CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As CIO of Avnet one of the largest technology distributors and supply chain solution providers Im responsible for the organizations IT stack and oversee digital transformation and strategy. Two critical areas that underpin our digital approach are cloud and artificial intelligence (AI). Avnet named him CIO in 2019.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series in which Crunchbase News interviews active investors in artificial intelligence. The firm incubated Vannevar Labs in 2019, before defense tech and AI were as popular as they are today. Pick things that matter — both technologies that matter and problems that matter.”

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OTS Solutions

JUNE 3, 2022

Technology has proven important in maintaining the healthcare industry’s resilience in the face of so many obstacles. The healthcare business has embraced numerous technology-based solutions to increase productivity and streamline clinical procedures. Digital Transformation in Healthcare: Emerging Patterns.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

From obscurity to ubiquity, the rise of large language models (LLMs) is a testament to rapid technological advancement. Just a few short years ago, models like GPT-1 (2018) and GPT-2 (2019) barely registered a blip on anyone’s tech radar. Why has agentic AI become the latest rage? Don’t let that scare you off.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

xAI , $5B, artificial intelligence: Generative AI startup xAI raised $5 billion in a funding round valuing it at $50 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. Anthropic , $4B, artificial intelligence: Amazon has agreed to invest another $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic — a ChatGPT rival with its AI assistant Claude.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Editor’s note: In 2023, Crunchbase News interviewed active startup investors in artificial intelligence. Attention is all you need’ We’ve now had four or five eras of artificial intelligence, Jai Das , president at Sapphire Ventures , told us recently. Below, we publish highlights from those interviews.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Venture money wasnt concentrated in just one sector, as VCs invested in everything from artificial intelligence to biotech to energy. The Norwalk, Connecticut-based firm did not disclose investor names, instead saying it came from a private investor whose portfolio focuses on global technology and real estate investments.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

As the global agricultural industry stretches to meet expected population growth and food demand, and food security becomes more of a pressing issue with global warming, a startup out of South Africa is using artificial intelligence to help farmers manage their farms, trees and fruits. Within that, the U.S. and other markets. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Technology and visual effects startup Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies (MARZ) has raised $5.3 MARZ plans to use the funding to grow its core VFX business and accelerate the development of its ‘AI for VFX’ technology solutions. million in Series A funding. ” Bronfman wrote. . ” Bronfman wrote.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By Priya Saiprasad It’s no surprise that the AI market has skyrocketed in recent years, with venture capital investments in artificial intelligence totaling $332 billion since 2019, per Crunchbase data. She co-founded the firm after 13 years in venture capital, M&A and enterprise technology.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Enter Emi , the latest company targeting technology to this portion of the workforce with a conversational artificial intelligence recruiting tool. The technology automates communication between global enterprises and candidates using a conversational interface. Poor onboarding is the enemy of good hiring.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Daloopa closed on a $20 million Series A round, led by Credit Suisse Asset Management’s NEXT Investors, to continue developing its data extraction technology for financial institutions, which is now being expanded globally. Customers can request data sets with a couple of clicks of a button and have it delivered the next day.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 7, 2025

Global venture investment in 2024 was above the pre-pandemic year of 2019, but below 2018 and 2020 amounts at $346 billion and $350 billion, respectively. Close to a third of all global venture funding went to companies in AI-related fields, making artificial intelligence the leading sector for funding.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Splice’s financing follows an incredibly acquisitive 2020 for the company, which saw it acquiring music technology companies Audiaire and Superpowered. Meanwhile, Splice continues to invest in new technology to make producers’ lives easier. We’re thrilled to be partnering with Steve Martocci and his team at Splice.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Nearly one in three American households have delayed medical care due to its cost, per a 2019 Gallup poll. . The artificial intelligence technology underlying the platform allows hospitals to leverage patient data to determine payment plans specific to each patient while keeping administrative costs low.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

When the three founders of Faros AI were working at Salesforce , they helped develop the company’s artificial intelligence, known as Einstein. The three founders — Gordon, in addition to Salesforce Einstein alums Matthew Tovbin and Shubha Nabar — left the company in 2019 to build Faros AI to solve the problem.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Beta Technologies , $318M, aerospace: If you’re one of those people frustrated that the technology revolution has not yet delivered us the flying cars we were promised, take heart: Startups working on vertical-takeoff aircraft continue to get investor interest. Founded in 2019, the company has raised $130 million, per Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

Building wealth is a long process and can be complex, but Farther is bringing both technology and advisors to the table to make these kinds of services more accessible. Meanwhile, Genser, CTO, is a military veteran who previously worked at Goldman Sachs leading an artificial intelligence team in private wealth.

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O'Reilly Media - Data

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

In this interview from O’Reilly Foo Camp 2019, Dean Wampler, head of evangelism at Anyscale.io, talks about moving AI and machine learning into real-time production environments. In some cases, AI and machine learning technologies are being used to improve existing processes, rather than solving new problems. ” ( 01:15 ).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“There is Zoom and there are phone calls, but we think there is a big aspect of remote meetings [not being addressed by technology today],” said Bassan-Eskenazi. Between them, Bassan-Eskenazi and Oz have started seven companies, had three IPOs, two exits and won two Emmy awards for streaming technology.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Despite the elaborate smoke and mirrors that Google has put up, one fact remains: Google is an advertising company with ads representing 71% of its revenue sources in 2019. At the same time, trust is waning for technology, with 36% of consumers reportedly less comfortable sharing information now than a year ago, according to PwC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Resistant AI , which uses artificial intelligence to help financial services companies combat fraud and financial crime — selling tools to protect credit risk scoring models, payment systems, customer onboarding and more — has closed $16.6 million in Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

It’s also keen to invest in startups building intelligence analysis toolsets that make use of technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as intelligence-driven applications that can be integrated into its own Intelligence Platform and ecosystem. intelligence community.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

The London-based company’s technology is built on the Salesforce and Google Cloud platforms so that consumer goods companies can digitally transform product distribution and customer engagement to combat issues like unprofitable promotions and declining market share, Aforza co-founder and CEO Dominic Dinardo told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

It announced Wednesday a $14 million Series A funding round led by Dell Technologies Capital. Bodo.ai, headquartered in San Francisco, was founded in 2019 by Nasre and Ehsan Totoni, CTO, to make Python higher performing and production ready. Bodo is a new type of compiler technology that democratizes AI.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Investing in artificial intelligence (AI) startups is the latest bandwagon VCs are piling onto. This continues the firm’s strategy from its first fund which raised $15 million and started deploying in 2019. “I would say that money trickled in a lot more strongly in 2019 when I raised Fund I,” Winfield said.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

.” For example, summer reservation volume in the United States is 282% higher than in summer 2020, and even 32% higher than summer 2019. summer reservations are up 180% from last year (though down 19% from 2019). Soto added that the money will allow Guesty to continue investing in both growth and technology. In the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to force teachers, students and parents to adopt new technologies, edtech’s total addressable market has massively grown in the last several months. Google acquired homework helper app Socratic in 2019 and Microsoft built Microsoft Solver in the same year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Artificial intelligence-powered voice and video technologies have been gaining steady popularity in recent years. One of the things that sets it apart from competitors is Typecast’s advanced technologies, including human-like emotions, speaking styles, prosody control, vocal and rap voices technology, according to Kim.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Ricardo Weder , former president of Cabify (a large ridesharing company operating in Latin America, Spain and Portugal) founded Jüsto in 2019 with a mission to “disrupt the Latin American grocery industry.” It also uses artificial intelligence to forecast demand and to try to reduce food waste at its micro-fulfillment centers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The future of technology is determined by a handful of venture capitalists. The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. As of 2019, 81% of all venture capital funds worldwide are clustered in just a handful of countries, primarily in the U.S., of all U.S.-based

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The advent of new technologies has accelerated the rate of innovation and disrupted the business landscape as we know it. As the pace of innovation speeds up, tomorrow’s front runners are those who readily embrace disruptive technologies to spearhead new business models and capture new avenues of growth.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

The funding proceeds from the new round will be used for further global expansion, business diversification, R&D, investment in advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning technology and recruiting team talent. in November 2019, currently operates the Karrot app in 72 local communities in four countries: the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

At the time of the company’s last raise, Agrawal said Jerry saw its revenue surge by “10x” in 2020 compared to 2019. The Palo Alto-based startup launched its car insurance comparison service using artificial intelligence and machine learning in January 2019. Jerry is out to change that.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The growth signals that Preply is finding traction despite heavyweight competitors such as Duolingo, which plans to IPO this year , and Babbel, which crossed $150 million in recognized revenue in 2019. Fluent Forever raised $4.9 Bigai sees a big opportunity for Preply in the enterprise.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

The company says it employs artificial intelligence to create new processes and experiences for its customers. This investment is Naspers’ seventh since launching its Foundry arm back in 2019. This fits in with our focus of backing purpose-driven technology businesses.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

AtomChat is developing conversational artificial intelligence software focused on improving sales team performance by converting more via asynchronous messaging in WhatsApp. is changing and it is leapfrogging technologies that just don’t work in Latin America,” Barreto added. AtomChat messages.

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