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A new virtual try-on startup powered by AI is stirring up buzz in the tech world.Doji raised capital late last year in a round led by Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six fund.Its fundraising comes as some in tech are betting AI can reinvigorate the consumer startup space.The tech industry is…
Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian envisions AI moderating future social media platforms.Ohanian said AI would allow users to set tolerance levels for content.Reddit has prioritized AI, signing deals with Google and OpenAI for content data sharing.The Reddit moderator is something of a near-mythical creature.They are anonymous and unpaid, and some of…
Taylor Francis cofounded a carbon-emissions data-tracking startup in 2019.The startup said it raised $100M in a Series C funding round in 2024 at a $1.8B valuation.He shared how he pitched his climate-change-focused startup to investors during Trump’s first term.As cofounder of Watershed, an emissions data-tracking startup, Taylor Francis’s job is…
The daughters of one of Target’s cofounders say they are “alarmed” at the company’s DEI rollback.In letters to the Financial Times and LA Times, they said their father believed in clear principles.Target is one of several companies scaling back diversity efforts amid wider political pressures against DEI.The daughters of one…
Zoox cofounder Jesse Levinson said at TechCrunch Disrupt that he drives a Tesla.He said he sometimes uses Tesla’s so-called Full Self-Driving mode.The experience is “stressful” because of its potential to make a driver complacent, he said. The cofounder of Zoox, an Amazon-backed robotaxi company, said he sometimes feels nervous when…
Baiju Bhatt, the cofounder of trading app Robinhood, has a new space startup.Aetherflux aims to launch a constellation of satellites to transmit solar power to Earth using infrared lasers.Bhatt told BI why he’s joining the commercial space race and what Robinhood taught him about capitalism. When Baiju Bhatt co-founded the…
