Deft is building e-commerce search to help you find the right product quickly

E-commerce search startup Deft is releasing a multimodal search function for users to get better results. The company, which opened its service to beta users in May, has rolled out the new search experience so users don’t have to describe the item in words.

The company is trying to solve the problem of finding the right item without spending hours looking for a product. Often users end up with subpar results while searching for products because their search query description won’t match the details of listed items. The startup is relying on different techniques, including building its own parser and knowledge graph combined with large language models (LLMs) and multimodal search.

Deft was founded in 2019 by Alex Gunnarson and Zach Hudson. Gunnarson started working on the idea after he couldn’t find a specific type of couch online even after putting in different parameters and descriptions. It took him hours to find a perfect result for his search, so Gunnarson decided to build a solution with Hudson.

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SubjectWell Acquires PatientCentra

Acquisition unlocks ability to recruit for global trials, as well as rare disease and oncology indications

AUSTIN, Texas — SubjectWell, the patient access marketplace that connects patients with chronic health conditions to new care options, today announced the acquisition of PatientCentra, an MD Connect, Inc. business. Located in Waltham, MA, PatientCentra offers full-service, global patient recruitment capabilities plus an in-house agency for the development of tailored, patient-centric recruitment journeys. Through this acquisition, SubjectWell now serves the patient recruitment needs of any international clinical study, while expanding its ability to recruit for rare disease and oncology indications.

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DailyPay Appoints Seasoned Finance Executive Ken Brause as Chief Financial Officer

Brause Joins Leading Fintech With More Than Three Decades of Experience Across Fintech and Financial Services Organizations

NEW YORK, Nov. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DailyPay, a leading financial technology company, today announced that Ken Brause joins the company as Chief Financial Officer, reporting to CEO Kevin Coop. Brause will advance DailyPay's financial strategy and capabilities to accelerate company growth. Brause brings more than 35 years of financial services and fintech experience at companies of various sizes and stages of ownership and growth, and has extensive expertise overseeing companies through complicated capital markets transactions and transformations.

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POWER OF AI: Oil and gas sector drills down into methane emissions data

With market and regulatory pressures pushing the oil and gas sector to cut methane emissions, drillers and pipeline operators are turning to artificial intelligence to fill the gaps in their technical expertise and determine the severity of emissions events to achieve lower-emission gas production and transport.

Oil and gas producers have their own set of emissions challenges at well sites, as well as their own set of in-the-works regulations that target methane emissions, which data companies such as Project Canary are out to address with continuous monitoring systems and machine learning.

Project Canary got its start in the market as a third-party gas certifier but has since pivoted to mainly emphasize providing more specialized emissions data, with its new commercial modus operandi being to "differentiate" gas with its data services rather than to certify it as "responsibly sourced."

The company has close to 60 customers across US shale basins utilizing its continuous monitoring technologies, which feed data retrieved at well sites and other facilities through machine learning models.

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WhiteFox Defense Awarded $1.25M Air Force Contract for Handheld Drone Defense

SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, October 18, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- WhiteFox DefenseTechnologies, an airspace management and counter drone solution provider, announces it has been selected by AFWERX for a SBIR Phase II contract in the amount of $1.25M focused on Scorpion 3, a light-weight, portable drone detection and mitigation solution to address the most pressing challenges in the US Department of the Air Force (DAF).

Scorpion offers efficient and reliable situational awareness, in any dynamic environment. The intuitive user interface allows the operator to integrate authorized drones into secured airspace, detect unauthorized drones and defend critical assets. Simple to use, cost-effective, and feature rich, Scorpion-3 is a portable/person-carriable RF-based detection, early warning, tracking, and identification solution.

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