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AI21 Labs is an artificial intelligence startup whose mission is to reimagine the way we read and write by making the machine a thought partner to humans. Pulse 2.0 interviewed AI21 VP of Product Guy Einy to learn more. 

Miovision is a company that provides cities with modern tools to fix today's traffic problems, and the company offers solutions that collect multimodal traffic data and uncover actionable insights, helping municipalities get more out of their road network. The result: streets capable of moving more people (safely and efficiently) whether in a car, on a bus, on a bike or e-scooter, or walking. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Miovision co-founder and CEO Kurtis McBride to learn more.

Collective - an all-in-one online back-office platform for solopreneurs - recently announced it has raised $50 million from a syndicate of investors, including Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI fund, Innovius Capital, The General Partnership, General Catalyst, QED, Expa, and Better Tomorrow Ventures, among others. Collective will use the investment to accelerate AI deployment and quickly onboard the nearly 100K businesses on its waitlist.

Norway-based educational technology company Kahoot announced it agreed to a buyout valued at about $1.72 billion (17.2 billion Norweigian crowns) by Goldman Sachs Asset Management's private equity arm and a group of other investors. This deal is about a 53% premium to the company’s share price as of May 22.

ARMA International - the world’s leading membership organization serving professionals who manage and govern information assets - announced the promotion of Nathan Hughes, CAE, IGP, to Chief Executive Officer. Hughes has been pivotal in the transformative growth of the organization and the continued expansion of support provided to ARMA International’s members globally.

Singapore MIT-Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) - which is MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore - announced it launched a new interdisciplinary research group (IRG) aimed at tackling social and institutional challenges around the rise of AI and new technologies, furthering advances in these fields to create impactful value for Singapore and the world beyond.

atNorth - a leading Nordic colocation high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) service provider, announced a group income of SEK 560 million (EUR 53 million) as it published its 2022 annual accounts. And this figure represents a 44% increase in revenue from 2021 with further growth expected in the coming years.

Sapphire Ventures - a global software venture capital firm backing companies of consequence - announced that it is deepening its commitment to AI by investing over $1 billion in AI-powered enterprise technology startups, including those specializing in generative AI.

Crossbow Therapeutics - a biotechnology company developing a novel class of potent and precise antibody therapies to treat a broad range of cancers - recently announced an $80 million Series A funding round led by MPM BioImpact and Pfizer Ventures with participation from Polaris Partners, BVF Partners, Eli Lilly and Company, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, and Mirae Asset Capital.

Flatfile - a pioneer of AI-assisted data exchange - recently announced the release of its Flatfile Data Exchange Platform, the industry’s first extensible platform for file-based data import. And with this new release, Flatfile is reinventing the file-based data import category defined by one-size-fits-all, single-purpose CSV-import tools with an extensible, API-first, and event-driven data exchange platform for enterprise developers.

When you consider over 92 million tons of textile waste are landfilled every year, new solutions are needed to enable fabric reworking in manufacturing and recycling on a mass scale. Biotechnology innovator Conagen announced the development of a groundbreaking debondable textile adhesive from high-performance materials sourced from sustainable and natural biomolecules.

Sorcero - a leading provider of advanced AI solutions purpose-built for Life Sciences organizations - announced a new release of the Sorcero AI Platform. The solution enables Medical Affairs (MA) Teams to now to unify stakeholder data and accelerate data-driven decisions across the asset lifecycle. In particular, Sorcero now provides life sciences companies with an omnichannel view of the healthcare provider (HCP) journey across all touchpoints, which is critical to informing and planning Key Opinion Leader (KOL) engagement strategies. These new features are now available on the platform and via the Google Cloud Marketplace.

Roadie - a provider of Backstage as a service - recently announced the general availability of its Tech Insights feature, a software-quality tool added to its core offering of managed Spotify Backstage. Tech Insights enables software engineering teams to establish engineering standards and automatically track and report software performance against those standards.

LunarCrush - a rapidly growing crypto and media analytics platform - recently announced a successful $5 million Series A fundraising round, driving up the company's valuation to $30 million.

Exabeam - a global cybersecurity leader and creator of New-Scale SIEM for advancing security operations - recently announced a unique user behavior monitoring solution designed for federal departments and agencies on the practical steps to improve the prevention, detection, assessment, and remediation of cyber incidents targeting government organizations. This solution is available through Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule.

Earlier this week, Ansys made a couple of notable announcements, including Ansys and Altium boosting their designs with digital continuity and Intel Foundry Services certified Ansys multiphysics solutions for signoff verification of advanced integrated circuits (ICs) designed with the Intel 16 silicon manufacturing process.

Selector AI - a leading provider of network-aware AIOps, observability, and multi-domain analytics - recently announced the addition of new capabilities to its platform, empowering organizations with unparalleled insights from the network up to the application. The enhancements move Selector forward as the first true full-stack observability and AIOPs platform.

Earlier this year, Siemens introduced the new SINAMICS S210, a next-generation servo-drive system. This new system is now ready for digitalization and brings an enhanced level of safety and security to stand-alone or multi-axis machines for use in various manufacturing industries.

Crowley has appointed Eric Cunningham as vice president of Shared Services, where he will focus on growing the company’s business relationships and capabilities for customers across the U.S., Central America, and strategic markets. 

Cipher Sports Technology Group’s vision is to be at the center of a bettor’s most exciting moments by creating memorable content powered by proprietary predictive analytics, machine learning and AI models. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Cipher Sports Technology Group CEO Adam Fiske to learn more.

DuploCloud is a DevOps platform for automating infrastructure provisioning, built-in compliance, and security. Pulse 2.0 interviewed DuploCloud founder and CEO Venkat Thiruvengadam to learn more.

Sampler - a shopper promotions and insights platform - recently announced its acquisition of AdMass. This AI-powered SaaS platform enables brands and their agencies to create data-driven user-generated content promotions. And this marks Sampler’s second acquisition in just four months, following the successful completion of their acquisition of beauty digital sampling agency abeo in March 2023. The back-to-back deals are part of the company's strategic efforts to expand its product offering and accelerate growth.

SmileDirectClub - the med tech oral care company with the first telehealth platform for teeth straightening - recently announced the opening of 18 new locations of its patented SmileShop concept, bringing the company’s retail footprint to 128 locations across the globe. The expansion comes as SmileDirectClub celebrates its two-millionth aligner customer served through its orthodontic telehealth platform.

Vaxcyte - a clinical-stage vaccine innovation company engineering high-fidelity vaccines to protect humankind from the consequences of bacterial diseases - recently announced that the ongoing Phase 2 study of VAX-24 in healthy infants is advancing to the second and final stage of the study. The independent Data Safety Monitoring Board approved moving to the second stage of the study following the review of the safety and tolerability results from the first stage. The Phase 2 study evaluates the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of VAX-24, the Company’s lead, broad-spectrum 24-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) candidate designed to prevent invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD). Vaxcyte expects to share topline data from the primary three-dose immunization series of the study by 2025, followed by topline data from the booster dose approximately nine months later.

Rhino Health is a company that enables AI/data science developers and medical researchers to collaborate without sharing data or compromising data privacy. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Rhino Health co-founder and CEO Dr. Ittai Dayan to learn more.

Everseen is a company that has developed computer vision AI technology, which is trusted by over half of the world’s top 15 retailers to mitigate and reduce shrink, streamline operations, and help deliver a better customer experience. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Everseen co-founder and CEO Alan O’Herlihy to learn more.

Full Harvest is the first business-to-business marketplace for imperfect and surplus produce. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Full Harvest founder and CEO Christine Moseley to learn more.

Sonio - a French medtech specializing in pregnant people and children's health - recently announced it had finalized a series A round of funding of $14 million following the initial commitment of the EIC Fund (European Innovation Council) last December. This funding round was led by Cross Border Impact Ventures, a North American impact fund dedicated to the health of women and children, and the Elaia funds, French Tech Seed managed on behalf of the State by Bpifrance in the framework of France 2030, OneRagtime, and business angels very active in the health field, including Dominique Gaillard (former president of France Invest), Alain Decombe (Dechert) and Yann Fleureau (founder of Cardiologs).

The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator has welcomed ten health-tech companies worldwide to its ninth accelerator class. These businesses are building a variety of healthcare solutions-from monitoring devices for sepsis, heart failure, and stroke to virtual reality video games aimed at helping children manage pain and anxiety during medical procedures.