Deepgram, which is building enterprise voice-recognition tech, raised a $47M Series B extension led by Madrona Venture Group, bringing its total funding to $86M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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NYC-based Teampay, a low-code service to help enterprises automate software purchasing, raised a $47M Series B, comprising $35.25M equity and $11.75M debt  —  In 2016, Andrew Hoag, formerly a senior manager at Verisign and a web project lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay …

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RisingWave Labs, which is developing a data stream processing service, raised a $36M Series A led by Yunqi Partners, bringing its total funding to $40M+  —  RisingWave Labs, a company developing a platform for data stream processing, today announced that it raised $36 million in a Series …

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Ambi Robotics, which is developing AI-powered robots for warehouses, raised $32M led by Tiger Global and Bow Capital, bringing its total funding to $67M  —  Ambi Robotics, a startup developing supply chain automation hardware, today announced that it raised $32 million in additional funding led …

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Singapore-based Igloo, an AI-based insurtech platform for underserved groups in SE Asia, raised a $27M Series B extension, bringing the round’s total to $46M  —  Igloo, a Singapore-based insurtech focused on underserved communities in Southeast Asia, announced it has raised a Series B extension …

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Arize AI, a service for machine learning operations, or MLOps, raised a $38M Series B led by TCV, bringing its total funding to $62M  —  Arize AI, a startup developing a platform for machine learning operations, today announced that it raised $38 million in a Series B round led by TCV …

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OpenAI open sources Whisper, a speech recognition system that was trained on 680K hours of “multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web”  —  Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning.  In a step toward solving it …