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Kyiv, Ukraine-based YouScan, a social media listening and picture recognition platform, introduced on Thursday that it has raised $2M (roughly €1.98M) in a follow-on funding spherical from Kinnevik AB and VNV International AB.
The corporate says the proceeds from this spherical will assist it to speed up its development and additional develop its product.
A brand new CEO and CTO
In addition to the funding, YouScan founder Alex Orap will likely be transitioning from his position as CEO and assuming the brand new place of Chief Development Officer. “I’ll work carefully with our gross sales and advertising groups, serving to them with the brand new initiatives to win the hearts of our prospects, trade specialists, and analysts and construct new trade partnerships for YouScan,” says Orap.
YouScan co-founder Leonid Lytvynenko would be the firm’s new CEO.
Orap says, “Leonid was one in all our two first software program builders, then turned a CTO and a real chief of YouScan’s tech workforce. Leo has developed all of the traits that I consider an incredible CEO ought to possess: system pondering and glorious drawback fixing, consideration to element mixed with a broad imaginative and prescient, and naturally, respect from the workforce.”
YouScan has additionally appointed a brand new CTO, Ivan Korneliuk.
Serving to corporations take heed to their prospects and enhance
Based in 2009 by Alex Orap, YouScan is an AI-powered social media listening platform with picture recognition capabilities. It serves over 600+ prospects worldwide, together with well-known shopper manufacturers and businesses similar to Nestle, L’Oreal, Chanel, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Michelin, Samsung, and McDonald’s, amongst others.
In addition to analytics from an enterprise-class SML platform, YouScan additionally options Aina. This digital AI-powered information analyst robotically delivers very important insights and alerts about prospects’ model discussions on social media.
The YouScan platform additionally gives picture recognition capabilities, known as Visible Insights. They embody model emblem detection, scenes, objects, actions, individuals, and different picture contents evaluation and reporting.
YouScan Visible Insights gives entrepreneurs with unprecedented alternatives to uncover shopper insights, measure sponsorship ROI, discover user-generative inventive content material and model ambassadors, and far more, claims the corporate.
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