1mg Got $70M In Series D Funding Round Led By IFC, Corisol Holdings

Gurugram-based health tech platform 1mg has raised $70 million in its latest round of funding led by IFC (the investment arm of the World Bank), and Corisol Holdings. The funding will be used to accelerate investments in its growth, supply chain, and healthcare AI.

Source: HOB

March 2019 Startup Funding: Money Springs Forth

Another month, another couple of billion-dollar rounds. Singapore-based Grab raised nearly $1.5 billion from the SoftBank Vision Fund, bringing its total private funding to more than $4.5 billion and valuing the company at around $14 billion.

Source: HOB

Top 50 Data Structures, Programming Language Interview Questions & Answers For Java & Python

There are a lot of computer science graduates and programmers applying for a programming language, coding, and software development roles at companies like Uber and Netflix; big organizations like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google; and service-based companies like Infosys or Luxsoft.

Source: HOB

Alibaba set up its first joint research center outside China to focus on AI

Chinese tech giant Alibaba on Wednesday said it set up a joint research institute in Singapore, together with a local university. The research institute will focus on developing artificial intelligence applications in a variety of areas including health care, smart homes and urban transportation.

Source: CNBC

Ex-Googlers Raise $10M to automate code testing with Machine Learning

After selling their previous startup Stackdriver to Google in 2014 and working for the tech giant, Izzy Azeri and Dan Belcher have spent the last couple of years cooking up their next startup with a focus on how to make

Source: AmericanInno

Startup Watchlist: 10 Indian AI Startups To Watch Out For In 2018

Indian AI Startups Raised About $87.85 Mn In 2017

Source: Inc42

H2O.ai Raises $40 Million to Democratize Artificial Intelligence for the Enterprise

H2O.ai, the leading company bringing AI to enterprises, today announced it has completed a $40 million Series C round of funding led by Wells Fargo and NVIDIA with participation from New York Life, Crane Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners and Transamerica Ventures, the corporate venture capital fund of Transamerica and Aegon Group.

Source: Businesswire

TrueAccord Nabs $22M Series B To Bring Machine Learning To Debt Collections

San Francisco based TrueAccord, announced today that is has closed $22M in additional funding led by Arbor Ventures, with participation from existing and new investors. The Series B funding follows a period of sustained and rapid growth for the company.

Source: Forbes

Machine learning startup Graphcore raises $50M in round led by Sequoia Capital

Machine learning startup Graphcore Ltd. has raised $50 million in new funding in a round led by Sequoia Capital, according to news published Sunday but not yet confirmed by the company itself.

Source: Siliconangle

Pienso raises $2.1M to help non-programmers interact with machine learning models

Though the world could probably use a few more machine learning experts, there are a lot of non-programming specialists whose expertise could directly benefit ML models.

Source: TC

BrainChip Holdings attracts $21.5M for artificial intelligence technology

The software can learn, evolve and associate information like the human brain.

Source: Proactiveinvestors

Salesforce to launch $50 million artificial intelligence fund

The venture wing of Salesforce.com Inc is launching a $50 million fund to invest in start-ups employing artificial intelligence, the cloud computing firm told Reuters on Tuesday.

Source: reuters

Artificial Intelligence Is Here To Stay, But Consumer Trust Is A Must for AI in Business

One of the most significant advances for sales in this decade is the growing sophistication and accuracy of predictive analytics-the science of knowing how and why and when people buy, and the best ways to approach them in sales. Predictive analytics is, in my opinion, one of the most compelling uses of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Source: Forbes

GNS Healthcare raises $6 million for causal machine learning platform

Precision medicine company GNS Healthcare has raised an additional $6 million in equity from Amgen Ventures, with participation from existing investor Alexandria Real Estate Equities. The funds will be used to further develop the company's REFS causal machine learning and simulation platform -- as well as solutions across drug discovery and development, value-based drug solutions, and care management.

Source: mobihealthnews

ThoughtSpot raises $60 million ends funding round for artificial intelligence technology

Silicon Valley technology company ThoughtSpot has completed a $120 million funding round to fuel the start-up's new artificial intelligence endeavor.

Source: reuters

Cleo a chatbot that wants to replace your banking apps raises 2M pound led by LocalGlobe

Cleo, the London-based fintech startup that offers an AI-powered chatbot to help you manage your finances, has closed 2 million pound in further funding, adding to an impressive list of backers that already includes Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom.

Source: Tech Crunch

Rajan Anandan 500 Startups invest in chatbot tool Bottr.me

Chatbot creation tool Bottr.me has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from 500 Startups, Purvi Capital, Google India`s managing director Rajan Anandan, and Abhishek Gupta from TLabs, according to a company executive.

Source: VCCircle

Freshdesk owner Freshworks acquires Joe Hukum as it plans a move into chatbots

After raising $55 million last year to build its business beyond its existing help desk services, today Freshworks (the parent company of Freshdesk) has made an acquisition to help it fill out that strategy.

Source: Tech Crunch