‘21st Century To Be India’s Century’Impressed with India’s growth trajectory, Bezos wasn’t shy to predict that this century belongs to India.

Highlighting how failures helped him to grow Amazon, Bezos said that Amazon is the best place to fail.

Besides attending the Amazon Smbhav event, Bezos is expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other government officials to ease out regulatory challenges in the country.

In response to the Amazon Smbhav event and Bezos’ visit, thousands of small-scale traders union and associations have planned to organise protests across the country.

Traders’ body Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) had already said that it will protest across 300 cities during Amazon chief’s stay here. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579091406.2640827/Jeff-Bezos-Applauds-India’s-Dynamism-&-Energy,-Says-Will-Rule-21st-CE?ref=audio_experience

The Rome-based startup has announced closing a round of €2.5 million, entirely covered by VV2 and VV4 funds, managed by Vertis, an asset management company founded by Amedeo Giurazza.

BAGBBNB, founded in 2016, is a luggage storage network, with wide global coverage across 3000 locations in 300 cities.

In just 3 years, it has managed to create a solid and sustainable business that has come to store over 1.5 million pieces of luggage.

It has created a community of businesses (or BAGBNB ‘Angels’) that provide the luggage storage services, with secure spots ranging from hotels to cafes.

“BAGBNB wants to become a point of reference for those arriving and departing from a city, solving not only the luggage problem, which is just the tip of the traveller’s iceberg. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579089611.5749164/Rome-based-BAGBNB-raises-€2.5-million-to-become-world’s-largest-luggage-storage-network?ref=audio_experience

Scale AI has publicly invested more than $32 million to date into 14 projects, with the hopes of accelerating the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) within Canadian companies.

Scale AI was awarded $230 million from the federal government in December 2018 through the government’s Supercluster initiative.

After a call for applications in June, Scale AI has chose to invest in a cross sector of startups, corporations, thought leadership groups.

More recently, Scale AI revealed it has invested another $27 million across 10 additional projects.

Coveo is leading a project on cognitive supply chains and received $2.8 million from Scale AI and $10.8 million overall. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579087808.022263/Supercluster-Scale-AI-has-chosen-14-projects,-invested-$32-million-since-receiving-funding?ref=audio_experience

Trainiac, a Seattle, WA-based online, personal training platform that connects users with their own accredited trainer, has raised $2.2m in funding to date.

The backers were not disclosed.

The company intends to use the funds to expand in Canada and Europe.

Led by Akshay Ahooja, CEO and co-founder, Trainiac is a one-on-one personal training fitness platform that connects users with certified trainers.

The company offers a variety of workout genres that provides a holistic fitness experience for its members, allowing them to have complete control over the implementation of workouts into their already-busy lives. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579086010.2680426/Trainiac-Raises-$2.2M-in-Funding?ref=audio_experience

“You don’t need a PhD; you need to be a builder at heart,” said, Denis Batalov, Worldwide Technical Leader, ML & AI, AWS in his keynote address on day 2 of the Amazon AI Conclave in Bengaluru.

“AWS ML Stack is probably the broadest and most complete set of ML capabilities.

Today, we have tens and thousands of customers who have chosen AWS for ML workloads.

But, the journey has only begun.”Denis further deep-dived into AWS’ AI services and highlighted how Amazon’s foundational work that started many years ago led to innovations like Sagemaker.

Using the Amazon SageMaker Single-Shot Multi-Box Detector algorithm helped Delhivery to automate the Proof of delivery verification and reduce the manpower requirement by 60 per cent. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579084214.287144/AWS-AI-Conclave-shows-why-you-don’t-need-a-PhD-but-got-to-be-a-builder-at-heart-to-innovate-with-AI?ref=audio_experience

NEW DELHI: McDonald's India on Wednesday said it has partnered with online restaurant guide, food ordering and delivery platform Zomato for further expanding the availability and accessibility of McDelivery for the Northern and Eastern region.Customers in North and East India will now be able to order McDonald's food items on Zomato, and get it delivered to their doorsteps.

The service will be available through more than 125 McDonald's restaurants in the region, the company said in a statement.

"We are excited to make McDelivery accessible to customers on Zomato, one of India's leading online food delivery platforms, making it even more convenient for them to enjoy their favorite McDonald's menu items," McDonald's India – North and East, Operations and Training Senior Director Rudra Kishore Sen said.Zomato's live order-tracking feature is streamlined with in-restaurant operation to provide the best experience for diners by delivering their food as hot and fresh as possible, the statement said.

"It is absolutely wonderful to partner with a brand that revolutionized the Quick Service Restaurant ( QSR ) segment in our country," Zomato Food Delivery - Chief Operating Officer Mohit Sardana said.McDonald's restaurants in North and East India are operated by Connaught Plaza Restaurants Pvt Ltd. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579082406.5180774/McDonald's-India-partners-with-Zomato-for-food-delivery-in-Northern,-Eastern-region?ref=audio_experience

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What Are Cryptocurrency Trading Bots?

How Cryptocurrency Trading Bots Work.

Trading bots take the stress of analysing and trading the cryptocurrency market off a trader’s shoulders.

If you wish to get an effective suitable trading bot, kindly check this link: Bitcoin Bot. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579080606.5180266/All-You-Need-To-Know-About-Bitcoin-Trading-Bots---Young-Upstarts?ref=audio_experience

Anyline, a leading startup in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) using AI for text recognition, has raised €10.7 million in Series A funding.

It’s not only more accurate than manual data entry, but also works 20 times faster.

Businesses are using Anyline technology to scan and collect analogue information, such as identity documents, serial numbers and utility meters using any standard mobile device.

This brings significant savings in terms of time and resources and improves data-quality for businesses by eliminating manual data entry.

This enables Anyline to bring innovative mobile OCR solutions to new international markets and industries, including smart manufacturing, KYC services and fintech. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579078810.4751077/Austrian-Anyline,-OCR-tech-startup,-raises-€10.7-million-and-zooms-to-the-US?ref=audio_experience

MUMBAI: Plane-maker Airbus has signed a contract with Bengaluru-based startup Traxof Technologies to automate the talent acquisition process for Airbus’ Information Management (IM) organisations in India and Europe.Traxof was part of Airbus BizLab’s startup incubation programme.Traxof’s cloud-based , automated desktop and mobile-based solution provides real-time visibility and monitoring of recruitment processes to support the planned ramp up of IM resources, especially in India for Airbus’ digitalisation Traxof Technologies was founded in 2014. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579077005.7946937/Airbus-signs-contract-with-Bengaluru-startup?ref=audio_experience

Google plans to start the first origin trials by the end of this yearGlobal tech giant Google plans to phase out support for third-party cookies in Chrome.

Third-party cookies are placed by advertisers.

A website can use a number of different third-party cookies to collect user information.

However, concerns have often been raised on data privacy as cookies can help websites store user data such as language preference, currency among others.

“Some browsers have reacted to these concerns by blocking third-party cookies, but we believe this has unintended consequences that can negatively impact both users and the web ecosystem,” Google said. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1579075205.5918946/Google-To-Curtail-Third-Party-Cookies-To-Enhance-User-Privacy?ref=audio_experience