Software

Community colleges aren’t immune from the current reckoning higher education is facing. Student enrollment is declining while institutions keep raising tuition prices, which can prevent…

Campus wants to crack the code to get community college to work for everyone

Dripos brings together point-of-sale, mobile payments, employee management and payroll, loyalty and marketing automation and administrative functions like accounting and banking.

Dripos raises $11M Series A to replace Square, Toast and 8 other pieces of software

Software testing is hard. Even with the right talent in place, it doesn’t always go as planned — particularly when executed at scale. In a 2020 survey from Electric Cloud,…

Antithesis raises $47M to launch an automated testing platform for software

Sunil Nagaraj describes “software beyond the screen,” as using software to navigate, perceive, understand and control the real physical world.

Ubiquity Ventures secures $75M for Fund III to invest in ‘software beyond the screen’

When you say the phrase “expense management” in a business context, people might think of software like Concur that tracks what you spend on travel, entertainment and other work-related activities;…

Vertice raises $25M for AI-based tools to help companies tackle software spend

Alteryx, an Irvine, California-based software company developing data science and analytics products, today announced that it’s agreed to be acquired by private equity firms Clearlake Capital Group and Insight Partners…

Clearlake and Insight reach $4.4B deal to take software maker Alteryx private

The venture capital firm’s $65 million inaugural fund will back founders who are starting climate tech software companies.

Climactic launches first fund as its partners eye looming M&A boom in climate tech

Companies are increasingly struggling with procurement — the strategic process of acquiring goods and services to execute tasks across the organization. According to a recent survey from procurement network Procurious…

Procurement management software startup Oro Labs lands $34M investment

What do LinkedIn and TikTok have in common? In some cases, now you can see who viewed your profile in the last 30 days. TikTok confirmed to TechCrunch that TikTok…

How to see who viewed your TikTok profile

Haul247, a Nigerian end-to-end logistics platform connecting businesses to haulage and warehousing assets, has raised a $3 million seed round. Investing fund Alitheia Capital, through its Umunthu Fund in partnership…

Nigeria’s Haul247 raises funding to scale its logistics platform

Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. Automakers have been struggling…

Software snafus abound, Nuro makes more cuts and VinFast takes the SPAC road

Builder.ai tapped into a new wave of businesses wanting their own native apps with a turnkey approach, accelerated by the rapid digitization of life during the pandemic. That led to…

Microsoft makes strategic investment into Builder.ai, integrates its services into Teams

The car industry is in the midst of its biggest transformation since the first Model T rolled off the assembly line. And no, it’s not just about shifting to electric…

Inside Hyundai’s plan to turn software into a profit machine

Tomer Greenwald, Uri Sarid and Ori Shoshan, software developers by trade, found themselves building and configuring software authentication and authorization mechanisms repeatedly — each time with a different tech stack.…

Otterize raises $11.5M to help developers securely connect software services

VCs haven’t given up faith in work software, according to a new Deloitte report — even in a period of economic uncertainty.

VCs still think work software is a wise investment

For years, Phil George was the executive sponsor of a mentoring program at McMaster-Carr, an industrial hardware supplier, where he spent weeks trying to match program participants with only scant…

MentorcliQ raises over $80 million to grow its employee mentoring software and services

Dozens of apps — including Spotify, Amazon Music, TikTok and gaming hubs Vector Unit and FRVR — are headed to VW Group brands, beginning with Audi, thanks to a new…

VW’s software unit Cariad launches app store to bring Spotify, TikTok and hundreds more to vehicles

In 2013, Irma Olguin Jr. — a third-generation Mexican American and the first in her family to go to college — was working on making coding instruction available to disadvantaged…

Bitwise Industries lands $80M to expand its sprawling software dev business

Mercedes-Benz and Google have struck a long-term partnership designed to give the German automaker control over its IP and marketplace while offering drivers navigation, maps and YouTube provided by the…

Mercedes partners with Google to bring Maps and YouTube into its vehicles

Hyundai and Kia may finally have a solution to a theft problem that has dragged on for more than two years, led to class action lawsuits and plagued law enforcement…

Hyundai, Kia rolling out free software to combat viral car theft videos on YouTube, TikTok

Magic, a startup developing a code-generating platform similar to GitHub’s Copilot, today announced that it raised $23 million in a Series A funding round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG with participation…

Code-generating platform Magic challenges GitHub’s Copilot with $23M in VC backing

Some of us are fans of dip-n-rip tattoos with very little planning. Who cares? It’s not like tattoos are permanent, right? Others prefer a slightly more measured approach. If you’ve…

Needles to say, Ghostline drags tattoo stencil making ‘inkto’ the current millennium

Crowdbotics, a software development platform with a library of prebuilt app architectures, today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series B round led by NEA with participation from…

Crowdbotics raises $40M to help devs build apps from modular code

Copilot, a platform aimed at helping companies, including marketing agencies, accounting firms and law firms, run and grow their businesses, today announced that it raised $10 million in a Series…

Copilot lands $10M to help service businesses build digital customer experiences

Environmental health and safety (EHS) software is having a moment. One report predicts that it’ll be worth $2.7 billion by 2027.

Environmental health and safety software is now a hot commodity

Since its launch in 2017, Retool has made a name for itself by offering developers an easier way to build line-of-business apps for their internal users. Unlike the many low-code/no-code…

Retool launches Workflows to go beyond the front end

Denver-based SpringTime announced a $25 million second fund to cut checks ranging from $400,000 to $600,000 into U.S.-based seed-stage software companies.

Colorado-based SpringTime Ventures pivots its focus for new $25 million fund

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How Volvo is leaning on software to drive its next great safety revolution

Volvo is one of those brands with a core identity so firmly cemented that no amount of marketing can counter it. Volvo is safety first. Even if you don’t know the details of their involvement with the three-point seatbelt (they invented it) or the airbag (one of the first to…

How Volvo is leaning on software to drive its next great safety revolution

A look at how the CHIPS Act and Executive Order 14028 relate, what they mean for semiconductor firms and why the highs and lows of American semiconductor manufacturing boil down…

What the CHIPS and Science Act means for the future of the semiconductor industry

As iOS 16 Lock Screen customization takes off, an iPhone personalization app called Top Widgets has soared to the No. 1 spot on the U.S. App Store’s top free apps…

‘Top Widgets’ soars to No. 1 on the App Store, displacing BeReal, as iOS 16 customization takes off