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Gen Z social app Yubo rolls out age ‘estimating’ technology to better identify minors using its service

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Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users.

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Infogrid raises $90M for its AI-driven building monitoring tech

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.” De Gruchy — who has a fascinating history, having studied cage fighting and served as an army officer before pivoting to a quieter, white-collar career in due diligence analysis — founded Infogrid in 2018. “This trains our AI, which is then refined with user feedback, making it better.”

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Early-stage African VC firm, Microtraction reports portfolio boom despite the weight of COVID-19

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In a review of the year published last week, the firm noted that 21 companies in its portfolio have raised more than $33 million in funding. This represents nearly four-fold growth over a year ago when its portfolio raised $6 million (and just $3 million in 2018). The rest were unannounced.

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Now In Tech: AI, Assessments, And The Great Over-Correction

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With tech companies laying off more employees in Q1 ’23 (more than the entire 2022), good news has been hard to come by. All of us in tech know that this downturn will change in a heartbeat as soon as the markets stabilize. In many ways, tech is going back to the basics – show up, use your skills, and be productive.

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Vyrill, winner of the TC Early Stage Pitch-Off, helps brands discover and leverage user-generated video reviews

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Vyrill helps brands discover and leverage video reviews created by authentic customers and users. The judges were impressed with Vyrill’s novel approach and innovative technology around discovering and filtering relevant videos. million pre-seed round in 2018. Vyrill claims to have the solution. million already raised.

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S3 Ventures, Tacora close on new funds to boost Austin startups

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In fact, the firm believes that Texas is going to be the second-largest tech ecosystem in the U.S. We’re constantly meeting entrepreneurs that are at the frontier of things because they’re running into technology issues that others don’t have,” Engineer added. Digging into the Alkami Technology IPO.

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Productfy raises $16M to build the ‘Shopify of embedded finance’

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Existing backers Point72 Ventures, 500 Startups and Envestnet | Yodlee also participated in the financing, which brings its total raised since its 2018 inception to nearly $19 million. We’ve been building our basic infrastructure and compliance and technology,” Vo told TechCrunch. Productfy Inc. , billion valuation.