Baillie Gifford is an independently owned investment management firm. It is owned and run by 39 of its senior executives, who operate as a partnership, a structure that has endured for over a century and provides stability for clients and motivation for employees. It enables them to manage the business for the future as well as the present, with an emphasis on genuine long-term thinking rather than lurching haplessly between short-term targets.

Baillie Gifford

BlackRock is an investment management company that provides its services to a diverse range of clients, including institutions, intermediaries, foundations, and individual investors. The firm operates as a global asset manager, overseeing and advising on a wide array of investment portfolios. In addition to its role as an investment manager, BlackRock is also known for its technological innovations and solutions that support various aspects of the financial industry. The company's multifaceted approach encompasses investment management, financial technology, and serving a broad spectrum of clients in the financial ecosystem.

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Grammarly

Docugami creates SaaS solutions that harness a wide range of artificial intelligence techniques, including natural language processing, image recognition, declarative markup, and other approaches, to enable businesses of all sizes to radically improve how they create and manage their unique documents for greater insight, efficiency, and business impact.

Grammarly is an AI writing assistance company that delivers real-time writing feedback. Grammarly is on a mission to improve lives by improving communication. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of the Fortune 500 get their point across—and get results—without compromising security or privacy. Grammarly’s product offerings—Grammarly Free, Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, and Grammarly for Education—work where you do, delivering contextually relevant writing support across over 500,000 apps and websites. Their customer-first security and privacy principles drive everything they do, and they provide transparency on how they work to earn and build trust with their customers. Their company makes money by selling subscriptions, not by selling customer data. They’re growing their values-driven team to support their expanding user base! Grammarly is on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Workplaces. They operate with a remote-first hybrid work model, meaning they primarily work from home and meet for in-person collaboration at their hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a workspace in Kraków, as conditions allow. Team members can work in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, and Poland.

<div><p>Grammarly is an AI-powered writing assistant technology that works seamlessly across multiple platforms and devices. The platform includes a grammar checker, plagiarism checker, essay checker, tone detector, style guide, snippets, analytics, and brand tones. It integrates with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and Forbes. Grammarly serves over 30 million people and more than 30,000 teams globally. It provides suggestions in desktop applications and sites across the web, including emails and messages, documents and projects, and social media. It is a privately held company.</p></div>

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<div><p>Grammarly is on a mission to improve lives by improving communication. Grammarly’s writing assistance technology is used by 30,000 teams and 30 million people every day. Founded in 2009, Grammarly uses a combination of technological approaches and human expertise to offer unmatched, market-leading communication support to individuals and enterprises. Our AI-powered suggestions help people write with confidence and help businesses achieve better results by providing feedback on their writing, wherever it’s happening. Grammarly team members use advanced machine learning to break new ground in natural language processing that analyzes written sentences to understand context and tone. Grammarly Premium elevates communication for individual students and professionals, Grammarly Business drives organizations of all sizes to accelerate business results, and Grammarly for Developers empowers builders to enhance the communication experience for their end users. Our user-first security and privacy principles drive everything we do and provide transparency on how we work to earn and build trust with our users. Our company makes money by selling subscriptions, not by selling user data. We’re growing our values-driven team to support our expanding user base! Grammarly is one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, a member of the Forbes Cloud 100, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces. We operate with a remote-first hybrid work model, meaning we primarily work from home and meet for in-person collaboration at our hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a shared workspace in Krakow, as conditions allow. Team members can work in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, and Portugal.</p></div>

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Natural Language Processing Tools

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    Grammarly is an AI-powered writing assistant technology that works seamlessly across multiple platforms and devices. The platform includes a grammar checker, plagiarism checker, essay checker, tone detector, style guide, snippets, analytics, and brand tones. It integrates with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn and has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and Forbes. Grammarly serves over 30 million people and more than 30,000 teams globally. It provides suggestions in desktop applications and sites across the web, including emails and messages, documents and projects, and social media. It is a privately held company.
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    Co-founded by noteworthy Philanthrapist Melanie Perkins, Canva is one of the most popular web-based graphic design platforms that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, using drag-and-drop&nbsp; design tools. The platform also includes a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery. In September 2021, the firm announced the launch of a video editing suite as it extends its capability into video content creation. 
    As of March 2023, the platform operated in more than 190 countries with a customer base of over 120 million monthly users including companies like Blackbird, GivingTuesday, Philadelphia Eagles, Upworthy, 
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    In April 2021, the firm raised USD 71 million in venture round funding led by Dragoneer Investment Group and T. Rowe Price. Just 5 months later, Canva raised an additional USD 200 million&nbsp; by T. Rowe Price and was valued at USD 40 billion, making it the 5th most valuable startup in the world. The firm claims to be on track to hit USD 1 billion in annualized revenue for 2021. During 2022, the firm plans to utilize its funding to double its team size from its current 2,000+ employees.
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    Picsart is a digital creation platform for editing photos and videos. It creates, remixes, and shares billions of visual stories using powerful and easy-to-use editing tools. Picsart’s product line comprises a photo editor, video editor, mobile apps, and business solutions. The business offers API services, platform integrations, co-marketing, and custom enterprise solutions. Some use cases include making YouTube banners, Pinterest pins, brochures, and gift certificates. Picsart serves over 150 million users and processes more than one billion edits per month. The privately held company acquired DeepCraft in 2021 and Code Republic in 2022.
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    Typeform is a no-code SaaS platform for creating customer forms, quizzes, and surveys. Typeform claims to drive more than 500 million digital interactions per year and its platform integrates with workflow and marketing campaign automation tools including  HubSpot, Calendly, Slack, and Mailchimp. The firm provides templates for use cases including marketing as well as enterprise solutions for brands to deliver customer interactions at scale. As of April 2022, brands using Typeform's tools include L'Occitane, Headspace, Hermes and Lyft.
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    In March 2022, the firm raised USD 135 million led by Sofina, and had a post-money valuation of USD 935 million. The new funding will be used for product development and to add further integrations. The firm claims to have grown its revenue by 3x since 2018 and reached an ARR of USD 70 million in 2021. 
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    Ceros is a cloud-based design platform for creating and managing customer web experiences that can be embedded anywhere on the web and is compatible with most CMS platforms. The platform's features include no-code content creation tools, a content marketplace, and data asset management (DAM).  Through a series of acquisitions the firm has extended its capabilities to include solutions for gathering customer feedback across multiple channels (Markup), content team management tools (Oroson),  and an online chart-building tool (Chartblocks). The firm also has a team of 40+  consultants to provide guidance on content strategy. As of April 2022, the firm had more than 550 clients including Conde Nast, Pinterest, Terminus, Pendo, and McKinsey.
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NLP automates the creation of personalized written media content for different use cases

For written and visual content creation AI/ML is a core part of the end result

Uses generative AI to automate the creation of personalized content across multiple media formats

Assists content writers in creating digital written media including blogs, ebooks, magazines, and journals.

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    Grammarly is on a mission to improve lives by improving communication. Grammarly’s writing assistance technology is used by 30,000 teams and 30 million people every day. Founded in 2009, Grammarly uses a combination of technological approaches and human expertise to offer unmatched, market-leading communication support to individuals and enterprises. Our AI-powered suggestions help people write with confidence and help businesses achieve better results by providing feedback on their writing, wherever it’s happening. Grammarly team members use advanced machine learning to break new ground in natural language processing that analyzes written sentences to understand context and tone. Grammarly Premium elevates communication for individual students and professionals, Grammarly Business drives organizations of all sizes to accelerate business results, and Grammarly for Developers empowers builders to enhance the communication experience for their end users. Our user-first security and privacy principles drive everything we do and provide transparency on how we work to earn and build trust with our users. Our company makes money by selling subscriptions, not by selling user data. We’re growing our values-driven team to support our expanding user base! Grammarly is one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, a member of the Forbes Cloud 100, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces. We operate with a remote-first hybrid work model, meaning we primarily work from home and meet for in-person collaboration at our hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a shared workspace in Krakow, as conditions allow. Team members can work in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, and Portugal.
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    Reduct is an AI-powered cloud video platform that aims to allow for richer human communication. The company is led by Prabhas Pokharel and Robert Ochshor, based in San Francisco.
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    MonkeyLearn provides a simple graphical interface where users can create customized text classification and extraction analysis by training machine learning models such as sentiment analysis, topic detection, keyword extraction, and more. MonkeyLearn can be integrated with hundreds of other applications through its direct integrations and open API.All of that without the need of roping in developers or data scientists.
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    Keatext will help you cultivate meaningful relationships with your customers by providing you with instant clarity on what they care about most, and by increasing your ability to respond rapidly to their needs by synthesizing large volumes of unstructured feedback data from multiple channels (such as open-survey questions, online reviews, chat logs and social media posts) to produce actionable insights delivered on one comprehensive custom dashboard.
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    Powerful in-meeting sales tools and intelligence.
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    NeuralSpace is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform which offers developers a suite of APIs for Natural Language Processing (NLP) that you can use without having any Machine Learning (ML) or Data Science knowledge. Along with some of the common languages like English, German, French, etc., the platform supports various languages spoken acrossIndia, South East Asia, Africa, Middle East, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, aka, low-resource languages. The primary goal is to democratize NLP and make sure any developer can create apps with advanced language processing in any language and not just English. The platform comes with various language processing Apps that can help you classify long or short text into categories, identify speakers in a given audio file, transcribe speech into text, and much more. The AI models that power our platform are state-of-the-art, quality assured and ready for you to customize or consume out-of-the-box. The NeuralSpace platform is designed as a no-code/low-code platform for you to go to market faster and focus on the business problems you are solving, while we take care of all your language processing needs.
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NLP tools such as chatbots are used to cater to each individual

NLP tools are built using AI/ML technologies

Some NLP tools are built using foundation models

NLP tools are provided for other companies to integrate into their workflows

Tools that detect plagiarism, punctuation errors, or style errors in text.

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