Maria Deutscher

6 days ago | businessandamerica.com | Maria Deutscher

Workforce management startup Rippling People Center Inc. has raised $450 million in additional funding, multiple publications reported today. The Series G round didn’t have a lead investor. Y Combinator, Sands Capital, Goldman Sachs Growth, Baillie Gifford and GIC were among the participants. In parallel with the investment, Rippling held a $200 million tender offer that allowed current and former employees to sell some of their shares.

6 days ago | siliconangle.com | Maria Deutscher

Following its lukewarm initial public offering in late March, CoreWeave Inc. is reportedly seeking to raise $1.5 billion in debt financing. Bloomberg today cited a source as saying that JPMorgan Chase & Co. is expected to lead the transaction. CoreWeave, which operates a cloud platform optimized for artificial intelligence workloads, reportedly hopes to raise the financing through high-yield bonds.

6 days ago | siliconangle.com | Maria Deutscher

Workforce management startup Rippling People Center Inc. has raised $450 million in additional funding, multiple publications reported today. The Series G round didn’t have a lead investor. Y Combinator, Sands Capital, Goldman Sachs Growth, Baillie Gifford and GIC were among the participants. In parallel with the investment, Rippling held a $200 million tender offer that allowed current and former employees to sell some of their shares.

6 days ago | flipboard.com | Maria Deutscher

NowOut-of-Body Experiences Suggest Consciousness May Exist Outside the Brain, Some Scientists SayOne highly controversial theory suggests that consciousness may exist outside the brain, and out-of-body experience could be the key to exploring that theory. Consciousness is primarily experienced internally, but the phenomenon of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) challenges this assumption. • Although …NowView the Parthenon as it stood in 432 BCEA historian recreated the awe-inspiring structure for VR.

6 days ago | siliconangle.com | Maria Deutscher

Startup Zencoder, officially For Good AI Inc., today introduced a cloud platform called Zen Agents that can be used to create coding-optimized artificial intelligence agents. The platform is rolling out about seven months after Zencoder launched. The startup is led by Chief Executive Officer Andrew Filev, who previously founded project management software provider Wrike Inc. The latter company was acquired by Citrix Systems Inc. in 2021 for $2.25 billion.