AI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding – TechCrunch

AI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding – TechCrunch

Voice skins have become a very popular feature for AI-based voice assistants to personalize some of the more anodyne aspects of helpful, but also boring and robotic speaking voices that you get from services like Alexa. Now, a startup developing voice skins for various companies to use in their services, as well as third parties … Read more

Vinted raises $303M for its 2nd-hand clothes marketplace, used by 45M and now valued at $4.5B – TechCrunch

Vinted raises $303M for its 2nd-hand clothes marketplace, used by 45M and now valued at $4.5B – TechCrunch

The circular economy, in which consumers themselves are both providers and buyers of goods and services, has emerged as a popular and trusted way of buying and selling things over the last year of the lockdown life. Now one of the bigger players in this system – the clothing and homeware marketplace Vinted – is … Read more

Bottomless raises $4.5M as Seattle startup grows team and business around smart coffee platform

Bottomless raises $4.5M as Seattle startup grows team and business around smart coffee platform

(Photo without bottom) New financing: Bottomless, the small Seattle startup with big e-commerce dreams, has raised $ 4.5 million in a new Series A funding round to support the continued growth of its business. How it works: Developed four years ago by married couple Michael Mayer and Liana Herrera, Bottomless combines their WiFi-enabled rechargeable coffee … Read more