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Big data VC OpenOcean hits $111.5M for third fund, appoints Ekaterina Almasque to GP
OpenOcean, a European VC which has tended to specialise in big data-oriented startups and deep tech, has reach the €92 million ($111.5 million) mark for its third main venture fund,…
7 things we just learned about Sequoia’s European expansion plans
Sequoia Capital, the renowned Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has backed companies like Apple, Google, Dropbox, Airbnb and Stripe, recently disclosed that it had opened its first office in…
Mapillary, the crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook
Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world via a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook, according to…
Google Street View rival Mapillary collaborates with Amazon to read text in its 350M image database
Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world by way of a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, is taking an interesting step…
Mapillary opens up 25k street-level images to train automotive AI systems
As more companies wade into the business of building artificial intelligence systems to help you drive (or do the driving for you), a startup founded by an ex-Apple computer vision specialist…
Alphabet, Apple and Uber may be spending billions on exhaustive new mapping technologies to power the self-driving car revolution, but there’s a new generation of companies betting that a combination of crowdsourcing…
Mapillary raises $8M to take on Google’s Street View with crowdsourced photos
A startup out of Sweden called Mapillary is using crowdsourced photos to create an open and more intelligent version of Google’s Street View, and today it announced a Series A round of funding from…
Sequoia Invests In Mapillary To Crowd-Map The World Faster Than Street View
Google’s Street View is an astounding service, unimaginable a few years ago. But photographing streets and stitching them together is a costly and time-consuming exercise. Mapillary thinks it has the…
