If your target market has 22 official languages and its people speak in over 19,000 dialects, does it make sense to offer a text-only AI chatbot that can function best in a couple languages? That’s the question Indian AI startup Sarvam has been working to solve, and on Tuesday it launched a series of offerings, […]
Muon Space closes $56M to scale all-in-one satellite platform
Space-as-a-service startup Muon Space closed a $ 56.7 million fundraising round to scale its satellite platform, while also announcing a new deal with defense giant Sierra Nevada Corp. California-based Muon designs, builds and operates satellites in low Earth orbit on behalf of customers. Some customers, like Hydrosat, provide their own payloads, while others, like the […]
Nala to use $40M Series A to build B2B payments platform, scale remittance services
Nala, a remittance startup that is now widening its portfolio through a new B2B payments platform, has raised $ 40 million equity in a rare deal that becomes one of the largest Series A transactions in Africa. The oversubscribed round was led by San Francisco-based VC firm Acrew Capital, with participation from DST Global, Norrsken22, HOF […]
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang is coming to Disrupt 2024
The early victors in the AI gold rush are selling the picks and shovels needed to develop and apply artificial intelligence. Just take a look at data-labeling startup Scale AI — and its long and diverse list of customers and investors. The San Francisco-based startup, founded in 2016, developed software that labels image, text, voice […]
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang is coming to Disrupt 2024
The early victors in the AI gold rush are selling the picks and shovels needed to develop and apply artificial intelligence. Just take a look at data-labeling startup Scale AI — and its long and diverse list of customers and investors. The San Francisco-based startup, founded in 2016, developed software that labels image, text, voice […]