"Solo.io is a cloud connectivity company. Its main cloud products are Gloo Gateway, a cloud-native API gateway built on Envoy, and Gloo Mesh, which aims to simplify Istio service mesh management for Kubernetes. And, of course, there are the inevitable AI-related products. When we spoke to Levine, Solo.io had just announced an MCP gateway for kgateway (described by the company as "the ecosystem's most mature and widely deployed cloud-native API gateway"). Most recently, the company announced that it had donated agentgateway to the Linux Foundation."
The tool works across documents from contracts to slide decks, offering translations in over 120 languages while keeping every table, chart, image, and layout intact. Founder Daphne Tay said she came up with the idea after spending "countless hours" at Bain reformatting translated documents for international projects. "I was doing exactly what our clients do now - copying and pasting text from translation tools, fixing formatting, and losing hours that should have been spent on actual consulting work," she said.
A nearby school's carpool line was constantly blocking the parking lot of one of Aurelian's hair salon clients. The salon owner called the city's non-emergency line and was put on hold for 45 minutes before reaching a dispatcher. "She called me into her office afterwards, and was like, 'Max, do you want to help me out?'" Keenan told TechCrunch. When he started to research how municipal non-emergency response call centers work,
Mako, a startup co-founded by Cornell Tech assistant professor Mohamed Abdelfattah, has raised $8.5 million in seed funding to tackle one of artificial intelligence's most pressing infrastructure challenges: optimizing the computing efficiency of graphics processing units, or GPUs. The $8.5 million round was led by M13, with participation from Neo, Flybridge, and others. The company plans to use the funding to grow its engineering team and accelerate product development.
General Fusion, a Canadian nuclear fusion energy startup, announced today that it had been thrown a lifeline in the form of $22 million in fresh funding. The company had laid off at least 25% of its employees in May in a bid to shore up its stretched finances. At the same time, CEO Greg Twinney wrote an open letter pleading for funding. The additional cash will give General Fusion some breathing room, though not much.
Nominal plugs into a company's existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and helps CFOs and controllers automate tasks to reduce manual work and errors.
Newton Research, co-founded in 2023, secured $9 million in Series A funding to enhance advertising analytics using specialized AI agents for media planning and measurement.
Ambience Healthcare has developed an AI operating system for documentation, coding, and clinical workflows, aiming to enhance administrative processes in healthcare organizations. With a total of $319.3M in funding, it is supported by notable investors including Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI Startup Fund.
"There was an abundance of consumer and market-level data for places like the U.S., UK, and a few parts of Western Europe, maybe some traces in Canada and Australia. But when it came to international markets, including economic giants like India, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, Turkey, and China, there was nothing usable."
"Traditional market research is broken. It's slow, it's expensive, and, most importantly, it's disconnected from how modern enterprises build products and connect with their customers," says Casper Henningsen, co-founder and CEO of GetWhy.
The updates to Qualified Small Business Stock rules expand the definition of a small business to include companies with less than $75 million in gross assets, up from the previous $50 million cap. This change allows founders and investors to benefit from tax-free profits much sooner.
Companies are facing the limitations of current search systems. TopK brings a fundamental shift in how infrastructure is built, along with a deep understanding of the problems that development teams face every day. That's why we support their vision to create a search system for the AI era.
Statistics show that up to 40% of engineering time is spent not on building new features but on writing and maintaining test scripts that quickly become outdated.
