TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Models like the open-source text-generating GPT-Neo and text-to-image Stable Diffusion made it possible for ventures large and small to jump on the generative AI train, while open efforts such as EleutherAI , which developed GPT-Neo, have made available models that previously would’ve been gatekept by large commercial labs (e.g.,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

In particular, with this new injection of cash, Entocycle plans to iterate on its flagship product — the Entocycle Neo. The Entocycle Neo uses optical sensors combined with a software solution that analyzes images and accurately measures production.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Databases run the world, but database products are often some of the most mature and venerable software in the modern tech stack. Designers will pixel push, frontend engineers will add clicks to make it more difficult to drop out of a soporific Zoom call, but few companies are ever willing to rip out their database storage engine.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

“When we first launched Finin, I promised my squad that we would make a hallmark in the fintech industry, and show Indian consumers what neo-banking can really do for them,” said Gandham in a statement. Now with the acquisition by Open, I’m absolutely convinced that we are speeding towards that goal. ”

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JANUARY 29, 2019

SageMaker Neo, which lets customers run machine-learning training models across multiple operating environments, was introduced last November at […].

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

The startup, which focuses on earned wage access and finance education, with plans to add neo banking products, too, announced today it has raised $2.8 Salary Hero wants to provide lower-income Thai workers with more financial flexibility.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2023

Qualgro associates Jeremy Soh and Neo WeiSheng, with Supermom founders Rebecca Koh, Joan Ong, Lynn Yeoh and Luke Lim. In a statement about the financing, Qualgro general partner Weisheng Neo said, “We recognize the current gap in brands’ access to reliable, secure data on parents, a large and growing customer segment.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2021

Some air has come out of Lemonade’s share price, the rental-insurance unicorn being an early public debut for the broader tech-enabled, neo-insurance niche. MetroMile, another neo-insurance company focused on automotive that went public via a SPAC-led combination , has been slightly uneven since starting to trade.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The investment comes after rapid growth at the company, a common theme amongst neo-insurance providers. Once the neo-insurers have enough data to prove their underwriting models, they can rapidly scale their businesses, something investors covet. Both are new investors in Beam.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

So why not build a new bank, a neo bank, that uses tech to augment a meager staff, eschews buildings, and passes along savings to customers instead?

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JUNE 11, 2021

And after a long period of incubation, we’ve seen neo-insurance players from the U.S. After all, with business-focused neo-insurance provider Embroker raising a big round this week in the United States, to pick an example, it seems that attacking the massive and antiquated insurance market is good startup sport.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Last night neo-insurance provider and former startup Root priced its IPO at $27 per share, $2 per share ahead of its $22 to $25 target price range. The company follows Lemonade to the public markets, setting a strong valuation mark again for the neo-insurance startup market. For the broader insurtech space , Root’s IPO is a win.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Guy Ward Thomas, who led the deal at DN Capital, added: “We met all of the ‘neo pet-insurers’ in Europe… What set Napo apart was their focus on building a virtuous circle between educating owners, providing veterinary care and improving pet health – all leading to lower claims, lower premiums and happier customers in the long-term.”.

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CIO

AUGUST 30, 2022

That’s the intent of Thoughtworks’ homegrown Network Enabled Organization (NEO) toolbox, a development portal that has sped up application development from idea to deliverable on average 30% faster by automating much of the grunt work — and advanced tasks, too — out of the development process. In-house developers who use NEO like it.

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Ooda Loop

JANUARY 11, 2024

Norwegian AI robotics startup 1X Technologies AS raised $100 million to bring to market its second-generation android robot, NEO, that it says can help humans with everyday domestic tasks. The proceeds from the latest equity round, with EQT Ventures as lead investor, are going to be used for bringing NEO […]

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

million of active premium to Next Insurance, which means that the neo-insurance provider has grown sharply thus far in 2021, even without counting its organic expansion. Stocks of public neo-insurance companies like Root, Lemonade and MetroMile have lost quite a lot of value in recent weeks. The AP Intego deal brings $185.1

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APRIL 10, 2024

Existing investors Sequoia Capital , Khosla Ventures , Mayo Clinic , Neo , 1984 Ventures , MVP Ventures and Calibrate Ventures participated as well, along with Bison Ventures , Industry Ventures and Lux Capital. The Santa Clara, California-based startup locked up $100 million in a Series B led by General Catalyst.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Its declines mimic those of other public neo-insurance proivders in what could be a new trend. Oscar Health priced its IPO above its raised range , which was good for it in terms of fundraising. However, since its debut the company has lost pricing altitude. And sticking to the insurtech beat, Hippo is going public via a SPAC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Joining Gradient in the round were Neo, Designer Fund and a group of angel investors, including Unity CEO John Riccitiello, Behance founder Scott Belsky, Lenny’s Newsletter author Lenny Rachitsky and James Beshara. Mage dashboard. Image Credits: Mage.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Lost on the TechCrunch editing floor from late yesterday is a post we wrote noting the sharp declines in the value of insurtech stocks ahead of the impending public debut of Hippo, another neo-insurance company. The SPAC-led Hippo flotation will not touch down in a warm market. Lemonade current price: $84.72.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The pair, along with a host of other fintech services that offer savings and investing products, have been buoyed by a secular shift in banking away from the physical world (in-person shopping, bank branches, plastic cards) to the digital (neo-banks, ecommerce, virtual cards).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Sticking our neck out a bit, despite fellow neo-insurnace player Lemonade’s continued, and impressive valuation run, MetroMile’s stock is also softening, while Root’s has lost more than half its value from its IPO date. If the current repricing of some neo-insurance players continues, we could see some private investment into the space slow.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Think “neo bank meets people who sell your stuff on eBay.”. You send the item to Diem, which is then resold. The incentive, therefore, is not to throw away the object and add to landfill, because you have now turned it into cash.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Kredivo’s direct and indirect competitors include Akulaku ’s BNPL and Bank Neo Commerce (the fintech also recently raised significant funding from a large Japanese bank ), Advance.ai’s Atome BNPL service and Kredit Pintar cash loans and Sea Group’s Sea Money.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Several new and existing backers also participated in this round, including Altimeter Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Neo, Spark Capital and the YC Continuity Fund. . Coatue led the latest financing, with partners Rahul Kishore and Lucas Swisher leading the deal.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

They are creating an entirely new category in neo banking and we are excited to back them.” . “Their empathy towards users new to web3 and passion for creating beautiful crypto-native products with compliance at its core sets them apart.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

The Exchange has watched with something akin to polite confusion as the value of Root, a neo-insurance company, fell to a third of its public-market highs after going public , even though it beat growth expectations in its most recent quarterly report. We could toss UiPath into our trend of wildly meandering value.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Defy led the round, joined by Neo, MGV and January Ventures, along with numerous angel investors who’ve met Yin through Coinbase; through her alma mater, Harvard; or through other connections. million in seed funding. Among those angels is former Sequoia partner Amy Sun, who is right now launching her own startup in Austin, Texas.

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Radixweb

MAY 30, 2021

Radixweb has leveled up with a world-class new hub, and its integrated neo-modern amenities have made the space a techie's paradise! An eclectic mix of luxury and functionality, Ekyarth, the headquarters of Radixweb, is ready to outsmart many of its contemporary kinds.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

” VC money is definitely drying up for some, such as neo-insurers whose unit economics are under scrutiny. This may actually be a great moment for insurtechs to nurture their relationship with incumbents to work on synergies and potential trade sales.” But other insurtech business models are seeing increasing interest.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Neo4j raises Neo$325M as graph-based data analysis takes hold in enterprise. Till today, China still hasn’t formally classified computer software — whether it should be categorized as assets or costs, making it tricky for companies to do their books.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2023

There are specific features they need and specific ways they need to be taken care of so we will continue investing in that,” said Wandia adding that Kwara is also investing on improving the neo-banking experience. ” They will also sign more third party partnerships to add more value to the app users.

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CIO

DECEMBER 19, 2023

For finance: Huawei Cloud Stack helped Bank Neo Commerce (BNC) in Indonesia deploy an on-premises cloud platform. Huawei Cloud also leveraged Huawei Cloud Stack to help Siriraj Hospital establish a unified IT infrastructure. The platform automates the deployment of diverse services and enables fast service rollout.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

million seed investment led by Amplify Partners and Neo. He and co-founder Tommy MacWilliam decided to use AI to create a tool that let him speak the code instead and Serenade was born. Today, the company announced a $2.1 While it was at it, the startup also announced the first commercial version of the product, Serenade Pro.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

NFTs became synonymous with neo-wealth bubbling up from the blockchain economy, as a number of image collections that employed the digital asset format reached pop-culture status and eye-watering prices. The digital assets, better known by the acronym “NFTs,” saw their stock rise during the 2021-era crypto boom.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

To help take things to the next level, Relay has also announced it has raised $5 million in a seed funding round led by Khosla Ventures, which also invested in Timeful back in 2014 , with participation from Neo, BoxGroup, SV Angel, and a handful of angels.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Serve Robotics, a name taken from the autonomous sidewalk delivery bot that was developed and piloted by Postmates X, has raised seed funding in a round led by venture capital firm Neo.

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