A Swedish startup plans to bring automated sports streaming to the masses after raising $20mn to enhance its AI camera system. The Malmö-based Spiideo produces a suite of tools for broadcasting and data analytics. At their core is an AI model that mimics professional camera operators. “We’ve trained it specifically for the 15 sports we support to […]
Swiss Startup Bets on Clean-Fuel Tech to Cut Costs for Airlines
(Bloomberg) — A Swiss startup is betting on an emerging technology to make synthetic jet fuel that it says will one day lower the cost of using cleaner fuels. Metafuels AG, whose backers include Energy Impact Partners and Contrarian Ventures, says methanol-to-jet tech offers higher emissions savings than alternative sustainable aviation fuels, reducing the volume […]
Iowa Farm Coop Landus Launches Tech Startup Aimed at Growers
(Bloomberg) — Landus, Iowa’s biggest agricultural cooperative, is creating a new tech company it says will provide farmers with services such as bank loans and crop analysis. The new venture, Conduit, will offer 0% financing to qualified borrowers on all in-season purchases of farm inputs, according to Landus. It also will make financing available in […]
Business planning startup Pigment raises $145M in rare French tech mega-round
Paris-based startup Pigment has raised a $145 million funding round just five years after its inception. The enterprise software company offers a business planning platform for large companies to visualize their past financial performance and forecast upcoming quarters. This funding round comes as a bit of a surprise as large rounds have been few and […]
Tofu nets $1.2 million to fast-track hiring for tech startups
Company’s backers include Night Capital, Garage Capital, Wayfinder Ventures, Ritual Capital. Toronto-based Tofu aims to make it easier for technology firms to find qualified candidates that other companies have already vetted, but not hired. Fifteen months ago, Tofu began developing a talent marketplace to do just that. Today, the startup’s platform allows over 170 […]
‘Our imitation is total’: Spanish tech startup aims to put 3D-printed meat on our plates | Spain
Cocuus, a cutting-edge tech startup headquartered in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Pamplona, embraces the cliches of its sector every bit as willingly as the drunken tourists who blithely entrust themselves to fate, horns and hooves during the Spanish city’s bull-running festival each July. Table football? Check. Lager and IPA on tap? Check. […]