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ZeroFox secures $40m Series C to help manage social media risk

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

ZeroFox, a startup that helps companies manage social media risk including scams, malicious links and account hijacking, announced a $40 million Series C investment today. The round was led by Redline Capital Management and Silver Lake Waterman (which [...]

Google acquires India’s Halli Labs, which was building AI tools to fix ‘old problems’

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Some more M&A news in the world of artificial intelligence. Today it was announced that Google has acquired Halli Labs, a very young (its first public appearance was on May 22 of this year) startup based out of [...]

Finding Andy Cunningham

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

A few weeks ago I stopped at a garage sale in Brooklyn and found a stack of Nintendo Power magazines. Nintendo Power, for the non-80s kids, was a magazine produced by Nintendo from 1988 to 2012. It was [...]

XFactor is a new $3M pre-seed/seed fund looking to invest in female-led startups

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Part of the sexism problem in tech/VC comes down to the fact that women are far outnumbered by men, especially at the top of the food chain. Women represent seven percent of the partner positions within the tech [...]

Hutch, the virtual interior design app, has raised $10M from Zillow

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Hutch, the interior design app that takes a photo of your room and virtually redecorates it, has raised $10M in funding from real estate platform Zillow. Zillow’s CEO Spencer Rascoff will also join Hutch’s board of directors as [...]

Apple unveils smart home experiences in its retail stores worldwide

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Unless you’ve had a chance to try some Apple HomeKit products in someone’s home or apartment, it can be hard to understand how it all works. In order to help with that, Apple has unveiled interactive HomeKit experiences [...]

Microsoft launches AI for Earth to give $2M in services to environmental projects

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

After helping to launch the Partnership on AI with Google, Facebook and others; and doubling down on AI research, today Microsoft unveiled a new initiative that points to how it plans to target specific verticals in what can [...]

Fairclaims raises $1.8 million to be a virtual “Judge Judy”

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Two years ago, Stephen Kane was looking for his next big idea. A lawyer who previously worked for the mega-firm O’Melveny & Myers and then spent time at Lex Machina, a software company that analyzed caselaw for lawyers, [...]

IBM’s new Services Platform uses AI to help businesses manage their IT operations

July 12th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

IBM is launching a new machine learning-centric product for enterprises today: the IBM Services Platform. This new service aims to help businesses manage their IT infrastructure and make better data-driven decisions to keep that infrastructure running smoothly. Because [...]