Privacy-oriented search app Xayn raises $12M from Japanese backers to enter into gadgets
Back in December 2020 we covered the launch of a brand-new kind of smart device app-based online search engine, Xayn. “An online search engine?!” I hear you state? Well, yes, since despite the convenience of modern-day search engines’ capability to tailor their search results to the individual, this user-tracking comes at the expense of personal privacy. This mass security […] Well, yes, due to the fact that despite the benefit of contemporary search engines’ ability to customize their search results to the individual, this user-tracking comes at the expenditure of privacy. What Berlin-based Xayn has come up with is customized, but a privacy-safe web search on smartphones, which replaces the cloud-based AI employed by Google et al. with the natural AI in-built into modern smart devices. And the evidence comes today with the news that Xayn has actually now raised nearly$12 million in Series A funding led by the Japanese investors Global Brain and KDDI(a Japanese telecommunications operator), with participation from previous backers, including the Earlybird VC in Berlin. …
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