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Flipkart’s ongoing expansion beyond major cities and heavy discounting is raising risks for India’s quick commerce startups, analysts say. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
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A new company called Meridian.AI has emerged from stealth with an IDE-based approach to agentic financial modeling. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
That geographic expansion in the United States has fueled Zipline’s delivery numbers. In 2024, the company completed 1 million drone deliveries to customers; this week, Zipline said it had surpassed 2 million deliveries. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
Serval is using agentic AI models to automate IT service management, but the company has a unique approach that takes advantage of agentic AI’s powers while avoiding many of its pitfalls. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
A marketing automation startup called Conversation has a founding story that sounds like it could have been an episode of the HBO show “Silicon Valley.” Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
Tiffany Luck, a partner at NEA, outlined what she looks for in a pitch, during a presentation at TechCrunch’s All Stage event in Boston. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
The New York Times reports that the funding brings Substack’s valuation to $1.1 billion, almost 70% higher than its 2021 valuation of $650 million. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
Coco Robotics has made more than 500,000 deliveries with its zero-emissions robots since they hit the streets in 2020. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story
Despite what some experts have characterized as an environment increasingly hostile to AI R&D, North America continues to receive the bulk of AI venture dollars. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story