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05-10-2017, 04:20 AM
Grammarly raises $110 million to check your typos and grammar mistakes
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Investors are betting big on spelling mistakes and misshapen sentences.
San Francisco startup Grammarly just raised $110 million to take its AI-driven grammar-checking tool to the next level. The funding, led by General Catalyst and Spark Capital, marks the first venture capital round in the company's eight-year life.
SEE ALSO: Microsoft is putting AI everywhere it can (http://mashable.com/2017/05/07/microsoft-ai-strategy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The company's pitch centers on its machine learning capabilities. It claims this tech**logy can dig into the substance of users' writing in a way that's **t possible with Microsoft Word or other autocorrect programs.
Grammarly says it can advise **t only on proper grammatical structure but on tone and word selection as well. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/09/grammarly-funding-round/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Investors are betting big on spelling mistakes and misshapen sentences.
San Francisco startup Grammarly just raised $110 million to take its AI-driven grammar-checking tool to the next level. The funding, led by General Catalyst and Spark Capital, marks the first venture capital round in the company's eight-year life.
SEE ALSO: Microsoft is putting AI everywhere it can (http://mashable.com/2017/05/07/microsoft-ai-strategy/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The company's pitch centers on its machine learning capabilities. It claims this tech**logy can dig into the substance of users' writing in a way that's **t possible with Microsoft Word or other autocorrect programs.
Grammarly says it can advise **t only on proper grammatical structure but on tone and word selection as well. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/09/grammarly-funding-round/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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