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The Fashion Kingdom, an Egyptian fashion e-commerce startup, raises $2.6M in seed funding

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The Fashion Kingdom (TFK), an Egyptian e-commerce marketplace for fashion, beauty and home accessories items, announced today that it has raised $2.6 Antaki noticed a need for a platform that sold fashion products with fast deliveries, different payment methods, and a recommendation feature in Egypt. trillion in three years.

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Ecovative sees a fungal future for fashion, food and foam packaging and has a fresh $60M to make it

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And the company also has fashion on the brain. “It seems like there’s a need for somebody who could not be a branded supplier, but to be someone who can provide scalable mushroom leather,” said Bayer. . The demand for new biomaterials in the fashion industry, such as mycelium, far outstrips the current supply.

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Are B2B SaaS marketers getting it wrong?

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“Solutions,” “cutting-edge,” “scalable” and “innovative” are just a sample of the overused jargon lurking around every corner of the techverse, with SaaS marketers the world over seemingly singing from the same hymn book. Which terms come to mind when you think about SaaS?

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Allbirds is investing in a plant-based leather substitute, plans faux-leather shoe drop in December

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By far the biggest startup name in the sustainable fashion space is a company like Bolt Threads , which has inked deals with companies including Stella McCartney, Adidas and the owner of the Balenciaga fashion house (among others).

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AI in action: How enterprises are scaling AI for real business impact

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Enterprise technology leaders discussed these issues and more while sharing real-world examples during EXLs recent virtual event, AI in Action: Driving the Shift to Scalable AI. It democratizes access to AI in a responsible fashion, so it helps innovation at scale, Pattanaik said. Its not just about implementing technology.

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Akeneo aims to transform the retail playbook with AI and data consistency

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Meanwhile, luxury fashion brand Zadig&Voltaire has leveraged Akeneo PIM to host about 120,000 unique product references in a centralised and automated system that team members can easily access. Since then, its online customer return rate dropped from 10% to 1.6% Learn more about Akeneo Product Cloud here.

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Generating fashion product descriptions by fine-tuning a vision-language model with SageMaker and Amazon Bedrock

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To solve this problem, this post shows you how to predict domain-specific product attributes from product images by fine-tuning a VLM on a fashion dataset using Amazon SageMaker , and then using Amazon Bedrock to generate product descriptions using the predicted attributes as input.

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