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Exclusive: Koo co-founder rolls out photo sharing app PicSee

EntrackrEntrackr · 2d ago
Exclusive: Koo co-founder rolls out photo sharing app PicSee
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Exclusive: Koo co-founder rolls out photo sharing app PicSee Koo co-founder Mayank Bidawatka has begun the beta rollout of PicSee, an artificial intelligence-powered photo sharing app, under his new venture Billion Hearts Software Technologies. PicSee enables users to automatically discover and exchange photos with friends using face recognition and AI-based matching. According to information available on Play Store, the app lets users get photos from friends only when they share their own in return. It also offers features such as device-only storage, end-to-end encryption, screenshot blocking, a 24-hour review window, and a recall option. PicSee is currently available for both Android and iOS users in beta, but has not been officially launched. Billion Hearts was incorporated in September 2024 after Koo shut down due to investor constraints and unsuccessful acquisition talks. In the same month, the company raised around $250,000 in a pre-seed round from founders of redBus, Ola, InMobi, Myntra, and others. Two months later, Billion Hearts secured $4 million in a seed round led by Blume Ventures with participation from General Catalyst and Athera Venture Partners. The company said the funds were allocated for building global technology products and team expansion. PicSee is the company’s first product, and it plans to add AI-based photo and video editing tools, storage optimisation features, and private social sharing in subsequent updates.

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Exclusive: Mitron TV, TrainMan co-founders set to launch AI startup Callmatic

EntrackrEntrackr · 1y ago
Exclusive: Mitron TV, TrainMan co-founders set to launch AI startup Callmatic
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Shivank Agarwal, co-founder and former chief executive of short video app Mitron TV, and Mohd Amir, co-founder of online train ticket booking and information platform — TrainMan, have teamed up to launch a conversation AI startup Callmatic, sources told Entrackr. Agarwal and Amir’s new startup Callmatic is a conversational AI startup which automates management of inbound and outbound calls to provide lead qualification and scalable customer outreach. As per the company’s website, it offers solutions for recruitment, sales, healthcare and customer support leveraging generative AI technology. Before incorporating Callmatic, Amir was senior engineering manager at Microsoft while he was associated with TrainMan as co-founder between October 2013 and March 2019. Last year, Goodwater Capital-backed TrainMan was acquired by Adani Digital Labs. Callmatic has also roped in more than a dozen angel investors who put in $100,000 (Rs 83.8 lakh) in the company. Abhishek Agarwal, Nilesh Ukey, Sumit Gupta, Abhishek Jain, Karan Attri, Kush Mishra, Manasi Jain, Naresh Kumar, Naveen Bansal, Rahul Kumar Sahu, Vineet Chirania, Gaurav Nemade, Gunjan Sharma have invested the aforementioned sum in the Bengaluru-based startup, as per its data sourced from the RoC. It’s worth noting that Mitron TV was in talks with vernacular microblogging platform Koo for acquisition. Koo, which recently shut down its operations, also invested Rs 28.17 crore in Mitron TV through share swap deal. Entrackr exclusively reported this in June 2022. It appears that Mitron TV silently shut down its operations in mid-2022 after the failed deal with Koo. The app was one of the handful of companies which capitalized the void created after a ban of TikTok in India. Agarwal’s LinkedIn profile also reflects that he continued with the company until September 2022. Mitron TV’s other co-founder Anish Khandelwal rejoined MakeMyTrip in April 2022.

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