31 h. ago Schumer says Democrats will block GOP funding bill, raising shutdown alert

Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to pass the House-approved deal to fund the government.

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34 h. ago 'Odd' objects excel at navigating challenging terrains without central control

Locomotion, the ability to move from one place to another, is an essential survival strategy for virtually every organism. Adapting to the unpredictable terrain they run into, cells, fungi and microorganisms autonomously move and change shape to explore their environments, while animals run, crawl, slither, roll and jump.

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42 h. ago Ditto lands $82M to synchronize data from the edge to the cloud

Ditto, a company that’s setting out to bring “resilient” connectivity to edge devices, has raised $82 million in a Series B round of funding at a post-money valuation of $462 million — more than double its Series A valuation from 2023. “Edge,” in the context of Ditto’s industry, refers to a distributed computing model that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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63 h. ago Dick Van Dyke channels ‘Mary Poppins’ character as he performs at fundraiser for California wildfires

Dick Van Dyke took the stage to sing songs from "Mary Poppins" and "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" in an effort to raise funds for wildfire relief.

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63 h. ago The sibling founders of Stax Payments are back with a new fintech and a $20M seed raise

Worth, a company focused on helping fintechs, banks, and enterprises underwrite small and medium-sized businesses more easily, has raised $20 million in a seed funding round, the startup tells TechCrunch exclusively. It’s a large seed round, especially these days when capital is harder to come by. But the founders’ history may have something to do […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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63 h. ago The sibling founders of Stax Payments are back with a $20M seed raise for their new fintech, Worth

Worth, a company focused on helping fintechs, banks, and enterprises underwrite small and medium-sized businesses more easily, has raised $20 million in a seed funding round, the startup tells TechCrunch exclusively. It’s a large seed round, especially these days when capital is harder to come by. But the founders’ history may have something to do […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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69 h. ago Equator closes $55M fund to bring more private capital to African climate tech

African VC firm Equator has raised $55M for its first fund, which will back early-stage climate tech startups on the continent. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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6 d. ago Startups Weekly: Startups raised funding to help others navigate challenges

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Sometimes problems are just that: problems. But often, they are also fodder. This week brought us a mix of startups facing adversity, sometimes of their own doing, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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8 d. ago Flex, a Brex for business owners, has raised $25M at a $250M valuation

Flex, which offers personal finance software and payments infrastructure for business owners, has raised $25 million in equity funding while securing a $200 million credit facility, it told TechCrunch exclusively. The equity funds were raised at a valuation of “just under $250 million.” The company last raised a $20 million Series A announced in September […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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9 d. ago Foundation Capital, an early backer of Solana and Cerebras, raises $600M fund

Foundation Capital has come a long way since it was forced to scale down its fund size from $750 million in 2008 to $282 million (its sixth main fund) in 2013. On Tuesday, the 30-year-old firm announced that it raised a $600 million eleventh flagship fund, which is 20% larger than the predecessor $500 million […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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9 d. ago Hotel management platform Mews books $75M round led by Tiger Global

Despite clouds of uncertainty looming over the economy and geopolitics, people still want to travel. To meet that demand, Mews, an Amsterdam-founded ‘unicorn’ building an SaaS platform for hotel management, has raised a fresh $75 million. The funding is coming at a crossroad in the travel industry. On one hand are positive signals. Analysts at […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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1 week ago ‘I am running for myself, for those still fighting, and for those we have lost along the way’

Stephanie Silva is running Boston to raise funds for Haymakers for Hope, which hosts charity boxing and running events to fight cancer. The post ‘I am running for myself, for those still fighting, and for those we have lost along the way’ appeared first on Boston.com.

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2 w. ago ‘To catch Teri when she falls’: Why Noah Jakimo is running Boston for MGH

Noah Jakimo's wife, Teri, ran nearly every day since high school. Now, he is running Boston to raise funds for MGH to support Teri's care team. The post ‘To catch Teri when she falls’: Why Noah Jakimo is running Boston for MGH appeared first on Boston.com.

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2 w. ago This Boston native is running for Mass. General Hospital in honor of family’s health journey

"It’s my way of giving back to a hospital that has given so much to my family while raising awareness and funds for pediatric cancer research." The post This Boston native is running for Mass. General Hospital in honor of family’s health journey appeared first on Boston.com.

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2 w. ago Capim, a Brazilian BNPL startup for dental services, lands a $26.7M Series A

Capim, a startup offering Brazilians the option to buy now, pay later (BNPL) for dental services, has raised $26.7 million in Series A funding, it tells TechCrunch exclusively. Founded in July 2021 by Marcelo Lutz and Roberto Biselli, who serve as co-CEOs, Sao Paulo-based Capim describes itself as a vertical SaaS company specializing in the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 w. ago How a friend’s battle with melanoma led him to the Boston Marathon

Jose Garcia is running to raise funds for Massachusetts General Hospital, in memory of his friend. The post How a friend’s battle with melanoma led him to the Boston Marathon appeared first on Boston.com.

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2 w. ago ‘This year is extra special’: Boston Marathon duo to run their 11th race together

Matt Brown and Lucas Carr are raising funds for the Matt Brown Foundation, which supports those affected by illness or injury, particularly paralysis. The post ‘This year is extra special’: Boston Marathon duo to run their 11th race together appeared first on Boston.com.

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2 w. ago Serverless cloud platform Koyeb now lets developers spin up Tenstorrent’s AI accelerators

Just a few weeks after chipmaker Tenstorrent raised nearly $700 million in funding, developers can now try out Tenstorrent’s AI accelerators on Koyeb. Tenstorrent sells AI processors built around the RISC-V instruction set architecture, and has developed its own open-source neural network library, TT-NN, and open-source low-level programming model, TT-Metalium. Tenstorrent is part of a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 w. ago This pediatric ICU nurse is running Boston for the children at MGH

Emily Weimer continues to run and raise funds to support pediatric cancer. The post This pediatric ICU nurse is running Boston for the children at MGH appeared first on Boston.com.

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2 w. ago Sakana walks back claims that its AI can dramatically speed up model training

This week, Sakana AI, a Nvidia-backed startup that’s raised hundreds of millions of dollars from VC firms, made a remarkable claim. The company said it had created an AI system, the AI CUDA Engineer, that could effectively speed up the training of certain AI models by a factor of up to 100x. The only problem […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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