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February 20, 2024
Monzo Aims for £4 Billion Valuation as Biggest Challenger Bank...

Monzo, the British FinTech unicorn, is aiming for a £4 billion valuation in its latest funding round. The digital bank, which currently has over nine million U.K. personal current account...


February 09, 2024
TechBio Firm Owkin and AWS Team on GenAI and Drug...

TechBio firm Owkin selected Amazon Web Services as its primary cloud provider. The firm will use AWS’ storage options, data security measures and computing capabilities to develop generative artificial intelligence...


February 06, 2024
Papaya to Showcase Workforce Payments Platform in Super Bowl Commercial

Papaya Global will use a Super Bowl commercial to showcase the launch of its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered platform for executing worker payments. The new workforce payments platform provides an end-to-end solution, the FinTech...


January 29, 2024
Sema4.ai Secures $30.5 Million to Bring AI to Enterprise Work

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Sema4.ai has secured $30.5 million in funding to bring open source-powered AI to enterprise work.  The company aims to redefine the future of knowledge work by developing intelligent...


January 26, 2024
AI Startup Sierra Aims to Raise $85 Million to Tackle...

Sierra, an enterprise-focused AI startup co-founded by OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor and former Google executive Clay Bavor, is reportedly on the verge of achieving unicorn status with a new investment. Sequoia Capital is expected to lead an...


January 25, 2024
Google Cloud, Hugging Face Partner on AI Development

Months after investing in Hugging Face, Google has launched a partnership with the artificial intelligence (AI) firm. The collaboration will let developers use Google Cloud infrastructure for all Hugging Face services, while...


January 23, 2024
Investment Firm Plural Launches $436 Million Fund to Support European...

Venture capital firm Plural has launched a 400 million euro ($436.4 million) fund to support technology and AI startups in Europe, CNBC reported on Tuesday (Jan. 23). The new fund, Plural Fund II,...


January 22, 2024
P2P Payments Surge as Firms Pursue ‘Everything App’ Vision

Peer-to-peer (P2P) payments are booming, with transaction volumes rising by 25%. This surge is caused by a growing number of businesses racing into the P2P market, eager to capitalize on...


January 22, 2024
How Retailers Are Folding GenAI Into Their 2024 Playbook 

In the world of retail, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has taken up the conversation.  Although the idea is not new, its importance has escalated, especially since November 2022, when OpenAI...