Eon emerges from stealth with $127M to bring a fresh approach to back up cloud infrastructure
A team of founders who sold their last company to Amazon to build a new business within AWS is setting out to reinvent the tricky business of backing up an organization’s cloud infrastructure. Today, Eon — as their new startup is called — is coming out of stealth with a
Read moreAir Doctor raises $20M to plug a gap in how people find doctors when they’re traveling
Air Doctor's platform helps travelers find doctors in other countries, and it has now raised $20 million in a Series B round after seeing strong traction. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreMastercard Unveils Improved Identity Check for SA Users
Mastercard has announced changes to its Identity Check program, which will provide South African cardholders with an additional degree of security at checkout. The phased security changes arrive just in time for Black Friday and the summer vacation shopping season, and they will be appreciated by retailers, banks, and customers
Read moreSequoia backs Pydantic to expand beyond its open source data-validation framework
Sequoia is investing $12.5M in UK startup Pydantic to help it expand beyond its open source data-validation framework. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreInvesco raises its valuation of Swiggy to $13.3B
Invesco has raised the value of its stake in Swiggy, ascribing an implied valuation of about $13.3 billion to the Indian food delivery and quick-commerce startup. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreA developer works to balance the data center boom with his climate change battle
On today’s episode we chat with David Mytton, CEO of Arcjet and co-founder of Console.dev. We discuss his early work in cloud monitoring, his passion for the environment, and his love for sharing great developer tools.
Read moreAnduril speeds up launch of defense payloads by buying Apex satellite buses off the shelf
Anduril is expanding even further into the “ultimate high ground.” The company, which is best known for AI-powered defense products that span air, land and sea, is partnering with satellite bus manufacturing startup Apex Space to rapidly deploy payloads on orbit for the U.S. Department of Defense. It is a
Read moreTier becomes Dott following the merger of the two micromobility companies
With this merger, Dott and Tier didn’t want to build a conglomerate of micromobility services; the operation was all about scale. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreMeta won’t say whether it trains AI on smart glasses photos
Meta’s AI-powered Ray-Bans have a discreet camera on the front, for taking photos not just when you ask them to, but also when their AI features trigger it with certain keywords such as “look.” That means the smart glasses collect a ton of photos, both deliberately taken and otherwise. But
Read moreY Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup
A Y Combinator startup named PearAI launched with a tweet thread and YouTube video on Saturday and caused an immediate backlash. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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