The former founder of a To Do lists app which sold for as much as $200 million, comes back, 9 years later, with yet another app to do the same thing. Really? It’s a story that would be hard to make up, but it’s happening. I guess you can’t keep a good founder down. After … Read more
Open banking — where traditional banks can share data, and build new services, by way of APIs that bring their ageing systems into the 21st century — has seen its biggest traction to date in mature economies, where the vast majority of consumers and businesses already have bank accounts; are au fait with digital transactions; … Read more
Much has been made of AI-powered videos which can either make a real person speak different words or other languages, or generate a synthetic person which can speak on-demand. A few years ago former football star David Beckham helped push the idea into the mainstream via a video from Synthesia, where he spoke different languages … Read more
Supercritical, the carbon removing market aimed (for the time being) primarily at tech corporations that need to hit “web zero,” has raised a $13 million Collection A funding spherical, led by Lightspeed Enterprise Companions. The spherical contains funding from RTP World, Greencode Ventures, MMC Ventures and others. We lined Supercritical’s launch again in August 2021, when it identified that … Read more