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Aesthetic launches the ‘Shazam for fashion’
Aesthetic, a new fashion company looking to be the “Shazam for clothes,” launched this week and is using AI to help people identify and shop for clothing they sourced on social media. The fashion concierge, called Alma, makes it easy for people to buy clothes that might otherwise be hard to find. Say you see
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Aesthetic, a new fashion company looking to be the “Shazam for clothes,” launched this week and is using AI to help people identify and shop for clothing they sourced on social media. The fashion concierge, called Alma, makes it easy for people to buy clothes that might otherwise be hard to find. Say you see […]
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ElevenLabs has hired the team behind Omnivore, a reader app
Generative AI company ElevenLabs has hired the team behind Omnivore, an open source read-it-later app. In a blog post, Omnivore co-founders Jackson Harper and Hongbu Wu said that joining ElevenLabs would give them “an even larger platform to create accessible and engaging experiences for serious readers.” “ElevenLabs is committed to the developer community and the
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Generative AI company ElevenLabs has hired the team behind Omnivore, an open source read-it-later app. In a blog post, Omnivore co-founders Jackson Harper and Hongbu Wu said that joining ElevenLabs would give them “an even larger platform to create accessible and engaging experiences for serious readers.” “ElevenLabs is committed to the developer community and the […]
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Salva Health wants to lower breast cancer mortality with its affordable screening device
Six years ago, while researching for a college entrepreneurship competition, Valentina Agudelo identified a troubling gap in breast cancer survival rates between Latin America and the developed world, with women in her native Colombia and the rest of the continent dying at higher rates due to late detection. She realized that breast cancer is highly
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Six years ago, while researching for a college entrepreneurship competition, Valentina Agudelo identified a troubling gap in breast cancer survival rates between Latin America and the developed world, with women in her native Colombia and the rest of the continent dying at higher rates due to late detection. She realized that breast cancer is highly […]
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Narada AI’s enterprise agent will use workplace tools for you
There’s no shortage of startups trying to create enterprise AI assistants. What’s less common is an AI assistant that can actually execute tasks across several of your work apps at once. That’s the promise of Narada AI, a startup building an AI assistant based on new research out of UC Berkeley. Narada has been operating
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There’s no shortage of startups trying to create enterprise AI assistants. What’s less common is an AI assistant that can actually execute tasks across several of your work apps at once. That’s the promise of Narada AI, a startup building an AI assistant based on new research out of UC Berkeley. Narada has been operating […]
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Luna wants to help young girls navigate their health and well-being
Meet Luna, a health and well-being app for teen girls that is designed to help them navigate teenhood. The app lets teens ask questions about their health and wellness and get responses from experts. It also lets them track their periods, moods, and skin. The London-based startup presented today at on the Startup Battlefield stage
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Meet Luna, a health and well-being app for teen girls that is designed to help them navigate teenhood. The app lets teens ask questions about their health and wellness and get responses from experts. It also lets them track their periods, moods, and skin. The London-based startup presented today at on the Startup Battlefield stage […]
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CTGT aims to make AI models safer
Growing up as an immigrant, Cyril Gorlla taught himself how to code — and practiced as if a man possessed. “I aced my mother’s community college programming course at 11, amidst periodically disconnected household utilities,” he told TechCrunch. In high school, Gorlla learned about AI, and became so obsessed with the idea of training his
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Growing up as an immigrant, Cyril Gorlla taught himself how to code — and practiced as if a man possessed. “I aced my mother’s community college programming course at 11, amidst periodically disconnected household utilities,” he told TechCrunch. In high school, Gorlla learned about AI, and became so obsessed with the idea of training his […]
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How to build a company while protecting your mental health
Everyone knows that it is stressful to build a company. And it’s just as commonly known that endless chronic work can lead to burnout. So, why don’t we talk more about founder mental health?Now that our culture is more comfortable discussing mental health in general, it’s time we brought the topic to Disrupt for a
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Everyone knows that it is stressful to build a company. And it’s just as commonly known that endless chronic work can lead to burnout. So, why don’t we talk more about founder mental health?Now that our culture is more comfortable discussing mental health in general, it’s time we brought the topic to Disrupt for a […]
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HILOS is making footwear more sustainable without skimping on style
When people imagine what 3D printing is, they might think of plastic knickknacks and miniature figurines that teenagers make in their high school libraries. For HILOS (Human Innovation Lab Operating System), 3D printing means creating footwear that’s chic, low-waste, and runway ready. “Brands are overproducing 20% because they don’t know what size and styles are
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When people imagine what 3D printing is, they might think of plastic knickknacks and miniature figurines that teenagers make in their high school libraries. For HILOS (Human Innovation Lab Operating System), 3D printing means creating footwear that’s chic, low-waste, and runway ready. “Brands are overproducing 20% because they don’t know what size and styles are […]
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How startups can do more than rack up huge valuations and maybe save the world
Startup work and venture capital investing are usually judged through the lens of their financial results. The bigger a startup gets, the more it’s worth. But some upstart tech companies are also working on making the world better, while making money. We want to know how far the ‘doing good’ can go while not giving
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Startup work and venture capital investing are usually judged through the lens of their financial results. The bigger a startup gets, the more it’s worth. But some upstart tech companies are also working on making the world better, while making money. We want to know how far the ‘doing good’ can go while not giving […]
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EU boosts EIC budget for supporting deeptech R&D and strategic scale-ups
The European Union will spend €1.4 billion (about $1.5 billion) next year to bolster deeptech research and support scale-ups in strategic areas like AI, low-carbon technologies, agritech and biotech, the European Commission said on Tuesday. The budget for the 2025 Work Program of the European Innovation Council (EIC), part of the bloc’s flagship Horizon Europe research
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The European Union will spend €1.4 billion (about $1.5 billion) next year to bolster deeptech research and support scale-ups in strategic areas like AI, low-carbon technologies, agritech and biotech, the European Commission said on Tuesday. The budget for the 2025 Work Program of the European Innovation Council (EIC), part of the bloc’s flagship Horizon Europe research […]
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