AI21 Labs, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing a range of text-generating AI tools, has raised $155 million in a Series C funding round led by Walden Catalyst, Pitango, SCB10X, b2venture, […]
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Back to news homeFifteen years in and still early to the industry with Marco Zappacosta from Thumbtack
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Marco Zappacosta, the co-founder and CEO of Thumbtack, a startup […]
BNPL vendor Splitit moves to go private in exchange for fresh funds
As the buy now, pay later (BNPL) market continues on its slow decline, one of the major players, Splitit, is embarking on an effort to reorganize and pivot. Splitit today […]
Anthropic launches improved version of its entry-level LLM
Anthropic, the AI startup co-founded by ex-OpenAI execs, has released an updated version of its faster, cheaper, text-generating model available through an API, Claude Instant. The updated Claude Instant, Claude […]
Symmetry raises $18M to bolster organizations’ data security programs
As organizations embrace cloud services — and are forced to confront changing regulations and data use standards — their ability to maintain control of data security frequently becomes strained. If […]
Not all early-stage AI startups are created equal
The AI sector has gotten hotter over the last year. But unlike many of past venture fads — like crypto or web3 — the AI sector had a number of […]
Quandri raises $8.5M Series A to bring process automation to insurance brokers and agencies
Robotic process automation (RPA) has been a buzzword for a while now, but most of these tools that try to help businesses automate their workflows tend to be generalists. Quandri, […]
Still, sparkling, or made from the air? with Reuben Vollmer and Tyler Breton from Spout
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by the founders of Spout, a startup that makes a device […]
Thomson Reuters buys Casetext, an AI legal tech startup, for $650M in cash
Thomson Reuters has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Casetext, a Y Combinator-backed legal tech startup. The deal, valued at $650 million in cash, is expected to close in […]
Vectara lands $28.5M to supercharge enterprise search
Some years ago, three former Googlers — Amr Awadallah (who previously founded Cloudera), Amin Ahmad and Tallat Shafaat — set out to build what they describe as a “conversational search” […]