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Despite VCs investing $75B in Q4 , it’s still hard for startups to raise money, data proves

After two years of relatively muted investment activity, it seems that VCs are starting to pour capital into startups at pandemic-era levels once again. But a closer look shows that they aren’t really. In the fourth quarter of last year, investors funneled $74.6 billion into U.S. startups, a substantial increase from the average of $42 […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

3 Ways to Create and Nurture Great Customers for Long-Term Success with Workato’s SVP Embedded Sales

Workato’s SVP of Embedded Sales and Director of Solutions Marketing joined us at SaaStr Annual to talk about how to nurture customers β€” a great topic in general, but especially for embedded sales and APIs that can take a while to scale. The Second Most Important SaaS Hire? Customer Success. Here’s Why It Changes Everything... Continue Reading The post 3 Ways to Create and Nurture Great Customers for Long-Term Success...

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: SaaStr favicon SaaStr

Enterprises can now run real-time data through Google Cloud’s most advanced VMs

Early adopters like Couchbase are already seeing significant price-performance gains with Google Cloud's new VMs.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Spellar for iOS

AI Conversation companion and note taker in your pocket Discussion | Link

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: Product Hunt favicon Product Hunt

Failed fintech startup Bench racked up over $65 million in debt, documents reveal

Canadian Fintech Bench had over $65 million in debt but less than $3 million in cash, documents reveal. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

The 2025 State of AI

Learn how companies build with AI: Emerging patterns & plans Discussion | Link

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: Product Hunt favicon Product Hunt

Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol

Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol, he shared in a TikTok video posted on Wednesday. In anticipation of the coming U.S. TikTok ban, which will go through on Sunday unless paused by the Supreme Court, users have been fleeing to other video platforms, including […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

AI Chat-avatar

Conversational AI assistant always ready do the job for you Discussion | Link

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: Product Hunt favicon Product Hunt

You can now fine-tune your own version of AI image maker Flux with just 5 images

Whether for brand-consistent marketing visuals or detailed character art, the Flux Pro Finetuning API enhances precision and adaptability.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon tells startups to reconsider going public

Goldman Sachs is one of the biggest investment banker β€œbook runners” for IPOs β€” where banks are paid many millions of dollars for each listing they underwrite. Yet CEO David Solomon told attendees of the Cisco AI Summit in Palo Alto that startups should reconsider the idea of going public, reports Financial Times. Solomon said […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

Google’s new neural-net LLM architecture separates memory components to control exploding costs of capacity and compute

Titans architecture complements attention layers with neural memory modules that select bits of information worth saving in the long term.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Purpose-built AI hardware: Smart strategies for scaling infrastructure

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, β€œAI at Scale: From Vision to Viability.”Read more from the issue here. Enterprises can look forward to new capabilities β€” and strategic decisions β€” around the crucial task of creating a solid foundation for AI expansion in 2025. New chips, accelerators, co-processors, servers and other networking and[…]

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

The path forward for gen AI-powered code development in 2025

AI-powered code development has come a long way in recent years. Here's where it's headed as 2025 gets underway.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Not just hype β€” here are real-world use cases for AI agents

Here's how robotics manufacturing company Baca Systems and corporate food ordering platform ezCater are using Salesforce's AI agents.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Borderless AI secures $32 million to challenge HR software giants with its AI-powered platform

Borderless AI launches an enterprise HR platform powered by AI that streamlines employee data management, policy compliance, and HR workflows, securing $32M in funding to challenge traditional HR software giants.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Edge computing’s rise will drive cloud consumption, not replace it

Successful edge AI deployments require deep integration between edge and cloud, complex orchestration and new approaches to data management.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

AI factories are factories: Overcoming industrial challenges to commoditize AI

The infrastructure to support AI inherits many challenges that defined industrial factories, from power to scalability and reliability.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

4 bold AI predictions for 2025

Enterprises can prepare for AI becoming faster, cheaper and more capable in 2025, and take the lead on developing applications.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Build or buy? Scaling your enterprise gen AI pipeline in 2025

Successfully scaling gen AI requires clear, high-value use cases, technological flexibility and an adaptive workforce.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Winning the war against adversarial AI needs to start with AI-native SOCs

Let's dive into the many reasons security leaders are embracing AI-native security operations centers (SOCs) as the future of defense.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Anduril to build its billion-dollar weapons megafactory in Ohio

Today, Anduril announced it is building their massive weapons factory, Arsenal-1, in Columbus, Ohio, confirming TechCrunch’s earlier reporting. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

The job hunting β€˜icks’ driving candidates away

There are many things that can make a potential applicant stop and reassess if this is the right move for them. These are the most popular. Read more: The job hunting β€˜icks’ driving candidates away

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: Silicon Republic favicon Silicon Republic

Netradyne snags $90M at $1.25B valuation to expand smart dashcams for commercial fleets

Distracted driving is one of the leading causes of car accidents and a major reason why auto insurance premiums are expected to increase in 2025. For commercial fleets, that’s a nightmare. But for California-based startup Netradyne, it’s a tailwind. Netradyne provides fleet owners, including big names like Amazon, with AI-enabled dashcams that collect vehicle data […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

Teal Health raises $10M to create at-home cervical cancer screenings

The process of getting screened for cervical cancer is quite intimidating. It’s the once-a-year, sometimes life-changing treatment that involves the bright lights of a doctor’s office and an uncomfortable insertion that always seems to last too long. It’s no wonder Kara Egan and Dr. Avnesh Thakor saw the potential to make this process more comfortable […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: TechCrunch Startups favicon TechCrunch Startups

When You Raise Venture Capital, A Clock Starts Ticking. At First, Softly. Then Louder and Louder.

When you raise venture capital, a clock starts to tick, at first softly, and then more loudly It’s a race to in the next 18 months, max, at least double your valuation It’s a higher hurdle, and shorter timeline, than most intuitively realize β€” Jason SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15 Lemkin (@jasonlk) December 19, 2024... Continue Reading The post When You Raise Venture Capital, A Clock Starts Ticking. At First, Softly. Then...

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: SaaStr favicon SaaStr

Trinity genetic analysis finds women led Britain’s Iron Age

This is the first time a β€˜matrilocality’ has been documented in European prehistory, but researchers believe it might not have been rare. Read more: Trinity genetic analysis finds women led Britain’s Iron Age

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: Silicon Republic favicon Silicon Republic

Switch 2’s controllers appear to function as mice

A brief snippet of today's Nintendo Switch 2 reveal may have hinted toward additional uses of the hardware.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

How GTA pioneer Dan Houser’s Absurd Ventures will make great worlds with strong storytelling

South Korean game publisherSmilegaterecently made a strategic investment and became a partner inAbsurd Ventures, a game studio founded by Rockstar Games cofounderDan Houser. Houser spent more than 20 years at Rockstar games and drove the creative direction of the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption franchises, which have collectively sold more than 550 million[…]

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Namirial acquires Digital Technologies

Fintech platformNamirial has acquired Digital Technologies, a digital transaction management software with a focus on document workflow hyper-automation and invoicing.Namirial itself was acquired by...

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: Tech.eu favicon Tech.eu

Recharge eyes acquisitions after securing €45M debt facility

Amsterdam-based fintech Recharge has secured a 45M debt facility, which it says it will use to target acquisitions.The digital voucher and prepaid card fintech has secured the debt financing through ...

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: Tech.eu favicon Tech.eu

2025 cybersecurity trends: GenAI, cloud security and zero trust

TCS’s Virginia Lee discusses how the threat landscape is transforming and what to expect from the year ahead. Read more: 2025 cybersecurity trends: GenAI, cloud security and zero trust

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: Silicon Republic favicon Silicon Republic

Nvidia tackles agentic AI safety and security with new NeMo Guardrails NIMs

Nvidia is optimizing AI safety controls for multi-agent systems with minimal performance impact through new NeMo Guardrails microservices.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Watching video game history happen again with the Nintendo Switch 2

The Nintendo Switch 2 was announced today and it immediately made me nostalgic about the launch of the original Switch that came in 2017.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat

Earth bids farewell to ESA’s Gaia spacecraft

Although Earth is saying goodbye to the spacecraft this year, Gaia’s observations will result in two more data releases by 2030. Read more: Earth bids farewell to ESA’s Gaia spacecraft

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: Silicon Republic favicon Silicon Republic

Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed

Nintendo has finally given us a first look at its next console, the Switch 2.

Published on: January 16, 2025 | Source: VentureBeat favicon VentureBeat