James7 hours agoAs pet owners turn to mobile insurance apps, Lassie raises $25M Series B led by Baldertonverified_publisherTechCrunch - Mike ButcherWe last wrote about Lassie, a pet health app and insurance provider, when it closed an €11 million Series A round in 2022. It’s growth had been spurred by the boom in pet ownership during the pandemic (nearly half of all European households now own a pet, and and owners spend €23.5 billion on them …
James1 day agoMozaic raises $20 million to build payment-splitting solution for creatorsverified_publisherTechCrunch - Ivan MehtaCreators often work with different collaborators for different projects. And splitting payments with others is one of the biggest challenges for creators. Mozaic (previously Jammber) is trying to solve this problem through its range of solutions, including APIs and Chrome extensions. The company has …
James2 hours agoPika, which is building AI tools to generate and edit videos, raises $55Mverified_publisherTechCrunch - Kyle WiggersThe generative AI hype hasn’t died down yet. Case in point, Pika, a startup creating an AI-powered platform to edit and generate videos from captions and still images, today announced that it raised $55 million in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Homebrew, …
James23 hours agoVCs have a jargon problem and this is how to fix itverified_publisherTechCrunch - Molly AlterOver the eight years I’ve spent in VC, I’ve witnessed the consistently challenging vocabulary the industry creates. Venture capital is an industry full of big words, from technical acronyms to lofty descriptions. This often means we need to make more sense to founders, and that’s on us to use less …
James11 hours agoParis-based startup studio Hexa raises some funding to launch even more startupsverified_publisherTechCrunch - Romain DilletYou might not be familiar with Hexa, the Paris-based startup studio that has launched dozens of B2B software companies, but some of its portfolio companies have become well-known unicorns, such as Front, Aircall and Spendesk. And it turns out that Hexa itself could be considered as a startup as the …
James1 day agoThe scariest thing I read about OpenAI's Altman fiasco made me realize the dangers of AGIbgr.com - Chris SmithOpenAI went through a hell of a week, having fired and rehired Sam Altman in less than seven days. The CEO drama seems to be over, for now at least. …
