Funding: Vicarious, Souq.com, and Actifio can now bolster its current teams and improve their services

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Vicarious ( founded in 2010, San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company), has raised $40 million in new funding from investors including Formation 8, Mark Zuckerberg, Vinod Khosla, and Peter Thiel. Connectikpeople.co is seduced its neural network technology. Pending to view this technology within other areas like robotics, clean energy, and medicine, Vicarious will put the new funds toward expanding its current team of 10.

Souq.com (founded in 2005, Dubai-based online shopping portal has raised $75 million in new funding from South African media giant Naspers. Billed as, the Amazon of the Middle East, Souq.com has raised $150 million in funding to date and will use the new round to improve its search functionality and mobile experience.

Actifio ( founded in 2009, Massachusetts-based data management startup), has raised $100 million led by Tiger Global with participation from previous investors Greylock IL, Advanced Technology Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Technology Crossover Ventures. With Actifio, companies can cut their storage costs. Actifio is now valued at $1.1 billion.