TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The Atlanta-based startup has developed a kiosk capable of dry cleaning a garment in around five minutes. Instead, Presso has shifted much of its efforts to film and TV production. Presso shifts focus to clothing disinfecting for film studios amid COVID-19 concerns. This latest round brings Presso’s full funding up to $2.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Skydio’s fresh capital comes on the heels of its expansion last year into the enterprise market, and it intends to use the considerable pile of cash to help it expand globally and accelerate product development. Skydio’s debut drone, the R1, received a lot of accolades and praise for its autonomous capabilities.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Avail is tackling one of the many time-consuming tasks in film and TV development: script coverage. The new ChatGPT-powered summarization tool is designed to summarize scripts and books within minutes, producing detailed summaries, loglines, synopses, character breakdowns and tonal assessments.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Lenovo famously hired Ashton Kutcher as a product engineer to help develop the Yoga 2 tablet, on which I assume you are all reading this post. Maximum Effort was founded to help promote the actor’s first Deadpool film. The film raked in $783.1 The bid appears to have worked.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The company was founded by Nikola Todorovic and actor Tye Sheridan; they joined forces some years back after working on a film together and finding they shared a belief in democratizing cinema tools. “Our platform can be used for film and TV, but also video games, social media content, and even the Metaverse.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

One of the new space startups with the loftiest near-term goals has raised $130 million in a Series B round that demonstrates investor confidence in the scope of its ambitions: Axiom Space, which has been tapped by NASA to add privately-developed space station modules to the ISS, announced the new funding led by C5 Capital on Tuesday.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Dubbing is a lucrative market, with Verified Market Research predicting that film dubbing services alone could generate $3.6 Founded in 2017 by Shemen and Jiameng Gao, Papercup offers an AI-powered dubbing solution that identities human voices in a target film or show and generates dubs in a new language. billion annually by 2027.

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CIO

MAY 2, 2025

To this end, BMW plans to further develop the virtual factory by combining the actual data from the plants with planning data to enable a holistic view of production. The BMW Groups Virtual Factory is continuously being developed, and the next step will be to integrate operational data to optimize and control production in real time.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Founded by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter in 2011, IROKO boasts the largest online catalog of Nollywood film content globally. Canal+ acquires Nollywood studio ROK from IROKOtv to grow African film. To be honest, $10 million to $15 million will be for corporate development; the rest will be secondaries for shareholders.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

. “There’s always a timeframe that they follow — whether it’s a film release or game release,” Törmä says. In terms of the product itself, the plan is to further develop Flowhaven’s analytics and speed up the process of exchanging information between the brand owners and their licensees.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

The platform licenses music to high-profile names for advertising, films, TV, gaming and the like, including Disney, Netflix, Apple, Coca-Cola, Amazon and Google. Songtradr is rapidly accelerating as we continue to develop our tech-enabled B2B music ecosystem and integrate our new acquisitions,” CEO Paul Wiltshire said in a press release.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In one of the more recent developments, a language learning app called EWA — which has built a media-based approach to language acquisition, with excerpts from films and TV, and books, to familiarize learners with vocabulary and speaking — has passed 51 million downloads and picked up 3.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

Around that time, the film industry was looking for a quick, safe and efficient way to clean wardrobes at the height of the pandemic, and as it happens, Presso’s hometown of Atlanta is among the top two or three filming locations in the U.S. We had chemical engineers to develop our own liquids,” says Jain.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Films weren’t always widescreen. Originally they were more likely to be approximately the shape of a 35mm film frame, for obvious reasons. If you matted out the top and bottom, you could project a widescreen image, which people liked — but you were basically just zooming in on a part of the film, which you paid for in detail.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

If you close your eyes and are listening to a Pixar film, you can’t see the art or technology but the story is still gripping you. The capital will be used to hire talent from the game and film industries while building out its experiences, Warrick said. Storytelling is what matters.”. million pre-seed round, Warrick said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The video of the event was taken and posted on Twitter by William Gude, the owner of Film the Police LA , an LA-based police watchdog account. — Film The Police LA (@FilmThePoliceLA) September 13, 2022. It turns out the robot’s error, at least in this case, was caused by humans. pic.twitter.com/T5DaET5Q5b.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

The seminal 1987 horror film “Zepotha” is back on TikTok. Reaction videos to the film’s gory forest scenes dominate user feeds. In another video, she recommended bringing up Zepotha “every time a film bro mocks you” to gaslight them into believing that the movie is real. Her original video has 7.6 million views.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

1 box office films that have grossed more than $4.23 Hart continues to develop, star in and produce feature films, television shows and podcasts via HartBeat for his various partners, such as Netflix, Peacock, Sirius XM and Audible. Just part of Kevin Hart’s impressive Hollywood CV includes eleven No. billion in global revenue.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 2, 2025

Under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works , which became the Paris Act in 1971, original works of authorship such as films, illustrations and designs are protected the moment they are created, requiring no formal registration.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JUNE 24, 2024

Krikey AI used SageMaker Ground Truth to expedite the development and implementation of their text-to-animation model. First, the team developed a custom labeling interface tailored to Krikey AI’s requirements. Their web application is developed using AWS Amplify. Dr. Ketaki Shriram is the CTO at Krikey, an AI animation startup.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Parker and Stone had already begun assembling an AI artist team for a film they were developing, and when COVID intervened they focused on creating the tools for use later. The company got its start during the media shutdown of 2020, when the pandemic prevented most travel and on-set productions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2022

Holoride announced Saturday at the SXSW tech, music and film conference in Austin that its headset-based virtual-reality entertainment system will debut in June in certain Audi models with the latest MIB 3 software. Virtual reality is about to launch in series production cars this summer, starting with Audi sedans and SUVs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The venture arm of Volvo Cars, an automaker long synonymous with safety, has invested in an optics and imaging startup developing technology that can be integrated into a car’s windshield or windows to deliver images to drivers and passengers. Image Credits: Tal Givoni for Spectralis (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We partnered with various founder organizations — who in turn nominated promising early-stage startup founders — and collectively provide educational resources and mentorship to help these young founders develop and succeed over the course of the year. Founded by Kimberly Moore. Founded by DeShuna Spencer.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Guanchun Wang, Laiye’s founder and CEO, saw the “value of artificial intelligence” in the years he worked at Baidu’s smart speaker department after his film discovery startup was sold to the Chinese search engine giant. Laiye, China’s answer to UiPath, closes $50 million Series C+.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 1, 2025

The startup, which is looking to develop safe artificial intelligence systems, raised a $1 billion round from a litany of big-name investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital last September. billion as companies look for ways to secure software development. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

And he doesn’t anticipate that changing as in-person filming becomes safer post-pandemic. . “There’s been a pent-up demand for content in these organizations that our technology … unlocks,” Firestone said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The company showed off a number of use cases, including using its new tech to create a multilingual TV anchor capable of expressing various emotions; creating virtual chatbot personas for customer support interactions; developing training courses for professional development use; and creating interactive conversational video ad kiosks.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 28, 2022

” This question came in from one of our recent leadership development programs. This special, Asking For a Friend From the Road, was filmed at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens featuring the wonderful trolls of Danish artist Thomas Dambo. Practical Approaches For a Better Clear the Air Meeting.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 3, 2025

The startup plans to use the fresh cash to develop AI focusing on its film and animation studio. Last fall, the company signed a deal with production company LionsGate to create a customized video-generation model. Founded in 2018, it has raised more than $540 million, per Crunchbase. AI dollars Big money continues to pour into AI.

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CableLabs

AUGUST 6, 2019

Titled The Near Future: Diverse Thinkers Wanted , this short film explores the aspect of life that takes up most of our time and energy: work. The technology shown in the film will shape the way we think about work in the future. You can view the film in its entirety below. Technologies That Will Help Us Get There.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

. “They train their models on Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, but the stuff that comes out of it is trash […] The critical breakthrough we realized is that computers cannot write music, the same way that AI can’t write a film and can’t write a book. But AI can reconstruct music in a way that the human ear responds to.”

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Variability in content volume – They offer a range of content volume, from single-episode films to multi-season series. Considering the varying development and maintenance efforts required by different alternatives, DPG Media chose Amazon Transcribe for the transcription component of their system.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Remento was founded in 2020 by Charlie Greene, who came up with the idea for the company after filming a series of interviews with his mother shortly after she was diagnosed with cancer. The company is currently focused on developing its technology and will expand availability in the future, he says.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

In general, the results for a prompt like “Film still of a woman drinking coffee, walking to work, telephoto” will be much more consistent than “A woman walking.” “Those people who can craft the quality prompts required guide the AI to do these things will be extremely valuable.

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David Walsh

JUNE 12, 2023

Ready to use components make development faster, more focused, and more enjoyable for engineers. Traffic is down, advertisers drying up, and even I don’t read as many blogs as I used to… …and I can’t necessarily switch to media because I have a face for radio and voice for the silent films. Bull market incoming?…

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