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Sema4.ai Raises $30.5 Million to Bring Open Source Powered AI to Mission-Critical Enterprise Work

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Monday, January 29, 2024

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ATLANTA, Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sema4.ai is on a mission to build intelligent agents that transform how knowledge workers collaborate with AI. Led by open source pioneers and fueled by $30.5M from investors, including Benchmark, Mayfield, and Canvas Ventures, Sema4.ai is poised to become the leader in the $88B autonomous agent market. Today, the company announced the acquisition of open source automation innovator Robocorp, accelerating their position to build, run, and manage intelligent agents for the enterprise.

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Acquires open source automation pioneer Robocorp to ignite a new era of intelligent agents for enterprise knowledge work.
ATLANTA, Jan. 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sema4.ai is on a mission to build intelligent agents that transform how knowledge workers collaborate with AI.
Today, the company announced the acquisition of open source automation innovator Robocorp, accelerating their position to build, run, and manage intelligent agents for the enterprise.
Together, we're well-positioned to build category-defining intelligent agents that connect context to action, changing how work gets done in the enterprise."

Yobi announces $2.37M seed funding

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Thursday, February 2, 2023

Yobi , the AI-focused customer communications app catering specifically to the small business community, today announced that it has raised a total of $2.37M as part of its oversubscribed seed round.

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Yobi , the AI-focused customer communications app catering specifically to the small business community, today announced that it has raised a total of $2.37M as part of its oversubscribed seed round.
Yobi is a potent tool that solves this major challenge by connecting multiple communications in one app.
The company's AI-powered Yobi Translator and Call Sentiment Analysis are the latest capabilities added to elevate the app's CRM experience.
“Yobi is a godsend to our startup,” enthused Marek Laskowski, chief customer experience officer of the Nevada Tour Company.

Popular Open Source GraphQL Company Dgraph Secures $6M in Seed Round with New Leadership

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Wednesday, July 20, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO , July 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Dgraph, the company behind the most popular open source Graph database, announced a $6 million seed re-financing round led by Venrock and Uncorrelated Ventures, with participation from Abstract Ventures, HackVC, SaxeCap, and Liquid2 Ventures. World-class executives also joined the round, including DJ Patil, former US Chief Data Scientist; Michael Callahan, founder of Awake Security; Ry Walker, founder of Astronomer; Ganesh Srinivasan, Chief Product Officer at Confluent; Chris Riccomini; and JP Patil, Head of Data at Included Health.

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Since its initial open source release in 2016, Dgraph has become the most popular open source Graph database on GitHub and the youngest company to be named in Forrester's Graph Data Platform landscape.
The team is also focused on a renewed stewardship to the Dgraph community and will introduce a new set of features to the open source project.
In addition, the Dgraph community has been a vibrant and significant contributor to the advancement and success of Dgraph.
Dgraph is the graph database company, an open source, general purpose, distributed graph database powering high performance applications and operational needs.

IARFC Releases the 2022 Spring Edition of its Journal of Personal Finance

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Thursday, March 17, 2022

"This Spring issue showcases deep dives across personal finance, financial planning, and risk management," explains Journal Editor, Dr. Craig Lemoine, MRFC.

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"This Spring issue showcases deep dives across personal finance, financial planning, and risk management," explains Journal Editor, Dr. Craig Lemoine, MRFC.
The following seven articles are included the 2022 edition, Volume 21, Issue 1
No Good deed Goes Unpunished: The Hidden Complications of Donation-Based Crowdfunding
"The IARFC continues to publish relevant and educational academic research consistently, year after year through the Journal of Personal Finance," relates IARFC Trustee Chair, H. Stephen Bailey, Ph.D., MRFC .
Initiated in 2002, the Journal of Personal Finance has grown in scope, acceptance and recognition among practitioners and academicians.
Members can take the IARFC Journal of Personal Finance Online CE quizzes.

Japanese Startup Autify Raises $10M Series A To Advance Software Testing Automation Through No-code Solution

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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO and TOKYO, Oct. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Autify, a no-code AI-powered software testing automation platform, announced today that it has raised $10M in Series A funding. Leading the round is World Innovation Lab (WiL), a growth-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto and Tokyo. WiL is joined in this round by new investors Uncorrelated Ventures and individual investor Jonathan Siegel in addition to existing investors Archetype Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Tably.

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SAN FRANCISCO and TOKYO, Oct. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Autify , ano-codeAI-powered software testing automation platform, announced today that it has raised $10M in Series A funding.
Autify is a true no-code web application that allows anyone to easily create,execute, and automate software test scenarios without programming knowledge or automation skills.
"With 75% of companies globally still manually performing software development tests, Autify is hoping to disrupt the $1.3 trillion global testing market by providing a no-code application for automated testing," said Ryo Chikazawa, Autify Co-founder & CEO.
"Even though Autify started in Japan, the vision for their no-code solution is to advance the automation of software testing not only in Japan, but also globally.

Nirmata Raises $4M in Pre-Series A Funding to Capitalize on the Full Potential of Kubernetes Native Policy Management, Kyverno

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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

This funding builds upon an exceptional year for Nirmata and comes as Kyverno achieved considerable growth punctuated by the increased adoption of open source.

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This funding builds upon an exceptional year for Nirmata and comes as Kyverno achieved considerable growth punctuated by the increased adoption of open source.
With Kyverno and Policy Manager for Kyverno (PMK), Nirmata offers a simple and elegant Kubernetes Native Policy management approach to secure cloud applications.
Policy management is one such critical service, and Kyverno is a beautiful open-source CNCF-endorsed native solution that allows policies to be managed as Kubernetes resources."
Nirmata, the creator of Kyverno, provides open source and commercial enterprise solutions for governance, compliance, security, and automation of production Kubernetes workloads.