Showing posts with label launch. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 15, 2018

The founders of viral photo app Prisma are quitting to launch an AI startup

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The founders of viral photo app Prisma have quit to launch a new AI startup called Capture Technologies Inc. They have raised $1 million in seed funding from investors, including KPCB, Social Capital, Dream Machine VC, Paul Heydon, and Mail.Ru Group. The app will use an AI algorithm to connect people, but details on how it will work are thin.

The creators of the photo app Prisma, which went viral back in 2016 for making images look like works of art, are quitting launch an AI startup.

Prisma CEO Alexey Moiseenkov and CMO Aram Hardy have raised $1 million (£750,000) in seed funding for Capture Technologies from investors, including Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers, and Russia's Mail.Ru Group.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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Monday, June 4, 2018

This former dishwasher turned 'social entertainment' bar founder changed drinking culture in London and the US — and he's about to launch a new £6 ...

adam-breeden1-1.jpgAdam Breeden

42-year-old Adam Breeden has been the brains behind popular venues like All Star Lanes, Bounce, and Flight Club. The 'social entertainment' venues have changed going out culture in London and across the UK — and they're making their way to the US. Under the umbrella of his company Social Entertainment Ventures, Breeden's next launch will be a £6 million digital mini golf venue created alongside the co-founders of Topgolf, and he also plans to launch a bingo venue. He told Business Insider how he went from a dishwasher to the founder of some of nightlife's most innovative concepts.

Adam Breeden's first job in the hospitality world involved cleaning dirty plates at a restaurant — and he loved it so much it inspired the rest of his career.

Along with his love of meditation, it was his ability to embrace the restaurant industry's crazy, ever changing culture that has led to his current success.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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