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Perfect Corp, the Taiwan-based creator of an artificial intelligence-equipped social fashion and beauty app, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from e-commerce group Alibaba in conjunction with a strategic partnership agreement. The investment was part of a larger round of undisclosed size that included venture capital firm China Creation Ventures (CCV), people with knowledge of the matter told Bloomberg. CCV led the company’s $25m series A round in late 2017, investing with video app developer CyberLink, Yuanta Asia…

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Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.