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Microsoft’s M12 venture fund recently released a statement saying that they are divesting its shareholding in AnyVision, an Israeli startup that works on facial recognition technology. Microsoft made this decision after an audit by Eric Holder of Covington and Burling LLP. The former attorney general and his team have confirmed that AnyVision technology was used…
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After reports emerged of AnyVision helping the Israeli government to surveil the West Bank, M12-Microsoft’s venture capital arms has decided to pull back the minority investment out of the facial recognition startup. M12 invested an amount in Anyvision as a part of a $74 million funding round in June 2019. However, the company decided to…
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Noted semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company Qualcomm this week announced the launch of the Qualcomm Ventures AI Fund to invest up to an aggregate of $100 million in startups transforming artificial intelligence. The company announced that the fund would focus on startups that share the vision of on-device AI becoming more powerful and widespread, with an…
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