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Call center automation software vendor Replicant raises $78M

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According to one survey , only 10% of contact center agents reach proficiency in fewer than two months. “[With the new capital,] we plan to ramp up investment in our customer success team to onboard new customers,” cofounder and CEO Gadi Shamia told TechCrunch via email. And what about call center workers?

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Reveal raises $50M to espouse the benefits of partner ecosystems

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In a 2018 Accenture survey , 76% of business leaders said that current business models will be unrecognizable in the next five years, with ecosystems being the main change agent. Sadones was the CTO at Multiposting, while Gautier cofounded employee sourcing and hiring platform Work4.

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Despite remote work and the economic downturn, some companies look to London for expansion

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virtual events platform Hopin serves as another example, rising from a seed-stage upstart at the pandemic’s outset to become a $6 billion juggernaut in just 12 months — before laying off a huge chunk of its staff in pursuit of more sustainable growth. . In the U.K., Liu said in a statement at the time.

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The Metaverse Is Not a Place

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Some people seem to think of it as a kind of real estate , complete with land grabs and the attempt to bring traffic to whatever bit of virtual property they’ve created. Virtual Reality headsets will make these places more immersive, we imagine. Virtual Reality headsets will make these places more immersive, we imagine.

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

TechCrunch

One survey called the use of synthetic data “one of the most promising general techniques on the rise in [AI].” Behzadi, of course, asserts that Synthesis has taken meaningful steps toward overcoming these technical hurdles. ” But synthetic data has limitations. ” Image Credits: Synthesis AI.

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