TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2020

All over the world startups are piling into the space marked “virtual interaction and collaboration”. Step forward Cosmos Video , which has a virtual venues platform that allows people to work, hang out and socialize together. Cosmos allows users to create virtual venues by combining game mechanics with video chat.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Be My Eyes, which lets blind and low vision folks ask sighted people to describe what their phone sees, is getting a “virtual volunteer” that offers AI-powered help at any time. But the video accompanying the description is more illuminating. You can watch the video below.) You can read more about GPT-4 here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

But everyone’s already gotten a taste of virtual events, and their many ups and downs. The tech side of things can get remarkably complicated, and it’s hard to make a virtual show more compelling/interactive/engaging than a YouTube video would be. Zuddl , a virtual events platform, has raised a $13.35

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Events — when they haven’t been cancelled altogether in the last 12 months due to the global health pandemic — have gone virtual and online, and a wave of startups that are helping people create and participate in those experiences are seeing a surge of attention — and funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Brett Martin, the co-founder and president of Kumospace, believes a core piece to easing the transition is workplace collaboration tools — especially video chat tools that foster a “virtual office” feeling. He’s biased, of course — Kumospace sells a video chat platform. Image Credits: Kumospace.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

After operating in beta for a year, Nooks, a virtual workspace space targeting distributed teams, has attracted thousands of users and millions of dollars in venture capital. This is Kevin Hartz’s second investment in a virtual HQ, with his first in Gather. Virtual HQs race to win over a remote-work-fatigued market.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

When the modern world runs on hybrid work, the challenge for every business is how to enable virtual meetings that offer an inclusive, collaborative, and productive experience. But how can you ensure that your virtual meetings are as engaging, effective, and secure as face-to-face ones? The answer is AI-powered meeting rooms.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

The video game industry is no exception to this, and that hardly comes as a surprise. The brainchild of Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Michael Ermolenko and Kylan Gibbs, the startup’s AI-powered service generates virtual characters primarily for games, but also in broader entertainment and marketing campaigns. Image Credits: Inworld AI.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Daily , the makers of a developer platform for real-time audio and video, has been booming in recent months — in part, due to the pandemic’s impact on remote work, virtual events, telehealth and more. “We believed back then and have believed for a while that video would be everywhere. Teamflow lands $3.9

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

“What I realized was that all our current ‘collaboration’ tools are really just communication tools, enabling text, audio, video communication, or sharing a screen but not actually doing things together. “Virtual conference tools like Zoom or Google Meet are great for communication. Image Credits: Switchboard.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Yet, to a growing number of entrepreneurs in the Valley, when one physical door closes, a virtual one opens. With the goal of making remote work more spontaneous, there are dozens of new startups working to create virtual HQs for distributed teams. Companies within the virtual HQ world sit on a spectrum.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

100ms , the live video conferencing infrastructure startup based in India, has raised $20 million in Series A funding to power the next generation of live video apps, coming barely five months after they closed the seed round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

As concerts and live events return to the physical world stateside, many in the tech industry have wondered whether some of the pandemic-era opportunities around virtualizing these events are lost for the time being. The virtual concert industry didn’t have as big of a lockdown moment as some hoped for.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Professionals in a wide variety of industries have adopted digital video conferencing tools as part of their regular meetings with suppliers, colleagues, and customers. This post provides guidance on how you can create a video insights and summarization engine using AWS AI/ML services.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

InEvent , a startup powering virtual and hybrid events, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding from Storm Ventures. ” Put another way, InEvent is less focused on replicating giant consumer events and more on helping businesses hold virtual events where they can connect with clients and partners.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Founded in 2005, NetEase is now known for its news portal, music streaming app, education products and video games that compete with those of Tencent. “IMVU operates one of the world’s oldest, yet most vibrant and young — in terms of our user base — metaverses. It is a natural fit for us to become partners,” he added.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Virtual meetings are a fundamental part of how we interact with each other these days, but even when (if!?) Like mmhmm, Memix is today focused on building tools that you use on existing video platforms — not building a video player itself.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

NTWRK , a video shopping app that has helped to popularize the idea of livestreamed commerce in the U.S., The company has been working to capitalize on the growing interest in live commerce and creator content, and shifted into live virtual events and festivals as COVID-19 ravaged the U.S. Are virtual concerts here to stay?

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CIO

APRIL 14, 2023

A record number of participants turned out for a discussion group with one of our speakers, Tom Kouloupolous , futurist and chairman and founder of Delphi Group, during our April virtual summit, CIO’s Future of Cloud and Data. Indeed, interaction is what makes a virtual summit a conference vs. a webinar. Text chat was different.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Like “TrueSelf Scan,” the name of the initial application that’s used to scan a person’s image, the meeting software also will not require a VR headset to use and engage with — users will be “seated” in a room that will be shown on a video screen.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The company’s first product, Read Dashboard, is a dashboard for virtual meetings that leverages artificial intelligence, computer vision and natural language processing to measure engagement, performance and sentiment among participants. Virtual meeting platform Vowel raises $13.5M, aims to cure meeting fatigue. Read Dashboard.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 17, 2021

Twine , a video chat startup that launched amid the pandemic as a sort of “Zoom for meeting new people,” shifted its focus to online events and, as a result, has now closed on $3.3 Unlike one-to-many or few-to-many video broadcasts, twine connects a small number of people for more intimate conversations.

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CIO

JUNE 12, 2023

Virtual Agent, or VA, is the next natural step for significantly better customer and business outcomes. In this case, the VA may send links to related resources or a “how-to” video that’s directly embedded in the message, so all the customer has to do is click “play.” What is a VA?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Edgybees , a company that helps businesses, first responders and military users accurately geotag and augment their aerial video streams in real time, today announced that it has raised a $9.5 ” Using the company’s Visual Intelligence Platform, users can easily register and track assets in video shot by a drone, for example.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

What that six-year-old outfit, Speach , sells is essentially knowledge-sharing between colleagues via videos produced by the employees themselves, often to augment written instructions. Weet already features instant recording, screen sharing, virtual backgrounds, video filters, emoji reactions, commenting options and auto transcription.

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Crunchbase News

MAY 29, 2024

Rather, the focus is mostly on startups where people in treatment message and video chat with care providers and use apps to track prescriptions. Addiction-focused virtual care startups have pulled in hundreds of millions for business models largely based on building offerings scalable enough to meet the massive demand for treatment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

SoWork, a virtual co-working startup, began after Punwani and his co-founders decided to build a machine learning edtech company. So, combining their love for building and gaming, the group put together an internal communication product inspired by virtual worlds. Permanence is the elephant in the room for any virtual HQ.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

His virtual meeting platform is the latest to receive venture capital funding — $13.5 Taking a cue from Nanit’s own baby monitors that were streaming video over 17 hours a day, the idea for Vowel was born, and the company began to focus on the hypothesis that distributed work would be prevalent. 3 views on the future of meetings.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Grain , a four-year-old, fully remote startup that’s finding increasingly elaborate ways to capture video snippets of online meetings to make important moments easy to share, search and save, has raised $16 million in Series A funding led by Tiger Global Management. The pitch is compelling.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. Related to this move, Epic Games’ “ Fortnite Mode” feature , which leveraged Houseparty to bring video chat to Fortnite gamers, will also be discontinued.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Now, a startup betting on virtual learning in higher education — and investing in the innovation to deliver that — is announcing a round of funding as it continues to expand its business. and a new approach to teaching by video remotely. .” and a new approach to teaching by video remotely.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

A startup called Soona , now backed by an additional $35 million in Series B funding, has been tapping into this market with its platform that allows brands to create content for their e-commerce websites and marketing through “virtual” photo and video shoots. “We invite you to join your photo shoot in the browser.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The company offers a remote patient monitoring platform that enables clinicians to monitor patients at home and provide personalized feedback via texts and “video visits” Doccla says it can also measure patients at home. The latter recently raised $41 million in funding from Thrive and General Catalyst.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Video generation has become the latest frontier in AI research, following the success of text-to-image models. This text-to-video API generates high-quality, realistic videos quickly from text and images. When extended to videos, this iterative process must be applied to multiple frames, multiplying the computational load.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The company whose tech powered the sensational MyHeritage app that turned classic family photos into lifelike moving portraits is back with a new implementation of its technology: Transforming still photographs into ultra-realistic video, capable of saying whatever you want. Big-name clients like Warner Bros.,

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Now, with the advent of large language models (LLMs), you can use generative AI -powered virtual assistants to provide real-time analysis of speech, identification of areas for improvement, and suggestions for enhancing speech delivery. A simple web portal created using Streamlit to upload audio and video recordings.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Butter , a startup registered in Denmark but operating fully remote, is building an “all-in-one” platform for planning and running virtual workshops.

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