Ambarish Mitra
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Ambarish Mitra (born 1979) is an Indian entrepreneur and investor.[1][2] He is best known as the founder of Blippar, a visual search and augmented reality (AR) company,[3][4][5] and Greyparrot, an artificial intelligence (AI) waste management platform, both of which are headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Mitra was born in Kolkata, India, and raised in Dhanbad where he attended De Nobili School, FRI.[4][6] In 1997, at the age of 17 he founded womeninfoline.com and then sold it to the public company Mudra Consultants Limited.[4][1][6][7] Mitra relocated to the UK[6] and attended University of Lincoln and later Birkbeck University.
In 2011, Mitra co-founded Blippar, a company specializing in augmented reality and computer vision, with Omar Tayeb.[8] Blippar enabled smartphones and wearable devices to process real-time media with a digital augmented reality overlay.[8] In 2015, Blippar purchased Binocular, a maker of virtual reality applications.[9] Blippar was purchased by Candy Capital in 2019.[10][11] That same year, Mitra co-founded Greyparrot,[2] a AI-based waste management platform, along with Mikela Druckman, Marco Paladini, and Nikola Sivacki.[12][13][14] He is the Chief Product Officer (CPO).[15]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Zax, David (2015-07-31). "A Year In A Delhi Slum". Fast Company.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Ambarish Mitra". www.ey.com. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ "Blippar Aims to Be the Future of Search Engines". www.wsj.com. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Bercovici, Jeff. "How the Quest to Build a Visual Wikipedia Started in the Slums of New Delhi". Inc.
- ↑ Prynn, Jonathan (2016-02-05). "Blippar tech pioneer to showcase British innovation around the world". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Ambarish Mitra: From runaway teen to tech genius and entrepreneur". DNA India. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ Carson, Biz. "How one CEO went from a teenage runaway living in an Indian slum to founding a billion-dollar company". Business Insider. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Spanier, Gideon (2014-10-02). "Growth capital: A blip on every screen: that's the aim of". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ Crook, Jordan (2015-10-29). "Blippar AR Platform Acquires Binocular To Dive Into The Virtual Try-On". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ "A property tycoon has rescued augmented reality startup Blippar from total collapse". Business Insider. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ "Candy Ventures acquires the assets of Blippar to relaunch it with the same CEO". Tech.eu. 2019-01-23. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ Flockett, Anna. "Greyparrot recognised a technology pioneer by World Economic Forum". Startups Magazine. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ "AI startup Greyparrot completes funding round with $11 million". Resource.co. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ "Greyparrot raises £8.9m to sort through waste using AI". UKTN | UK Tech News. 2022-05-24. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
- ↑ "About Greyparrot". www.greyparrot.ai. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
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