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Talla raises $8.3M to enhance the capabilities of its help desk AI
As the number of companies that use chatbots continues to grow, so is investor interest in the technology rising. Boston’s Glasswing Ventures and five other funds jumped on the bandwagon today by leading a $8.3 million funding round into Talla Inc., one of the startups at the forefront of the trend. The two-year-old firm offers ...
Augury, a startup using AI and sound to troubleshoot industrial gear, raises $17M
Except in certain extreme circumstances, industrial machinery doesn’t simply fail from one moment to the next. It’s often a gradual process that can be detected and stopped with the right technology. Augury Inc. is one of the providers that industrial companies turn to for help with preventing equipment failures. Two years after its previous round, the ...
Codota raises $2M for its AI-powered programming assistant
Many development platforms provide autocomplete features to help programmers become more productive, but for the most part they’re limited to filling in basic syntax elements such as library names. Codota Dot Com Ltd. is looking to change that. The Israeli startup on Thursday said it has secured a $2 million investment from Khosla Ventures to drive ...
Report: Google could be hit by record €1B+ fine in EU antitrust case
The record €1 billion penalty that the European Union issued to Intel Corp. in 2009 over unlawful business practices could soon be topped. On Friday, anonymous sources told the Financial Times and The New York Times that Google Inc. is set to be hit by a potentially even bigger fine from the EU’s antitrust body as ...
Highspot secures $15M to make sales content data-driven
Starting from the point they first contact a prospect, salespeople rely on presentations and other carefully crafted marketing materials to underpin their value propositions. A Seattle-based startup called Highspot Inc. argues that analytics can go a long way toward making such content more compelling. Its pitch has attracted a $15 million investment from Shasta Ventures, Salesforce ...
Google releases new object recognition algorithms to help make apps smarter
Enabling a mobile app to analyze images is as easy as integrating it with one of the numerous cloud-based object recognition services on the market. But sending files to a remote data center for processing isn’t always efficient because of connectivity constraints and other logistical hurdles. Now developers have an alternative. Google Inc. on Wednesday open-sourced a family ...
After pivoting to threat detection, Sqrrl raises $12.3M
Spotting a breach in the vastness of a company’s infrastructure can be difficult even for the most qualified of security teams. As a result, they’re increasingly adopting automated threat detection tools from the likes of Sqrrl Data Inc., which announced today that it has secured $12.3 million in funding to address the demand. The investment is the latest ...
Investors bet $102M on machine learning consultancy Element AI
Artificial intelligence is attracting great interest in the enterprise, but most companies lack the necessary know-how to make the most out of the technology. That’s the observation that led a group of Canadian machine learning experts to establish Element AI Inc., which announced today that it has raised $102 million in funding to fill the talent ...
MemSQL takes its data warehouse to the cloud
Just as with other computing jobs, companies are increasingly migrating their database instances to the cloud in a bid to reduce management overhead. MemSQL Inc. wants to join that party. The startup is today introducing a cloud edition of its data warehouse, which is used by the likes of Uber Technologies Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., that ...
Box launches enterprise-friendly desktop app for Windows and Mac
As of today, desktop users have a new option for accessing Box Inc.’s file-sharing service. The collaboration giant is rolling out a new client app for Windows and Mac that offers an alternative to the main browser-based interface. Dubbed Box Drive, it’s a successor to the company’s first attempt at supporting desktops, a tool called Sync that ...
