Founder and chief executive officer Mingming Zhu says Rokid raised a Series B+ instead of a C round because the company, which is based in Hangzhou, China with research centers in Beijing and San Francisco that develop its proprietary natural language processing, image processing, face recognition and robotics technology, is still in its early stages.
Part of the approach includes a proprietary language called LookML, which simplifies the process of scripting and recycling SQL queries.
You're not going to have the ability to write for whatever proprietary language all these platform devices are going to be on," he explains.
The company often lends it to distant customers or Givaudan branches, so each party can smell formulations and adjust them, using a proprietary language to describe every element.
Code for such purposes can be written either in Java or as stored procedures in the DBMS proprietary language, which in some cases results in faster processing.
Through its proprietary semantic and natural language processing technology, NewsCred curates 215K full-text articles from 700+ sources across 50 countries, in eight languages, all of which is organized into 20 categories, and 47K topics.
It's that transition from a fun toy to a legitimately useful education device that's tricky to navigate, especially given that the startup has developed its own proprietary coding language better suited to Root's specific needs.
22.7 3 43.0 45.2 The company uses proprietary languages and tools that are very difficult to exploit.
This is in contrast to other existing approaches (cf. Section 2), which use either proprietary languages and ASCII- or XML-based formats, or which are purely based on RDF or use OWL only partially.
Technologies demanding high processing power, like machine vision or voice recognition systems, are normally easy to program but require proprietary languages and platforms, which constitutes an important problem during communications and setup.
