Covid-19 Research Resources: Startups, Funding Trends, Tech Solutions, & More To Watch Amid Covid-19
Here's a guide to all of our healthcare, retail, AI, industrial, fintech, and funding trends research relevant to Covid-19.
Here's a guide to all of our healthcare, retail, AI, industrial, fintech, and funding trends research relevant to Covid-19.
Advanced materials startup Zymergen raised $300M. Recursion Pharmaceuticals raised $239M. DevOps startup Snyk raised $200M. Digital health startup LinkDoc Technology raised $102M.
Google partnered with the National Science Foundation on human-AI research. Mastercard launched contactless retail solutions. Mila partnered with Relation Therapeutics on Covid-19 drug R&D.
Facebook announced breakthroughs in embodied AI. Visa launched a deep learning-based payment authentication system. SugarCRM acquired Node.
Lightmatter debuted a photonic chip. CuraCloud raised $22M. Flipkart partnered with Indian Institute of Technology on machine translation.
Atomwise raised $123M. Standard Cognition partnered with global convenience store operator Couche-Tard. Twitter researchers uncovered bias in named entity recognition systems.
AI chipmaker Syntiant raised $35M. Magic Leap patented an AI system for AR headsets. Royal Bank of Canada launched a private AI cloud.
Facebook developed a large-scale social network simulation system. Multiple US government agencies partnered on Covid-19 research. TwentyBN launched an AI fitness pal.
Agtech startup Taranis raised $30M. Nvidia partnered with the University of Florida on AI computing. Alipay launched a facial recognition system for pet insurance.
Amazon started testing an AI-driven shopping cart. Pathology startup Paige.AI raised $20M. Intel backed AI chip maker Untether AI.
Berkeley and Adobe researchers developed an AI image editing tool. Agtech startup Growers Edge raised $40M. Facebook patented a hand-tracking system for VR applications.
MIT and Toyota released a dataset for training autonomous vehicles. Nvidia partnered with Mercedes Benz on AI software for vehicles. Digital health startup Cedar raised $77M.
AI chip maker Syntiant raised $25M from Intel and Microsoft. CRM startup Outreach raised $50M. Mila partnered with Vietnam-based IT services provider FPT.
VMWare acquired cybersecurity startup Lastline. Flipkart launched a conversational AI bot for grocery shopping. Clinc patented a system for curating ML training data.
Santander partnered with ThetaRay on anti-money laundering. Ezra raised $18M from Harry’s, Warby Parker, Robinhood, and TransferWise founders for cancer detection. Data science collaboration startup Saagie raised $28M.
Healthcare AI startups Insitro, AbCellera Biologics, and Mindstrong raised $100M+ mega-rounds. HSBC launched an AI-powered US Equity Index.
Facebook debuted an image recognition system for Facebook Marketplace. Booz Allen partnered with the Department of Defense on AI development. Loan refinancing startup LoanSnap raised $10M.
AI chip maker Enflame raised $98.75M. CRM startup Kustomer acquired AI startup Reply.ai. Intel partnered with UPenn on federated learning.
Telehealth unicorn Babylon Health partnered with Mount Sinai hospital. Ad fraud startup Namogoo acquired Personali. Warehouse robotics startup Covariant raised $40M.
Mayo Clinic partnered with Current Health for remote monitoring of Covid-19 symptoms. Recursion Pharmaceuticals released a library of 1,600+ small molecules to potentially treat Covid-19. Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital backed Tecton.AI.
Anti-aging therapeutics startup Juvenescence raised $56M. Facebook used AI to ban fake accounts. Affectiva patented emotional recognition technology.
DARPA partnered with Intel on AI data security. Point-of-sale lending platform Paidy raised $48M. Disney patented a method for enhancing video resolution with AI.
Futurewei patented a method for remotely assessing health. China-based 4Paradigm raised $85M. Google released AI chatbots for answering Covid-19-related questions.
Digital health startup Olive raised $51M. NYU researchers used AI to triage Covid-19 cases. Adtech startup SoloSegment acquired Thematically.
HR tech startup Espressive raised $30M. True Ventures-backed insurtech startup Hi Marley. Japan-based Angel Playing Cards patented computer vision software to monitor poker games.
RPA startup Encoo raised $30M. Athena Security released fever-detecting cameras. Insilico Medicine partnered with Beijing Tide Pharmaceutical in oncology.