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Influential Adds $12M For Influencer Discovery

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The company says its uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and social data to help match brands to audiences and influencers on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and YouTube. The funding came from Capital Zed, ECA Ventures, Paradigm Talent Agency, ROAR, the Tech Coast Angels, plus WME.

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Snap accelerator names its latest cohort

TechCrunch LA

TRASH — using this machine learning-based video editing toolkit, users can quickly create and edit high-quality, short-form video. SketchAR — this Lithuanian company is developing an AI-based mobile app for teaching drawing using augmented reality.

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Influential Names New CFO, COO

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Los Angeles-based influencer marketing software developer Influential says it has named Michael Lin as its new dual CFO and COO. Lin was previously CFO at Mavenlink and Cake, and also served at Gehry Technologies and Fast Search and Transfer. READ MORE>>.

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Influential Raises $5M For Influencer Marketing

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Beverly Hills-based Influential , a developer of influencer marketing software, has raised $5M in a Series A funding, according to the company. The company says it has now raised a total of $9M. The company says its clients include Hershey's, Coca-Cola Company, NBC Universal, Nestle, General Mills and Sony Pictures.

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Social Media Cyber Threats: 3 Predictions for 2018

Xconomy

And while organizations may be paying a higher ransom, the cost of these attacks are going down, due to artificial intelligence tools making these campaigns infinitely easier. Cyber attackers see that organizations are willing to pay the ransom, so they’ve upped their asking price.

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Interview With Jamie Montgomery, March Capital Partners On The Firm's New Fund

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Fund I was really focused on AI, and what we now call big data and machine learning, and we focused on the cloud and Internet infrastructure, plus made a couple of investments in India and in gaming. We sold Velocloud to Vmware, in the software defined network (SDN) area. Those investments have really broken out.

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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

Both Sides of the Table

Put simply Chuck is amongst the smartest and most knowledgeable leaders in the CRM industry and in the components I consider the future of enterprise software — voice driving input/output, chat-based computing and mobile-first design. If you’re a consumer software company your buyer is your user. Think about Snapchat.

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