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The U.S. is facing an accountant shortage. Fewer first-time candidates took the CPA exam in 2022 than in 2006, according to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. One possible…

Materia looks to make accountants more efficient with AI 

Sigma Computing, a startup building a range of data analytics and business intelligence tools, has raised $200 million in a fresh VC round.

Sigma is building a suite of collaborative data analytics tools

Framework Computer was ahead of the curve. The company was founded in 2019, as 20 U.S. states began exploring potential right to repair bills. It delivered its first product, the…

Framework’s repairability philosophy is set to expand beyond the laptop

Dataplor’s “secret sauce” combines technology and public domain data with a human factor, employing over 100,000 people, called Explorers, to validate all the data via computer.

For Dataplor’s data intelligence tool, it’s all about location, location, location

Last year, Salesforce, the company best known for its cloud sales support software (and Slack), spearheaded a project called ProGen to design proteins using generative AI. A research moonshot, ProGen…

Profluent, spurred by Salesforce research and backed by Jeff Dean, uses AI to discover medicines

Builders, bakers and body conditioners might not be the first trades that come to mind when you think about how AI is transforming how we work. But today a startup…

Durable cements $14M to build bots and other AI tools for small businesses in service industries

Credal.ai, a Y Combinator-backed startup that gives enterprises a way to connect their internal data to text-generating, cloud-hosted AI models, has raised $4.8 million in a seed round led by…

Credal aims to connect company data to LLMs ‘securely’

Teamshares is a low-flying, New York-based startup with big ambitions to capitalize on an opportunity in plain sight: that of small businesses without a succession plan. It’s not a small…

This venture-backed startup has quietly bought more than 80 mom-and-pop shops

Anthropic, the prominent generative AI startup co-founded by OpenAI veterans, has raised $450 million in a Series C funding round led by Spark Capital. Anthropic wouldn’t disclose what the round…

Anthropic raises $450M to build next-gen AI assistants

In another sign that the current VC appetite for AI is insatiable, Adept, a startup building AI that “enables humans and computers to work together creatively to solve problems,” yesterday…

Adept, a startup training AI to use existing software and APIs, raises $350M

  Lumafield today announced a $35 million Series B, and new features for its desktop X-ray computed tomography platform that aims to provide engineers and designers with unparalleled access to…

Lumafield raises $35M, announces speedy updates to its affordable desktop CT scanner

Technology advancements in recent years are giving startups a shot at providing grocery stores with e-commerce-like features in a brick-and-mortar setting.

The grocery industry’s shopping list: Inventory management, frictionless checkout, computer vision

Switchboard, a collaboration app that combines features of videoconferencing and digital whiteboarding, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A round that values the company at $200…

Switchboard creates virtual rooms to foster better collaboration

The credit card market has become increasingly crowded, with consumer fintech startups locked in a fierce competition to differentiate their offerings through branding, rewards programs and even crypto compatibility. X1…

X1’s income-based credit card is about to launch publicly

Ever spend much too long trying — and failing — to rediscover articles you’ve partially read? This reporter’s been there, and it seems I’m not the only one. According to…

Heyday lands $6M to build a knowledge base from the services you already use

UK-based Ravio reckons real-time data is the best way to arm businesses to win the global talent war. Its new-to-market compensation benchmarking tool lets users see how the compensation (wages…

Ravio is bringing real-time data to the talent fight

As developers build new features into software, they have to be sure that the new functionality doesn’t break what’s already there. So they often will roll it out slowly and…

Oslo-based Unleash nabs $14M Series A to build open source feature management tool

A lot of the startups you tend to hear about in the world of fintech are building solutions for consumers and businesses. Today, a startup that’s aiming to serve the…

Capitolis valued at $1.6B after raising $110M for new tech to update capital markets trading

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Casey Neistat’s David Dobrik documentary explores what happens when creators cross the line

“There’s three different things that make up a vlog,” David Dobrik, then a rising YouTube star, explained to Casey Neistat, a veteran YouTuber and filmmaker. Neistat’s camera pans to show a swimming pool, where a member of Dobrik’s ensemble, the Vlog Squad, balances on a jet ski, attempting to toss…

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Casey Neistat’s David Dobrik documentary explores what happens when creators cross the line

Tenderly, a startup that aims to make it easier for web3 developers “of all skill sets” to build blockchain products, has raised $40 million in a Series B round of…

Blockchain infra startup Tenderly raises $40M after seeing 500% YoY revenue growth

Germany-based construction tech startup Cosuno has raised a $30 million Series B led by U.S. growth equity firm Avenir Growth. Spark Capital and Cherry Ventures, which led the Series A…

German construction tech startup Cosuno raises $30M Series B by Avenir Growth

Last November, Apple announced the launch of Self Service Repair — a surprising addition for a company that has notoriously lacked such capabilities. Those changes didn’t happen in a vacuum,…

Framework looks to expand repairability beyond the laptop

Crypto custody platform Fireblocks is quite possibly “the most successful and least-known company in the blockchain space,” as described by its co-founder and CEO Michael Shaulov in an interview with…

Crypto infrastructure company Fireblocks nearly quadruples valuation to $8B in six months

Today marks the launch of the Roll app, which aims to create an easy way for creators to make an extra buck while portraying a potentially more authentic version of…

Roll is a new app letting you subscribe to paywalled creator content

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.

This Week in Apps: Dutch regulator orders App Store changes, China’s app numbers decline, 2021’s new million-dollar publishers

Cross-border remittances — when people living and working abroad send money back home to friends and family — continues to be a huge part of how those living in developing…

Taptap Send raises $65M to build cross-border remittances focused on the most underserved markets

Within the past two years, Full Harvest’s impact on keeping food out of landfills grew five times, prompting the company to seek out additional capital to keep the momentum going.

Full Harvest targets food waste by finding homes for imperfect, surplus produce

Helaina is tapping into a precision fermentation process that programs yeast cells and teaches them to become manufacturing hubs to develop almost identical proteins found in human milk.

Helaina’s latest round brings it closer to market with human milk-equivalent baby formula

The company offers a recurring subscription, and 50% of every dollar spent goes back to farmers.

MilkRun lands new capital to deliver farm-fresh groceries

CEO Jeremy Johnson sees more competition coming into the global tech talent hiring space as he saw the number of Andela applicants increase 5x in the past six months.

SoftBank sinks $200M into Andela, propels company into unicorn territory