Category Archives: Disrupt 2020

Perigee infrastructure security solution from former NSA employee moves into public beta

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Perigee founder Mollie Breen used to work for NSA where she built a security solution to help protect the agency’s critical infrastructure. She spent the last two years at Harvard Business School talking to Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and fine-tuning that idea she started at NSA into a commercial product. Today, the solution that […] Continue reading Perigee infrastructure security solution from former NSA employee moves into public beta→

Luther.AI is a new AI tool that acts like Google for personal conversations

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When it comes to pop culture, a company executive or history questions, most of us use Google as a memory crutch to recall information we can’t always keep in our heads, but Google can’t help you remember the name of your client’s spouse or the great idea you came up with at a meeting the […] Continue reading Luther.AI is a new AI tool that acts like Google for personal conversations→

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says the pandemic forced the company to reevaluate what work means

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Dropbox CEO and co-founder Drew Houston, appearing at TechCrunch Disrupt today, said that COVID has accelerated a shift to distributed work that we have been talking about for some time, and these new ways of working will not simply go away when the pandemic is over. “When you think more broadly about the effects of […] Continue reading Dropbox CEO Drew Houston says the pandemic forced the company to reevaluate what work means→

Latent AI makes edge AI workloads more efficient

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Latent AI, a startup that was spun out of SRI International, makes it easier to run AI workloads at the edge by dynamically managing workloads as necessary. Using its proprietary compression and compilation process, Latent AI promises to compress library files by 10x and run them with 5x lower latency than other systems, all while […] Continue reading Latent AI makes edge AI workloads more efficient→

Airtable’s Howie Liu has no interest in exiting, even as the company’s valuation soars

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In the middle of a pandemic, Airtable, the low-code startup, has actually had an excellent year. Just the other day, the company announced it had raised $185 million on a whopping $2.585 billion valuation. It also announced some new features that take it from the realm of pure no-code, and deeper into low-code territory, which […] Continue reading Airtable’s Howie Liu has no interest in exiting, even as the company’s valuation soars→

Quantum startup CEO suggests we are only five years away from a quantum desktop computer

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Today at TechCrunch Disrupt 2020, leaders from three quantum computing startups joined TechCrunch editor Frederic Lardinois to discuss the future of the technology. IonQ CEO and president Peter Chapman suggested we could be as little as five years away from a desktop quantum computer, but not everyone agreed on that optimistic timeline. “I think within […] Continue reading Quantum startup CEO suggests we are only five years away from a quantum desktop computer→

Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan will speak at Disrupt 2020

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The coronavirus pandemic has bruised and battered many technology startups, but it has also boosted a small few. One such company is Zoom, which has shouldered the task of keeping us connected to one another in the midst of remote work and social distancing. So, of course, we’re absolutely thrilled to have the chance to […] Continue reading Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan will speak at Disrupt 2020→

Airtable’s Howie Liu to join us at Disrupt 2020

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Collaborative enterprise software is absolutely booming, and Airtable is riding that wave in a very real way. The company, which offers a flexible, collaborative database product, has raised more than $170 million in funding from investors like CRV, Benchmark, Coatue Management, and Thrive Capital. So it should come as no surprise that we’re simply thrilled […] Continue reading Airtable’s Howie Liu to join us at Disrupt 2020→