Resy and Eater co-founder raises $24M for Blackbird, a restaurant loyalty platform
Blackbird Labs, a hospitality tech company whose platform helps restaurants stay in touch with guests and incentivize them to dine out more frequently, today announced that it raised $24 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from QED, Union Square Ventures, Shine, Variant and others
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The move towards Open Banking payments, especially in the EU, effectively kicked-off the FinTech boom. Open Baking standards meant that FinTech startups could create Wallets and effectively become Banks, or at least “Neo Banks,” in practical day-today-terms. Today, digital wallets are now the leading payment method globally in e-commerce, with
Read moreIndian fintech unicorn Slice secures rare approval to merge with bank
Indian unicorn fintech Slice is merging with North East Small Finance Bank, they said Wednesday after receiving the approval from the central bank, in an extremely rare feat that has eluded many tech giants, top financial startups and tycoons for decades. Slice – which earlier offered credit card like cards
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Read moreMicroModel Architecture: Scaling Large Language Models with Microservices
IntroductionI have been working with LLM-centered development for almost two years now, and I’ve faced ups and downs in terms of results, usually fixable by using better models. But there’s always a threshold to what can be solved this way, so I developed a solution that draws on my experience
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Read moreKeep it Structured Stupid! (KISS)
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