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An AI platform for the film industry, Filmustage , is today announcing new funding. Today, the global filmmaking market is valued at over $100 billion, and I believe that implementing AI will boost it even further!” The tool would likely be helpful for filmmakers with investors that want to see the film budget estimation.
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tech unicorns made it to market. footnote]since the companys March IPO , delivering a market cap around $26 billion. Gauzy , an Israeli maker of liquid crystal controllers and films, has also done poorly, with shares losing roughly half their value since debuting in June. Just a handful of U.S.
IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. Founded by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter in 2011, IROKO boasts the largest online catalog of Nollywood film content globally. But it’s quite different with IROKO.
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. . The world will be a better place because of what Joro will bring to market.”.
Qiara wants to modernize the good old home security market with live agents. You can also enable a privacy shutter when you’re at home so that the security camera isn’t filming your family. So let’s see if Qiara can start from scratch and capture some market share in the home security market in France.
This greatly accelerated its production workflows, enhancing collaboration across teams on production files, with 20 times performance gains in distributing production files and rapid pre-visualization of entire film sequences, as scenes can be loaded in 30 seconds as opposed to 10 minutes.
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. That pushes it into unicorn territory, with $340 million in total funding and a post-money valuation north of $1 billion.
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.
The media licensing business is a massive market, but much of the work involved is still handled manually through emails and spreadsheets. “There’s always a timeframe that they follow — whether it’s a film release or game release,” Törmä says. A startup called Flowhaven is working to change that.
The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. It’s been good for so long among the tech-and-money class that quoting a film about a corrupt financier is too boring to warrant even warmed-over ennui. There’s an old joke: If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Enter WeWork.
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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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When Aldo Noseda became CIO at chemical manufacturer Eastman five years ago, he immediately began working with other leaders in the company to bring a new category of services to the market that complemented its physical products. We now have three services on the market and a fourth on its way.”
The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Changes in the entertainment landscape driven by tech (streaming) have impacted how shows and films are monetized, meaning that the prior norms of the relationship between the entertainment business and the people doing the labor also need to change.
I’m hopeful over the next five years we’re going to start seeing more unicorns and real successes coming out of the market, which I think will create a positive halo effect and that’ll create the next generation of founders. Elevate Acting CEO James Pinner.
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An ambitious Chinese startup wants a slice of the flourishing global work automation market. 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.
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. “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.”
We’ve had phenomenal growth last year, some of it from our mid-market customers, but mostly from customers like Target and Kroger,” Kalb said. Meanwhile, Amanda Groves, partner at PLUS Capital, said her firm works with about 65 individuals who are in film, television, sports and culture, including the four new investors in Shelf Engine.
Nomad’s grill looks like some kind of fancy protective case that you’d expect to see traveling with a film crew, crossed with maybe a modern Mac Pro. It has an anodized aluminum build that uses a unibody casting in manufacturing, with high external durability and internal heat retention. Bottom line.
on the Hugh Jackman film “Reminiscence” that allowed fans to insert themselves into its trailer. D-ID CEO and co-founder Gil Perry told me that the company chose the new direction because it was apparent that there’s a very large addressable market when it comes to this kind of application.
This experience taught her a lot about launching new products built from scratch, and helping them to find product market fit, she says. Avatar-based social discovery apps have been popular in other markets in Asia and in Brazil, but have yet to make their way to the U.S. Image Credits: SwoonMe.
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