Botpress nabs $8M Series A to help developers build conversational apps – TechCrunch

Botpress, a Montreal-based early stage startup, wants to make it easier for developers to build conversational-based apps, meaning humans interact with the app by speaking instead of typing, clicking or…

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Alchemy raises $80M at a $505M valuation to be the ‘AWS for blockchain’ – TechCrunch

Blockchain developer platform Alchemy announced today it has raised $80 million in a Series B round of funding led by Coatue and Addition, Lee Fixel’s new fund. The company previously raised…

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In a room with no smart speaker, Alexa can’t hear you scream – TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TC’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. For this week’s deep dive Natasha and Alex and Danny and Chris dove into the world of…

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Valence Helps Neurodiverse People Interpret Emotions by Expressing Them as Vibrations

Traditional methods of learning don’t work for everyone.The team at Valence value neurodiversity and has created software that translates the emotional sentiment of vocal pitch into vibrational patterns on smartwatches and…

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