Precursor Ventures

Boardy is an AI-powered professional networking startup with a voice assistant.

AudioShake employs AI to distinguish between music and speech, enhancing interactivity and accessibility in audio content. Major and independent labels, music publishers, film studios, artists, and app developers leverage the company's technology for sound separation and lyric transcription. This spans various applications, including sync licensing, immersive mixes, emerging audio uses in UGC, gaming, streaming, voice synthesis, sports, localization, and beyond. Winner of the Sony Demixing Challenge, AudioShake's patented, industry-leading technology is used by major labels, music publishers, film production studios, and more.

Honeycomb is a company that develops an audio recording application aimed at helping families capture and preserve the life stories of their aging loved ones. The application creates a private family channel, functioning like a podcast, where these stories can be stored and accessed later. Family members can easily record conversations by merging them into existing calls or by using a designated phone number, allowing for a seamless audio capture from all participants. This technology not only enables families to save and share memories but also provides a nostalgic experience for users who wish to connect with their personal histories. Honeycomb is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Speak_ is an AI-driven recruitment platform that reviews every resume to help businesses find suitable candidates more efficiently. It evaluates applicants asynchronously based on specific criteria, ensuring only top candidates are identified.

AudioShake employs AI to distinguish between music and speech, enhancing interactivity and accessibility in audio content. Major and independent labels, music publishers, film studios, artists, and app developers leverage the company's technology for sound separation and lyric transcription. This spans various applications, including sync licensing, immersive mixes, emerging audio uses in UGC, gaming, streaming, voice synthesis, sports, localization, and beyond. Winner of the Sony Demixing Challenge, AudioShake's patented, industry-leading technology is used by major labels, music publishers, film production studios, and more.

Rad AI develops an artificial intelligence platform that automates report generation for radiologists. Its solution integrates with existing workflows, automating repetitive tasks to enhance efficiency, reduce burnout, and improve patient care.

Spot helps organizations build custom chatbots for sensitive reports, complaints, and other internal 1:1 conversations. Employees can use Spot to speak up about harassment & discrimination, bullying, misconduct, policy violations, and other inappropriate behavior. Designed for HR and Compliance teams.. Spot was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco and Berlin.

Loris develops a conversational artificial intelligence platform that helps customer-experience leaders extract insights from everyday customer conversations. The system provides immediate answers about what causes customer friction and where there are gaps between customer expectations and products or services. It also enables monitoring of conversations around harassment and other charged topics and educates employees on how to handle conversations about performance, human relations, upset customers, diversity and inclusion, supporting improvements in internal culture and in training sales and customer care teams. The company is based in New York City and has an office in Tel Aviv, Israel.