Origami Labs wants to bring voice assistants right to your ear without requiring you to wear a device like a Bluetooth headset or Apple AirPods. Instead, the startup is using a ring on your finger combined with bone conduction technology to allow you to use your smartphonebuilt-in assistant & whether thatGoogle Assistant or

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Groq has raised $52.3 million of a $60 million round, per an SEC filing. Social Capital co-founder and former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, wholisted on the filing, has participated in the funding.

Palihapitiya confirmed Social Capitalparticipation in the round to TechCrunch and said a few other undisclosed investors

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Forethought, a 2018 TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield participant, has a modern vision for enterprise search that uses AI to surface the content that matters most in the context of work. Its first use case involves customer service, but it has a broader ambition to work across the enterprise.

The startup takes a bit of an unusual approach to search.

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Vitamins are proving to be a lucrative industry in the United States. Just last year vitamin sales pulled in roughly $37 billionfor the U.S. economy. Thatup from $28 billion in 2010. To cash in on this growing market, several startups have popped up in the last few years — including Nutrigene, a startup combining the vitamin

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Myki, a startup based between Beirut and New York which offers both a consumer and enterprise identity management solution to store sensitive information offline, today announced at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco that itraised a $4 million Series A to scale its operations.

The round was led by Dubai-based VC BECO Capital with

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Challenger bank N26 is launching a premium plan for professional accounts. N26 already had a free plan for freelancers and the self-employed, called N26 Business. N26 Business Black introduces the same perks as N26 Black, but for freelancers and the self-employed.

The new plan costs the same for regular users and business users. The company

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