Episode
Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant, plus, AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status
- Podcast
- TechCrunch Startup News
- Published
- Jul 20, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 451
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- https://mgln.ai/e/211/traffic.megaphone.fm/AIRWV8647729884.mp3
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/techcrunch-startup-news/episodes/applied-computing-wants-to-give-oil-and-gas-operators-an-ai-model-for-the-entire-plant-plus-ai-powered-travel-agency-fora-hits-unicorn-status/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/techcrunch-startup-news/applied-computing-wants-to-give-oil-and-gas-operators-an-ai-model-for-the-entire-plant-plus-ai-powered-travel-agency-fora-hits-unicorn-status.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry. Also, travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices