Ideamotive Weekly Digest #2

Ready for the next collection of the best news about startups and technology? This time you’ll read about the newest Raspberry Pi 4 and Google’s robots.txt parser. Enjoy!

1. Meet your new chief of staff: An AI chatbot

• Founders of Mailbox are back with their second product: Navigator.
• The AI-enabled assistant was created to enable more efficient work and communication.
• Thanks to raising $12 million in Series A funding the tool has been beta testing within 50 organizations.
• The main goal is to stop losing time for inefficient and unprofitable meetings.
• The bot learns the topic and helps participants during the meeting by organizing information.

2. Raspberry Pi 4 Launches With More Powerful Processor and 4K Video

• The Raspberry Pi foundation launched the Raspberry Pi 4.
• The device has a new, powerful processor, the Broadcom BCM2711 and 4K video output.
• Two USB 2.0 ports are replaced with USB 3.0.
• The version comes with 1GB, 2GB or 4GB RAM.

3. Texas Monthly Venture Report: The State’s Most Active Investors And Other Star-Spangled News

• 83% of the top 12 active investors in Texas are actually based in this state.
• Telehealth startup Remedy had raised $10 million in Series A.
• RV rental marketplace Outdoorsy, located in Austin, saw 400% growth.
• Accelerator Capital Factory launched a podcast highlighting startups and investors in Texas.

4. Antwerp-based startup APICBASE receives €1.5M from Collibra-backer, aims expansion in cloud-based food management market

• APICBASE raised € 1.5 million in an investment round by Newion.
• Their food management platform, which helps with automatization and optimization.
• The company’s goal is to support kitchen teams, marketing, sales and management.
• The startup launched a specifically designed photo studio that has met with success.

5. Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source

• Google announced that they open sourced the C++ library, used for parsing robots.txt files.
• Some parts of the code were written in the ‘90s.
• They included a testing tool for testing rules.
• The code is in available their GitHub repository.

Originally published at https://ideamotive.co on July 5, 2019.