Joyce Shen’s picks: musings and readings in AI/ML, March 30, 2026
📌 Musings and Readings
“Google Translate’s real-time headphone translations feature expands to iOS and more countries” (Link)
“Building next-horizon AI experiences” (Link)
“Why Identity Silos Are Failing in the AI Era” (Link)
“Artificial Intelligence uncovers more than 100 new worlds in NASA data” (Link)
“The Inside Story of the Greatest Deal Google Ever Made: Buying DeepMind” (Link)
“A movement to ban data centers gains steam across the U.S.” (Link)
“From Batch to Streaming: Accelerating Data Freshness in Uber’s Data Lake” (Link)
“When AI turns software development inside-out: 170% throughput at 80% headcount” (Link)
👏 Deals
Hosted.ai, a CA-based company providing a GPU-native cloud platform delivering scalable, on-demand AI compute infrastructure, has raised $19m in seed funding.
Eternal.ag, a Cologne, Germany-based startup building autonomous robots that automate greenhouse operations like monitoring and harvesting, has raised €8m in funding.
Interloom Technologies, a Munich, Germany-based company developing an AI-native platform that captures and models real-world workflows, has raised $16.5m in seed funding.
Cleavr, a Paris, France–based company automating invoicing, payment follow-ups, and collections to streamline accounts receivable workflows, has raised €1m in pre-seed funding.
Hamilton AI, a NYC-based provider building an AI-native operating system for private aviation, enabling charter operators and brokers, has raised $7.5m in seed funding.
BrainGrid, a CA-based company developing a product development platform that transforms ideas into structured specs and executable workflows, has raised $1m in pre-seed funding.
Applied Computing, a London, UK-based company building AI foundation models for the energy sector, has received a strategic investment.
Moda, a NYC–based design startup building a content platform that embedding AI in design tools, has raised $7.5m in seed funding.
Krane, a CA-based company developing a construction tech platform digitizing and automating material procurement and supply chain workflows, has raised $9m in seed funding.
Miraterral, A Vancouver-based agtech company building real-time, high-resolution soil and crop intelligence, has raised CAD $16m in funding.
Conntour, a Miami, FL–based company providing video analytics platform that enables natural-language search, monitoring, and alerting across security camera footage, has raised $7m in seed funding.
Blossom Health, a NYC–based company developing a virtual psychiatry platform offering therapy and medication management, has raised $20m in seed and series A funding.
ai&, a Tokyo, Japan–based company that develops AI infrastructure for building, scaling, and deploying custom AI models, has raised $50m in seed funding.
Galdera Labs, a Stockholm, Sweden-based software startup building a solution to transform financial modeling, forecasting, and planning for finance teams, has raised €1.5m in pre-seed funding.
Origin, a London, UK-based company that looks to centralize and analyze global employee benefits data to optimize spend, ensure compliance, and drive strategic HR decisions, has raised $30m in series A+ funding.
Sous, an Amsterdam, Netherlands-based company offering a solution for the hospitality industry, has raised €4m in seed funding.