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Pixyle AI wants to make visual search more intuitive for online retailers

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Pixyle AI was launched in 2019 to improve product discovery on e-commerce sites and today announced a €1 million seed round (about $1.05 Kordumova, who earned her PhD from the University of Amsterdam, first created a visual search app for consumers before pivoting to B2B in 2019. Pixyle AI’s team on a green mountain top.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

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As a result, many new car companies are created and competition increases, says Tobias Altehed, who leads Volvo Cars’ digital organization and sits on the company’s extended management team. Now that systems are being replaced, it’s also about creating a new architecture without those types of connections.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

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billion in stock buybacks between 2017 and 2019. How often do teams schedule tabletop exercises to play out what-if scenarios? They canceled over 1,800 flights over a weekend in 2021 that Southwest’s pilots’ union attributed to management’s “poor planning.” Does your organization have the culture to support software development?

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Heartex raises $25M for its AI-focused, open source data labeling platform

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. “Coming from engineering and machine learning backgrounds, [Heartex’s founding team] knew what value machine learning and AI can bring to the organization,” Malyuk told TechCrunch via email. ” Software developers Malyuk, Maxim Tkachenko, and Nikolay Lyubimov co-founded Heartex in 2019.

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Elodie Games obtains $32.5M round to make social co-op gaming better

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The pair — also partners — left in 2019 to form their own company, announcing their intention in 2020 to build games focusing on co-op, crossplay, and “endlessly engaging experiences,” which suggests more open-ended, sandbox play. But what they showed behind closed doors was clearly enough to secure a $32.5

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Payroll provider Symmetrical.ai nabs $18.5M to streamline employee payouts

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told TechCrunch via email, as well as the growth of the core 65-person team. “[We] founded Symmetrical in 2019 to bring the power of salary back to people by offering a salary-on-demand product.” Symmetrical’s self-service dashboard allows HR teams to connect different payroll systems and customize how they appear.

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Goals for 2019

David Walsh

I did really well with my 2018 goals : I started a fun podcast with TrackJS’ Todd Gardener I found my passion again by joining Mozilla’s DevTools team and improving the Debugger, as well as pitching in on other DevTools projects. With 2018 behind me it’s time to try to duplicate an amazing year in 2019.