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Betterdata uses synthetic data to keep real data safe

TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2023

Betterdata , a Singapore-based startup that uses programmable synthetic data to keep real data secure, announced today it has raised $1.55 These synthetic datasets have similar characteristics and structure to real-world data without disclosing sensitive or private information about individuals. “The

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Transitioning Production Tests into a Synthetic Monitoring Solution

LaunchDarkly

AUGUST 1, 2019

In June the Test in Production Meetup went to London, and our friends at Intercom hosted us in their Shoreditch offices. Jonathan Hare-Winton spoke about how and why his team at The Guardian used synthetic monitoring. So I’ve already covered who I am, so yeah production tests to synthetic monitoring. TRANSCRIPT.

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Synthesis AI raises $17M to generate synthetic data for computer vision

TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Synthesis AI , a startup developing a platform that generates synthetic data to train AI systems, today announced that it raised $17 million in a Series A funding round led by 468 Capital with participation from Sorenson Ventures and Strawberry Creek Ventures, Bee Partners, PJC, iRobot Ventures, Boom Capital and Kubera Venture Capital.

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MOSTLY AI raises $25 million to further commercialize synthetic data in Europe and the US

TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Austrian synthetic data startup MOSTLY AI today announced that it has raised a $25 million Series B round. Synthetic data is fake data, but not random: MOSTLY AI uses artificial intelligence to achieve a high degree of fidelity to its clients’ databases. where it already has offices in New York City.

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Scale AI gets into the synthetic data game

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Now, it is using that foundation to get into the synthetic data game, one of the hotter and emerging categories in AI. They announced Wednesday an early access program to Scale Synthetic , a product that machine learning engineers can use to enhance their existing real-world data sets, according to the company.

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Terraform Industries wants to solve climate change by making more hydrocarbons

TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

The company wants to turn hydrogen and atmospheric carbon into synthetic natural gas at scale. According to Handmer, the chemical reactor is hitting 94% methane purity already, which means that it is making synthetic natural gas fully compatible with existing distribution pipelines. A billion metric tons of carbon.

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Colorado AI legislation further complicates compliance equation

CIO

MAY 10, 2024

If you know that the product you are using contains AI,” then that requires action, he said. Other parts of Senate Bill 24-205 might make it less efficient for companies to use AI. But if you don’t know and are not purposely sticking your head in the sand, I don’t think there is any obligation under this bill.

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Rize raises $11.4M to scale its embedded fintech service

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Rize is an interesting company in a competitive space; the market for building financial technology products for use by customers enjoys a great number of players. More importantly, Rize has built something that it calls “synthetic accounts.” New capital should help the company expand its product mix. It’s not.

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Rendered.ai raises $6M on the promise of ending data scarcity

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The availability of data can paralyze a company and its effort to bring software-centric products and services to market. is generating synthetic data for the satellite, medical, robotics and automotive industries. At its most broad, synthetic data is manufactured rather than gathered from the real world.

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AI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding

TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

LOVO , the Berkeley, California-based artificial intelligence (AI) voice & synthetic speech tool developer, this week closed a $4.5 The proceeds will be used to propel its research and development in artificial intelligence and synthetic speech and grow the team. “We We want to democratize limitations of content production.

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Parallel Domain says autonomous driving won’t scale without synthetic data

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Most self-driving vehicle companies, like Cruise, Waymo and Waabi, use synthetic data for training and testing perception models with speed and a level of control that’s impossible with data collected from the real world. A sample of Parallel Domain’s synthetic data. Virtual world building. Image Credit: Parallel Domain.

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Forsaking funding at a $1 billion valuation, Solugen preps a new green chemical product and a big 2021

TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Late last year, Solugen , a startup using synthetic biology to take hydrocarbons out of the chemicals industry, decided against pursuing a new round of funding that would have valued the company at over $1 billion, TechCrunch has learned. Synthetic biology startups are giving investors an appetite.

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Adthos uses generative AI to completely automate audio ads

TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2023

And on the voice side, Adthos compiled a library of hundreds of synthetic voices, including — according to Wedel — “Emmy Award-winning” voice actors and talents. “We use real-life voice actors for the training of synthetic voices. “It will undoubtedly cause jobs to be lost.

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Nvidia debuts new products for robotics developers, including Jetson Orin Nano

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Users can generate data sets from simulated sensors to train the models on real-world robots, leveraging synthetic data from batches of parallel, unique simulations to improve the model’s performance. It’s not just marketing bluster, necessarily.

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Gourmey grabs $48 million to keep working on lab-grown foie gras

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It is part of a new wave of companies that want to turn cell-cultured meat products into mainstream products. Gourmey matures stem cells in bioreactors with the right nutrients at the right temperature so that it becomes synthetic foie gras or — as they say — slaughter-free foie gras. and the E.U.,” Morin-Forest said.

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Neosapience gets $21.5M to use AI-powered synthetic avatars for creators

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A Korean startup called Neosapience has developed a synthetic voice and video platform, Typecast , that lets users turn text into a video without recording and editing in a studio. . Media companies around the world can easily access to revolutionize the way emotions are embedded into digital and virtual contents productions.” .

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Rephrase.ai lands fresh investment to grow its synthetic media platform

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Rephrase.ai, a self-described synthetic media production platform, today announced that it raised $10.6 CEO Ashray Malhotra says that the plan is to put the new cash toward expanding headcount with a particular focus on Rephrase’s engineering, data science, product and business teams. To date, the startup has raised $12.5

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Generative AI is pushing unstructured data to center stage

CIO

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For example, generative AI models are especially adept at making sense of diverse, unstructured datasets to create realistic content, enhance data for machine learning training, simulate and model complex scenarios and environments, and personalize algorithms for targeted marketing and product recommendations.

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When will AI usher in a new era of manufacturing?

CIO

JULY 12, 2023

They also get ahead by reducing production errors. At a minimum, product and engineering teams need to be involved to build a solution tailored to the unique ways the company takes raw materials and components, and converts them into goods they can sell. Then they package the components to create the final product.

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Tonic is betting that synthetic data is the new big data to solve scalability and security

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Tonic is a “synthetic data” platform that transforms raw data into more manageable and private datasets usable by software engineers and business analysts. Along the way, Tonic’s algorithms de-identifies the original data and creates statistically identical but synthetic datasets, which means that personal information isn’t shared insecurely.

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BetterData taps the blockchain to help create better synthetic data

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As the global data privacy regulatory landscape gets more convoluted and constrictive, engineering teams looking to use structured data to improve their products and AI models are being pushed to jump through plenty of hoops to stay compliant. They are planning to launch a public beta of their cloud services solution by the end of this year.

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Yali Bio wants to fatten up plant-based foods

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Enticing people to change their eating habits, especially to try alternative meat products, is a challenge for food tech companies because people want that product to taste, smell and feel like actual meat. Yali Bio is one company that thinks it has cracked that code by focusing on designer fats for plant-based meat and dairy products.

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5 modern challenges in data integration and how CIOs can overcome them

CIO

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These require synthetic data generation , natural language processing, image recognition, and ML techniques for meaningful analysis. K2view uses its patented entity-based synthetic data generation approach. This makes it complicated to categorize, index, and extract relevant information. The complexity doesn’t end here.

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Gretel AI raises $50M for a platform that lets engineers build and use synthetic data sets to ensure the privacy of their actual data

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Gretel AI , which lets engineers create anonymized, synthetic data sets based on their actual data sets to use in their analytics and to train machine learning models has closed $50 million in funding, a Series B that it will be using to get the company to the next stage of development. million to date.

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WellSaid attracts $10M A round for higher quality synthetic speech

TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

WellSaid Labs, whose tools create synthetic speech that could be mistaken for the real thing, has raised a $10M Series A to grow the business. In the meantime the company has expanded from its first market, corporate training videos, to marketing, longer copy, interactive products with considerable text and app experiences.

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Gretel announces $12M Series A to make it easier to anonymize data

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The first product is an open source, synthetic machine learning library for developers that strips out personally identifiable information. to train AI with synthetic data. The company was founded last year, and they have actually used this year to develop the open source product and build an open source community around it.

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With a €43M EU grant and €1.2M from a VC, this startup plans to turn CO2 emissions into gold

TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

It claims to be able to capture CO 2 from industrial emitters at the point of emission using “synthetic biology” to develop biocatalysts (bacteria). ” Synthetic biology technology is already starting to be widely applied in a number of areas.

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Diveplane lands $25M to grow its MLOps platform

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The aforementioned platform eventually became Diveplane , which today offers products that create synthetic data to train AI systems, find anomalies in data and forecast market trends. Training on synthetic data has its downsides , it’s worth noting.) military, while Capps had recently retired as president of Epic Games.

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Advanced Ionics nets $12.5M Series A to inject green hydrogen into heavy industry

TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

It’s essential for the ammonia used to make fertilizers and for many petrochemical processes used to make everything from plastics to synthetic rubber and lubricants. Even steel and glass production could benefit from a decarbonized source of hydrogen.

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Synthetic speech startup Murf lends a voice to content creators of all sizes

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Synthetic speech tech startup Murf gives a voice, literally, to content creators of all sizes. million seed led by Elevation Capital and angel investors who helped them recruit talent, invest in product innovation and user acquisition. This included creating and updating product demos and recording radio and video ads.

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Truepic, which just raised $26M in a Microsoft-led round, aims to verify the authenticity of photos and videos

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

M12 Principal James Wu said that t he number of deep-fake videos and synthetic media online is growing at an exponential rate. . There has been a great deal of investment in synthetic media, but very few are thinking about the other side of the coin — when synthetic media is used nefariously,” he said.

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Aflorithmic nabs $1.3M for AI-driven personalized audio-as-a-service

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It’s built a platform that offers fully automated, scalable audio production by using AI-driven synthetic media, (“ethical”) voice cloning, and audio mastering — which can be delivered to people’s ears via websites, mobile apps, smart speakers and so on via its APIs.

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Tonic.ai raises $35M Series B to help engineers create synthetic data sets

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Tonic.ai , a startup that helps engineers create synthetic data sets is trying to fix that, and today the company announced a $35 million Series B. Company CEO and co-founder Ian Coe says that the goal of the company is to provide production-like data for developers that keeps governance and compliance folks inside an organization happy.”Tonic

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The complex patchwork of US AI regulation has already arrived

CIO

APRIL 5, 2024

The 118th session of Congress, covering 2023 and 2024, may end up as the least productive session in US history, with only 47 bills passed and becoming law between the beginning of 2023 and April 1 of this year. Companies should first take an inventory of the AI products they’re using.

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Papercup raises $20M for AI that automatically dubs videos

TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Video content producers upload their videos, specify a language, wait for Papercup’s teams of native speakers to quality-check the audio, and receive a translation with a synthetic voiceover. ” The market for AI-generated “synthetic media” is growing.

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Allbirds is investing in a plant-based leather substitute, plans faux-leather shoe drop in December

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Allbirds these days is far more than a shoe company, and Natural Fiber Welding’s products include a purportedly tougher cotton fiber made using the company’s proprietary processing technology and a plant-based leather substitute. and Capital V , an investment firm focused on backing vegan products.

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AgBiome lands $166M for safer crop protection technology

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

AgBiome , developing products from microbial communities, brought in a $116 million Series D round as the company prepares to pad its pipeline with new products. The company randomly selects strains and looks for the best family of strains with a certain activity, like preventing fungus on strawberries, and creates the product.

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The Use Case for Synthetic Data and Document Generation: Accelerating Digital Transformation Through Efficient Testing

Perficient

JANUARY 19, 2024

One use case organizations can consider is Synthetic Data and Document Generation, which allows companies to automate the creation of synthetic (or fake) data for testing purposes, therefore accelerating their digital transformation initiatives. What Is Synthetic Data and Document Generation? What’s Next? Contact us today.

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TestBox nabs $10M seed to expand platform for software purchase testing

TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

What’s more, it comes pre-populated with synthetic data that is similar to yours. He said that their original vision was to be a testing marketplace where companies could come and find the software they want to test and simply run it, but he’s finding sales teams are asking to use test boxes for their company’s products. “We’re

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Hoxton Farms raises £2.7M seed to produce animal fat without animals

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

He started the company with longtime school friend Dr Max Jamilly, who has two degrees in biotechnology and a PhD in synthetic biology (the pair met at pre-school). “I This is seeing demand for meat alternatives soaring, but, argues Steele, these products still aren’t good enough. They don’t taste right and they aren’t healthy.

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Dynatrace Adds Synthetic Tests to Validate App Experiences

DevOps.com

JUNE 28, 2022

Dynatrace today extended the application release management capabilities it provides to include synthetic tests for validating and assuring user experiences. The post Dynatrace Adds Synthetic Tests to Validate App Experiences appeared first on DevOps.com.

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Andreessen Horowitz backs Synonym’s bio-manufacturing facilities

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

million in new pre-seed capital, Synonym Biotechnologies has begun the development phase for its first productized bio-manufacturing facilities for non-pharmaceutical applications. Costs will be the driving factor to adoption and production costs have prevented them from already entering supply chains,” Shenderovich said.

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Facebook’s historic outage, explained

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

The withdrawal of the latter prefix is shown below in Kentik’s BGP Monitor (part of Kentik Synthetics ) beginning with a spike of activity at 15:39 UTC before returning at 21:00 UTC. Our global network of synthetic agents , located around the world, immediately alerted us that something had gone terribly wrong at Facebook.

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Vanilla Vida wants the world to eat more natural vanilla

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

However, despite its popularity, its production is so complex that many people aren’t often getting the real thing, but a synthetic version of the flavoring. The thing that pushed us forward more than in the past, was to reach the important milestone of giving value to the customer — quality of the product,” Zilberman told TechCrunch.

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Betterdata uses synthetic data to keep real data safe

Transitioning Production Tests into a Synthetic Monitoring Solution

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Synthesis AI raises $17M to generate synthetic data for computer vision

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MOSTLY AI raises $25 million to further commercialize synthetic data in Europe and the US

Scale AI gets into the synthetic data game

Terraform Industries wants to solve climate change by making more hydrocarbons

Colorado AI legislation further complicates compliance equation

Rize raises $11.4M to scale its embedded fintech service

Rendered.ai raises $6M on the promise of ending data scarcity

AI voice, synthetic speech company LOVO gets $4.5M pre-series A funding

Parallel Domain says autonomous driving won’t scale without synthetic data

Forsaking funding at a $1 billion valuation, Solugen preps a new green chemical product and a big 2021

Adthos uses generative AI to completely automate audio ads

Nvidia debuts new products for robotics developers, including Jetson Orin Nano

Gourmey grabs $48 million to keep working on lab-grown foie gras

Neosapience gets $21.5M to use AI-powered synthetic avatars for creators

Rephrase.ai lands fresh investment to grow its synthetic media platform

Generative AI is pushing unstructured data to center stage

When will AI usher in a new era of manufacturing?

Tonic is betting that synthetic data is the new big data to solve scalability and security

BetterData taps the blockchain to help create better synthetic data

Yali Bio wants to fatten up plant-based foods

5 modern challenges in data integration and how CIOs can overcome them

Gretel AI raises $50M for a platform that lets engineers build and use synthetic data sets to ensure the privacy of their actual data

WellSaid attracts $10M A round for higher quality synthetic speech

Gretel announces $12M Series A to make it easier to anonymize data

With a €43M EU grant and €1.2M from a VC, this startup plans to turn CO2 emissions into gold

Diveplane lands $25M to grow its MLOps platform

Advanced Ionics nets $12.5M Series A to inject green hydrogen into heavy industry

Synthetic speech startup Murf lends a voice to content creators of all sizes

Truepic, which just raised $26M in a Microsoft-led round, aims to verify the authenticity of photos and videos

Aflorithmic nabs $1.3M for AI-driven personalized audio-as-a-service

Tonic.ai raises $35M Series B to help engineers create synthetic data sets

The complex patchwork of US AI regulation has already arrived

Papercup raises $20M for AI that automatically dubs videos

Allbirds is investing in a plant-based leather substitute, plans faux-leather shoe drop in December

AgBiome lands $166M for safer crop protection technology

The Use Case for Synthetic Data and Document Generation: Accelerating Digital Transformation Through Efficient Testing

TestBox nabs $10M seed to expand platform for software purchase testing

Hoxton Farms raises £2.7M seed to produce animal fat without animals

Dynatrace Adds Synthetic Tests to Validate App Experiences

Andreessen Horowitz backs Synonym’s bio-manufacturing facilities

Facebook’s historic outage, explained

Vanilla Vida wants the world to eat more natural vanilla

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