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South African startup Qwili gets $1.2M to scale its app and low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone

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In a statement shared with TechCrunch, Qwili said it would use the investment for app development, new hires (improvement in operations and development capabilities) and hardware production. The company’s hardware is a low-cost NFC-enabled smartphone called Qwili Pula that allows merchants to send and receive payments.

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Mage aims to be the ‘Stripe for AI;’ raises $6.3M for developer tools to build AI into apps

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Mage , developing an artificial intelligence tool for product developers to build and integrate AI into apps, brought in $6.3 While collaborating with product developers, Dang and Wang saw that while product developers wanted to use AI, they didn’t have the right tools in which to do it without relying on data scientists.

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Insight Partners leads $30M round into Metabase, developing enterprise business intelligence tools

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Metabase was developed within venture studio Expa and spun out as an easy way for people to interact with data sets, co-founder and CEO Sameer Al-Sakran told TechCrunch. To date, Metabase has been downloaded 98 million times and used by more than 30,000 companies across 200 countries. million in funding since it was founded in 2015.

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Activeloop snags $5M seed to build streaming database for AI applications

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Davit Buniatyan, founder and CEO at the company says the company developed out of research he was doing at Princeton where saw the need for a streaming database of unstructured data like images and video specifically designed for AI use cases. The program has been downloaded 300,000 times so far. Activeloop image database.

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How ZoomInfo Enhances Your Database Management Strategy

It's quite a process for marketing teams to develop a long-term data management strategy. Forward-thinking marketing organizations have continuously invested in a database strategy for enabling marketing processes. It involves finding a data management provider that can append contacts with correct information — in real-time.

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Some frank advice for open-source startups seeking product-market fit

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Unlike typical enterprise software companies, open source startups must go through two journeys for finding product-market fit: First, building a product that users would download and use for free, and then building features that users would pay for. The beauty of open source software is that anyone can download and use it for free.

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OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet

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Available in alpha to ChatGPT users and developers on the waitlist , OpenAI says that it’ll initially prioritize a small number of developers and subscribers to its premium ChatGPT Plus plan before rolling out larger-scale and API access. ” Plugins are a curious addition to the timeline of ChatGPT’s development. .

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.