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Trousdale Ventures Seeds Preamble's AI Tools

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Los Angeles-based venture investor Trousdale Ventures announced this morning that it has made an investment in Preamble, a startup offering up "ethical artificial intelligence" moderation to social networks. Size of the seed funding round was not announced. Trousdale Ventures is led by Phillip Sarofim.

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Catalog Collects $1.5M For AI Software For Visual Artists

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Los Angeles-based Catalog , a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, has raised $1.5M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch.

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Snafu Records Raises $2.9M To Use AI To Find Musical Talent

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Los Angeles-based Snafu Records said on Thursday that it has launched a new startup, which will use artificial intelligence to help find musical talent. The company, founded by Ankit Desai, said it raised $2.9M

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Theta Lake Takes $12.7M For Security, Compliance Software

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Theta Lake says it is using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect detect risks across video, visual, voice, chat and document content, addressing issues with data exposure, phishing, account compromise, acceptable use and regulatory compliance when organizations have users using video conferencing and collaboration tools.

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Sky Dayton Backed Diffbot Gets More Funding

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Diffbot , the developer of artificial intelligence, visual recognition, and natural language processing software for interpreting web pages which is backed by Sky Dayton , has scored $500,000 more in funding, the company said this week. The funding--a continuation of the firm's seed funding--came from Bloomberg Beta.

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More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela

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“The way I look at it… a lot of it is going to be like any kind of content studio,” says Peter Rojas, a partner at the New York investment firm Betaworks Ventures. “We’re looking more broadly at the issues around manipulated or faked content and how do you address that,” says Rojas.

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Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding

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million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. If users go to Pinterest to plan things, then they come to Tapiture for a personalized experience based on fancy algorithms that tailors content to their tastes. We use machine learning to analyze the behavior. We put products they can purchase in the mix.