Monthly Archives: September 2022

JusticeText raises $2.2M to increase transparency in criminal evidence-gathering

Software company JusticeText today announced the closing of a $2.2 million seed round, with participation from Bloomberg Beta, True Ventures, Reid Hoffman, John Legend and Michael Tubbs. The company, launched in 2019 by Devshi Mehrotra and Leslie Jones-Dove, stores, catalogs, analyzes and then shares video evidence, hoping to increase transparency around criminal matters such as…

Drover AI’s Alex Nesic on using tech to regulate the scooter market

As shared micromobility continues to take over cities, operators have found themselves implementing different forms of scooter “advanced rider assistance systems” or scooter ARAS, that can detect when a rider is doing the thing cities hate most — riding on the sidewalk. Drover AI, a startup that had the gumption to launch in May 2020,…

DocuSign announces end-to-end contract lifecycle integration inside Slack

One of Slack’s main strengths has always been the ability to complete a set of tasks without having to move between multiple applications. DocuSign introduced electronic signature integration inside Slack at the height of the pandemic in 2020. Today, the company announced you can handle the entire contract lifecycle without leaving Slack. “With the CLM (contract…

4 tactics for building robust open source DevOps toolsets

Arul Jegadish Contributor Share on Twitter Arul Jegadish, co-founder of OpsVerse, has spent the last decade building OSS DevOps pipelines. The DevOps methodology is becoming mainstream for good reason: 99% of practitioners say it has ​​positively affected their organization. While DevOps is foremost a way of collaborating, a lot of it is shaped by tools….

Userpilot, a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, raises $4.6M

Userpilot, a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, has raised $4.6 million seed funding in a round led by Silicon Badia, with participation from ScOp Ventures and 500 Global. The startup’s new funding follows $1.2 million it secured in a pre-seed round last year. Userpilot helps companies to “achieve higher user activation, engagement, and retention…

The EU’s AI Act could have a chilling effect on open source efforts, experts warn

Proposed E.U. rules could limit the type of research that produces cutting-edge AI tools like GPT-3, experts warn in a new study. The nonpartisan think tank Brookings this week published a piece decrying the bloc’s regulation of open source AI, arguing it would create legal liability for general-purpose AI systems while simultaneously undermining their development….