ROPEDIA RAISES $22M FOR VIDEO-TO-DATASET PLATFORM
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Singapore-based Ropedia secured $22 million in pre-Series A funding to expand its platform that converts video footage into machine learning-ready multimodal datasets. The startup specializes in capturing real-world human experience data for AI model training.
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