Elon Musk’s Boring Company Wants to Build One of Its Ridiculous Tunnels in Florida
The city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida has accepted a proposal from Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build a transportation tunnel that would bring people from downtown...
AnyVision, the controversial facial recognition startup, has raised $235M led by SoftBank and Eldridge
Facial recognition has been one of the more conflicted applications of artificial intelligence in the wider world: using computer vision to detect faces and subsequent identities...
Localyze raises $12M for a SaaS that supports cross-border hiring and relocation
Y-Combinator-backed Localyze has nabbed $12 million in Series A funding led by Blossom Capital for a SaaS that supports staff relocations and hiring across borders. Previous...
YouTube’s recommender AI still a horrorshow, finds major crowdsourced study
For years YouTube’s video-recommending algorithm has stood accused of fuelling a grab-bag of societal ills by feeding users an AI-amplified diet of hate speech, political extremism...
Real estate platform Casafari raises $15M to allow PE to buy single-family homes at scale
Just a Spotify used VC and PE backing to acquire the assets of the music industry so that we must now all rent our music via...
Dispatch from Bangalore
A startup founder, who hasn’t had much sleep all week, woke up on a recent Sunday to a phone call from his co-founder. A senior engineer...
Renegade Partners rolls out its much-anticipated debut fund with $100 million
Renegade Partners — a Bay Area-based venture firm cofounded by veteran VCs Renata Quintini and Roseanne Wincek — is taking the wraps off a $100 million...
Women in Tech: “Diverse teams are a lot more fun to work in”
A research study by The National Center for Women & Information Technology showed that “gender diversity has specific benefits in technology settings,” which could explain why...
The structure of a software development team
Introduction When working with a team of software developers, many clients find that its structure includes quite a lot of people. And while the responsibilities of...
Juni, a ‘vertical’ neobank for e-commerce and online marketing companies, raises $21.5M
E-commerce in Europe is expected to grow 30% this year to $465 billion, and that’s giving rise to a new ecosystem of services built to cater...
