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New York, United States: AnyVision closes $74 million Series A funding from Microsoft’s venture fund, DFJ Growth, and OG Technology Partners. The funding is an extension of Series A round. Earlier, AnyVision raises investment from LightSpeed Venture Partners, Robert Bosch GmbH, Qualcomm Ventures, and Eldridge Industries in Series A. Founded in 2015, Anyvision is a leading computer vision company specializing in face, body, and object-recognition software. The company develops core software solutions that make all cameras smart. These solutions are agnostic to all cameras, computing frameworks, and use-cases. “There are very few times in business when you have the opportunity to build an entirely new industry alongside leading ecosystem players,” said Eylon Etshtein, CEO and Co-Fo...

Beijing-based AI startup Infervision is among a handful of AI companies around the world racing to improve medical imaging analysis through deep learning, the same technology that powers face recognition and autonomous driving. The startup, which has to date raised $70 million from leading investors like Sequoia Capital China, began by picking out cancerous lung cells, a prevalent cause of death in China. At the Radiological Society of North America’s annual conference in Chicago this week, the three-year-old company announced extending its computer vision prowess to other chest-related conditions like cardiac calcification. “By adding more scenarios under which our AI works, we are able to offer more help to doctors,” Chen Kuan, founder and chief executive officer of Infervision state...

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AnyVision raises $74 Million Series A from Microsoft venture fund & others

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