Spin Master, which introduced Bitzee to the US last summer, is now gearing up to release two new versions of the device later this year: Bitzee Disney and Bitzee Magicals. Bitzee Disney will feature 30 familiar characters.
If you're anything like me, you've tried every to-do list app and productivity system, only to find yourself giving up sooner than later because sooner than later, managing your productivity system becomes another drain on your productivity. Hoop, a productivity startup founded by a group of early Trello employees, wants to use AI to help you automatically generate and track your to-do list. The company today announced a $5 million seed funding round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Origin Ventures, Divergent Capital, and Chingona Ventures.
Ferras Hamad, who used to be an engineer working with Meta's machine learning team, has sued the company for firing him over his handling of Palestine-related Instagram posts.
Data transformation startup Tobiko may not be a household name yet, but you may have seen co-founder and CEO Tyson Mao on "Beauty and the Geek" back in the aughts and his co-founder, brother and CTO Toby Mao, on the speedcubing circuit. Now, with Tobiko, they aim to reimagine how teams work with data by offering a dbt-compatible data transformation platform, with the popular SQLMesh and SQLGlot open-source projects at its core and an intuitive low-code user interface to build data pipelines and transformations.