article thumbnail

#740 Doing Tremendous Things by Putting People First with Ed McLaughlin, President & CTO at Mastercard

Modern CTO

Today we’re talking to Ed McLaughlin, President & Chief Technology Officer, Mastercard. All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! Produced by ProSeries Media. In this role, I oversee all the company’s technology functions. For more about MasterCard, check out their website here.

CTO 52
article thumbnail

Ai Palette raises $4.4M to help companies react faster to consumer trends

TechCrunch

In a society that runs on social media, however, people expect to see trends land on store shelves much more quickly. Founded in 2018, Ai Palette uses machine learning to help companies spot trends in real time and get them retail-ready, often within a few months. What’s trending at kids’ birthday parties?

Trends 248
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Picsart acquires R&D company DeepCraft in seven-figure deal to aid video push

TechCrunch

Its co-founders, Armen Abroyan (CEO) and Vardges Hovhannisyan (CTO) have spent more than 20 years in A.I. “DeepCraft is a unique team of deep technology engineers, and we’ve already been working with them to build our core technologies for over a year,” said Picsart co-founder and CTO Artavazd Mehrabyan.

Video 249
article thumbnail

Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech

TechCrunch

The company built its own point-of-sale system and commerce APIs in-house, allowing them to deliver a “seamless” customer experience, former Glossier CTO Bryan Mahoney said in 2018. billion valuation from Lone Pine Capital, Sequoia, Forerunner Ventures and others.

Retail 236
article thumbnail

#765 Why CTOs Feel Isolated and What To Do About It with Scott Smeester, Founder of CIO Mastermind

Modern CTO

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! Produced by ProSeries Media. His unique combination makes him an ideal partner (CIO/CTO) to translate between the executive suite and the IT group, to find technology solutions and to navigate digital transformation. Have feedback about the show?

article thumbnail

Fixie wants to make it easier for companies to build on top of language models

TechCrunch

CTO Justin Uberti was one of the original architects of AOL Instant Messenger. As for Fixie’s chief AI officer, Hessam Bagherinezhad, he was a machine learning exec at Apple on products including the iPhone and Apple Watch. million in 2018. Fixie agents can interact with databases, APIs (e.g. billion in 2021 to $4.5

article thumbnail

Mermade Seafoods swims in cell agriculture waters to make cultivated scallops

TechCrunch

Mermade Seafoods is out to disrupt the $8 billion global scallops market with its circular cellular agriculture technology approach for producing cultivated scallops. The Israeli company was founded in July 2021 by CEO Daniel Einhorn, CTO Dr. Rotem Kadir and COO Dr. Tomer Halevy. The seafood market as a whole is expected to reach $193.9