SuperAnnotate, a platform for managing and prepping AI training data sets, has raised a new round of capital.
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Moonvalley wants to build more ethical video models
Moonvalley, a new generative video startup, claims it’s building models using more ethical and transparent approaches.
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Xiaomi taps PhonePe’s app store for India smartphones
Xiaomi will replace its app store with fintech PhonePe’s offering for customers in India starting January in a major win for the Indian startup. The smartphone vendor, the second largest in India, will automatically push the update to customers’ devices in India to replace GetApps with PhonePe’s Indus AppStore, it informed customers over the weekend. […]
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Text marketing firm Take Blip secures backing from SoftBank, Microsoft
Take Blip, a conversational marketing platform, has raised $60 million in funding from SoftBank and Microsoft.
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MakeMyTrip buys Happay from CRED
MakeMyTrip, India’s largest online travel company, has agreed to acquire the expense management platform Happay from fintech CRED. The deal, announced on Monday, will see Happay’s expense management business and team transition to MakeMyTrip, while the payments division will remain at CRED. The financial terms were not disclosed and couldn’t be immediately learned. CRED, which […]
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Juna.ai wants to use AI agents to make factories more energy-efficient
Juna.ai wants to help factories become more efficient by automating complex industrial processes using AI agents.
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India’s HealthKart valued at $500 million in new investment
Indian omni-channel nutrition startup HealthKart has raised $153 million in one of the country’s largest consumer startup transactions this year, valuing the business at about $500 million, according to a source familiar with the matter. The new investment was co-led by private equity firms ChrysCapital and Motilal Oswal, with Avendus Capital serving as financial advisor. […]
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Oyo founder seeks new investment at $3.8 billion valuation
Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal’s investment vehicle has proposed to inject another $65.1 million into the hotel management startup, according to shareholder notifications reviewed by TechCrunch. The investment, through Redsprig Innovation Partners, would value the SoftBank-backed company at $3.8 billion, according to terms shared in the extraordinary general meeting notice. While this represents a 38% premium […]
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World of Warcraft turns 20
Blizzard Entertainment first released World of Warcraft in November 2004, so The New York Times celebrated the anniversary by outlining the many ways we can still see the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game’s influence’s 20 years later. For one thing, while multiplayer games and early social networks such as MySpace already existed, WoW provided a […]
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What is Bluesky when it’s not the underdog?
Bluesky is having a moment — a moment that’s already stretched on for nearly three months. Over the summer, the social media app saw a wave of new signups in Brazil after X (formerly Twitter) was temporarily banned there. And in the United States, unhappiness with changes at X, and with owner Elon Musk’s close […]
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