Clay has raised $115m in a Series D round that values the New York go-to-market software company at $7.1bn. Wellington Management led the round, the company said in its announcement on Wednesday. The New York Times broke the news, in a DealBook story b…
Waymo’s driverless cars can now be booked through the Lyft app in Nashville, making it the first market where the same autonomous fleet is available through two competing rideshare platforms. The service covers central Nashville, including Downtown and…
Intuit is moving Mailchimp out of its main business and into a segment of its own. The first standalone forecast it has ever published for the marketing tool is for no growth at all. Mailchimp will bring in $1,256mn to $1,266mn in fiscal 2027, Intuit s…
Australia’s Federal Court has found that eHarmony misled consumers about the cost and terms of its dating memberships, in a case the competition regulator brought after receiving hundreds of complaints. The findings read as a catalogue of the design ch…
Slack launched a coding product on Thursday. Slack Code adds project-specific channels where teams and AI agents write, review and ship software together. The work happens inside the chat app rather than in a separate browser tab. The mechanic is simpl…
Aachen-based amber has closed a €7mn Series A. Ventech co-led it with NRW.Venture, the venture arm of NRW.BANK. NRW.BANK is the development bank owned by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. By the standards of this year’s AI rounds, €7mn is sma…
Bumble is preparing to let men make the first move, a change that unpicks the single rule the dating app was built around. According to Bloomberg a coming messaging update will let men open conversations in opposite-sex matches, though the exact mechan…
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into finished editable presentations. Financial terms were not disclosed, and the team has moved onto ChatGPT. Founder Ahmed Beshry announced the deal in a not…
Telegram briefly vanished from Apple’s App Store. The messaging app disappeared from the iOS store for many users around the world on Monday, and by Tuesday Telegram said it had been restored. Apple has not publicly explained the removal, and Telegram …
The glamorous part of AI is the models. The expensive, unglamorous part is getting them the right data. A startup just raised $40 million betting that job is the next big enterprise layer. DataBahn, a Texas company founded in 2023, has closed a $40 mil…