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MAY 9, 2019

Los Angeles-based Pearl , the machine learning startup which was spun out of advertising AI software startup GumGum , has raised $11M in a funding round, which came from Craft Ventures, as well as un-named strategic investors.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Los Angeles-based ringDNA , which develops artificial intelligence software for the sales market, has added a new sales coaching product that uses artificial intelligence to help improve sales teams. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Disney Accelerator , held its Demo Day for its second class on Thursday, showing off ten companies to a theater packed full of venture and angel investors. A number of the companies--showing off one huge advantage of being involved in a program run by Disney--announced deals with Disney properties to use their technology and products.

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APRIL 1, 2020

Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence software developer Omnidya announced this morning that it has named Akshay "Ed" Vachhani as its Chief Technology Officer. Omnidya says it is using artificial intelligence to develop an IoT product used for home and auto insurance. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Los Angeles-based Catalog , a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, has raised $1.5M The startup--led by Patrick Ip--develops software to automate the creation of custom visual content for brands.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Los Angeles-based Camino Financial , a fintech startup offering up small business loans to Latinx businesses, announced an $8M funding round this morning, its Series A. The company said it is using machine learning models to make credit and other financial products available to those entrepreneurs.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

.” In practice, that has meant creating a business that sells mindfulness and general health and wellness tips and tricks to a cohort of corporations that believe increased mental and physical health can lead to greater on-the-job productivity. “We can use technology to hook people to unhook them from unhealthy behaviors.”

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Los Angeles-based involve.ai, a startup developing artificial intelligence-based customer retention software, said today that it has raised $16M in its Series A funding round. The company said the new funding will go to scale product development. The company was founded by and is led by Gaurav Bhattacharya.

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MAY 26, 2020

Los Angeles-based Cleareye.ai , a developer of artificial intelligence for the banking and finance industry, said today that it has acquired AIWare.ai , a startup developing AI software. says its software is used by banks to help launch products and solutions faster, simplifying banking processes.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Los Angeles-based ZENEDGE , a startup developing cloud-based web application firewall and cybersecurity products, said it has launched a product called ZENEDGE AI. The company says its products are an alternative to current, signature-based approaches to application security.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

and international cities like London, Mexico City, Seoul and Vilnius are building professional social networks for black professionals and blue collar workers, fashion labels, educational tools in augmented reality, kids entertainment, and an interactive entertainment production company. The new batch of startups coming from across the U.S.

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MARCH 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based email software developer SaneBox , which develops artificial intelligence software that helps people prioritize and sort their emails, is now available on the cloud marketplace run by technology distributor Ingram Micro.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Los Angeles-based Elementary Robotics, a developer of cameras for manufacturing inspection, said it has rolled out a new, cloud-based AI camera system designed for manufacturing and logistics.

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JUNE 28, 2018

Can artificial intelligence help Hollywood unlock more creativity from storytellers? Los Angeles-based RivetAI hopes it can, saying Thursday that it has launched to apply artificial intelligence technology to help assist storytellers in planning and producing content.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence developer Boundless Mind , which is uses AI to personalize the interaction of users on apps, has been acquired by New York-based Thrive Global , a startup founded by Arianna Huffington focused on behavior change. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based Sunbit , a fintech startup which provides point-of-sale financing for purchases, using machine learning to qualify consumers, has raised $26M in a Series B funding round, the company said this week. The funding was led by Zeev Ventures, and also included Group 11 (formerly SGVC), Chicago Ventures, and others.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Irvine-based Bitvore , the big data, artificial intelligence, and data analytics startup, has upped its latest funding round to $14.2M, as part of what appears to be an ongoing $17.75M funding effort. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Los Angeles-based I.am+ , the tech startup started by pop star will.i.am , said on Monday that it has raised $117M in a venture funding round, and has launched itself into the artificial intelligence tools market for the enterprise. According to I.am+, the round includes Salesforce Ventures, along with other. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 9, 2019

Los Angeles-based Phyn , the Belkin spinout which is developing very advanced, machine learning-driven smart water usage monitoring systms, has raised $12M more in a funding round, the company announced on Thursday. The funding came from Belkin International and Uponor, both prior investors in Phyn. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Shamrock Capital reports this morning that it has led a $30M investment in Pixellot , an Israeli firm developing automatic, artificial intelligence-driven software for producing streaming sports video. Pixellot has now raised more than $40M in funding.

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JUNE 3, 2020

Los Angeles-based TeleSign said on Wednesday that it is in a new partnership with Microsoft's Skype , to screen robocalls. TeleSign said that its Score software behaves as an "inbound spam filter", as well as other kinds of communications fraud. Financial details of the partnership were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

million in seed funding to begin building a manufacturing facility and expand its presence in Los Angeles as the city continues to grow as a hub for robotics and automation. . Gross and Barnehama met through a mutual friend in the robotics industry in Los Angeles, the chief executive of Embodied, Paolo Pirjanian, Barnehama wrote in an email.

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MAY 8, 2019

GumGum , the Los Angeles-based startup that’s spent the past decade applying machine learning technologies to advertising and sports, has spun out a new healthcare startup focused on the dental industry called Pearl. Machine learning in the dental business can achieve four main objectives, says Tanz.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Los Angeles-based software developer Zest AI has raised $15M in funding from Insight Partners, to go towards its credit underwriting software, the company announced this morning. According to Zest, the funding will go towards acceleration of adoption of its products, including growth, innovation, and customer success efforts.

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APRIL 17, 2019

Los Angeles- and Austin-based Slingshot Aerospace , which develops artificial intelligence software that automatically processes large amounts of imagery data collected by drones, satellites, and aircraft, has raised another $5M, in a new seed funding round. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

San Diego-based XOKind , a new startup focused on building artificial intelligence software for the travel market, has raised $1.6M The startup said it will launch its first product in the travel and leisure area next year. in a seed funding round, and emerged from stealth mode, the company said today.

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JUNE 7, 2016

Los Angeles-based Armorway , which develops data analytics software which uses artificial intelligence (AI) for cybersecurity response, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round.

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JULY 12, 2017

“And over the past three years, Imperson has developed conversational chatbots powered by their artificial intelligence for several Disney projects, including most recently for Walt Disney World’s Pandora – The World of Avatar , according to a press release. Epic Games.

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JULY 23, 2019

On Tuesday, Haptik announced it has acqui-hired Convrg, a Los Angeles-based startup that develops chatbots, to serve customers in North America. Founded in 2017, Convrg has made a name for itself by developing several popular chatbots and voice products. 60% of all software is bought in the U.S.,

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APRIL 12, 2018

seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. But it’s here in the (other) Valley’s southernmost edge that investors have found a startup they consider to be the next potential billion-dollar “unicorn” that will come out of Los Angeles.

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APRIL 9, 2020

The Los Angeles-based app development shop, V/One , is giving away 50,000 free mobile app builds through the rest of April as the company officially launches its platform for would-be, LA-based mobile app moguls. Since its soft launch, December 20th of last year, the app development company has built over 100 new applications.

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APRIL 7, 2019

Rct wants to take the experience to the next level by recruiting artificial intelligence for screenwriting. Or Apple, which designs its own devices to carry out superior software experience,” explained Ma. Rct studio’s software takes a story arc and dissects it into a decision-making tree within seconds.

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APRIL 20, 2017

million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper. years of software development.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Los Angeles-based Ampsy , the social content sharing and aggregation software developer led by Jeremy Gocke, has linked into IBM's Watson technology, saying it is using the machine learning technology as part of a new analytics offering. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 28, 2019

We spoke with Meredith Finn a new Partner at March Capital--who headed up that the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur sessions this year--to hear more about her perspectives on investments, what the Rise of the Female Entrepeneur was all about, March's interests in artificial intelligence and more. What's your role at March Capital?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Andrew spoke to us about TrackStreet's brand protection software and artificial intelligence efforts. Andrew Schydlowsky: We work with manufacturers of products, things you might use, the clothes you might wear, things you use around the house, things you use in the car, and what you buy in stores, and are now buying online.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Eslambolchi, who had served as a LonoCloud advisor and CEO, told Caldwell he had an idea for a cybersecurity startup that would use analytic software and machine learning technology to monitor the data flowing in and out of networks for anything that looks out of the ordinary. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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