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Habit raises €5.2 million to accelerate momentum globally

November 2022 EMERGING TECH Habit raises €5.2 million to accelerate momentum globally SixThirty, BiG Start Ventures, Iberis and Bright Pixel Capital – Sonae composed a €5.2M financing round to expand Habit’s capacity and keep the accelerated growth of their embedded insurance product in Europe and Latam. Habit is the only platform which includes a single insurance distribution API and an Orchestration Engine which, independently of the insurer and insurance product, provides distribution partners with full control over the policy lifecycle as well as offloads major IT effort and, enabling an incredible fast go-to-market. Habit has a significant focus in Telcos, having its platform certified and ready to integrate with telco’s existing IT infrastructure, allowing advanced features such as contextual sales (leveraged by telco’s core data) or high premium collection rates, by instructing the telco’s billing systems when and to whom charge which premium. "Habit played a very important role in...
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Didimo $7.1M Series A Raise Brings World’s Fastest, Realistic Human Digital Twins to Games, Retail, Metaverses

October 2022 EMERGING TECH Didimo $7.1M Series A Raise Brings World’s Fastest, Realistic Human Digital Twins to Games, Retail, Metaverses Deep Tech company turns 2D portraits into realistic 3D human avatars in 60 seconds. Didimo, the leader in high-quality digital human avatars, announces a $7.15M Series A round to bring incomparable speed, quality, and scalability to game studios and businesses so they can literally put you inside games, retail experiences, and so much more. The funding round, led by Armilar Venture Partners, with participation of Bright Pixel Capital, Portugal Ventures, and Techstars, enables Didimo to expand its best-in-class approach which simplifies what is typically a heavily complex and expensive 3D avatar creation process into one single step. Their proprietary cloud-based platform operates at runtime and is significantly more cost-effective for companies. Creating an accurate digital twin usually takes days of effort; Didimo cuts that to about 60 seconds. Want to...
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Experify Raises $4M Seed Round to Create Experiential Reviews as a Service Platform that Connects Prospective Buyers to Trusted, Authentic Product Owners

April 2022 EMERGING TECH Experify Raises $4M Seed Round to Create Experiential Reviews as a Service Platform that Connects Prospective Buyers to Trusted, Authentic Product Owners Experify, the first platform to enable a truly authentic product review experience by connecting prospective buyers with purchasers, closed a $4M seed round led by Vertex Ventures US, with the participation of Sonae Investment Management and the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. In recent years, the rise of disingenuous influencers, hidden advertisements, and unverified purchasers have greatly undermined the credibility of online reviews. The $152B industry of fake reviews has caused people to need at least 10 reviews on average before they trust them, and for 68% of people to regularly question the authenticity of reviews. As a result, brands struggle to build trust with new and prospective customers, damaging their customer experience and ultimately leading to a loss of sales. Experify solves this problem by...
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Replai Announces Funding as it Pioneers New Software Category in Customizable, AI-based Video Intelligence

October 2021 EMERGING TECH Replai Announces Funding as it Pioneers New Software Category in Customizable, AI-based Video Intelligence $4.7 Million Seed Investment From Hoxton, Sonae IM, Lux Capital, Sequoia and Accel to drive Hyper-Growth Replai, the world’s first video-based creative insights platform, announced today it has raised $4.7 million in seed funding, bringing its total funding to $6 million. Replai provides custom computer vision and AI technology to any company that uses video online. The round was led by Hoxton along with Sonae IM, Lux Capital, Sequoia and Accel and includes expanded participation from existing investors. Replai’s funding came from renowned investors and proven tech entrepreneurs who have fueled and built some of today’s most celebrated tech unicorns such as WhatsApp, Unbabel, Anchorage and Jellysmack. Replai has already reached more than $2.5 billion in video spend through its platform. The company will use the funds to expand its product suite,...
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Bright Pixel, promoted by Sonae IM, joined Reckon.ai’s Seed Round Funding

September 2021 EMERGING TECH Bright Pixel, promoted by Sonae IM, joined Reckon.ai's Seed Round Funding Portuguese Reckon raises 1.5M€ to democratize autonomous stores in Europe and Middle East The solution will use 5G to improve efficiency and flexibility and lower latency for faster and more agile processes. Autonomous stores are not a distant reality anymore and Reckon wants to become the leading supplier of European retailers. The Porto-based retail tech startup raised a €1.5m seed round led by Armilar Venture Partners and Portugal Ventures. Armilar is investing through its NOS 5G Fund, which was set to support startups in adopting the fifth generation of mobile communications, and launched by NOS, the largest telco company in the country. Existing investor Bright Pixel and new investors Wisenext and Dominique Locher (Business Angel from Switzerland) also participated in the round. With the new funding, Reckon is looking to establish a strong presence in...
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Sonae IM’s Bright Pixel took part in a 2 million euro Funding Round raised by TAIKAI

September 2021 EMERGING TECH Sonae IM’s Bright Pixel took part in a 2 million euro Funding Round raised by TAIKAI The Portuguese blockchain-based open innovation platform TAIKAI raised €2m in a funding round led by FinLab EOS VC Fund. Existing investor Bright Pixel and new investor Portugal Ventures also participated in the round. The investment is a strategic move for the German VC Fund managed by C3 Management GmbH, since TAIKAI uses EOSIO, the leading open-source software originated by Block.one. The new funding will fuel international expansion in Europe and Brazil and the development of hiring solutions for companies and startups. The Portugal-based startup caught the C3 Management attention due to the use of their technology, but also to their potential of disrupting the hiring processes across the world. Founded in 2018, TAIKAI started as an open innovation platform, helping Portuguese companies reach new solutions and products through challenges to...
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