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Quell’s gamified home fitness tech drums up $10M

Quell’s gamified home fitness tech drums up $10M

February 20, 2023 Brian Heater 101 Viewshome fitness, Khosla Ventures, quell, Tencent 2 min read

Home fitness had a huge moment at the outset of the pandemic — and understandably so. People were stuck at home, gyms closed and suddenly workout options seemed to dramatically decrease. As with the teleconferencing revolution, plenty of startups were waiting in the wings to pounce on the sudden opportunity. As predicted, when the world […]

Aisera lands $90M to automate customer service requests with AI

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Aisera lands $90M to automate customer service requests with AI

August 3, 2022August 10, 2022 Kyle Wiggers 259 ViewsAI, Aisera, artificial intelligence, Customer Service, First Round Capital, funding, Goldman Sachs, helpdesk, Icon Ventures, Khosla Ventures, machine learning, menlo ventures, natural language processing, natural language understanding, nlp, NLU, norwest venture partners, startup, True Ventures 5 min read

Aisera, a startup developing what it describes as an “AI-driven” support ticketing system, today announced that it raised $90 million in Series D funding led by Goldman Sachs with participation from Zoom, True Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Icon Ventures, Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital and others. CEO Muddu Sudhakar said the new cash […]

Neon nabs $30M to build a scalable cloud service for Postgres databases

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Neon nabs $30M to build a scalable cloud service for Postgres databases

July 26, 2022August 10, 2022 Kyle Wiggers 263 Viewscloud, database, Dev, developer, Enterprise, Founders Fund, funding, General Catalyst, GGV, Khosla Ventures, managed service, Postgres, postgresql, Startups 4 min read

Neon, a startup providing developers with a serverless option for Postgres databases, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series A-1 round led by GGV with participation from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Founders Fund and angel investors. In an email interview with TechCrunch, CEO Nikita Shamgunov, who described the tranche as “oversubscribed,” said […]

Nomagic picks up $22M for its e-commerce warehouse picking robots

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Nomagic picks up $22M for its e-commerce warehouse picking robots

May 24, 2022August 10, 2022 Ingrid Lunden 221 ViewsAlmaz Capital, Amazon, artificial intelligence, Automation, capnamic ventures, consumer electronics, DN Capital, e-commerce, Emerging-Technologies, Hoxton Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Manta Ray, nomagic, Ocado, online shopping, robot, software development, Startup company, technology 3 min read

Robotics are playing a growing role in the world of e-commerce logistics and fulfillment — where they are seen not just as a way to speed up operations but to drastically reduce the costs of running them — and today a startup developing software and hardware specifically in the area of robot picking is announcing […]

Volta Labs grabs $20 million to address a growing genomics bottleneck

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Volta Labs grabs $20 million to address a growing genomics bottleneck

March 18, 2022August 10, 2022 Emma Betuel 264 ViewsDNA, DNA sequencing, genetics, genomics, Khosla Ventures, Maverick Ventures, Startups, volta labs 5 min read

Twenty years ago, getting a human genome sequenced was a billion-dollar, international project. Today, you can get your dog’s genome sequenced by the end of the month for a few bucks. It speaks to the speed with which genetics has permeated our lives, but despite massive improvements to the technology, the process can still be […]