Startmate and Boundless Earth, Mike Cannon-Brookes’ philanthropic venture, have accelerated their partnership to recruit and upskill 300 new founders and operators into climate technology start-ups over the next 18 months. Startmate launched its inaugural Climate Tech Fellowship last week as part of the plan. The An 8-week virtual program with [...]
French startup Green-Got is building an alternative to your traditional bank account with a focus on climate change. Essentially, Green-Got guarantees that your savings and the money in your bank account will not fund fossil fuel projects and other polluting industries. The startup recently raised a $5.5 million (€5 million) [...]
Short-term rental management startup MadeComfy has raised $10 million in venture capital and debt as it looks to cover more cities across Australia. Founded in Sydney in 2015 and a strategic partner of Airbnb, MadeComfy previously raised $1.1 million in 2017 and then $6 million in 2018 from Investec. Commencer [...]
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The legal squabbles between artists and the companies that train AI on their artworks don’t seem to be abating. In the span of a few months, several lawsuits over corporate generative AI technology, including OpenAI and Stability AI, have been filed by plaintiffs alleging that copyrighted data — mostly art [...]
Our global quest continues, and today we are urging early stage startups across Africa to do so sign up for the Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2023. The signup window will close at 11:59 PM PDT on May 15. Africa: The Startup Battlefield 200 wants your startups SB 200 is [...]
Turing Award winner and AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has resigned from his position at Google to speak more openly about the dangers of artificial intelligence, raising questions about whether tech giants have silenced the people most qualified to inform the public about the effects of emerging technology. In 2012, Hinton [...]
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Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell And Bekka are accompanied by Stephen Bauerthe co-founder and CEO of Learning Marker, a startup that aims to make learning disability testing more accessible. Bauer shared his personal story of how his mother’s determination to [...]