Monica Chin / The Verge: Lenovo unveils updated ThinkPads: X13 with Snapdragon chips, X1 Extreme with a 165Hz display, and updated P-series and T-series with new Intel processors — A new X13, a new X1 Extreme, and more — Lenovo has dumped a whole bunch of new ThinkPads into the world, and there’s some exciting stuff in there.
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Dremio, which creates tools to help companies streamline and curate data, raises a $160M Series E, following a $135M Series D in January 2021 — Data lake platform Dremio today announced that it has raised a $160 million Series E funding round led by Adams Street Partners.
Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Rutter, whose universal API for e-commerce data helps companies integrate with commerce, accounting, and payments platforms, raises a $27M Series A led by a16z — Seven months after publicly launching its company, Rutter is back with a new capital injection, this time $27 million in a Series …
James Clayton / BBC: Meta will no longer block searches and remove praise of Kyle Rittenhouse on Facebook and Instagram, after designating him a shooter in a “mass murder” in 2020 — Facebook has reversed a decision to block searches on its platform for a US teenager who was acquitted of killing two people during unrest in Wisconsin.
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Nvidia unveils Riva Custom Voice, a toolkit which companies can use to create custom, “human-like” voice assistants with only 30 minutes of speech data — At its fall 2021 GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Nvidia unveiled Riva Custom Voice, a new toolkit that the company claims …
Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: Security-focused IoT service Afero, raises a $50M Series C led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, bringing its total funding to an estimated ~$100M — With the Samsara IPO heading toward pricing, it’s a good moment to spend a little more time digging into the IoT market.
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Conduktor, which provides an all-in-one GUI that simplifies working with Apache Kafka clusters, services, and applications, raises a $20M Series A led by Accel — Sign up here. — Confluent’s blockbuster IPO this year shone a huge spotlight on the value of open source software when packaged …
Saeed Azhar / Reuters: Saudi Arabia-based Foodics, which offers restaurant management software including a cloud POS system, raises a $170M Series C — FOODICS, a cloud-based technology firm serving restaurants in the Middle East, has raised $170 million from investors led by tech investor Prosus and Sanabil Investments …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Digibee, a low-code service for enterprise workflows, raises a $25M Series A led by SoftBank Latin America Fund — Digibee, a low-code integration platform is doing what all low-code integration platforms are apparently doing right now: raising funding. The company today announced …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Signal AI, which uses AI to provide sentiment insights for businesses, raises a $50M Series D led by Highland Europe, bringing its funding to $100M — Signal AI, an artificial intelligence startup that trawls the vast sea of internet and other publicly available data …