‘Pan-variant’ COVID vaccine could defang future strains thanks to machine learning

A new approach to vaccines with a machine learning twist could put an end to boosters and seasonal variant shots, according to MIT researchers. This “pan-variant” vaccine would ignore... Read more »

Bach, an app for planning bachelorette trips and group travel experiences, raises $9M

Bach, an app for planning bachelorette trips and group travel experiences, has announced $9 million in Series A funding led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital. The app, available on... Read more »

Project management service Zenhub raises $10M as it goes beyond GitHub

Zenhub got its start in 2014 as a project management service for developers that was deeply integrated with GitHub. While the company has expanded its feature set over the... Read more »

Apple launches its new classical music streaming app for pre-order

Apple is launching a new music streaming service focused on classical music. Based on its 2021 acquisition of Amsterdam-based streamer Primephonic, the new Apple Music Classical app will offer... Read more »

New wave of VC funds show it’s time to rethink how many LPs is ‘too many’

Last month, Chicago-based Chalo Ventures surpassed 100 LPs. For founder and general partner Haris Khurshid, it was a notable milestone toward the firm’s goal of hitting 1,000 LPs, a... Read more »

Reddit is shutting down its Clubhouse clone Reddit Talk

After Clubhouse’s rise to fame, every platform rushed to build a clone. But in the last year or so, the format’s popularity has faded and companies are rethinking their... Read more »

Synctera raises $15M to help companies launch embedded banking products in Canada

Synctera, a banking-as-a-service startup, has raised an additional $15 million as it expands into Canada. NAventures, the corporate venture arm of National Bank of Canada, led the financing, which... Read more »

Wheel the World grabs $6M to offer guaranteed accessibility, price match for hotel rooms

Wheel the World wants to open the world up to people with disabilities and has made it its mission since 2018 to provide travel accommodations and experiences that fit... Read more »

Tweed is a crypto wallet API to add a web3 flavor to any web service

Meet Tweed, a startup coming out of stealth today that has been working on a white-label cryptocurrency wallet and payment solution. With Tweed, companies can generate wallets for their... Read more »

Y Combinator–backed Patterns is building a platform to abstract away data science busywork

Ken Van Haren and Chris Stanley were data scientists at Google and Square, respectively, who found themselves frustrated by how much time they were spending wrangling infrastructure versus doing... Read more »
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