May 24, 2017 @ 4:54 am By Erin Hobey  |  

OurCrowd, a global leader in equity crowdfunding, today announced that it will invest $2.5 million (as part of a recently completed $7 million investment round) in Scopio Labs, a developer of an advanced digital microscopy and diagnostics platform. This is OurCrowd’s 23rd healthtech investment for… Read More

Read more in: General News, Global  |  Tagged ai, biotech, dor skuler, elad benjamin, erez na’aman, healthtech, intuition robotics, israel, itai hayut, jon medved, medtech, MIXiii Biomed 2017, scopio labs, zebra medical vision

April 20, 2017 @ 4:51 am By Erin Hobey  |  

  WISeKey International Holding Ltd (WIHN.SW), a leading Swiss cybersecurity and Blockchain IoT company announced today its intention to establish an IoT Blockchain Center of Excellence Center in the Canton of Zug aiming to deploy a Trusted Blockchain as a Service platform. The Center will… Read More

Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Currency, Fintech, General News, Global, Offerings  |  Tagged ai, blockchain, crypto valley, deeptech, iot, iot blockchain center of excellence center, rot, switzerland, zug

March 16, 2017 @ 9:16 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Bangkok Bank Public Company Limited announced its international FinTech accelerator program, Bangkok Bank InnoHub in partnership with corporate innovation partner Nest. The 12-week intensive program will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, aiming to exemplify the bank’s drive to inspire innovation and solidify its commitment to innovative new technologies. As the country’s leading… Read More

Read more in: Asia, Fintech, General News, Global  |  Tagged accelerator, ai, asean, bualuang ventures, chartsiri sophonpanich, dr. panukorn chantaraprapab, eKYC, innohub, lawrence morgan, thailand

March 9, 2017 @ 3:59 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Startupbootcamp FinTech, the global accelerator for fintech startups, has announced the 12 international startups that will join its accelerator program in Singapore. The cohort was selected after a final evaluation from a panel of industry experts and VCs, covering multiple aspects of the fintech sector including wealth… Read More

Read more in: Asia, Fintech, General News, Global  |  Tagged ai, has, monetary authority of singapore, p2p, singapore

January 5, 2017 @ 11:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lobster, the search and licensing platform for user-generated content, announced on Monday it received an additional £1 million investment to further enhance its AI-powered search. The company stated in the upcoming month it plans to release an update, which will bring smart search to video…. Read More

Read more in: General News, Offerings  |  Tagged ai, kl10ch, lobster, nikolay katorzhnov, olga egorsheva, pavel fedorov, syndicateroom, vlad huber

November 16, 2016 @ 11:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Crowdfunder announced it signed a partnership agreement with IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, which is described as a $5 million artificial intelligence (AI) global competition that challenges teams to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful AI technologies to tackle the world’s greatest… Read More

Read more in: Crowdfunding Portals, General News  |  Tagged ai, artificial intelligence, chance barnett, competition, crowdfunder, ibm watson ai xprize

November 3, 2016 @ 10:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based creative technology and visual content agency, Happy Finish has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise  £395,000 for a 4.45% equity stake in the firm.  Pre-money valuation was pegged at just under £8.5 million. The company, which was founded in 2004 by Stuart Waplington,… Read More

Read more in: Offerings  |  Tagged ai, artificial intelligence, carl davies, chris roome, crowdcube, happy finish, rainer usselmann, stuart waplington, uk, united kingdom

May 24, 2016 @ 1:28 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Frost & Sullivan views Australia’s development as a leader in Fintech innovation will require concerted effort from government agencies and established financial institutions and will involve partnerships and research collaboration between banks and startups, presenting many diverse and lucrative growth and development opportunities for ICT… Read More

Read more in: General News, Offerings, Opinion  |  Tagged ai, audrey william, australia, biometric security, blockchain, fintech, new zealand, saranga sudarshan

March 12, 2015 @ 12:00 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Not just child’s play…Tangible Kids and Osmo, the breakout kids hardware tech device that was named one of the best inventions of 2014 by Time Magazine, announced its next experience, Masterpiece. With this launch, the company again seeks to revolutionize the way we learn and think about… Read More

Read more in: General News, Global, Offerings  |  Tagged accel partners, ai, google, jerome scholler, kids, masterpiece, osmo, pramod sharm, reflective artificial intelligence, rich wong, stanford

December 4, 2014 @ 12:04 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Technology that listens!  Life with ivee agrees with enthusiastic Crowdfunder investors and kickstarter backers: the AI, IoT, Speech Recognition Home Automation Control Platform campaign has raised over $165K since opening on 1 December. After viewing the campaign video and hearing ivee pleasantly rattle off the temp, traffic,… Read More

Read more in: General News, Offerings  |  Tagged ai, artificial intelligence, bitcoin shop, dag kittlaus, iot, ivee, jonathan nostrant, kickstarted, nest, siri, smart clock, voice activation clock, voice recognition software