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Shutterstock today announced that it plans to expand its existing deal with OpenAI to provide the startup with training data for its AI models. Over the next six years, OpenAI…

Shutterstock expands deal with OpenAI to build generative AI tools

Meta has finally found a willing buyer for Giphy, the animated GIF search engine it acquired for $400 million three years ago. Shutterstock announced today that it has entered into…

Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M after buying it for $400M

When Shutterstock and OpenAI announced a partnership to help develop OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 artificial intelligence image-generating platform with Shutterstock libraries to train and feed the algorithm, the stock photo and…

After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts

Stock image giant Shutterstock has announced a major push into AI-generated imagery today in partnership with OpenAI, expanding on a strategic tie-up the pair announced last year. The partnership between…

Shutterstock to integrate OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 and launch fund for contributor artists

Last year we covered the $3.3 million seed round for NUE Life Health, a US-based telemedicine startup in the US, which was building out a mental wellness platform that combined…

Nue Life Health raises $23M Series A Led by Obvious Ventures for psychedelics platform

Omniverse is Nvidia’s platform for allowing creators, designers and engineers to collaboratively build virtual worlds. It’s the company’s platform that brings together design tools and assets from first- and third-party…

Nvidia expands its Omniverse

No one’s going to tell you when your startup has reached product-market fit — there are no flashing lights, no siren, no balloons falling from the ceiling. “Especially for first-time…

TechCrunch+ roundup: VCs rate pitch decks, IPO analysis, Techstars’ expansion plans

3D model provider CGTrader has raised $9.5 million in a Series B funding led by Finnish VC fund Evli Growth Partners, alongside previous investors Karma Ventures and LVV Group. Ex-Rovio…

3D model provider CGTrader raises $9.5M Series B led by Evli Growth Partners

Daniel Carraway spent his entire career working in paper and bioplastics. The serial entrepreneur began his career at International Paper working in their research division before founding two previous companies…

RWDC Industries is a new startup hoping to become a bioplastics giant in Athens, Ga.

Meet Imatag, a French startup that has been working on a watermarking product. Watermarking is nothing new, but the company has found a way to mark images even if they…

Imatag inserts invisible watermarks to track images around the web

It’s an end of an era, and you might just want to snap a photo and upload it for others to purchase. Jon Oringer, who founded New York City-based Shutterstock…

Shutterstock founder and CEO Jon Oringer steps down after 16 years

Well, we got to January 2nd before the latest angry resignation published by a tech executive on Medium. Today’s installment comes from Ross LaJeunesse, who was head of international relations…

Google has little choice to be evil or not in today’s fractured internet

It’s among the most iconic images of the last few decades — a picture of an unknown man standing before a line of tanks during the protests in 1989 in…

In wake of Shutterstock’s Chinese censorship, American companies need to relearn American values

We’ve aggregated the world’s best growth marketers into one community. Twice a month, we ask them to share their most effective growth tactics, and we compile them into this Growth…

How to get your ads working, and whether PR is worth it

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One billion 3D views and counting

Last week Sketchfab, the 3D content hub, shared an exciting milestone — the company has just crossed 1 billion cumulative page views. Taken with the community’s growth — they just surpassed 2 million users, as well as the 200 million people that have experienced content via Sketchfab more broadly, this…

One billion 3D views and counting

One of the underlying trends of VR/AR investment in 2018 is that money has become harder to come by for startups which may have had no trouble pulling together a…

FirstMark Capital’s Catherine Ulrich is joining us at TechCrunch Sessions: AR/VR

500px, the photo-sharing site that once proposed to take on Flickr and Getty, has been acquired by Visual China Group (VCG), a strategic investor in 500px via previous financings. A…

One-time Flickr rival 500px acquired by the Getty of China, VCG

Stock photo site Shutterstock has been around since 2003 but now the stock photo site gotten an 21s century upgrade. The site now has a built in photo editor that…

Shutterstock adds an image editor to unstock your stock photos

“I’ve probably revised this investor pitch deck 200 times,” a founder told me recently. She’d met with more than 50 potential investors before closing a seed round last month. This…

Mentors Are The Secret Weapons Of Successful Startups

Stock image and video service Shutterstock today announced that it has acquired WebDAM, a provider of web-based digital asset management software. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.…

Shutterstock Acquires Digital Asset Management Service WebDAM, Goes After Enterprise Market

Shutterstock Adds 4K Video

Shutterstock, the publicly traded stock photography and video site, has quietly launched support for 4K video. As the company tells us, it has already amassed a catalog of over 11,000…

When ads look bad, Facebook, users, and advertisers all lose. So Facebook today announced a partnership to bake Shutterstock into its ad creator, allowing marketers to select from millions of…

Facebook Makes Ads Prettier With Shutterstock Partnership To Offer Free Stock Images In Ad Creator

The leading online stock photography company Shutterstock launched a new search tool called Spectrum in January, which allowed users to search through the site’s 22 million images with keywords and…

Shutterstock Launches Offset, A New Brand For Its Curated Collection Of Licensable Images

Shutterstock is a major hub for designers, photographers, and companies. Not only can image enthusiasts upload their work to the site for perusal by others, but many users of the…

Shutterstock Launches Spectrum, Lets Users Search Through Millions Of Photos By Color

Shutterstock has just had an incredibly successful IPO, but that’s no reason to rest on laurels, which is why the company has just launched an iPhone app in the Apple…

Fresh On The Heels Of An IPO, Shutterstock Launches An iPhone App

Last Thursday Shutterstock went public under the ticker SSTK, becoming the first NY-based tech company to IPO since 2010.

Shutterstock CEO Jon Oringer On IPO Success, The Future Of Video

Online stock photography company Shutterstock, which filed for an IPO in May, has today filed its S-1. It will be offering 4,500,000 shares, pricing them between $13-15, the document revealed today.…

The Facebook Effect? Shutterstock Prices IPO Shares At $13-$15 To Raise $54.2M, Half The Original $115M

The online stock photography service Shutterstock filed its plans for an initial public offering today. The company plans to list its stock on the New York Stock Exchange. The number…

Stock Photography Service Shutterstock Files For IPO, Plans To Raise Up To $115 Million

More news from the stock photography world this morning, after leader in the field iStock announced it would be expanding its services to include stock logo sales. Shutterstock has just…