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AUGUST 19, 2022

While Aflac’s other major division, its business-to-business insurance line, was relatively unaffected by the pandemic, its independent agents hung in the balance, just as the publicly traded company was undertaking a transformational journey to the cloud. Virtualizing policy enrollment. We’ve made them more bionic, right?”.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

The brainchild of Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Michael Ermolenko and Kylan Gibbs, the startup’s AI-powered service generates virtual characters primarily for games, but also in broader entertainment and marketing campaigns. “ Inworld is a creative platform for building virtual characters for immersive realities. .

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DECEMBER 14, 2022

In 2005, three entrepreneurs — Vadim Vladimirskiy, Stuart Gabel and Niall Keegan — co-founded Adar, a Chicago-based company providing “streaming IT” and IT-as-a-service products mainly to small- and medium-sized businesses. Nerdio runs in a customer’s own Azure subscription as an Azure-based application.).

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MARCH 22, 2021

million seed f or its virtual HQ platform. Another company, Branch, has raised a $1.5 Another company, Branch, has raised a $1.5 The reality is, all three companies (and dozens of others) likely can’t win. A tour through Teamflow’s office shows that the company is more focused on productivity than gamification.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In part, this shift is driven by students, who increasingly demand virtual and hybrid learning experiences that better match the ways they like to consume content at home. Meanwhile, virtual education has become an essential element of resilience for educational institutions by ensuring that students don’t fall behind during closures.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2022

But the virtual event space continues to attract investors, at least in Asia. Previous investors include Gaocheng Capital, an investment firm founded by a former Hillhouse partner, and HTC, the Taiwanese electronics giant that has pushed into virtual reality in recent years. EventX declined to disclose its post-money valuation.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

But everyone’s already gotten a taste of virtual events, and their many ups and downs. The tech side of things can get remarkably complicated, and it’s hard to make a virtual show more compelling/interactive/engaging than a YouTube video would be. Zuddl , a virtual events platform, has raised a $13.35 No flights!

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AUGUST 3, 2022

spending billions of dollars on virtual reality tech every fiscal quarter, the wider VR startup ecosystem has been having a tough few years coming down from the highs of 2016, when investors dumped money into the sector expecting Oculus-sized returns only to see most of their investments slowly wilt away. Despite Zuckerberg & Co.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Autonomous delivery startup Nuro has struck a deal with safety-focused software company Foretellix to help with virtual testing of its automated driving system, in a bid to cut R&D costs while still pushing the technology forward.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Employers have responded in kind, more or less, with tech companies in particular offering generous work from home and hybrid work options. “ When COVID-19 hit, we scrambled like everyone else to go virtual. ” One of Kumospace’s virtual office spaces. [And Image Credits: Kumospace.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

After operating in beta for a year, Nooks, a virtual workspace space targeting distributed teams, has attracted thousands of users and millions of dollars in venture capital. This is Kevin Hartz’s second investment in a virtual HQ, with his first in Gather. Virtual HQs race to win over a remote-work-fatigued market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Few people thought of virtual events before the pandemic struck, but this format has fulfilled a unique and important need for companies and organizations large and small during the pandemic. But what will virtual events’ value be as more of the world attempts to return to life before COVID-19?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China (behind Tencent), is among a group of investors who just backed IMVU, an avatar-focused social network operating out of California. The company declined to disclose its post-money valuation. A NetEase spokesperson declined to comment on the investment in IMVU.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Walmart is expanding its array of virtual try-on services for shoppers with today’s news that it’s planning to acquire Memomi , an AR optical tech company and current Walmart partner offering virtual try-on experience for eyewear. to the communities we serve.” to the communities we serve.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In order to recover, companies must focus on re-skilling their workforces in a measured and sustainable way. However, training and recruitment can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for companies, a heavy investment that is hard to explain during volatile times. The company raised money in August to expand to Asia.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Earlier this year, the founders of event analytics platform Hubilo pivoted to become a virtual events platform to survive the impact of COVID-19. Event discovery network IRL raises $16M Series B after refocusing on virtual events. Spotify is developing a ‘virtual events’ feature.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Retail giant Walmart announced this morning it’s acquiring the Tel Aviv-based startup Zeekit , which allows consumers to virtually “try on” clothing when shopping online. According to data from PitchBook, Zeekit had raised over $24 million in outside capital, but we’ve confirmed that’s inaccurate.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

SoWork, a virtual co-working startup, began after Punwani and his co-founders decided to build a machine learning edtech company. So, combining their love for building and gaming, the group put together an internal communication product inspired by virtual worlds. Permanence is the elephant in the room for any virtual HQ.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Events — when they haven’t been cancelled altogether in the last 12 months due to the global health pandemic — have gone virtual and online, and a wave of startups that are helping people create and participate in those experiences are seeing a surge of attention — and funding.

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CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Foundry’s AI survey also identified several roles that companies are looking to hire to help with the integration of gen AI in the workplace. Here are the top 11 roles companies are currently hiring for, or have plans to hire for, to directly address their emerging gen AI strategies.

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APRIL 7, 2021

The collection of companies is, however, defined by a wide range of focuses, from pioneering diabetes treatments to retrofitting autonomous trucking, curated by the SkyDeck’s small team and a number of advisors. Founded in 2012, the accelerator is focused on developing early-stage companies tied to the University of California system.

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MAY 20, 2021

When Privacy.com was founded in 2014, the company’s focus was to let anyone generate virtual and disposable payment card numbers for free. The goal was to allow those users to keep users’ actual credit card numbers safe while allowing the option to cut off companies from their bank accounts. At the time of its $10.2 in Series A.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

billion in assets under management , has poured millions into an edtech startup that sells virtual STEM lab simulations to institutions. Like many edtech companies, Labster has found itself centered and validated as the pandemic underscores the need for remote work. We’re not a content company,” the co-founder said.

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MAY 29, 2024

Addiction-focused virtual care startups have pulled in hundreds of millions for business models largely based on building offerings scalable enough to meet the massive demand for treatment. Altogether, companies on our list have raised $765 million in known funding to date. Much of the funding activity is quite recent.

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The Crazy Programmer

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The virtual machine is the type of computer that does not require the physical hardware components or requires very little. Nowadays, virtual machines or VMs have become essential assets and tools to be used in business-oriented computing. What is Virtual Machine? Advantages of Virtual Machine. Image Source.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

How Nvidia got here and where it’s going next sheds light on how the company has achieved that valuation, a story that owes a lot to the rising importance of specialty chips in business—and accelerating interest in the promise of generative AI. Nvidia gets two bites at this market. The other is the cars themselves.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This virtual event start at 2:00 pm EST/11:00 am PST on Monday, February 27 and is free to attend. 406 Venture’s Greg Dracon and Matt Caulfield, CEO of Oort, to talk through the Boston ecosystem, and why security startups should look at building their companies in Boston. The show kicks off with a conversation between.406

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CIO

JUNE 13, 2023

Only last month ServiceNow rolled out its first generative AI tools: the ServiceNow Generative AI Controller for connecting large language models (LLMs) to its software automation platform, and Now Assist for Search, which uses those LLMs and an enterprise’s own data to generate natural language responses to queries made in a virtual agent.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Founders like to create companies around what they know, and Frank Westermann and Anton Kittelberger know diabetes. from Austria to introduce MySugr stateside before the company was acquired by Roche for $100 million in 2017. from Austria to introduce MySugr stateside before the company was acquired by Roche for $100 million in 2017.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Extend is one such company. The New York-based startup, which provides digital payment infrastructure for financial institutions so they can offer virtual cards to their users, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by March Capital. It makes basis points on the transactions made on those cards. But it wasn’t easy.

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JULY 14, 2021

As concerts and live events return to the physical world stateside, many in the tech industry have wondered whether some of the pandemic-era opportunities around virtualizing these events are lost for the time being. The virtual concert industry didn’t have as big of a lockdown moment as some hoped for.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Roam , which bills itself as a “cloud HQ” for distributed, remote companies, today emerged from stealth with $30 million in Series A funding led by IVP with participation from undisclosed angel investors. million seed round and values the company at $95 million post-money, will be put toward go-to-market efforts in the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Obstetrics virtual care company Babyscripts raised $12 million in the first round of a Series B investment that will enable the company to accelerate the roll out of its virtual maternity care tool platform to providers. based Babyscripts two years ago when Phillips led a $6 million investment into the company.

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JULY 11, 2022

D’Ambra and Zhang previously worked in digital health spaces before deciding to found Arise, a New York–based virtual eating disorder care company. The company is slated to launch their pilot program later this summer — though, the pilot will serve up to only 30 patients. Senate is reviewing potential privacy rights violations.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Raven Gao didn’t set up virtual social platform MEW to ride the metaverse wave. He began working on MEW in mid-2019 with a Tencent veteran because he wanted to build a virtual safe haven for socially awkward introverts like himself. The company has not previously announced its funding amount.

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MAY 4, 2021

But with the pandemic hitting, it did a hard pivot into providing a highly customizable virtual events platform, primarily used by companies for their sales events. Founder Jasenko Hadzic , CEO and co-founder, said the pivot to virtual grew revenues “by 700% organically last year. and grow revenues. No marketing.

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APRIL 5, 2021

Join us on our next (virtual) field trip to Southeast Michigan. This is where StockX and Rivian call home, along with a growing stable of medical technology companies, fintech startups and security companies. Companies are started and deals get done at TechCrunch events (yes, even the virtual ones!). Why Detroit?

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