The network is often seen as a bottleneck for digital transformation as poor network performance has direct impact to business productivity and competitiveness. The problem is that ever – increasing network complexity requires high levels of automation to deliver the required optimum performance. Zeetta offers three software products: Visualise, Optimise and Automate…

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Mindtrace, a leading AI software solutions provider enabling enterprises to accelerate model building and deployment of ‘dynamic’ AI today announced a $3 million investment led by Skylake Capital, with participation from Bloc Ventures and existing investor Mercia Asset Management. This funding will support Mindtrace’s mission to accelerate its product roadmap and bolster go-to-market capabilities, including strategic partnerships. Marcos Battisti of Skylake Capital and Michael Dimelow of Bloc Ventures have joined the Company’s board of directors.

Founded in November 2017, Mindtrace’s mission is to deliver ‘brain-inspired’ AI solutions that enable customers to maximally exploit the functionality and performance of Brain-Sense™ technology to reduce costs and enhance end-product and service capabilities. Leveraging Mindtrace’s Brain-Sense™ technology, enterprises drastically improve their operation efficiencies and generate new revenue opportunities through product and service differentiation.

Sir Hossein Yassaie, chairman of the board, Mindtrace further commented: “Deployment of continuous learning AI technology, capable of learning on multiple platforms and sharing new use case knowledge across enterprise and partner networks, with minimal data labeling and AI model rebuilding requirement, is a major advantage for enterprises to embrace in order to remain competitive in the age of digital transformation.

Mike Dimelow, CCO at Bloc Ventures, commented: “Venture capital and the technology titans have poured billions into AI over the past decade or so, driven by innovators that are seeking out ways to help humans make better decisions or automate repetitive tasks. We are now entering an era of AI where teaching computers to learn and cognitively process like a human is the next logical step on the world’s technology roadmap. Mindtrace has been working on this challenge for over five years, so we’re thrilled to partner with the team and to see whether they can make unsupervised learning a reality.”

Hoon Chung, CEO of Mindtrace said: ” This novel technology enables a set of new possibilities that minimizes the need for large amounts of labeled data and allows for faster learning and more intelligent A.I. that adapts to changing real-life conditions. We are excited to work with Skylake Capital and Bloc Ventures as our global partners for growth.

AccelerComm, the channel coding specialist, are supercharging 5G NR with cutting edge Physical Layer IP which increases spectral efficiency and reduces latency. The company today announced a complete high-performance 5G NR PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared Channel) Decoder and PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared Channel) Encoder for customers who want to maximize the efficacy of their 5G radio network.

AccelerComm will be presenting the PUSCH Decoder and other channel coding solutions to attendees of MWC Shanghai (23rd – 25th February)

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Manufacturing plays a critical role in the UK economy. The industry makes up 11% of Gross Value Added (GVA), 44% of total UK exports, and directly employs 2.6 million people.

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With 5G set to have a monumental impact on our global economy, enabling unprecedented levels of connectivity, Business Chief speaks to Vassilis Seferidis, co-founder and CEO at Zeetta Networks, a UK network provider and leading partner of 5G-ENCODE, and Marc Funnell, Head of Digital at National Composites Centre, to discover the major trends they believe will impact 5G this year. 

See full article here: https://www.businesschief.eu/top10/top-10-global-5g-predictions-2021

Niall Murphy is the cofounder and CEO of EVRYTHNG which develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things. The company has raised $60 million from top tier investors such as Samsung Ventures, Cisco, Atomico, Cisco Investments, Dawn Capital, Sway Ventures, and The Future Fund to name a few.

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We’re excited to announce new capabilities combining Digimarc watermarks with the EVRYTHNG Product Cloud™ 

Digimarc is a pioneer in digital watermarking technologies that can be printed onto physical packaging to enable brand protection, supply chain traceability and consumer engagement applications – so, they’re a natural partner for us.  We’ve worked together since 2017 when we launched our first connected packaging solution, together with Westrock.  

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AccelerComm, the company supercharging 5G with IP which increases spectrum efficiency and reduces latency, today announced that it has joined The O-RAN ALLIANCE, an industry association with a mission to re-shape mobile networks to be more intelligent, open, virtualized and fully interoperable without compromising performance. AccelerComm will contribute to the technical development of O-RAN standards, bringing its channel coding experience to reduce latency and increase spectrum efficiency for Open 5G Networks. AccelerComm’s cutting-edge technology builds on the successful roll out of 5G networks going on worldwide, enabling the next generation of use cases requiring ultra-reliable, low latency communications, such as gaming or VR, industrial IoT, autonomous vehicles and drone control.

See full article here: https://www.realwire.com/releases/AccelerComm-Joins-The-O-RAN-ALLIANCE-to-Improve-Interoperability

Paytia, a telephone payment compliance service, has closed its pre-Series A funding round on £1.2m, which was led by Bloc Ventures.

With the capital injection, Paytia will increase its operational capability, increase the size of its team and build new products which will complement its existing offering.

Founded in 2016, the FinTech leverages technology to ensure customers are protected and remain in control of their card data throughout any customer not present payment transactions. The cloud-native platform provides businesses with scalable means to take card not present payments from customers and meet compliance with PCI-DSS standards, without breaching regulations.

See full article here: https://member.fintech.global/2020/10/27/paytia-closes-its-pre-series-a-as-it-looks-to-boost-telephone-payment-compliance/

Today, 5G-ENCODE, a pioneering project that aims to make the benefits of 5G a reality for UK manufacturers, announces the switch on of its Phase One Industrial Private 4G Network at the world leading National Composites Centre (NCC), to establish a baseline for existing technology. This comes ahead of its Phase Two Industrial Private 5G Network, which will go live in 2021.

See full article here: https://www.5g-encode.com/government-backed-5g-encode-launches-phase-one-network