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AI Product Placement
Rembrand, an AI product placement platform that embeds photo-realistic products into digital videos, raised $8M from Greycroft and UTA.VC.
Led by executives from Cisco, Amazon and Facebook, Rembrand enables creators to effortlessly incorporate sponsored products into their videos, thereby reducing costs, speeding up production timelines, and increasing monetization opportunities.
The Sprint
Mattiq, a materials design and development company that blends materials science and artificial intelligence to accelerate the exploration, discovery, and real-world deployment of new materials, raised $15M from Material Impact.
Fierce, a finance solution for users to earn returns across all their financial assets, raised $10M from Pendrell, AP Capital, Wheelhouse Digital Studios, Space Whale Capital, and David Krell.
Sesame Labs, a Web3 marketing platform that helps Web3 marketers reach, engage, and attract users via a platform created by founders, raised $4.5M from Wing Venture Capital, Patron, DoubleJump, Forte, MoonFire, Samsung and Twin Ventures.
Latent Technology, a platform that allows game developers to build interactive and immersive worlds, raised $2.1M from led by Root Ventures, Spark Capital and gaming fund Bitkraft.
Meala FoodTech, a functional protein platform that has developed technology that enables the development of functional proteins for multiple meat replacements, raised 1.9M from The Kitchen FoodTech Hub, DSM Venturing and Milk & Honey Ventures.
Newly, a fintech startup designed to provide a solution to consumers who need to improve their credit score faster and at a fraction of the cost of legacy credit repair service providers, raised $1.25M from Tenacity Venture Capital.
Uniify, a one-stop platform that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to collect data on their customers, saving business time and money, and onboarding customers in minutes instead of months, raised €3M from People Ventures, Forward VC, Spring Capital, public.com founders Jannick Malling, Leif Abraham.
Fund Talk
Earth & Beyond Ventures, a new early-stage venture fund, raised $70M to invest in Israeli space and deeptech startups developing dual-purpose space and terrestrial applications.
The fund will invest $500,000 to $2M in seed and pre-seed stage startups engaged in technologies such as semiconductors, robotics, new materials, sensors, smart farms, quantum computing, solar power, cybersecurity, and alternative proteins.
Earth & Beyond Ventures is backed by several investors, including global manufacturer and NASA supplier Corning, Japanese electronics giant Kyocera, manufacturer of electronic connectivity components Samtec, Israeli satellite communication services and solutions provider Spacecom and Israel Innovation Authority.
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