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StartupRealities No 110 InstaPedia is an online wiki-based encyclopedia which has an Instagram-type reliance on visual information to describe terms and concepts. The images, infographics, charts and simple drawings on InstaPedia are accompanied by brief captions. As in all wiki-projects, volunteers contribute the images, photos and captions to InstaPedia and volunteer editors oversee and improve the content. AUTOMATED IMAGE CREATION In addition to humans, InstaPedia also uses bots to enhance the images and design computer-generated infographics and charts. To circumvent copyright restrictions and increase the availability of images in more conceptual fields in which little concrete imagery exists, InstaPedia's AI algorithms use Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to create new images from scratch. CEO QUOTE " What Twitter is to Wikipedia, Instragram is to InstaPedia. Social media and online encyclopedias are not directly related but their conceptual models of conve...

StartupRealities No 86 WikipediaEntry is a media and PR company that creates by request Wikipedia articles on people, companies or products. The company does not guarantee to its customers that any newly written Wikipedia article will not be deleted. However, using the company's services increases the chance that the article will meet the notability threshold required by Wikipedia. CEO QUOTE "We are not magicians. We simply know how to write well and reference thoroughly an article on a subject of certain notability. Beyond that it is up to the (volunteer) Wikipedia editors if the article will survive the two major hurdles: 'immediate deletion' and 'proposed for deletion'. We normally would not take on a project if we expect it to result in immediate deletion. Yet, sometimes grey areas do exist in this space and we can help turn the grey closer to white" said WikipediaEntry founder and CEO Wiktor Entchev. Wikipedia logo (image source: Wikipedia )...