics across the U.S.
Primary care health tech startup Carbon Health has added a new element to its “omnichannel” healthcare approach with the launch of a new pop-up clinic model that is already live in San Francisco, LA, Seattle, Brooklyn and Manhattan, with Detroit to follow soon – and that will be rolling out over the next weeks and […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 11, 2020 • 6min
Diffblue launches a free community edition of its automated Java unit testing tool
Diffblue, a spin-out from Oxford University, uses machine learning to help developers automatically create unit tests for their Java code. Since few developers enjoy writing unit tests to ensure that their code works as expected, increased automation doesn’t just help developers focus on writing the code that actually makes a difference but also lead to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 10, 2020 • 5min
Sprinklr raises $200M on $2.7B valuation three years after last investment
Sprinklr has been busy the last few years acquiring a dozen companies, then rewriting their code base and incorporating them into the company’s customer experience platform. Today, the late-stage startup went back to the fund raising well for the first time in three years, and it was a doozy, raising $200 million on a $2.7 […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 10, 2020 • 4min
Iron Ox raises $20 million for its robotic farms
Bay Area-based Iron Ox today announced a $20 million Series B. The funding, led by Pathbreaker Venture and family office firms, brings the robotics company’s total funding up to $45 million to date. A number of other investors also took part in the round, including Crosslink Capital, Amplify Partners, ENIAC Ventures, R7 Partners, Tuesday Ventures, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 9, 2020 • 5min
Snyk bags another $200M at $2.6B valuation 9 months after last raise
When we last reported on Snyk in January, eons ago in COVID time, the company announced $150 million investment on a valuation of over $1 billion. Today, barely nine months later, it announced another $200 million and its valuation has expanded to $2.6 billion. The company is obviously drawing some serious investor attention and even […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 9, 2020 • 4min
Snowflake’s IPO could value it as high as $24B, Salesforce and Berkshire to invest
On the heels of new filings from both Sumo Logic and JFrog, Snowflake, a venture-backed unicorn looking to go public on the strength of its data-focused cloud service, set an initial price range for its IPO. The $75 to $85 per-share IPO price target values the firm at between $20.9 billion and $23.7 billion, huge […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 8, 2020 • 3min
Revolut launches its financial app in Japan
Fintech startup Revolut is expanding to Japan. After testing the service with 10,000 users, anybody can now sign up and open an account. The company originally obtained its authorization to operate from Japan’s Finance Service Agency in 2018. When you open an account, you get an electronic wallet and a Visa debit card. You can […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
