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…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
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,…
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…
The only thing disappearing faster than summer is our Labor Day early-bird rollback sale. Today is the last day that you can save up to $200 on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt, which takes place on October 18–20 in San Francisco, with an online day October 21. Buy your Disrupt pass before the early bird flies…
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….
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. We are back on a Tuesday instead of a Monday thanks to an American holiday, which means we are looking at a compressed week. But don’t let the shorter window for news fool…
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…
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….
TL;DR: As of September 6, you can get the Photography Bundle Assets when you pay what you want (see below for details) instead of its retail value of $35.99. When you’re making a website, do you fill it with photos from stock picture sites? Those can certainly be high-quality, but the subscriptions may also be…
TL;DR: Through September 9, you can get the Jashen F16 Wet & Dry 2-in-1 Cordless Vacuum Mop for just $269.99 instead of $329 — that’s a 17% discount. If you have pets or kids, you probably spend a good chunk of the week just trying to keep your home looking like someone could live there….