MealMe, a unified API that embeds food and retail ordering into consumer apps and websites, announced that it has secured $8 million in Series A funding. The newly raised capital brings the total amount raised to $16 million. Since its launch in 2019, MealMe has undergone several changes....
Google will begin to show ads in AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries it supplies for certain Google Search queries, and will add links to relevant web pages for some of those summaries as well. It’s also rolling out AI-organized search results pages in the U.S. The increasing...
Butterflies AI, the new social network where humans and AIs interact with each other, is launching a new Clones feature that turns you into an AI character. This latest addition builds on a feature launched to the public back in June that lets users create AI personas,...
Franki is a social discovery and video-based review app where users can interact with a community of foodies, discover local dining spots and create their own videos showing off their favorite restaurants. Franki recently underwent a brand refresh, which included the introduction of a new “Social...
Location data, for better or worse, continues to be a part of the bedrock of how apps are built. Now a startup developing AI market research based on that location data, Placer.ai, has quietly raised $75 million at an expanded valuation of nearly $1.5 billion. The...
Sword Health, an AI-powered virtual physical therapy startup, has raised $30 million and let employees sell $100 million worth of equity to new and existing investors, including Khosla Ventures. The round brings the nine-year-old company’s valuation to $3 billion, a 50% increase from the $2 billion...
A new startup called Kinnect aims to help people privately save generational memories, traditions, recipes and more. The company’s app, launched this month, lets people create invite-only spaces where they can share images, videos, audio, text and more with their entire family. Kinnect was founded in May...
If you live in the U.S., chances are you use apps like Venmo and Cash App to pay back your friends or split the bills with your roommates. Lydia is a French startup that also turned payments into a mobile consumer app and service. Now,...
More money for the generative AI boom: Y Combinator-backed developer infrastructure startup Recall.ai announced it has raised a $10 million Series A funding round, bringing its total raised to over $12 million. The startup has built infrastructure and a unified API that enables companies to access raw data...
Airbnb’s summer release is usually a grand affair with tons of updates for guests and a few for hosts. This time, however, the company is introducing just a few updates for group booking along with a new category called “Icons,” which are experiences hosted by...
