TechTaffy

tech:

taffy

Intel, IBM to spend $300M with women-owned businesses in three years

By TechTaffy Desk

Intel and IBM (along with pharma giant Pfizer) has pledged to spend an additional $300 million with women-owned businesses over the next three years.

The companies partnered with WeConnect, a global network that connects women-owned businesses to buyers around the world, and the pledge follows a campaign by WeConnect and Global Citizen, an organization that fights poverty, to buy more from women-owned businesses and calling on companies to commit as well, according to a media statement from WeConnect.

[Image courtesy: WeConnect]

Just in

Series A

Tembo raises $14M

Cincinnati, Ohio-based Tembo, a Postgres managed service provider, has raised $14 million in a Series A funding round.
Around the web

Raspberry Pi is now a public company — TC

Raspberry Pi priced its IPO on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday morning at £2.80 per share, valuing it at £542 million, or $690 million at today’s exchange rate, writes Romain Dillet. 
Fundings

AlphaSense raises $650M

AlphaSense, a market intelligence and search platform, has raised $650 million in funding, co-led by Viking Global Investors and BDT & MSD Partners.
Around the web

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B to take on OpenAI — VentureBeat

Confirming reports from April, the series B investment comes from the participation of multiple known venture capital firms and investors, including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (A16z), Sequoia Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding, writes Shubham Sharma. 
IT

Capgemini partners with DARPA to explore quantum computing for carbon capture

Capgemini Government Solutions has launched a new initiative with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to investigate quantum computing's potential in carbon capture.