Governance
Unitary Secures $15 Million to Revolutionize Content Moderation with AI
Image credit: Unitary homepage Unitary, the London-based startup specializing in AI-driven visual content moderation, has just raised an impressive $15 million in a Series A funding round. The company has demonstrated the promise of using contextual AI to automate content moderation. It effectively …
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Image credit: Unitary homepage Unitary, the London-based startup specializing in AI-driven visual content moderation, has just raised an impressive $15 million in a Series A funding round. The company has demonstrated the promise of using contextual AI to automate content…
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Image credit: Unitary homepage Unitary, the London-based startup specializing in AI-driven visual content moderation, has just raised an impressive $15 million in a Series A funding round. The company has demonstrated the promise of using contextual AI to automate content moderation. It effectively identifies and eliminates harmful content, thus safeguarding the online experience.
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The funding round was led by Creandum from Stockholm. It also had participation from Paladin Group Capital and Plural. This coincides with Unitary’s expansion across multiple languages, a notable increase in their team size to 53 members. They also showed a remarkable threefold boost in their daily video classification capacity. This capacity now stands at 6 million videos per day. Unitary, founded in 2019 by Sasha Haco and James Thewlis, has capitalized on the immense power of AI to revolutionize content moderation. Their proprietary AI technology can ‘read’ the context of user-generated videos. It effectively distinguishes between various types of content. Whether it’s footage from a white supremacist rally or documentary material highlighting the perils of such actions, all of this is accomplished without human intervention. Sasha Haco, co-founder, and CEO of Unitary, expressed their vision: “Our vision is for ethical, empathetic AI to enhance how visual content is experienced online. We’ve always focused on how we might be able to use AI to ensure a safer online experience and keep up with the pace of internet content. This funding enables us to stay at the forefront of video understanding research. It also allows us to fulfill our mission of making the internet better.”
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