Pires invests in companies that have the potential for major transformation and exponential growth.
Announcing Pires invests in YOP!
YOP is the platform, protocol and app that enables easy access to the DeFi crypto financial market.
DeFi is Decentralised Finance which includes products such as crypto deposit accounts, bonds and commodities.
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Volograms’ technology enables users to capture volumetric holograms of real people. By inserting holograms into videos, people can create their own immersive Augmented Reality (“AR”) and Virtual Reality (“VR”) content for use in apps, social media and VR headsets. The mobile AR market is forecast to grow from the one billion compatible devices and over US$8 billion in revenue in 2019 to 2.5 billion compatible devices and US$60 billion in revenue by 2024. The growth potential for Volograms is therefore significant and could attract success similar to other innovative products designed for mobile applications such as Pokémon Go.
With the mobile AR market forecast for considerable growth in the coming years, we believe that Volograms is opening a new market category for AR photos and video. Already a market leader in volumetric videos and with a well-recognised customer base, we also believe that Volograms’ technology will usher in the rapid expansion of the mobile AR industry.
NBCNews features Wia "Get back to work” system.
Robots, QR codes and bluetooth: Businesses turn to tech as they reopen
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VR Eduction Holdings plc. (AIM: VRE) announces 20 May 2020 that HTC Corporation are investing €3.0 million into the company and are entering into a strategic partnership with VRE for the distribution and license of the Company's ENGAGE platform globally through HTC enterprise sales channels.
VR Education Holdings plc successfully hosts the 2020 HTC Vive Ecosystem Conference ('HTC 2020 VEC') in Virtual Reality VR via its ENGAGE platform
Here's the pitch deck Irish grocery delivery startup Buymie used to raise $9 million for UK expansion as coronavirus transforms shopping…
With the latest Covid-19 crisis, the online grocery market has come under significant pressure to increase capacity, with large grocers acknowledging that their distribution models do not allow for meaningful scaling to meet consumer demand.
Buymie uses AI to provide consumers with access to multiple large retailers. Buymie has teamed up with the UK supermarket Co-op to offer same-day home deliveries and has just signed a multi-year partnership agreement with Lidl Ireland where it will provide a personalised online grocery delivery service for the retailer.
The only fully-programmatic monetization platform for AR VR and 3D Gaming. Admix has built a monetisation platform for the next generation of entertainment from traditionalgaming to emerging channels such as Esports and VR/AR content. Admix continues to enhance and develop a "marketplace" connecting gaming/content developers with advertisers who want tobuy non-intrusive in game/content-ad formats for their brands.
Ambisense contracted for Lower Thames Crossing preliminary works
Environmental technology specialist Ambisense has revealed its involvement in the preliminary ground surveys in support of Highways England’s planned Lower Thames Crossing.
Ambisense has been contracted to facilitate the management of environmental risk through the combined use of their environmental analytics platform, Ambilytics, and connected hardware devices, specifically the continuous monitoring of groundwater and ground gasses.
Following on from Sure Valley Ventures initial investment of £1 million in VividQ Limited (“VividQ”), the company announced an additional funding of £2.4 million in December 2019 from existing angel investors, and two new large Venture Capital firms with excellent connections in the software and automotive sectors: FluxUnit (the VC arm of OSRAM) and University of Tokyo Edge Capital “UTEC”. VividQ is planning to raise a series A funding round in Q4 2020.
The VividQ’s technical team is comprised of PhDs from top universities including Cambridge and St. Andrews who created a global opportunity for 3D holography to become the next generation display technology. With the seed funding round, VividQ is perfectly positioned to become a new underlying software solution for digital display in millions of devices.
- Solving a global problem classifying and managing unstructured data
- Utilising the latest in deep learning AI enterprise architecture providing fast and accurate visibility of all the data within a clients’ environment
- International blue-chip client base including leading insurance, healthcare, data provision and finance firms
INTRODUCTION TO PIRES INVESTMENTS
Pires seeks to invest in companies that have potential for significant transformation and growth.
Pires is focused on both direct and co-investment in technology companies and in specialist technology venture capital funds in order to source proprietary deal flow.
Key areas of focus are artificial intelligence, machine learning, cyber security, Internet of Things and augmented/virtual reality.
Pires provides access for public market investors to companies at an early stage of their growth trajectory enabling investors to potentially maximise value capture.
Pires has already secured an interest in an attractive portfolio of technology companies and is actively seeking new exciting opportunities.
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