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Virtual Internships matches students with top companies around the world

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Remote work struck down barriers for many employees, and now Virtual Internships is doing the same for university students around the world by partnering with over 12,000 companies from 100 countries. Since its launch, Virtual Internships has increased its revenue from $100,000 in fiscal year 2019/2020 to $4.1

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Disney-backed Inworld raises new cash for its AI-powered virtual characters

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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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VRAI wants to tackle the energy crisis by bringing VR simulation training to offshore wind sector

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Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring.

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UBITS snags $25M to create ‘the Netflix for corporate training’ in LatAm

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Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.” UBITS is also working on further personalizing its offering so that each employee has his/her own training path. “We It also plans to double its team of 280 this year.

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ServiceNow offers virtual agent to assist with generative AI

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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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Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box raises $10.6M Series A led by Paladin Capital

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Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box , which emerged originally from Greece, has raised a Series A investment round of $10.6 Started in 2017, Hack The Box specializes in using “ethical hacking” to train cybersecurity techniques. It will use the funding to expand. Most recently it launched Hack The Box Academy.

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Product School raises $25M in growth equity to scale its product training platform

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The growth funding for the company comes after bootstrapping since 2014, in large part because product managers (PMs) are no longer needed just inside tech companies but have become sought after across almost virtually all industries. Its main competitor is MindTheProduct , a community and training platform, which has also boostrapped.

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