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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Butcher: Blippar holds more camera usage data than anyone else worldwide
“And now we are very much becoming a data company and we have more data than anyone else as to how people use the camera in this way, what they're looking at, what they want to look at that they can't access content on and how they're playing with this content.…”
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Butcher: Blippar's visual AI will reach adult-level maturity by 2017
“Yes, and it will be, it'll be reaching maturity of an adult brain within the coming year, and that's what's so exciting, and that will create a whole new behavior to what we're doing with blepper, that rather than it being reactive and you having to wait until…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Butcher: Blippar can visually recognize anything in the physical world
“We harness very sophisticated computer vision and image recognition technologies now to effectively be able to recognize anything in the physical world around us through the eye or camera of the smart device. And immediately recognize it and translate it into …”
Disclosure
Butcher: Blippar is not for sale and aims to become a verb
“We are, we're certainly not looking to sell. We're not in the market for an acquisition. We, as co-founders that started this business will not be happy until to blip is a word that is as commonly known as liking on Facebook or Googling something or tweeting.”
Assertion Supported
Butcher: Blippar has raised just over $100M to date
“Just over a hundred we've raised today.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Butcher: Tens of thousands of organizations have used Blip Builder
“There are actually tens of thousands of organizations that have harnessed our technology in more of a self-service model. Using a tool that we have in place called Blip Builder”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Butcher: Blippar's average enterprise deal size is mid-six-figures
“It's a six figure deal now is an average that we're working on sort of middling six figures, I think would be fair to say”
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Butcher: Blippar works with well over 500 direct brand partners
“So we're working with well over 500 different brands and asset owners to date to bring their marketing collateral and products to life.”
Disclosure
Butcher: Brand and advertising partners are Blippar's primary revenue source
“Our brand and advertising partners which by the way, is our main monetization source right now.”