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There’s a new experiential store in Los Angeles that blends livestreaming with in-person retail.The space features rows of hosts selling products live on TikTok Shop.The project is the brainchild of Outlandish, an e-commerce startup with roots in China.Welcome to the TikTok-era shopping mall.A new brick-and-mortar store from the e-commerce startup…
Sword Health cut a portion of its physical therapists last month, the company confirmed to BI.The startup aims to use AI to help increase the number of patients its physical therapists care for.Sword, which hit a $3 billion valuation earlier this year, could go public as soon as 2025. Sword…
Ivan Maryasin founded Monite after moving from Silicon Valley to Berlin.He said building a business in the US is expensive due to hiring and living costs.Berlin is affordable and well-connected, but it isn’t perfect, he said. This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Ivan Maryasin, 31, about…
AI startup Attention raised a $14 million Series A funding round from Alven, Eniac, and Frst.The startup uses AI and natural language processing to glean data and next steps from sales calls.Other startups are bringing AI into the enterprise software landscape to make sales more efficient. New York-based AI startup…
News Corp. has accused AI startup Perplexity of copyright infringement in a new lawsuit.Perplexity is eyeing a massive funding round this year, The Wall Street Journal had reported.Here’s what you need to know about the buzzy, controversial company. Perplexity, the hot AI startup aiming to compete with Google that has…
Parag Agrawal updated his LinkedIn page with his AI startup’s name for the first time: Parallel Web Systems.The ex-Twitter CEO raised about $30 million for the startup, The Information reported in January.Parallel’s website says its initial product is “an API for AIs using web data.” The former CEO of Twitter…
Clay supports revenue operations and growth teams to automate outreach to potential customers.The company last raised a $46 million Series B at a $500 million valuation led by Meritech in June.Its customers include Anthropic, Notion, Vanta, Ramp, and Intercom. Clay, the AI-powered sales startup, is set to be valued at…
Adam Neumann is launching a WeWork rival called Workflow.Workflow has a different business strategy than Neumann’s previous company, Bloomberg reports.Neumann told the outlet that investors at Andreessen Horowitz will help keep him disciplined. Adam Neumann isn’t done with shared workspaces — and this time the founder of WeWork suggested he’s…
Defense tech startup Anduril announced a new range of cruise missiles on Thursday that it says can be mass-produced at low cost to help the US in a near-peer war.Anduril said the key to its new Barracuda missile is its flexibility, through a modular system that can make the missile…
The global manufacturing market is filled with expensive pitfalls, from time changes to language barriers. One startup is injecting generative AI into the process to help companies save time and money.The startup, Cavela, launched from stealth today with $2 million in seed funding, Business Insider has learned. Early-stage VC firm XYZ Ventures led…
