Motivo raises $12M Series A to speed up chip design with AI – TechCrunch

Motivo raises $12M Series A to speed up chip design with AI – TechCrunch

Chip design is a long trial and error process that takes years to get a design to market. Motivo, a five-year-old chip industry veteran startup, is developing software to accelerate chip design with AI from years to months. Today the company announced a $ 12 million Series A. Intel Capital led the round together with … Read more

New UN climate report emphasizes speed, intensity of warming and benefits of aggressive response

New UN climate report emphasizes speed, intensity of warming and benefits of aggressive response

The planet was at least one degree cooler when our ancestors created these pictograms near the Green River in Colorado about 700 to 2,000 years ago. (Brent Roraback photo) While the world’s leading coalition of climate scientists says the planet is warming faster than ever, with dire human consequences, it also stresses that quick, aggressive … Read more

Same-day delivery apps need more than speed to survive post-pandemic – TechCrunch

Same-day delivery apps need more than speed to survive post-pandemic – TechCrunch

Cary Breese is the CEO and co-founder of NowRx, a digital retail pharmacy. We have entered a whole new era of e-commerce that is all about speed and convenience. Business leaders are forced to prioritize delivery capabilities and push for faster delivery services. “Fast / reliable delivery” was the top online shopping attribute among the … Read more

Eclipse Ventures has $500 million more to digitize old-line industries and bring them up to speed – TechCrunch

Eclipse Ventures has $500 million more to digitize old-line industries and bring them up to speed – TechCrunch

Two years ago we spoke to Lior Susan, the founder of the now six-year Eclipse Venture in Palo Alto, Ca. At the time, the outfit believed that the next big thing wasn’t another social network, but rather the transformation of old industries through full-tech Stacks – including hardware, software, and data – that could bring … Read more