"Stradigi Labs will be led by lab co-founder and chief
science officer Carolina Bessega, who has over 20 years of experience working
in machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, data
augmentation, and neural networks. Bessega tells BetaKit that she had been
working on neural networks in 2002 at the Universidad Central de Venezuela.
The lab will work in two ways: it will support early-stage
companies with access to its venture arm, industry advisors, and space to build
out a scalable company; or it will incubate its own ideas in-house, working
with advisors to identify problems. Once an idea has reached maturity, Stradigi
decides whether to spin it off into its own company or find business licensing
opportunities."
"It’s not clear exactly what Amazon intends to do with Body
Labs but there are plenty of potential use-cases that mesh with and could
extend its existing business interests if the startup has the tech chops to
deliver accurate 3D body models at scale.
For example, as well as selling other brands’ clothes via
its ecommerce marketplace, Amazon has been ramping up its own fashion business
in recent years, expanding and growing its private label fashion brands.
Being able to offer custom fit could give Amazon’s private
label fashion brands an edge, even as improving sizing predictions generally
for Amazon shoppers could help drive clothes shopping across its platform and
help shrink returns from clothes that don’t fit."
"Malicious hackers and security breaches that have exposed
personal information of millions of people have pushed the issue of online
security into the spotlight, not just for individuals but for organizations
that do business with them. Now a company called Onfido, which has built a way
to help websites verify people’s identities using a photo-based identity document,
a selfie and artificial intelligence algorithms, has raised $30 million to
seize the opportunity."
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