We’ve reported before about how AI is being used to fill in gaps in Flint, Michigan, pipe records to predict where pipes need to be replaced to solve the city’s water crisis, but what about using AI as a tool for mapping known infrastructure? That’s what Mach9 out of Pittsburgh is doing. Co-founder and CEO…
LAND Energy Launches an EV for Energy Independence
Today, we are excited to introduce LAND Energy, an electrification and mobility startup based in Cleveland that is focused on combining energy and transportation for energy independence. We had the pleasure of interviewing Scott Colosimo, the founder of LAND Energy, to gain insights into his company’s mission and unique technologies. LAND makes two electric motorcycles,…
ChatGPT-4 Is Already Here: How Will You Use It?
ChatGPT-4 is here, on the heels of ChatGPT-3. What is new with this new edition of generative AI, and how could it benefit you? AI is here to stay, for better or worse, and companies in all industries are scrambling to figure out how to leverage the technology to make their business more efficient. OpenAI…
Tech Startups Scramble After Silicon Valley Bank Collapse, Bank-to-Bank Bailout
In an attempt to quell a banking panic that has so far mainly affected tech startups banking with Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank and now First Republic, the Fed is now insisting that treasury bonds will be guaranteed to be worth what they were issued for and that the Federal Reserve would guarantee bank…
Bitwise raises $80 million to teach underserved to code
Bitwise Industries is a Fresno-based tech startup on a mission: teach underserved populations how to code, pay them to get real-world experience, and rebuild lives and economies of under-estimated cities. Now, the startup has raised $80 million in its latest funding round to advance this mission of leveling the playing field in tech. The round…
Immuta Inc. Gains Silicon Valley Investor, Valued at $1 billion
Immuta Inc., a newly minted unicorn tech startup in the Drive Capital LLC and Ohio Innovation Fund portfolios, has added a new publicly traded Silicon Valley enterprise software maker as an investor. ServiceNow Inc. (NYSE: NOW) has joined in an extension of 2022’s $100 million Series E round. NightDragon led the original round closed in…
Replaced By A Room Full of CodeMonkeys: AI Use Cases for Software Engineers
Engineers may be grappling with the idea that AI can code, threatening low-level software developer jobs in the coming years, but AI is also a valuable tool that engineers are harnessing to do mundane tasks and process more information than humans can. Could AI Replace Basic Software Engineering Job Functions by 2040? According to the…
Mach9 Uses AI as a Surveying Tool To Strengthen the Grid
We’ve reported before about how AI is being used to fill in gaps in Flint, Michigan, pipe records to predict where pipes need to be replaced to solve the city’s water crisis, but what about using AI as a tool for mapping known infrastructure? That’s what Mach9 out of Pittsburgh is doing. Co-founder and CEO…
LAND Energy Launches an EV for Energy Independence
Today, we are excited to introduce LAND Energy, an electrification and mobility startup based in Cleveland that is focused on combining energy and transportation for energy independence. We had the pleasure of interviewing Scott Colosimo, the founder of LAND Energy, to gain insights into his company’s mission and unique technologies. LAND makes two electric motorcycles,…
ChatGPT-4 Is Already Here: How Will You Use It?
ChatGPT-4 is here, on the heels of ChatGPT-3. What is new with this new edition of generative AI, and how could it benefit you? AI is here to stay, for better or worse, and companies in all industries are scrambling to figure out how to leverage the technology to make their business more efficient. OpenAI…
Tech Startups Scramble After Silicon Valley Bank Collapse, Bank-to-Bank Bailout
In an attempt to quell a banking panic that has so far mainly affected tech startups banking with Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank and now First Republic, the Fed is now insisting that treasury bonds will be guaranteed to be worth what they were issued for and that the Federal Reserve would guarantee bank…
Bitwise raises $80 million to teach underserved to code
Bitwise Industries is a Fresno-based tech startup on a mission: teach underserved populations how to code, pay them to get real-world experience, and rebuild lives and economies of under-estimated cities. Now, the startup has raised $80 million in its latest funding round to advance this mission of leveling the playing field in tech. The round…
Immuta Inc. Gains Silicon Valley Investor, Valued at $1 billion
Immuta Inc., a newly minted unicorn tech startup in the Drive Capital LLC and Ohio Innovation Fund portfolios, has added a new publicly traded Silicon Valley enterprise software maker as an investor. ServiceNow Inc. (NYSE: NOW) has joined in an extension of 2022’s $100 million Series E round. NightDragon led the original round closed in…
Replaced By A Room Full of CodeMonkeys: AI Use Cases for Software Engineers
Engineers may be grappling with the idea that AI can code, threatening low-level software developer jobs in the coming years, but AI is also a valuable tool that engineers are harnessing to do mundane tasks and process more information than humans can. Could AI Replace Basic Software Engineering Job Functions by 2040? According to the…
App Helps You Track Your Impact Fighting Climate Change
Do you feel a bit helpless watching the climate change, or are you tired of wondering if each new solution is mere greenwashing or too vague to make a real difference? Toohla is a new startup from Chicago that can help people participate in fighting climate change by calculating carbon footprint and offsetting it with…
Error Costs Google $100b: How Do We Get The Most Out of AI?
Google responded to Open AI’s Microsoft-backed generative AI tool ChatGPT this week with a demo of an AI chatbot of their own, but after the chatbot called Bard made a factual error during the Google AI demo the company’s stock lost $100 billion. You read that right. And Microsoft hasn’t fared much better, introducing its…
New Medical Tech Incubator Opens in Grand Rapids
Think Southeast Michigan has things wrapped up with regards to medtech startups? Think again. Michigan State has just opened a new incubator for tech startups that makes the most of MSU’s “Medical Mile,” a series of buildings and organizations in Grand Rapids that support medical technology innovation. The new incubator, called The Bridge, can accommodate…