‘We’re imagining a world where any commerce can happen just by phone conversation’: iKala CEO Sega Cheng

Sega Cheng was pursuing an Engineering Degree at Stanford University 15 years...


‘It’s part of my job as a VC to remain calm,’ says Anorak’s Greg Castle

"I think it's part of my job as a VC to remain calm, look at the numbers, look...


Online tutoring marketplace Preply banks $10M to fuel growth in North America, Europe

Online learning looks likely to be a key beneficiary of the social distancing...


Helm.ai raises $13M on its unsupervised learning approach to driverless car AI

Four years ago, mathematician Vlad Voroninski saw an opportunity to remove some...


Espressive lands $30M Series B to build better help chatbots

Espressive, a four-year-old startup from former ServiceNow employees, is working...


Hospital droid Diligent Robotics raises $10M to assist nurses

Twenty-eight percent of a nurse’s time is wasted on low-skilled tasks like...


Veteran VC Mike Volpi discusses investing and fundraising in ‘a very difficult time’

Last week, I talked with Mike Volpi, longtime Index Ventures partner and the...


Glisten uses computer vision to break down fashion photos to their styles and parts

It's amazing that in this day and age, the best way to search for new clothes is...


Deep North raises $25.7M for AI that uses CCTV to build retail analytics

Amazon and others have raised awareness of how the in-store shopping experience...


VisualOne smartens up home security cameras with object and action recognition

“Smart” cameras are to be found in millions of homes, but the truth...