Absentia VR flagship product has been Norah AI, an artificial-intelligence powered engine that creates 360 degrees panoramic content from 2D images or videos.It uses proprietary algorithms that stitch individual images together and add depth of field to photographs for an immersive experience. The content is viewed on flat screen displays and VR headsets. Their vision is to build an autonomous, AI-powered ecosystem for interactive content creation which would drive a self-fuelling marketplace for elements ranging from animations to full games.
Ranjith Parakkal, 37, founded Bengaluru-based startup Uncanny Vision in the year 2013. After spending 11 years at Texas Instruments as a global technical architect for vision and image processing, he went on to file a patent in image processing which laid the foundation for the startup. Uncanny Vision has been developing Artificial Intelligence -powered computer vision to be embedded into next-generation intelligent surveillance cameras.The team have made a lot of progress in this domain and have developed an optimized AI-based computer algorithmic solution for intelligent surveillance cameras to provide realtime alerts.
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The Bengaluru based, Y Combinator-backed startup thinks that data cost in India is very high at present. Cofounder Shubhendu Sharma believes that even after the launch of Jio there is a lot of room for price wars to happen and they are confident that they can drop the prices even further. They are on a mission to make our cities Internet-friendly by building technologies which people use every day and are affordable, fast and easily accessible. They provide data services in the form of pre-paid tokens sold by small shops like tea stalls and local Kirana stores in Bengaluru.
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Founded in 2015, Kissht is an EMI based payment and digital lending platform. With a large number of EMI payment options like EMI on Credit Card, Debit Card and even without Card, Kissht aims to empower online as well as offline Merchant stores to provide comfortable and quick EMI to consumers who wish to purchase electronic items such as laptops, mobiles, ACs, and even home and kitchen appliances.
They also provide EMI options to buy tour Packages, health Packages and much more through their tie-ups with more than 20 financial Institutions across India. The Mumbai-based fintech startup had recently raised $10 Mn funding in a round led by Fosun International, a Chinese investment conglomerate. The existing investors of the startup also took part in the equity financing round, which closed in the last week of November 2017.
by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness." - Mark Kennedy (Author) According to the research firm Gartner, public cloud services spending in India was $731 million in 2015, and cloud related spending in India is expected to outpace the rest of the world to reach as much as $1.9 billion by 2019.