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Mavenoid, which automates technical support and onboarding for hardware companies, raises $30M

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Founded out of Stockholm in 2017, Mavenoid works with hardware and consumer electronics companies including HP, Husqvarna, and Jabra, serving to automate technical support and onboarding for customers spanning everything from printers and ovens, to electric scooters and industrial equipment. ” Technical support. Mavenoid chatbot.

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3 Conferences Organized by DevNetwork in August

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August is here, and it is set to be an exciting month for technology enthusiasts, with a range of tech conferences taking place worldwide. This month we bring you three conferences organized by DevNetwork , the world’s developer event community and producer of leading conferences for developers, that will surely interest you.

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This VC introduced Palantir’s first business hire to its earliest engineer, then his business took off

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Fubini is a Carnegie Mellon grad who cofounded an enterprise company, CubeTree, that a dozen years later, sold to SuccessFactors, which was itself acquired by SAP the next year, in 2011. Fubini helped cofound the outfit with a handful of others.) Now he’s turning the enterprise into a bigger organization.

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Traceable AI nabs $60M to secure app APIs using machine learning

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The new capital values the company at more than $450 million post-money, and CEO Jyoti Bansal — who’s also the cofounder of BIG Labs and Unusual Ventures — says that it’ll be put toward product development, recruitment, and customer acquisition. billion) and Harness (which recently raised a $230 million Series D).

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Latent AI, which says it can compress common AI models by 10x, lands some key backing

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Steve Jurvetson, the veteran investor and cofounder of Future Ventures, says to “think of face-detection algorithms running locally within security cameras or appliances, or Siri-like voice interfaces working instantly, even when there’s no network connectivity.” ’s national defense strategy.).

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A new venture studio, SuperLayer, aims to become a preeminent Web3 launch pad

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In the case of Superlayer, that founder is Kevin Chou, who sold his gaming company, Kabam, for $800 million back in 2018 and almost immediately jumped headlong into the world of blockchain technologies, which he believes can unlock new economic opportunities, including for gamers and or creators. As Roelof Botha, the head of Sequoia’s U.S.

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Kudos, with its cotton-based, eco-friendly diaper, soaks up $2.4 million in seed funding

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Cofounder and CEO Amrita Saigal says that Kudos is the first and only disposable baby diaper to earn the cotton natural seal from Cotton Inc. Saigal actually left a career at P&G, which is where she met Kudos’ diaper engineering advisor Jim Keighley (her former boss at P&G). million seed round of financing today.