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Kooaba’s Reality Augmented With $3 Million Funding

Posted by Lora Kolodny on August 26th, 2010

A Swiss startup offering mobile visual search and augmented reality technology, kooaba, landed 3 million in Swiss franks (or about $3 million) venture funding from undisclosed Swiss investors the company’s co-founder and chief executive Herbert Bay reported this morning.

Kooaba was spun out of the Computer Vision Lab at a top science and technology university in Switzerland, ETH Zurich.

The company’s mobile phone apps allow users to take a snapshot of print ads, DVD and book covers, movie posters and physical goods to derive product information, best available prices, and possibly coupons or associated digital extras.

Posted in Mobile Apps, Mobile Social, Social networking, social media

Tags: augmented reality, ETH Zurich, herbert bay, kooaba, layar, metaio, Switzerland, TC, visual search

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Kleiner Perkins raises $100m to back iPhone, iPad apps

Posted by fmmonteverde on March 31st, 2010

With the imminent arrival of the iPad, one of Silicon Valley’s best-known venture capitalists has raised another $100 million to back apps development for the new tablet and other Apple devices.

Kleiner Perkins has doubled its original $100 million iFund, which was set up two years to invest