Tagged: ai

February 8, 2018 @ 2:30 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

SingularityNET is developing a blockchain powered platform that serves as a decentralized, open market for AI service and products. The protocol is designed to facilitate AI discovery and allow anyone to find the AI services or products they need, purchase them, and then implement them… Read More

February 5, 2018 @ 7:26 am By JD Alois  |  

UK Challenger bank Tandem has announced a partnership with cognitive banking company Personetics to provide users personalised insights on their spending across all of their bank accounts in one place, as well as warning people about unexpected fees and unusual activity on their accounts. Tandem… Read More

February 1, 2018 @ 10:44 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The German Artificial Intelligence-based collections company collectAI has partnered with payments provider Pay360 by Capita for its UK launch. With collectAI as the tech provider, Pay360 aims to build a branded receivables management solution for its business and government clients. By partnering with Pay360, collectAI, an… Read More

January 31, 2018 @ 9:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Finn.ai, an AI-powered virtual assistant built for personal banking and finance, announced on Wednesday it has appointed Stephen Morse its new Head of Global Strategic Accounts. According to Finn.ai, Morse has extensive global experience with disruptive, growth businesses within the fintech space. He led enterprise sales organizations… Read More

January 15, 2018 @ 7:17 am By JD Alois  |  

The British Robotics Seed Fund (BRSF) has invested in Magpie Education, a creator of an AI driven resource tool  designed to inspire students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) subjects. The£300,000 investment will help Magpie capture market share of the UK Edtech market and then… Read More

January 11, 2018 @ 9:43 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd, one of the largest crowdfunding platforms in the world, has launched a new $100 million global fund labeled “Cognitiv.” This specialized fund will focus on early-stage companies that leverage AI, IoT, robotics, digital manufacturing and more. Cognitiv is on a mission to fund tomorrow’s category… Read More

January 10, 2018 @ 4:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  SingularityNet’s public token generation event (TGE) sold out immediately as it took just 66 seconds for the decentralized AI marketplace to complete the sale in December. The highly anticipated token ICO is in the midst of a compliance audit, which it expects to be completed… Read More

December 22, 2017 @ 7:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

SingularityNet, the decentralized marketplace for Artificial Intelligence (AI), is reporting their ICO raised $36 million in just 60 seconds. While I am not certain if this is a record but it is probably one of fastest ever. Gifto recently sold out in a minute but… Read More

December 17, 2017 @ 3:26 pm By Rae Steinback  |  

We’ve been hearing a lot of talk about chatbots lately. Some of these conversations are about the ways that companies are having success with chatbots, but others are about brands that have failed to implement them properly. What is A Chatbot? A chatbot is a… Read More

December 12, 2017 @ 1:30 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Ready for a new investment or for a vacation? Oh, the places you will go! itravel could be the first digital travel agency that uses data analysis, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology in order to provide customers with individually personalized trips. itravel seeks to remove the… Read More

November 15, 2017 @ 9:04 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Crowdo, a South East Asian online marketplace for P2P lending and crowdfunding unveiled today its proprietary Artificial Intelligence driven due diligence system, Crowdo ACE, aimed at benefiting both their borrowers and investors. Crowdo ACE takes into account a few thousand unconventional and alternative attributes and… Read More

November 14, 2017 @ 9:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Tokyo-based SoftBank Corp. announced on Monday it has launched the third round for its SoftBank Innovation Program, which is a program that seeks a wide range of innovative solutions and technologies from around the world to consider for commercialization. SoftBank stated that the innovation program aims… Read More

November 6, 2017 @ 8:30 am By JD Alois  |  

The Initial Coin Offering (ICO) market has experienced hockey stick like growth as all types of companies have rushed to leverage the new approach to crowdfunding growth capital. It is estimated that over $3 billion has been raised via ICOs – a concept that did… Read More

October 27, 2017 @ 1:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Chinese fintech and Alibaba-affiliated Ant Financial revealed this week it is putting its Initial Public Offering (IPO) plans on hold and is now focused on investing in more startups and artificial intelligence (AI). The news of Ant Financial’s plans comes less than a year after… Read More

October 16, 2017 @ 8:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Marvelstone Group, the company behind the world’s largest Fintech hub – LATTICE80, is getting into Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a big way. Marvelstone has announced the creation of the “world’s largest AI Hub” based in Singapore. Marvelstone, based in Singapore, is a private investment group that… Read More

October 16, 2017 @ 7:55 am By JD Alois  |  

London-based BotSkill, a Software as a Service (SaaS) chatbot firm, has secured a £250,000 investment led by the British Robotics Seed Fund (BRSF). Simultaneously, BotSkill has launched an investment crowdfunding campaign on Britbots Crowd. The offer on Britbots Crowd seeks £350,000 for an EIS eligible… Read More

October 5, 2017 @ 8:58 am By Erin Hobey  |  

  Desktop Genetics Ltd (DTG), a software company revolutionising the way biologists use CRISPR genome editing technology, and online investment platform SyndicateRoom have just opened a £1.5 million investment round. DTG plans to use the funds to commercialise products and support its expansion into the… Read More

September 27, 2017 @ 9:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Lemonade, the insurance company powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics, has launched a new product called Zero Deductible which offers new and existing Lemonade members a ‘zero deductible’ upgrade, so they can make up to two claims each year with no deductible payments, and no rate hikes. The launch… Read More

September 14, 2017 @ 9:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

AI platform for data science and machine learning CrowdFlower announced on Thursday the first round winners of the “AI For Everyone” Challenge. The winning proposal, which receives $1 million, are computer vision projects that will label millions of images to build the largest collection of… Read More

September 7, 2017 @ 12:33 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

TraneAi, an emerging player in the rapidly expanding artificial-intelligence market, announced that it will offer the sale of $50 million in tokens to seed its decentralized, open-source AI-development ecosystem built on blockchain technology. “We believe that by building our solution for crowdsourced AI training data… Read More