As of 2020, the clothing sector lost about $27 billion in annual sales due to counterfeits, an illicit trade that results in huge losses to both brands and buyers. MarqVision is looking to solve that with an AI-powered intellectual property (IP) protection platform that monitors...
Two years on from its launch, Charles has announced that it has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding led by Salesforce Ventures, with participation from Accel and HV Capital. This follows a $6.5 million seed round of funding it raised last...
A number of crypto gaming firms have ramped up production in the past year with hopes of revolutionizing the growing industry. Adding to the list is London-based gaming firm Cauldron, which plans on becoming the “Pixar of web3” through a key element: storytelling. The company...
While job boards offer a quick and easy hiring solution, they aren't the only place to find the best talent. Many companies are looking for alternatives to posting on job boards in order to find the most suitable, high-quality candidates. YEC members were asked to recommend...
FanClash, a two-year-old Indian startup, is attempting to bring esports such as sleeper hit titles PUBG Mobile, COD and DOTA 2 to this fantasy sports world. Investors are predicting that this model and the FanClash team will deliver, and have poured $40 million of fresh...
YEC community members were recently asked, "What’s one aspect of recruiting that companies often get wrong? Why do you think that is, and how can they improve?" Appetizer Mobile's CEO, Jordan Edelson, responded by stating, "Understanding the candidate’s motives and desires for their future going...
Papercup has announced that it has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Octopus Ventures with participation from Local Globe, Sands Capital, Sky and Guardian Media Ventures, Entrepreneur First and BDMI. It brings the London-based company’s total raised to date to...
Fetcher, the talent acquisition platform formerly known as Scout, closed a $27 million Series B funding round led by Tola Capital with participation from G20 Ventures, KFund and Accomplice. The new money — $7 million in debt and $20 million in equity — brings the...
Lumos, a startup that wants to provide an end-to-end solution for enterprises to manage all of the SaaS apps their employees use, is coming out of stealth. The company plans to take on the SaaS management market by combining security features like role-based access control...
Natural language processing (NLP), the field of AI that involves parsing text for tasks including summarization and generation, is a fast-growing technology. Deepset, the startup behind the open source NLP framework Haystack, announced that it has raised $14 million in a Series A investment led...
