Content moderation startup Unitary raises £1.3 million
Founded by Sasha Haco, who previously worked with Stephen Hawking on black holes, Unitary is an artificial intelligence content moderation startup that aims to detect dangerous or malicious content automatically from the hundreds of hours of video uploaded to the internet every minute. Unitary just raised 1.3 million GBP in seed funding from Rocket Internet's GFC, Jane VC, SGH Capital, and several anonymous angel investors.
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