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Following Sunday's national elections, the pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), led by Moldovan President Maia Sandu, claimed victory and a new parliamentary majority. While the electi...
The acquisition is Ancala’s first investment in Ireland, the company said. Read more: Ancala acquires 300 Irish Phoenix towers after CCPC order
Slack is fundamentally reshaping how artificial intelligence agents access and use enterprise data, launching new platform capabilities that allow developers to tap directly into the rich conversational data flowing through workplace channels — a move that could determine whether Slack or Microsoft Teams becomes the dominant platform for AI-powered work.The company announced Wednesday that its new real-time search API...
Many fast-growing importers, wholesalers, and e-commerce businesses struggle with a common cash flow challenge: large amounts of capital are locked up in inventory, shipments, or supplier payment term...
The social media giant also plans to acquire chip start-up Rivos to strengthen its own semiconductor abilities. Read more: Meta inks $14.2bn deal with CoreWeave for its compute power
OpenAI yesterday officially launched its new TikTok-type AI video app and opened invite-only access in the US. Disney is reported to have denied use of its content. Read more: OpenAI’s TikTok-like social app makes its ‘cameo’ appearance
Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded earlier this year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has launched its first product: Tinker, a Python-based API designed to make large language model (LLM) fine-tuning both powerful and accessible. Now in private beta, Tinker gives developers and researchers direct control over their training pipelines while offloading the heavy lifting of distributed compute and infrastructure...
Nscale, the UK-based AI data centre startup, has closed a $433 million funding round, just days after bagging a $1.1 billion funding round, as the vast investment in AI infrastructure shows no signs o...
Dear SaaStr: How Long Should New Account Execs Get to Make Quota? It depends on your sales cycle and the segment you’re selling into. For SMBs with shorter sales cycles (e.g., 30 days), a new AE should be closing deals within their first sales cycle and ramped to quota by the second. That means they... Continue Reading
Shared micromobility provider Dott has launched a new generation of e-bikes in Paris, marking the beginning of a four-year contract in the French capital. The new Segway Urban B200 model will be rolle...
Investors don’t understand AI technology and are not being “particularly smart” about investing in it, according to the founder of a UK AI firm that advises OpenAI and other frontier model companies o...
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French biotech company SeaBeLife has secured 2 million in a pre-Series A funding round to advance its drug development pipeline, with clinical trials expected to begin in 2026. The financing, led by ...
Development will begin immediately to create one of Italy’s largest data centre campuses. Read more: Echelon Data Centres to expand into Italy with 3bn investment
In his new role as executive chair, Ek will chart Spotify’s long-term plans and determine capital allocation. Read more: Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek steps down from role
Building automationsoftware company viboo has secured 3.3 million in seed funding.The round was led by Realyze Ventures, joined by Zürcher Kantonalbank, alongwith other new and existing investors.Bui...
Hopper Technology Solutions launched a breakthrough artificial intelligence system Wednesday that can autonomously handle complex travel customer service issues from start to finish, a major advance in AI-powered automation for the trillion-dollar travel industry.The new system, called HTS Assist, can conduct entire customer service conversations through voice or chat, accessing airline booking systems to cancel...
Paris-based Clarifeye,the platform enabling organisations to build expert AI agents at scale, hasraised a 4 million pre-seed round led by EQT Ventures. The round also includesparticipation from Drysd...
Austrian deep tech startup Optimuse has raised 4 million Seed funding. Optimuse was founded in Vienna in 2021 by Dominik Pezzei, Fabian Pitscheider, and Felix Maximilian Hofer. Optimuse is an AI plat...
Naomh McElhatton discusses being a voice for women in the technology sector and the responsibility she feels to steer progress. Read more: ‘Tech without compassion is brittle,’ says Irish ambassador for Women in AI
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Serena, a European venture capital firm, announces the first closeof its fourth flagship fund, Serena IV, at 200 million. Commitments come fromlongstanding LPs as well as new institutional and privat...
Meta’s AI research team has released a new large language model (LLM) for coding that enhances code understanding by learning not only what code looks like, but also what it does when executed. The model, named Code World Model (CWM), is trained on vast amounts of data showing how code interacts with its environment, allowing it to build an internal “world model” of how computational systems work.In addition to...
It’s October 8th, our next SaaStr AI Day, and it’s a great one!! We’re hosting a full day of sessions focused on the real-world implementation of AI in sales, marketing, and revenue operations. This isn’t about theoretical use cases—it’s about what’s converting pipeline, what’s failing, and why that $200K AI SDR role might be coming... Continue Reading
Periodic Labs has raised from a tech industry who's who, including Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos.
What happens when your first 10 hires aren’t people at all? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, we’re digging into the new wave of startups replacing or augmenting early employees with AI agents.
OpenAI today announced the release of Sora 2, its latest video generation model, which now includes AI generated audio matching the generated video, as well.It is paired with the launch of a new iOS app simply called Sora, that allows users to insert and edit with AI videos of themselves and their friends alongside them with a new "Cameo" feature — though OpenAI says there are robust protections and identity safeguard...
Hance is working on low energy-consuming, on-device processing that's already attracted the likes of Intel.
At TechCrunch Disrupt, the Aerospace Corporation is pulling back the curtain on how artificial intelligence is reshaping the space economy — through bold startups and cutting-edge research.
Karandeep Anand, CEO of Character AI, joins the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to discuss human-like AI companions, ethical and technical challenges, and the legal scrutiny facing conversational AI.
Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek is standing down as CEO of the Stockholm-based streaming giant after nearly two decades in the role.Ek has served as Spotify’s CEO since he co-founded the company in 2006 ...
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eSelf, a startup developing interactive, photorealistic talking AI video avatars, has introduced a new feature called Share Screen Analysis that allows its avatars to view and respond to what users display on their screens. Powered by a combination of a large language model (LLM) from any number of third-party AI providers like OpenAI and Google, as well as a special, custom trained video language model made in house...
ICONIQ Capital just dropped their annual State of Software report, and inside the 73 (!) pages are some data that shows just how much the software industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Here are my top 5 take-aways (and 5 more bonus ones): 1. AI-Native Companies Are Hitting $100M ARR with Teams of Less Than... Continue Reading
Dear SaaStr: When Should I Sell My Startup? Selling your company is one of the hardest decisions you’ll face as a founder. It’s not just about the money—although that’s a lot of it. It’s about timing, momentum, and your long-term vision. And commitment. 1. Don’t Sell Too Early if You’re Growing Fast A lesson so... Continue Reading