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Pienso: Putting AI into the hands of people with problems to solve
MIT News: Alumni-founded Pienso has developed a user-friendly AI builder so domain experts can build solutions without writing any code.
FlowFi Closes on $9M in Seed Funding
TECHCRUNCH: FlowFi, a startup creating a marketplace of finance experts for entrepreneurs, closed on $9 million in seed funding.
Blumberg Capital led the investment and was joined by a group of investors including Parade Ventures, Differential Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Special Ventures, 14 Peaks Capital and Cooley LLP.
Retrocausal Raises $5.3M in Financing
FINSMES: Retrocausal, a Seattle, WA-based platform provider for manufacturing process management, raised $5.3M in funding.
The round was led by Glasswing Ventures, One Way Ventures, and Indicator Ventures, with participation from existing investors Argon Ventures, Differential Ventures, Ascend Vietnam Ventures, Incubate Fund US, SaaS Ventures, Hypertherm Ventures, Stage Venture Partners, and Techstars.
Metafold 3D Closes $2.35 Million CAD To Fuel Industrial Adoption of 3D Printing
BETAKIT: Metafold 3D, which wants to make it easier for manufacturers to design and 3D print complex parts, has secured $2.35 million CAD ($1.78 million USD) in seed funding.
Toronto-based Metafold was founded in 2020 by a group of math, geometry, and architecture experts in CEO Elissa Ross, CTO Daniel Hambleton, and COO Tom Reslinski. Born out of Hambleton’s geometry-focused consulting agency, Mesh Consultants, Metafold sells design for additive-manufacturing software to sportswear and biopharmaceutical companies.
Mona Introduces Free, Self-Service Monitoring for GPT Applications
ATLANTA and TEL AVIV, Israel, June 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Mona, the leading intelligent monitoring platform, unveils a new monitoring solution for GPT-based applications. The free, self-service offering provides businesses with granular visibility into GPT-based products and valuable insights into costs, performance, and quality.
Morgan Stanley at Work Launches Carver Edison’s Cashless Participation®
BUSINESSWIRE: Morgan Stanley at Work and Carver Edison, a financial technology company, announced today that Shareworks has joined Equity Edge Online® in offering Cashless Participation® to U.S.-based corporate clients. Since the initial launch of Cashless Participation® on Equity Edge Online®, stock plan participants have purchased more than one million shares1 with Cashless Participation®. Now that Shareworks has also launched the tool, a wider cohort of Morgan Stanley at Work corporate clients will have access.
Golioth Secures $4.6M Seed Funding to Accelerate Time-to-Market for IoT
IoTForAll: Golioth, a leading developer platform for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announced open access to a library of new reference designs for embedded engineers to accelerate their time to market, the launch of a Select Partner Program for energy and construction developers, and the completion of a $4.6M round of seed funding led by Blackhorn Ventures and Differential Ventures with participation from existing investors, Zetta Venture Partners, MongoDB Ventures and Lorimer Ventures.
PrivateAI’s PrivateGPT aims to combat ChatGPT privacy concerns
VENTURE BEAT: Data privacy provider Private AI, announced the launch of PrivateGPT, a “privacy layer” for large language models (LLMs) such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The new tool is designed to automatically redact sensitive information and personally identifiable information (PII) from user prompts.
Differential Ventures partners with Betaworks for AICamp: Augment
AICamp: Augment is a 3 month long accelerator program run by Betaworks, aimed at bringing together the most creative pre-seed & seed stage companies building software powered by AI to augment human activity.
Agnostiq Closes $6.1M Seed Extension Round
Quantum computing startup Agnostiq Inc. said today, April 5, 2023, it has closed on a seed funding round worth $6.1 million to help accelerate the development of its enterprise-grade quantum and high-performance computing platform.
Government of Canada invests over $14 million to create jobs and grow economy across Greater Toronto Area
While in Toronto, Minister Tassi joined representatives at an event hosted by Cognota Inc. and Mero Technologies Inc. Cognota, is a Toronto-based software company that provides AI-enabled learning applications. The company’s LearnOps platform helps customers find new ways to manage strategy, intake …
Israel’s cybersecurity startup Cyvers secures $8M Seed funding to make Web3 and crypto exchanges safer
Today, Cyvers announced it has raised $8 million in seed funding to protect against fraudulent cryptocurrency purchases before reaching the ledger. What makes this critical is that in 98% of the cases, crypto exchanges, DeFi protocols, and custodians are not alerted about the fraud until after it has been immutably registered.
Perfecting privacy: Private AI secures $8M USD in funding to expand their “Privacy Layer for Software”
Private AI’s solution gets to the root of the problem by identifying, removing, and replacing personal data with an unparalleled level of accuracy. With $8 million secured in Series A funding, they have begun expanding their operations across Europe and investing in product enhancements, such as the forthcoming self-service platform.
Demoleap raises $4.4 million to Shift the Sales Process Towards AI-guided Selling Solutions
Demoleap, the only AI-powered live demo assistant and sales discovery platform empowering sales teams, today announced the completion of their $4.4 million seed round led by Bonfire Ventures and Differential Ventures with additional participation by 25madison, Ground up, and other key angel investors.
Forbes' Next Billion Dollar Startups 2022
With markets down and tech investors skittish, it’s been a challenging year for young, venture-backed startups. These 25 represent the ones we think have the best chance of reaching a billion-dollar valuation.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense Selects Mona's Enterprise Monitoring Solution to Gain Complete Visibility into Their AI / ML Systems
Mona's intelligent monitoring solution detects anomalous behaviors in granular segments of large datasets, ensuring AI-driven processes are trustworthy and optimized
IBM Aims to Capture Growing Market Opportunity for Data Observability with Databand.ai Acquisition
ARMONK, N.Y., July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced it has acquired Databand.ai, a leading provider of data observability software that helps organizations fix issues with their data, including errors, pipeline failures and poor quality — before it impacts their bottom-line. Today's news further …
Konnecto raises $21M in Series A financing
The startup Konnecto has developed a system that will help marketing teams understand exactly what they need to do, rather than making them guess
Cyolo raises $60 million in Series B financing
Cyolo, the Israeli creator of the original Zero Trust Network Access 2.0 solution for IT and OT, announced today the completion of a $60 million Series B round led by National Grid Partners, with participation from existing investors Glilot Capital Partners, Flint Capital, Differential Ventures, and Merlin Ventures.
Retrocausal Raises $3.4 Million
Retrocausal, a growing leader in AI-driven quality assurance systems for manufacturing professionals, today announced it has secured $3.4 Million in new funding. The round was led by Glasswing Ventures and Differential Ventures, along with major investors, Argon Ventures, Ascend Ventures Vietnam, Hypertherm