TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Rocket Lab is waiting until Neutron is more technically mature before signing launch contracts with customers, CEO Peter Beck told investors on Wednesday.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

Salt Labs, a rewards platform for hourly workers, today emerged from stealth with $10 million in pre-seed funding led by Fin Capital with participation from Anthem Venture Partners and others. “The mission of Salt Labs is to enable hourly workers to own the long-term value of their work,” Lee said via email.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Alongside the fresh capital raise, Andalusia Labs opened its global headquarters in Abu Dhabi. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Owl Labs , a startup developing a linuep of AI-powered meeting hardware, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series C round led by HP Tech Ventures (HP’s venture capital arm) with participation from Sourcenext, Matrix Partners, Spark Capital and Playground Global.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Uniswap Labs has raised $165 million in a new funding round as the parent firm of the world’s largest decentralized exchange looks to broaden its offerings. The news confirms a TechCrunch scoop from late last month that said that Uniswap Labs was looking to raise between $100 million to $200 million and was engaging with Polychain.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. Iddris Sandu founded Spatial Labs in 2021, seeking to create products and shopping experiences using augmented reality.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Green Labs , a Seoul-based agritech startup, has secured $38.4 Green Labs, which raked in $140 million in a Series C in January 2022, ran out of money as it overstretched its expansion, TechCrunch reported last month. Green Labs purchases agriculture products from farmers and sells them to buyers/B2B partners with outstanding invoices.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Matter Labs is one of a handful of blockchain startups building out a sophisticated rollup product, but the team believes that their solution zkSync is destined to beat out the competition. In August, Lightspeed backed Offchain Labs, maker of Arbitrum — another Ethereum scaling solution with a lot of developer interest.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Lightning Labs is building infrastructure that would enable users to send money across the world almost instantaneously and at a low cost through the Bitcoin network. Lightning Labs brought in $10 million from its Series A last September after its $2.5 million seed round in 2018 , bringing its total raised to $82.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket will likely return to flight before the year is out, though work remains to be complete before missions can resume, according to a new statement released Wednesday.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

It became Twelve Labs , which went on to raise $17 million in venture capital — $12 million of which came from a seed extension round that closed today. A demo of the Twelve Labs platform’s capabilities. Image Credits: Twelve Labs. Image Credits: Twelve Labs.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Green Labs , a South Korean agtech startup that raised $140 million (170 billion won) Series C in January last year, is cutting a significant number of jobs. Green Labs, which now has over 650 employees, is laying off some of its workers as part of a restructuring after doubling employees following its Series C funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Portal Innovations , a biotech VC firm based in Chicago, is trying to broaden everyone’s horizons and give opportunities to biotech startups growing out of labs in Chicago, Atlanta, and hopefully beyond. Without the necessary lab space in Chicago, it was forced to head to Boston. It’s not just about a building with lab benches.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2022

But now a Athens, Greece startup Harbor Lab has come up with a solution. Harbor Lab was born out of a real time need to automate the processing of disbursements (payments to port authorities and other port related suppliers) while reducing manual intervention and heavy administration. Habor Lab launched March 2020.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

According to a survey by John Snow Labs, 60% of tech leaders’ budgets for AI language technologies increased by at least 10% in 2020. Today, AI21 Labs closed a $64 million Series B round that values the company at $664 million. AI21 Labs offers a range of tuning parameters to customize the output of its models.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Australian startup Cortical Labs popped up on the radar after Amazon CTO Werner Vogels flew down to Australia to visit their lab recently, and he even wrote about it, calling it “ intriguing ”. Cortical Labs raises $10M for its Pong-playing stem cells which eventually could power AI by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

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InfoWorld

MAY 8, 2024

Red Hat has unveiled Podman AI Lab , an extension to the Podman Desktop graphical interface that lets developers build generative AI-powered applications in containers. Announced May 7, Podman AI Lab is intended to make it easier to develop with AI in a local environment.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

But today comes news of a different kind of startup called Turing Labs , which is addressing the same challenges, but as they apply to people who work in laboratories. Turing Labs’ platform helps labs speed up the process of making new products. Turing Labs’ approach is to solve these various challenges with AI.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Savant Labs is looking to bring analytics to line of business personnel and today the startup announced a healthy $11 million seed investment. Chitrang Shah, founder and CEO at Savant Labs, says people charged with dealing with data spend too much time doing manual tasks to wrangle the data they need, and they do this repeatedly.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Mobile advertising company ironSource is announcing its second acquisition of the year — Luna Labs , a startup that that’s built a platform allowing app developers to create and manage video and playable ads. Its customers include Crazy Labs, Supersonic Studios, Lion Studios, Kwalee and Voodoo.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Stelo Labs , a web3 security company, raised $6 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. Stelo Labs’ goal is to make web3 “safe and understandable for everyone,” Scharfstein said. Stelo Labs’ goal is to make web3 “safe and understandable for everyone,” Scharfstein said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Cybersecurity startup Immersive Labs — which recently closed a $75 million Series C funding round giving it a significant war chest — is acquiring U.S.-based based cyber startup Snap Labs in an undisclosed deal, although Immersive says it’s a “multimillion-dollar figure” and will be a mix of stock and cash.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Atlanta-based Kobiton , a mobile testing platform that allows developers and QA teams to test their apps on real devices, both on their own desks and through the company’s cloud-based service, today announced that it has acquired Mobile Labs , another Atlanta-based mobile testing service. Kobiton CEO Kevin Lee. Image: Kobiton .

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion recently announced it had invested an undisclosed sum in Spring Labs, which is building out a blockchain-based data-sharing platform. Spring Labs is one of them. Markets at TransUnion, is taking a seat on Spring Labs’ board. As part of the funding, Steve Chaouki, president of U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But when an idea originates in a lab — whether it’s AI, biotech, robotics or another deep tech research project — things quickly become tougher and much more expensive. It’s one thing to build a prototype that works in a controlled lab setting. Buy an early-bird founder ticket now and save $200.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Rocket Lab is the latest, and likely the most notable to jump on the trend, with a deal that will see it combine with a SPAC called Vector and subsequently list on the Nasdaq under the ticker RKLB, with the transaction expected to close in the second quarter of this year. Rocket Lab has performed launches on behalf of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A Seoul court rejected a request from prosecutors for warrants to detain eight people related to Terraform Labs, including the co-founder of Terraform Labs, Daniel Shin, early investors and former engineers. ” Updates with Terraform Labs spokesperson comment. . . ” Updates with Terraform Labs spokesperson comment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Cascade Labs helps operations teams automate their data workflows. Cascade Labs was co-founded by CEO Jake Fuentes and CTO Jon Brelig. Brelig previously co-founded InfoScout (now Numerator), where he was the CTO until he and Brelig co-founded Cascade Labs in September 2019. Image Credits: Cascade Labs.

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John Snow Labs

MAY 21, 2024

The Generative AI Lab features zero-shot prompts and LLMs that can operate completely within an organization’s firewall. Earlier versions of the Generative AI Lab supported prompt use solely for text-based projects. Furthermore, some terms of use from LLM providers prohibit the use of their LLMs for training specialized models.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

Uniswap Labs , a company building upon the decentralized protocol Uniswap, aims to do just that. Uniswap Labs COO Mary-Catherine Lader. Image Credits: Uniswap Labs. That means major players in the space must make improvements regarding ease and accessibility for the non-crypto natives who want to use crypto.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The world’s labs are under pressure to do more tests and process more materials, not just due to COVID but from the growing biotech and drug development sectors — and automation is the sure path forwards. The Automata Labs enclosure with Eva robotic arm next to it. Useful but it still relies entirely on human labor.

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DevOps.com

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Sauce Labs has added native visual regression testing capabilities to its testing platform to enable DevOps teams to streamline workflows.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

That’s part of why Bryant led Harlem Capital’s investment into Glow Labs, a white-label software that allows companies and creators to build their own loyalty rewards programs on the blockchain, he said. Reardon and Russo now serve as co-CEOs of Glow Labs, Russo told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Only a few weeks after announcing a $42 million Series A, Varda has signed a deal with launch company Rocket Lab for three Photon spacecraft to support the startup’s initial missions. Image Credits: Rocket Lab (opens in a new window). Each mission will last roughly three months from launch to landing, Rocket Lab said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Katie Haun’s new firm, Haun Ventures, has led its first deal in NFT startup Zora Labs. The NFT ecosystem continues to chug along, but the vast majority of volume is still moving through the centralized halls of NFT marketplace OpenSea, leaving crypto VCs eager to find new channels.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Brick & Mortar Ventures , headed by Darren Bechtel of the Bechtel family, is teaming up with BuiltWorlds , which describes itself as a network of buildings and infrastructure professionals, to launch an early-stage accelerator program called Formwork Labs. We hear from early-stage companies that they want access to customer feedback.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Now, a South Korean augmented reality (AR) startup called RECON Labs , which enables e-commerce customers to create 3D models within a few hours by taking a short video of products via its platform PlicAR, has raised $4.4 RECON Labs claims it has more than 10,000 products that are 2D converted into 3D content.

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