The
company also announced a partnership with data analytics firm
Palantir Technologies Inc and that the Primer platform will be
available in Microsoft Corp's Azure cloud.
While natural language processing is commonly used for
transcription services, Primer CEO and founder Sean Gourley said
the platform can also analyze text and write a summary.
"It allows you to automate the human reading and writing tasks
that would otherwise be very expensive to perform," Gourley
said.
"When you do deploy these things at scale across all of the
documents that you have as an organization or an enterprise,
you're going to see patterns and structures inside that data
that individual analysts would miss just because they're not
looking at enough volume of information."
The Primer platform is available in English, Russian, Chinese
and Arabic, but is only sold to customers in the United States
and its allies given the national security applications, Gourley
said.
One such use has been identifying disinformation campaigns in
real time through a machine learning platform that Primer
developed for the United States Air Force and Special Operations
Command.
The funding will be used to expand Primer's engineering team and
grow the market. It plans to expand its languages to include
Spanish, and will target the financial and pharmaceutical
industries, said Gourley.
The latest funding round was led by venture capital firm
Addition. Existing investors include In-Q-Tel, the Central
Intelligence Agency's venture capital firm.
(Reporting By Jane Lanhee Lee; editing by Richard Pullin)
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