Real estate company Compass RE announced the acquisition of $100 million in Series E financing. Four investors participated in the funding, among them Fidelity Insurance Company, IVP, and Wellington Management Company. Compass’s end-to-end real estate platform supports the entire buying and selling workflow. The platform’s hand-selected
Vidrovr, a digital media startup, announced the close of $1.3 million in seed financing, led by Samsung NEXT, with participation from Verizon Ventures, RGA Ventures, and Social Starts. Vidrovr develops multimodal computer vision and machine learning systems to index, tag, and understand video. It processes videos
Smart-Save by Stash is a new app that helps users save their spare cash automatically. Rolled out by Stash, an app that allows people to invest in ETFs from as little as $5, Smart-Save studies users’ spending and earnings patterns to figure out when they’ve
Aquant, an enterprise IT startup, secured $2.6 million in seed financing from World Trade Ventures and SilverTech Ventures. The enterprise SaaS company plans to help service organizations maximize their products' uptime through AI and machine learning, by providing predictive, actionable service recommendations. It encapsulates enterprise
BotMakers Chatbot Marketplace offers prebuilt chatbot templates to small businesses to help them launch a chatbot in less than 24 hours. The templates cover all major product categories, from restaurant and event ticketing to sales and real estate. The company said there are more than
Software startup Botanic Technologies completed a new round of financing led by Outlier Ventures. Botanic Technologies builds multi-modal conversational interfaces and avatars, such as text-only chatbots and voice-only assistants, that use speech and animation to provide contextually and emotionally appropriate responses to human input.
Conversational marketing and sales platform Drift launched Drift ABM, a platform that enables marketing and sales teams to provide a real-time, personalized experience at scale – without the need for lead generation forms – whenever someone from a target account lands on their website. [bg_collapse
Artificial intelligence startup Pienso announced the completion of $2.1 million in seed financing led by Eniac Ventures, with participation from SoftTech VC, Indicator Ventures, and E14 Fund. Pienso is a machine learning platform for non-programmers to create and train their own machine learning models without the
Capsule is an artificial intelligence tool that helps users backup photos automatically from a variety of sources, including cameras, smart devices, social networks, Google Photos, iCloud and Dropbox. The AI assistant also generates albums and slideshows for users. The company is currently running a Kickstarter
Art Genius is an AI product that allows people to discover art with image recognition. It can be used by curators looking for up-and-coming artists for their next show, interior designers looking to spice up a room with new works, or by teachers and students