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Four months old, $85 million raised. Can Hang Ten Systems really build enterprise software with two engineers instead of thirty?
Hang Ten Systems just closed a $53 million follow-on seed round, five weeks after its first. The pitch: AI can shrink a 30-person software project down to a team of two or four.
Sequoia's Spin-Out Empirik Raises $21M to Catch Server Outages Before They Happen
Two IT veterans who spent years firefighting tech failures at Rubrik and VMware built an AI tool that spots trouble before the system crashes. Now it's a real company with serious backing.
Avatar Robotics raises $6.5 million to put human operators inside warehouse robots
The San Francisco startup uses remote workers to control its robots today, then trains AI on what those workers do so the machines can gradually take over.
Fed up with swiping, Gen Z students are letting an AI pick their dates
Ditto, a text-message matchmaking service with 150,000 sign-ups, skips the app entirely and sends college students on a blind date every Wednesday at 7 PM.
The team behind Spotify's recommendation engine just raised $10 million to do the same thing for online shopping
Malachyte wants your favourite store to know what you need before you even search for it, using real-time signals instead of last month's purchase history.
Fish Audio raises $50 million to let anyone clone a voice, but consent questions linger
The Palo Alto startup has 8 million users and $21 million in annual revenue. Its new funding will push into enterprise contracts and more advanced models. A recent controversy over unauthorised voice uploads is not fully resolved.
Enigma raises $70 million to make robots as easy to control as a volume knob
The Israeli-American startup is letting anyone in the world command its robots online, hoping the data will reveal what a truly intuitive human-robot interface looks like.