T-Hub, which leads India's innovation ecosystem, announced that it has co-invested in Bluecopa through T-Fund along with Blume Ventures and other notable investors like Titan Capital, Speciale Invest, Bharat Founders Fund, T2D3, Amplify, and Force Ventures. Finance operations automation platform, Bluecopa raised USD 2.3 million in this seed funding round. Also joining the funding round are seasoned entrepreneurs Krish Subramanian, Rajaraman Santhanam, Founders of Chargebee, Rohit Chennamaneni, Founder of Darwinbox, Asad Khan, and Jay Singh, Founders of LambdaTest. T-Fund is primarily a Co-Investment Fund, which invests alongside established Angels, Angel Networks, and venture capitalists. T-Hub is the Investment Manager and will formulate investment and business development strategies for this fund. It will source startups from various sectors, including but not restricted to Information Technology, Cleantech, Agritech, Fintech, Healthtech, Logistics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Internet of Things, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Hardware, Blockchain, and Consumer tech.

Artificial intelligence is a big deal for the likes of Amazon, Microsoft and Google -- but what about a small business that can't afford to have a data scientist on staff? That's the niche that Bellevue, Wash.-based Kurvv plans to fill, with a service that takes a company's data and fits it into a pre-trained AI model that may not be perfect, but is good enough to address the problem that needs solving. "We're targeting companies that have data, but don't have the knowledge or the resources to hire data scientists and can't bring in a consultant," Kurvv's CEO, Ryan Lee, told GeekWire. Lee left his post as a data science program manager at Microsoft in May to focus on getting Kurvv off the ground, drawing upon more than 15 years of experience in product management. One of Lee's fellow co-founders is Vince Roche, who co-founded Boost Media, a San Francisco-based ad optimization venture, and now serves as Kurvv's chief technology officer.

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